• Whitey's Lindy Hoppers was a professional performing group of exceptional swing dancers that was first organized in the late 1920s by Herbert "Whitey"...
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    including the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers (also known as the Harlem Congaroos), Hot Chocolates and Big Apple Dancers exhibited the Lindy Hop. Hollywood films...
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    Frankie Manning (category Lindy Hop)
    several films. While with Whitey's, Manning danced with Norma Miller, who became known as the Queen of Swing. Whitey's Lindy Hoppers disbanded around World...
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    Savoy Ballroom (category Lindy Hop)
    presence of the best Lindy Hoppers, known as "Savoy Lindy Hoppers". Occasionally, groups of dancers such as Whitey's Lindy Hoppers turned professional...
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    Norma Miller (category Lindy Hop)
    the Savoy, hired her as the youngest member of his dance troupe, Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. In 1935, Miller competed in a dance contest called the Harvest...
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  • dancers in Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, before ever having seen the version done by the Big Apple dancers at the Roxy. Whitey's Lindy Hoppers would dance...
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    extensively with one of the most influential Lindy Hop troupes, the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers (also known as Whitey's Lindy Maniacs, Whyte's Hopping Maniacs, The...
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    Hollywood films and Broadway theatre, starring the performance group Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) the word "jitterbug"...
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  • Basketball Association player Whitey Thomas (1895–1978), American football player Herbert "Whitey" White, leader of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, the most notable dance...
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  • Al Minns (category Lindy Hop)
    American Lindy Hop and jazz dancer. Most famous for his film and stage performances in the 1930s and 1940s with the Harlem-based Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Minns...
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  • the woman perpetually yelling for "Oscar"), and the specialty act Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. Alongside Olsen and Johnson, both of whom produced and starred...
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    Aerial (dance move) (category Lindy Hop)
    flip is considered the first Lindy aerial. Aerials quickly caught on in Lindy Hop. In 1935, the troupe Whitey's Lindy Hoppers (aka the Harlem Congeroos)...
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    African-American cultural dance as an inspiration, among these are the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and...
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  • Leon James (dancer) (category Lindy Hop)
    prominent American Lindy Hop and jazz dancer. A performer during the 1930s and 1940s with the Harlem-based Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, he and his dance partner...
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  • Willa Mae Ricker (category Lindy Hop)
    prominent American Lindy Hop and jazz dancer and performer during the 1930s and 1940s with the Harlem-based Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. She was known for...
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  • with Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Herbert White's popular dance troupe in the 1940s that traveled to venues around the country. Famous for the "Lindy Hop,"...
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  • top jitterbuggers gathered in professional dance troupes such as Whitey's Lindy Hoppers (featured in A Day At the Races, Everybody Dance, and Hellzapoppin')...
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  • Theater. p. 15. Lastly, and most famously, were Whitey's Steppers, popularly known as "Whitey's Lindy Hoppers." Almost all of the major songs in the original...
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    Jones. The film's Lindy Hop dance sequence is set to the tune of "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm", and featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, including Willamae...
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    Hot Shots (dance companies) (category Lindy Hop)
    travelled to New York City seeking Al Minns, a surviving member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers that Anders had found in "Jazz Dance". While in Stockholm, Anders...
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  • Races and Hellzapoppin' showcased early black performers including Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and Slim and Slam. With Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (1959)...
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    Hellzapoppin (musical) (category Lindy Hop)
    Cyrel Roodney and June Winters; Billy Adams; and Whitey's Steppers (also known as Whitey's Lindy Hoppers). Olsen & Johnson were succeeded by Jay C. Flippen...
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  • was composed entirely of African Americans. The film includes Whitey's Lindy Hoppers (Lindy Hop) performing the much imitated Big Apple Routine. A film...
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  • featuring the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, including Frankie Manning and lindy hop. Hellzapoppin' (1941) - a film remembered for its lindy hop scenes and...
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  • Al & Leon (category Lindy Hop)
    1930s and 1940s both on their own, and as part of the Harlem-based Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. They appeared in the Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races. They...
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    1943, at the age of 11, he saw his father, who was a member of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, perform for the first time. Young would practice dancing in the...
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  • province of Burma Herb White, basketball player Herbert "Whitey" White, manager of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers Bert White (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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    finest example of swing dancing ever put on film, performed by Whitey's Lindy Hoppers (here billed as the Harlem Congeroo Dancers) with Frankie Manning...
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  • Wright's mother Margaret was briefly a member of the dance troupe, Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. As a child Wright sang in her church choir, where she and her older...
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  • Retrieved 24 November 2019. McFadden, Robert D. (6 May 2019). "Norma Miller, Lindy-Hopping 'Queen of Swing,' Is Dead at 99". The New York Times. Archived from...
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