Carole: I suppose pilón would have been more appropriate here, but there are two reasons I did not use it. One, I did not think of it. Two, I like the sound and look of lagniappe.
Troy: At about the 0:34-second mark, Fred Astaire is dancing with a woman I think is Eleanor Powell. He said she was the best dancer in Hollywood at the time, including him. I had a video of her dancing on here back in April. She’s absolutely wonderful.
How nice it is to see people actually dancing instead of appearing to be in a constant epileptic seizure while either flaying their arms or spinning on their butt on the floor.
I am too old to appreciate the art of whatever they do now, with the arm jerks and spinning around like a top. I went to a show back a while in Northern California where they actually devoted 15 minutes or so to this person who did this weird gyrations on the stage. Weird, or now the butt moving around like a target for some mating animal. Oh, send me back to the old days.
Great clips of great performers who actually had talent.
Tancho: That butt spinning is called break dancing. You’re just behind the times, old boy. I don’t think badly of it though I’m not a fan. It’s just a different style. It does require talent and practice.
The Unseen Moon 
How could anyone not smile while watching this!! That’s when people could dance without having sex on the stage.
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Peggy: Quite right. Not one guy caressing his crotch or one gal whose boob “accidentally” flew out.
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Great video. It took a lot of work to sync those movements to the music.
Lagniappe is a Cajun thing, you know.
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Carole: A Cajun thing?! You do recall that you’re talking to a guy who lived almost two decades in New Orleans. Do you know what lagniappe means?
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Yes, I know what I believe it means. A little gift a store owner gives a customer. Usually LA or East TX. Cajun French.
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Carole: It can have a wider meaning:
“something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure.”
That’s how I use it here. A gift.
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I first heard lagniappe used as the name of a charter sailing provisioning company.
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Carole: We have a word in Spanish that means, among its other definitions, the same thing. Pilón.
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Yes, I was going to write that but the word wouldn’t come off the tip of my tongue.
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Carole: I suppose pilón would have been more appropriate here, but there are two reasons I did not use it. One, I did not think of it. Two, I like the sound and look of lagniappe.
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That was terrific! I was smiling at all the fabulous dance moves. Many, many thanks for sharing this.
Saludos,
Don Cuevas
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My pleasure, Señor Cuevas. I too thought it was great.
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Thanks for putting a smile on my face tonight. 😉
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Terri: Putting smiles on faces is one of the mission statements in the Moon’s charter. I guess I should print the entire charter one day.
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Felipe,
Glad I took the time to watch the video. Excellent. Some very talented people in those old movies.
Troy
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Troy: At about the 0:34-second mark, Fred Astaire is dancing with a woman I think is Eleanor Powell. He said she was the best dancer in Hollywood at the time, including him. I had a video of her dancing on here back in April. She’s absolutely wonderful.
https://unseenmoon.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/the-doggie-dance/
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Gives new meaning to the term “sync” … and a good one it is.
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Ricardo: The mind reels at the work that went into making that video.
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How nice it is to see people actually dancing instead of appearing to be in a constant epileptic seizure while either flaying their arms or spinning on their butt on the floor.
I am too old to appreciate the art of whatever they do now, with the arm jerks and spinning around like a top. I went to a show back a while in Northern California where they actually devoted 15 minutes or so to this person who did this weird gyrations on the stage. Weird, or now the butt moving around like a target for some mating animal. Oh, send me back to the old days.
Great clips of great performers who actually had talent.
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Tancho: That butt spinning is called break dancing. You’re just behind the times, old boy. I don’t think badly of it though I’m not a fan. It’s just a different style. It does require talent and practice.
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Break dancing can’t be done with two people arm to arm because they would stop spinning, just an observation.
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And an accurate observation it is, Tancho.
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