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Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
voc, 1878-1949 US, Richmond, Virginia
Jazz, Pop and Soundtrack
A.k.a. William Luther Robinson
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949) was an American tap dancer and actor, the best known and most highly paid African American entertainer in the first half of the twentieth century. His long career mirrored changes in American entertainment tastes and technology, starting in the age of minstrel shows, moving to vaudeville, Broadway, the recording industry, Hollywood radio, and television. According to dance critic Marshall Stearns, "Robinson's contribution to tap dance is exact and specific. He brought it up on its toes, dancing upright and swinging", giving tap a "…hitherto-unknown lightness and presence.":pp. 186–187 His signature routine was the stair dance, in which Robinson would tap up and down a set of stairs in a rhythmically complex sequence of steps, a r
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| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stormy Weather | Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson And Fats Waller | 1980 | Album |
| Keep A Song In Your Soul / Just A Crazy Song | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | 1937 | Album |
| Ain't Misbehavin' / Doin' The New Low Down | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | 1929 | Album |
| Doin' the New Low Down / Keep A Song In Your Soul | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | Album | |
| Big Broadcast Of 1935 | Ben Bernie, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Etting, Al Jolson, James Melton, Harry Owens, Phil Regan, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, John Charles Thomas, Rudy Vallee | Album |
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