Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Songs Unwritten: A Tap Dancer Remembered...
...most people, the term "tap-dancing" conjures images of saccharinesweet little girls in sequined costumes, shuffle-stepping in time to "The Good Ship Lollipop" as part of a painfully long church talent show...
...growing number are discovering the legacy of the tap innovators who, during their heyday in the thirties and forties, took their art as far and regarded their art as seriously as better known contemporaries like Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie did with music...
...such man was Leon Collins, who is the subject of Songs Unwritten: A Tap Dancer Remembered, a documentary by David Wadsworth '84. The project is the first in a series for The Leon Collins Archive, Inc., which Wadsworth hopes will bring recognition to Collins and other lesser-known jazz performers...
...While controlling a tap at a crowded party, the seventh only poured beer for her muscular friends. For ignoring weasly but thirsty people like me, she's dead...