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CommentAuthort_roach
- CommentTimeMar 4th 2006
Fayard (left) and Harold Nicholas tap-dancing on a bandstand in Stormy Weather.
I consider myself extremely lucky to have spent an evening in the same room as Fayard Nicholas in the fall of 2003. He didn't dance that night (Frankie did though), but WOW. To be in the same room as a legend! My words would never do them justice, but anyway I did not know till last week (thanks to npr) that Fayard passed away two months ago. Please contribute links to videos, histories, or share your own impressions of this irreplaceable and unsurpassable duo.
NPR: Gliding Off the Dance Floor: Fayard Nicholas
NPR: Inspiration to Astaire, Dancer Fayard Nicholas
NPR: Dancer-Choreographer Fayard Nicholas -- Ed Gordon has a tribute for famed dancer and choreographer Fayard Nicholas, who died yesterday at age 91. Nicholas was best known as one-half of the Nicholas Brothers dancing duo. Listen
Stormy Weather w/ Cab Calloway.
The greatest tap scene ever filmed -- Fred Astaire
Another version of the same
Nicholas Brothers w/ The Jacksons video [Emoticon not found]
The Official Nicholas Brothers Website
We Sing and We Dance video
Stormy Weather for sale
Orchestra Wives for sale
Hallelujah for sale (featuring two shorts with the N. Brothers -- "Pie, Pie Blackbird" (also with Eubie Blake) and "The Black Network"[Emoticon not found]
Amazon dot com review: The Chattanooga Choo-Choo number is unbelievable. It's breathtaking. I'm paralyzed every time I see it. You watch each section of the band play & bounce off each other with fanastic joy & precision & verve & the number just goes on & on. Tex Beneke puts his sax aside & strolls over to join the Modernaires in their perfect 4-part harmony (which set the bar for vocal groups for decades) & their part is filmed like a Busby Berkeley musical. Then when you think it just can't go on being this good, it gets even better with Fayard & Harold Nicholas, the most exciting dancers who ever lived, leaping into the frame with the incredibly scrumptious & gorgeous & talented teen-aged Dorothy Dandridge in what has to be one of the screen's greatest show-stoppers - & it's still The Chattanooga Choo-Choo!
The Pirate w/ Gene Kelly
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CommentAuthort_roach
- CommentTimeMar 4th 2006
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CommentAuthort_roach
- CommentTimeMar 6th 2006
Pie Pie Blackbird excerpt -- Nicholas Brothers
Fayard and Harold Nicholas dancing to Eubie Blake in Pie Pie Blackbird (1932).
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CommentAuthort_roach
- CommentTimeMar 8th 2006
Full version of Pie Pie Blackbird
Yehoodi's tribute to Fayard Nicholas.
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