** Hermes Pan-Swing Time (" Bojangles of Harlem ")

* " Bojangles Of Harlem " w. Dorothy Fields m. Jerome Kern.

( ASCAP ) Since he had written material for many of Harlem ’ s Cotton Club revues, it would be no coincidence that their first combined success would be the score for the all-black Broadway musical Blackbirds of 1928 starring Adelaide Hall and Bill Bojangles Robinson, which jump-started the fledgling duo ’ s career with the memorable songs “ I Can't Give You Anything But Love ,” “ Diga Diga Doo ” and “ I Must Have That Man .”( ASCAP )

Bojangles co-founded the New York Black Yankees baseball team in Harlem in 1936 with financier James " Soldier Boy " Semler.

* Fred Astaire paid tribute to Bill Robinson in the tap routine Bojangles of Harlem from the 1936 film Swing Time.

First is the use of space, horizontally in " A Fine Romance " and vertically in " Never Gonna Dance ", and second is the introduction of trick photography in " Bojangles of Harlem ".

* " Bojangles of Harlem ", a 1936 song from the Fred Astaire movie Swing Time

Johnson was soon the toast of Harlem, and became friends with many Harlem luminaries such as Bill " Bojangles " Robinson, Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

In the number " Bojangles of Harlem " from Swing Time ( 1936 ) Astaire dresses in blackface as the Sportin ' Life character and dances in the style of Sublett while ostensibly paying tribute to Bill Robinson.

" That same night, Bubbles mentioned that Astaire had brought him into the rehearsal hall to work on " Bojangles of Harlem " and John's chops are right there in the number.

The team was founded in Harlem by financier James " Soldier Boy " Semler and dancer Bill " Bojangles " Robinson.

He had previously received Academy Award nominations for the " Top Hat " and " The Piccolino " numbers from Top Hat ( 1935 ) and for the " Bojangles of Harlem "' number from Swing Time ( 1936 ).

Here, as in the " Pick Yourself Up " and " Bojangles of Harlem " numbers from Swing Time, Kern belied his claim that he couldn't write in the Swing style.

The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

Bojangles ' was purchased once again in 2007 by Falfurrias Capital Partners, a private equity firm.

There are several chains with mass-produced items of Southern cuisine on their menus, such as Cracker Barrel, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Church's Chicken, Mrs. Winner's, Sonny's, Tudor's Biscuit World and Popeye's.

Yet even Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and Al Jolson, who built their careers on blackface depictions of rural blacks, reject Fetchit's plea for souls and opt for the Kotton Klub nightclub.

In addition to Savion, Harold Nicholas, Fred Astaire, Gregory Hines, and Bill “ Bojangles ” Robinson went from drums to tap.

According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.

The following day after the victims ' bodies were found, Bojangles ' manager Marty King, thinking there was a possible connection to the bloody man found in the bathroom, repeated the incident to police officers who then inspected the ladies room.

The publicity that gradually came to surround him included the creation of his famous " stair dance " ( which he claimed to have invented on the spur of the moment when he was receiving an honor from the King of England, who was standing at the top of a flight of stairs – Bojangles ' feet just danced up to be honored ); his successful gambling exploits ; his bow ties of multiple colors ; his prodigious charity ; his ability to run backward extremely fast ; his argot, most notably the neologism copacetic ; and such stunts as dancing down Broadway in 1939 from Columbus Circle to 44th Street in celebration of his 61st birthday.

As opposed to the tap dancing of Bill Robinson ( Bojangles ) who emphasized clean phrases and toe taps, Sublett brought in percussive heel drops and played with the traditional eight-bar phrase, slowing it down to allow for more rhythmic freedom.

Among those who lived in Strivers ' Row were Eubie Blake, Fletcher Henderson, Vertner Tandy, W. C. Handy, Dr. Louis T. Wright, Henry Pace, heavyweight boxer Harry Wills, comedian Stepin Fetchit, actor / singer Bill " Bojangles " Robinson, and preacher / congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Nile came from a musical family — his grandfather was a vaudeville pianist who played with Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and Eddie Cantor ; his uncles played boogie-woogie.

He paid for the funeral of dancer Bill ' Bojangles ' Robinson out of his own pocket.

Another notable figure to emerge during this period is Bill " Bojangles " Robinson.

( May 25 was chosen because it is the birthday of famous tapper Bill " Bojangles " Robinson.

After abandoning his studies of pharmacology for financial reasons, James Baskett supported himself as an actor, moving from his home town of Indianapolis, Indiana to New York City, New York and joining the company of Bill Robinson, better known as Mr. Bojangles.

Astaire's dancing was inspired by Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and John " Bubbles " Sublett.

Fox Film Corporation put her under contract to appear in The Little Colonel ( 1935 ), with Shirley Temple, Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and Lionel Barrymore.

* May 25 – Bill " Bojangles " Robinson, American tap dancer, singer, actor

* Bill " Bojangles " Robinson ( 1878 – 1949 ), tap dancer

Tap dancers Bill " Bojangles " Robinson, Sammy Davis Jr. ( as part of the Will Mastin Trio ), and the Nicholas Brothers starred there as well.

* Bill " Bojangles " Robinson, tap dancer and actor

Paige and Gibson often unwound at the Crawford Grill, one of black Pittsburgh's favorite night spots, where the likes of Lena Horne and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson entertained.

*" Doin ' the New Low Down " – Bill “ Bojangles ” Robinson ( McHugh / Fields ) ( Brunswick / Sony BMG )

Among his most famous subjects during this time were Marcus Garvey, Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and Countee Cullen.

Bill " Bojangles " Robinson ( May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949 ) was an American tap dancer and actor of stage and film.

* Duke Ellington composed " Bojangles ( A Portrait of Bill Robinson )", a set of rhythmic variations as a salute to the great dancer.

* A biography of Bill Robinson by Jim Haskins and N. R. Mitgang, Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson ( Morrow ), was published in 1988.

He later appeared in the 1943 film Stormy Weather, an all-black musical, as the third part of a love-triangle involving Lena Horne and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson.

Bill " Bojangles " Robinson, and " Hutch " ( Leslie Hutchinson ).

It included objects ranging from Bill " Bojangles " Robinson ’ s tap shoes to advertising materials from Avenue Q.