0:42 This entire segment is so simplistic but incredibly amazing. The syncopation is perfect and it takes a good amount of power to make taps pop that loud. Bailey made it look easy. All the greats make it look easy.

2:00 moonwalking

An 85-year-old gentleman told me that the moonwalk was around since he was young. It was called the "back slide".

@davidmouzayek3764

Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@BlackGirlUnsolved

Жыл бұрын

I was told that too.

@IsaacAlvarez-dy9io

Жыл бұрын

yeah

@tslazzachy

Жыл бұрын

Yep they been doing that shit since the 1920s 30s, it's all over KZread, you just won't find any of the vintage footage by typing in moonwalking or backslide, you gotta watch those old new york stage plays from back in the day they used to get down

@tsha6125

Жыл бұрын

It was called the back slide. When Michael Jackson did it and was asked what it it was, Michael mistakenly called it the moonwalk. The moon walk was originally a different dance move that looked a little silly, moving around like an astronaut in space. That's what I believe happened. Kinda a funny story.

Merece más crédito y reconocimiento. Es lo justo. Es todo.

Absolutely magnificent!😊😊🔥🔥

It is not who did it better or who was first. It is all about developing and elevating something you find inspirational. That is how it works with everything. RIP legend.

@underminethetroll2487

8 ай бұрын

Facts

@paulaoyedele2081

7 ай бұрын

However, when someone claims in 1983 that they developed the moonwalk themself ......well that be a lie .... Plain and simple. I am not a fan of taking credit for someone else's stuff. He could have said....I saw this move called the backslide and decided I wanted to incorporate it into my dance routine, instead he said "I was working on this move and perfected it, couldn't wait to show the world, that day at the awards the Moonwalk was born".

@SztarPlayer01

7 ай бұрын

@@paulaoyedele2081 nah.. yes.. nah.. i understand what you are saying. But when is something someones property? He still could’ve seen the inspiration, but if the move never was claimed by someone and MJ saw it, got inspired, made his own, perfected it and called it the moonwalk, as part of his brand. Than thats totally MJ his right to call it his own. Because he claimed it. Like the usa claimed america from the natives.

@windnchgo

7 ай бұрын

@@paulaoyedele2081 I think it was Little Richard who said good artists borrow, great artists steal. ALL artists are a product of those who came before and inspired... Little Richard was inspired by Esquirita and Sister Rosetta Tharpe to name two.

@windnchgo

7 ай бұрын

Who did it better is subjective and a matter of opinion. But who did it first is not but rather a matter for the history books. Michael was a master at self-promotion and sometimes crossed the line into utter lies.

HE ATE THAT ‼️

I saw MJ's do this on live tv for the Motown 25th anniversary, in his "Billy Jean" performance and all of us kids, my siblings and friends learned it as fast as we could. What I learned later and what younger people may not know is that the whole performance was a tribute to past dancers. The hat part was Fred Astaire, the Moonwalk was a tribute to Billy Bailey, and probably others in the routine, that I am unaware of. But that Motown performance really shot an already popular Jackson into a level we had not seen before, as far as album sales. But he never claimed to invent any of those dance steps and was actually honoring those who came before him.

@tayronwilliams4233

6 ай бұрын

Thank you wise one.

@chadhebert3141

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, thx. I didn't know this. All I knew was watching that live on TV blew me away. I was 10. Inspired me to be the musician I am today. I love playing for all my fans. Sure, it gets a little windy in my room, but I still love it.😅

@luroga

4 ай бұрын

he did take the credit for giving it to the world and you can see it in 40 year of thriller, also says in it he wishes every one can get there moonwalk moment, by giving something like this to the world,, its ok most people that are famous like to take credit for other peoples work in the new world is not about authentic is abou who made it more popular. BS,.. he never mention Bill in any way thats call stealing some else moves...

@tutplok

3 ай бұрын

He didnt honor them, he did those moves bcuz they were cool, he didnt do it do give "tribute" to other dancers.

@viceman8152

3 ай бұрын

@@tutplok The whole routine was a tribute to other dancers. He said so in an interview before and after the show.

Superb “tap dancer”. 💖

2:03 what you’re here for

Goosebumps. Wooo!

Wonderful!

Bill was singer/actress Pearl Bailey’s brother. And Pearl stole a Broadway role from Maya Angelou who was passed over b/c of her “looks.” That gave us Maya the poet. Talent finds a way to the top. But Bill deserves more credit.

@ceeceetracey9839

Жыл бұрын

So they thought Pearl was more "pleasing to the eye" than Maya?

First moonwalks done in the Charleston era 1920s. There's a clip in King of Jazz 1930 and I forget the dancer name, and he's likely not the first either

Outstanding

MJ may not be first but he took it to another level and the original name is called the backslide

Holy shit. Michael definitely got his inspiration from homeboy. Wow. So shocked!

