Black History Album: The Way We Were

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Cotton Club Dancers Bust Some Moves | 1933

Posted 3 months ago
Filmed May 23, 1933, Cotton Club dancers Bessie Dudley and Florence Hill show how to move to Duke Ellington’s Bugle Call Rag. Accompanied by Duke Ellington and his band.

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