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Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (born Luther Robinson; May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949), was an American tap dancer, actor, and singer, the best known and the most highly paid black entertainer in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.
The Original Copasetics were an ensemble of star tap dancers formed in 1949 on the death of Bill Bojangles Robinson that helped to revive the art of tap. The first group included composer/arranger Billy Strayhorn and the choreographer Cholly Atkins, as well as Honi Coles, Charles “Cookie” Cook and his dance partner Ernest “Brownie” Brown. [1]
Bojangles is a 2001 American made-for-television biographical drama film that chronicles the life of entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949). [1] Robinson is played by Gregory Hines, who also served as an executive producer. Bojangles was produced by Darrick Productions and MGM Television for the Showtime premium cable network.
Bill Robinson (1877–1949), American dancer and actor; Ron Atkinson (born 1939), ... Bojangles of Harlem", a 1936 song from the Fred Astaire movie Swing Time;
Bill Robinson (1877–1949), American dancer and actor, known as "Bojangles" "Mr. Bojangles" (song), a 1968 song by Jerry Jeff Walker "Mr. Bojangles", an unnamed suspect in the West Memphis Three murder case "Mr. Bojangles", a movement in Philip Glass's opera Einstein on the Beach; Mr. Bojangles, a 1973 album by Sonny Stitt
He performed a brief non-speaking role dancing alongside Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the film The White of the Dark Cloud of Joy. [4] He joined a Dixieland band and played around the Bay Area. At age sixteen, he entered a Gene Krupa drum solo contest, making it to the finals and ultimately winning by playing "Drum Boogie."
Adelaide Hall and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in Brown Buddies. Brown Buddies was a musical comedy staged with dancer Bill Bojangles and singer Adelaide Hall starring. [1] It opened on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre where it ran for four months before commencing a road tour in the United States.
She danced with Fred Astaire and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, becoming the first African-American woman to do so on film. MGM signed her to a long-term contract, making LeGon the first African-American woman to receive such an opportunity, but cancellation of the contract soon followed. [2]