@RNGomez

10 ай бұрын

Look up "Bob Fosse - Snake In The Grass." MJ took that whole dance routine

@seanpoopie

10 ай бұрын

@@RNGomez Nah. I’m good lol

@moiracd

Ай бұрын

Michael was inspired by Jeff Daniel from Shalamar.

Não foi Michael que inventou o Moonwalk mais eternizou. 🙌🙌🙌

That wAs smooth

Truly amazing!!!

In always said he watched old videos of dancer like bill and Fred astaire then combined it with what was new. I'm sure people did moon walks for thousands of years but some people have swag on another level. Something that can never be taught

@ConcernedResident_GiantStack

Жыл бұрын

Swag can be learned. Just go to dances long enough, pick up the beat and FEEL the music, and it'll come.

We'll never know who definitively did it first, but we know without question who did it best.

@ianc643

Жыл бұрын

Don’t tell me it’s mj.

@mpressive2u

Жыл бұрын

@@ianc643 I didn't have to say anything

@sarchsoal

Жыл бұрын

You mean Jeffrey Daniel?

@mpressive2u

Жыл бұрын

@@sarchsoal you tell me! You already know what I was thinking

@peterney2402

Жыл бұрын

Yep bill.

That was awesome

For me Bailey was the best

Ngl he killed it 🔥

Bailey was fantastic and in tap shoes????? 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🔥🔥🔥

Great performance !

@welovephilippineswithmylov5419

4 ай бұрын

Yeah Right Absolutely

@welovephilippineswithmylov5419

4 ай бұрын

Very True

BROOO HE ATE THAT

I love this 😍

Dude started floating

That’s was fire -2023

Thanks for the content. Nice

May be one of the first recordings of the moonwalk, but nobody did it as smooth as MJ.

@JadaBlake

Жыл бұрын

Yeah overrated asf too

@Supperdude9

Жыл бұрын

@@JadaBlake yermums overrated

@JadaBlake

Жыл бұрын

@@Supperdude9 super corny asf this must be a 12 year child behind this account

@Supperdude9

Жыл бұрын

@@JadaBlake ...are you hoping for a 12 year old or...? Why come to that specific number?

@JadaBlake

Жыл бұрын

@@Supperdude9 I think you should learn how to spell before you try coming for someone 😭 like I said what I said MJ moonwalk is overrated with ya mad ass

Ty😍

Great artist steal

Wow ❤

Talk about someone ahead of their time

I think we should get current Bill Bailey to recreate this

This guy could be a professional upstairs neighbor

How the hell did KZread know i was thinking about this ????

My upstairs neighbors at 6am:

Since Bill made reference to Bo Jangles then there is a possibility that he learned the backslide/moonwalk from him. I like how Michael created more of a smooth glide as if he was floating. Bills was more of a slide.

😮❤❤

Its Called "The back slide" y'all

Good dancing

Yes it existed before Michael Jackson, but Michael made it a household name dance and made it popular/famous world wide.

Michael Jackson always said, "Study the greats. And become greater." And like his idol, James Brown, Michael Jackson was the hardest-working man in show business.

The original moonwalk 😮

Naranjas. Mis queridos guayabos! El primero y creador del moonwalk, fue el magnífico " resortes " icono del cine Mexicano! Bill lo copio después de 5 años! Amen

AÑO? YEAR?

You’ve got your facts wrong, the first ever registered Moon walk was actually performed by a Mexican actor and comedian Adalberto Ramírez (Resortes) on feb 11th 1950, 5 years before this performance, he is a great dancer no doubt, but the moon walk was credited to Resortes.

@luroga

2 ай бұрын

do you have the video or photos, mr smarty pants...

2:01

Boogaloo Shrimp taught Michael Jackson how to moonwalk. He was just the most famous one to do it.

Tap dancing is a beautiful, lost art. This is just wonderful. We need less kids playing Fort-Night (sic), and more practicing things that are good, beautiful and true….

@quapawqwerty1619

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Why Square Dancing is STILL active. Niche Nods of appreciation in life, like playing Baseball by the 1886 Rules. Big thing. Swayze's mother, Patsy. Lord, almighty, that woman was amazing. Like Vera Ellen, but grounded. All of her children tapped and turned out straight, and family loving. They got her dimples and finesse of the danse. Dancing was taught in public schools up to some NWO Point Of No Return resulted in long marriages, Early Ease of opposite sex interaction, and long lived physical partner tether. Doing a time step on my soapbox (of Dancing Suds). Studied tap seriously and have a Hines Lick from a wayback machine. Everybody Should Tap. It's flying sans convenient bird structure.

@quapawqwerty1619

Жыл бұрын

@@zoneheart5157 I don't have the power to turn anything in anything. But I know that if kids danced, and danced together young as they used to, the world would be a healthier and happier place.

