Tip Tap and Toe

[@FloorStylez]

Best trio ever in tap dancing - PERIOD!!

[@FloorStylez]

along with condos brothers (there was three to begin with apparently)

[@motownjo]

TIP TIP and TOE were: Samuel Green (tip), Ted Fraser (tap) and Ray Winfield (toe). Often danced on table tops and other small spaces, with Ray considered to be the innovator of the sliding style of tap, later copied by everyone. Movies: All By Myself (1943) and You Can't Have Everything (1937)

[@sclogse1]

Their best routine in in Abbott and Costello's Pardon My Sarong. Fabulous. They bow at the end of this. We should be bowing to them.

[@dancehistory]

Their younger stuff is cleaner certainly, but besides the age, keep in mind those were all movies, where the tap is over dubbed and multiple takes. This TV, live no over dub, and an updated arrangement of the song Earl Hines wrote from about 10 years prior. regardless , as you said....it should be us bowing at the end. thanks..

[@archiemilan]

Thank you for that!!! I remember being totally mesmerized watching them and I couldnt remember the show I saw them on. Thanks a million.

[@msbcheet6041]

Excellent comment

[@h0gwartz]

amazing! I guess there was once a time when entertainers had real talent

[@makebelieveballroom]

They slide on the steel "cleats" plus the soles and heels were leather,and if you're old enough to have had a pair of leather soled shoes you'll remember how they got slippery after a little wear. The dance segment in A/C's movie "Pardon My Sarong was great too! Another great dance clip is in Abbott and Costello's "In the Navy".It's the Condos Brothers dancing on gun turrets on a ship. Thanx for posting!

[@snowman3k]

great great stuff.....too bad nowdays showes aren't even close..... =(

[@chuckbradley2770]

My favorite movie piece of theirs is from "You Can't Have Everything". They all three slide in this like they literally float in air an inch above the stage. There is lots of unbelievable speed in this one too. In my opinion, the most talented tap trio ever and also at the top individually.

[@Direness]

Wow...that performance. Wow!

[@monkface]

i remember seeing these guys in an abbott and costello movie years ago! i can't remember which!

[@AminEL7]

Samuel Green (tip), Ted Fraser (tap) and Ray Winfield toe. I'm forever grateful for their contribution.

[@CaliforniaAfrican]

Why must you compare with Mike? Michael J., like these performers, is another talented dancer in a never ending line of talented Black dancers in the history of this country. The "moon walk" and other moves Mike made famous were performed before him. It is not necessary to put down one, to appreciate the others. Mike has helped to erase some of our society's racism allowing other Black performers to reach a level of stardom that countless Black folks did not. So, mad props to Mike.

[@chevydude658]

Unbelievable!!!! What gifted-ness. I would be totally and completely hysterically WOWED!!!!!

[@tarikdebarge]

This is UNBELIEVABLE!

[@slowfeetmo]

It's incredible - i wished,I could do some of that stuff!! Amazing - and so much fun to watch - its pure happiness! I dont even get a normal wing together, let alone a series just on toes. UUUUHHH, what inspiration!!!

[@deaddog5344]

WOW!, WOW!!, I just mean WOW ! ! !

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

Great, CLEAN talents - unlike today's rap crap.

[@RakaelBoozierre]

Man we are a talented people

[@peterpterodactyl]

Thank you for the introduction ElAminNazir!

[@tundradog]

good lord! what talent!

[@jenniferfrey2453]

I love tap dancing, but I never knew tap dancing could be SO amazing. Awesome! Thank for the video!

[@biggus8888]

Amazing talent, the guy in the middle must have started the Original Moonwalk!!

[@davidhertzberg1]

Wow, incredible moves! Thanks so much.

[@shebbah]

this is so wonderful!! i still can't beleive anyone could dance like this!even after seing that vid lol thanks

[@HardwoodRollers]

Golden years indeed

[@anUHkins]

How in the world do they slide around like that on the big block thing? it there shoes, the block, or is it just a move there pulling? thats amazing. They do a lot of nice stuff, a joy to watch.

[@keepthemusicplaying0]

Five stars! Wonderful performance, thanks for posting this little gem :-)

[@Blackjesus3]

niceeee dancers these guys r so sickk

[@burndogswing]

Amazing!!!!

[@fredjmp]

Fantastic!

[@soulbrotherlegendary]

OG that Slides in at 49' is smooth as a baby's ass with Shea Butter on it!!!

[@jizl]

@turnipofficer amen to that. That performance is the most amazing thing i've ever seen. They break it down real funky... someone needs to remix these guys videos to some tasty techno or something!

[@JimmyDeLocke]

Like, WOW, man -- these guys are HOT!!!!!

[@turnipofficer]

After seeing them on that "shout brother shout" this one seems almost tame by comparison :p

[@WernerErkelens]

lords of tap

[@Samseeddrunkenmaster]

Astonishing. Nothing really else to say.

[@BBBucksss-zq9yg]

Memphis jookin in there! :)

[@bellarose8511]

WOW 🤩

[@motownjo]

who are these dancers...they are wonderful..

[@dancehistory]

No problem! :)

[@nikilista1982]

from 2,47 to 2,51 the dance is similar to tha of mj; but he finished this dance moves in a way that this dancer don't make in this video.

[@dwannbrown6275]

Jon Kato, Raymond Winfield was doing it be4 Jimmy Slyde

[@monsterman1150]

Lak wo bin ich hier gelandet lan 🤣🤣😂

[@keshawoods1711]

Wow

[@peterpterodactyl]

yes, it is... I thought he's smoother than a frog's belly

[@dancehistory]

The problem with MJ was he took credit for stuff he did not actually create. He never gave credit to his teacher in the 1970's...Poppin Taco who in fact taught him the moonwalk.

[@ashima352]

Raymond Winfield is as good a slide dancer as the late great Dr. Jimmy Slyde!

[@dwannbrown3139]

YOU MEAN JIMMY SLYDE IS ALMOST AS GOOD AS RAYMOND WINFIELD!!

[@nuneswhite]

The titl should be "So You Think You Can Dance?"

[@jenniferfrey2453]

Nuff Said is right. And people think Michael Jackson can dance.