Today is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #101, the great dancer Leonard Reed (for my full bio on the inventor of the shim sham shimmy, go here). I have no clips of him dancing, but in this segment from the Ed Sullivan you can see something rarer: Reed doing a comedy cross-talk act with boxer Joe [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:56AM on January 7, 2013