Shim Sham Shimmy

READ: The Boy Who Loved to Shim Sham Shimmy by M.D. Osborne. Find here.

PLAY: Bill Bojangles Robinson and Shirley Temple in the The Littlest Rebel (1935).

PLAY: The Shim Sham performed by Peg Leg Bates with Charles "Cookie" Cook and Earnest "Brownie” Brown.

PLAY: start at 2:20 for Shim Sham with Honi Coles, Cholly Atkins and Willie Bryant (1955)

PLAY: The 2nd part of the dance at approximately 1 minute in the following clip from All-Colored Vaudeville (1935) is a recreation of the Shim Sham Shimmy by the Nicholas Brothers..

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