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The brilliant Lindy Hopping of Al Minns and Leon James

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Lindy Hoppers Al Minns and Leon James have been seen dancing to the Charleston in a viral Daft Punk version, but this is the original that shows what it would have been like to watch them perform on television in the 1950s.

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Minns and James were a well known for their performances at Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom in the 1930s and 40s. You can watch them break down the Shim Sham here and the Shimmy, Snakehips, and the Lindy Hop here on the DuPont Show of the Week in 1961: 

Watch this stunning performance next: Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers in Hellzapoppin’ (1941).

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