Please forgive me for twice-told tales. The backslide had been around for a while prior to this. Bill Baily's version here is an important mile-marker in its development. Michael Jackson's true, original "moonwalk" was nothing like this at all. It was a prolonged rotational motion, in one still place, with slow-upward actions, which gave the appearance of a low-gravity environment. His execution of this backslide was breath-taking, and further developed. Somehow, the name "moonwalk" got attached to it. His first public execution of this move was at the Motown 25 event. He smoothly executed only 4 steps of the backslide and the audience erupted. Further refinements took it to a whole new level. It is significant that MJ wisely appropriated dance moves and ideas from everybody he could study. Oddly, MJ never released a record through MoTown. My only compliant is that the song "Billie Jean" is one of the trashiest stories ever recorded. So I turn the sound down whenever I wanna study MJ's backslide for my own enjoyment. I am especially grateful for this colorized version of Bill Baily's performance.

That "Boy" sure had a problem 😂

The first moon walk is by adalberto martínez "resortes"

Where did the name Moon WALK come from, the first time I saw it they called it The Shaba Doo

Yeah, that is definitely a moon walk. Michael did it better I think but there’s no doubt that he is performing the same move here almost 30 years before Michael

Resortes versión has to be the closest thing to MJs moonwalk and it was done in the 50s. Nobody is talking about this Mexican legend

@therealgraffitimouth

8 ай бұрын

Resortes is doing more of a pantomime walk. He’s not actually gliding backwards like this in the footage.

@javionriley8739

8 ай бұрын

Because the actual moonwalk was done by black Americans in 1920 via the Harlem Renaissance no degenerate Mexican do anything

Jeffery Daniel was first and he taught it to Michael

@bigtstyle123

10 ай бұрын

Wrong. He wasn’t first and he didn’t teach Michael. Michael ‘Boogaloo Shrimp’ Chambers taught him. Watch the documentary about him and it’ll tell you the truth.

What year is this?

Year who called it moonwalk

Wen?

Bill Bailey then Jeffrey Daniel’s Shalamar check him out on the Soul Train 3 dancers popping and backsliding this came to MJ attention Daniels taught MJ who in my opinion bought it worldwide and renamed it the MOONWALK 🙏🏽

*1955*

Michael gave credit he said he did not invent

The Smokey Robinson VladTV interview bought me here

2:03 here

When was this made?

@pandafriend999

11 ай бұрын

1967

@delsonmckimm2169

11 ай бұрын

​@@pandafriend999do you mean 1967?

🤠🤠ty

MJ couldn't even do it like him!

1:39

Cab Calloway was the first

@MoeJaxon

8 ай бұрын

Nahhh. He did some version of it but it was more motioning back sliding. It wasn’t the actual moon walk

@Eazy-ERyder

8 ай бұрын

@MoeJaxon the origins of the backslide - which essentially IS the moonwalk - came from Calloway

There’s older videos of people moonwalking. Not even Americans

Para que no digan que michael lo invento , es un a copia pero lo actulizo michael nada mas, a pesar que michael tambien se inspiro en jackie wilson en el giro que hacia cuando cantaba

Is He Dancing or Having Seizure??

This was way more cooler then Michael's

What do u mean you’ll never know who did it first the picture is obvious lol that’s way back when

That's not really the moonwalk. It's a little different.

Sarah Reich's grandfather?

@christopherallen9580

Жыл бұрын

who?

I always thought it was Charlie Chaplin who did it first

That is most defiantly a moonwalk. Although MJ does it the best.

I thought that Michael Jackson was the first who did the mookwalk but not. Each one with their own styles

yes and no, this move is the precursor indeed but the moonwalk is far more stylized.

It's been around since slave days; Black and Irish slaves discovered that if you're being pulled from behind with a chain around your neck there is less chance of falling and less trauma to the body by moonwalking. The more you know.

Impressive, it's still important to know history. Everything from the sixties to the present wasn't original anyway. It doesn't have to be 'whose better'. Why can't people just enjoy instead of pitting one against the other in sports and entertainment? Especially when it come to pitting black against black. SMH

Before Turbo before Michael Jackson he was the first MoonWalker.

@sergiogalindo3024

Жыл бұрын

No Sir! FIRST Moonwalk was done by Mexican ICONIC Actor Resortes!

Ppl out here arguing me literally said he didn’t invent it but black ppl did

Michael is Frist

Lost art

Why calling the moonwalk

@NeurosisOsmosis

Жыл бұрын

because it looks like you're walking with no gravity

not the first

Ripple was created before BTC.. got it.

Did micheal flatley and Jackson copy this mans dancing. Im sure they did.

Krietor of the moon Walker Bill Bayler and not Michael Jackson.

Ya not the same. Similar but not the moonwalk.

Good artists copy, 'great' artists steal.

Okay but Jackson did way better

MJ did it better but bills was clean to😂