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27 – Rusty Frank Interview: “Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and their Stories, 1900-1955”
Andy interviews Rusty Frank, author of “Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars And Their Stories, 1900 to 1955.” Rusty interviewed over 30 tap dance legends for this book, including Shirley Temple, Ruby Keeler, Fayard Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers, Gene Nelson, Donald O’Connor, Ann Miller, Fred Astaire’s choreographer Hermes Pan, and many, many others. It’s a deep dive into pop culture of the first half of the 20th Century, and a close-up view into a cherished American dance form that swept the globe and is still popular worldwide.
In addition to being a writer, dance historian and preservationist, Rusty is an accomplished professional dancer and choreographer, specializing in tap and the Lindy Hop. She teaches dance online and at her school Lindy By the Sea. She produces dance shows, and she has a dance club called Rusty’s Rhythm Club in Los Angeles.
Check out everything Rusty is doing at rustyfrank.com, and consider buying her book “Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars And Their Stories, 1900 to 1955," which has a foreward by Gregory Hines. Even if you’re not interested in tap dancing you’ll be fascinated and enlightened by the stories inside. See below for more information about the people that Rusty talks about in this episode.
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Above: Rusty Frank (center-left) teaching tap dance at UC Santa Cruz; with tap students including Tom Lehrer (right), 1976.
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Above: Rusty Frank and Andy Moore in El Segundo, California, 2021.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Rusty Frank (http://rustyfrank.com)
Tom Lehrer (https://tomlehrersongs.com)
Mary Holmes (https://news.ucsc.edu/2002/01/47.html)
Charles Selberg (https://www.selberginstitute.org/charles-selberg/)
Cindy Catlin
Jon Zerby (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-27-me-1732-story.html)
Katie Zerby
Louis DaPron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DaPron)
Miriam Nelson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Nelson_(choreographer))
Gerald Nachman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Nachman)
Shirley Temple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple)
Fayard Nicholas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayard_Nicholas)
The Nicholas Brothers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Brothers)
Leonard Reed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Reed)
Willie Bryant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Bryant)
Frances Nealy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_E._Nealy)
Gene Nelson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Nelson)
Toy and Wing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_%26_Wing)
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Robinson)
DaCapo Press (https://www.dacapopress.com)
Peg Leg Bates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_Leg_Bates)
Wayne Doba (https://en.everybodywiki.com/Wayne_Doba)
Rodney Price
Six Feet – A Tap Trio
Stepping Out (https://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_s/steppingout.htm)
The Lindy Hop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Hop)
Patti Meagher
Walter Freeman (https://youtu.be/aOOfM89QIrs)
Babes In Arms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babes_in_Arms)
Dames At Sea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dames_at_Sea)
42nd Street (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Street_(musical))
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14 Aug 2020
26 – Brooks Collins And The Crash of Flying Tiger Flight 282
Come along with Andy and his friend Brooks Collins of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) as they search the hills near San Francisco International Airport for the wreckage of Flying Tiger Airlines flight 282, which crashed there in 1964, right near the spot where Gaspar de Portola's 1769 expedition became the first Europeans to behold San Francisco Bay. Brooks is a great conversationalist and he’s knowledgeable in an astonishing number of topics, so our conversation ranges from air wreck adventuring and archeology to particle physics, mirages, Nike missile bases, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, tunnel boring, raptors, and many other topics. Andy, as usual, asks a lot of questions and makes quirky attempts to be amusing.
Check-six.com page for this crash: http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Flying_Tiger_282.htm (http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Flying_Tiger_282.htm)
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Wreckage from flight 282:
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Brooks Collins:
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13 Jun 2020
25 – Fourteen Poets, Far and Near, Reading Their Poems
What to do during the COVID era when it's too dangerous to interview someone in person? Get a bunch of your poet friends to read their poems to your listeners. I realized that I have at least ten friends who are poets, some of them highly celebrated poets, and I had already recorded some of them reading their poetry. Several other poet friends wrote new poetry for this show and sent their recordings to me. Most of the poets you’ll be hearing are from California, and I live in Arizona now where I know only two poets (so far) so I’ve also included several poets from this year’s Tucson Poetry Festival, which occurred a few weeks ago, on-line because of the COVID crisis.
List of poets/poems:
Neil Harvey – Zoom Word
Jon Hammerbeck – Accidental Droppings
David Hammerbeck – 4-3-20
Susan Thackrey – Selections from Andalusia: The Farewell / How do you…; Mourning in Al Andaluse / Alba; Walnut / Eyelid; The Moon / Look How…
Ralph Jack (Ralph Gutlohn) – Acceptable Limits; Be Like Concrete; At The Bottom Of A Glance
Ken Paul Rosenthal – Where Icarus Flew
Kara Daddario Bown – Graceland; Safety in Numbers
Waz Thomas – Falling Water; I Walk, I Stumble, I Fall; Susanville; No!
William Pitt Root – Ways Water Has; Ode To A Frog
Pam Uschuk – Green Flame; Cracking 100
Bojan Louis - Huzzle 8
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17 – Bob & Ray (with guests Bob Elliott and Tom Lehrer)
Published 1 Jan 2013 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You see, a question is not only an intangible object, it's also dead. Therefore, it's possible to be thrown by a horse or any simulated form of human life that's an animal. But it's psychogenically impossible to be thrown by a question. Now, do I make myself expectuous? Yes, but then you always do. […]
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