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Transcription: [00:40:59]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
This, this story just has an image for me. The particular details have to do with his being in the army and not quite getting back on the day he was supposed to be back, but that has nothing to do with tap dancing. He was with a friend, Henry Meadows, who was also a master dancer.
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They were on the street at 16th and

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Lumbard.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
16th and Lumbard. Underneath the street light.
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and I always picture these two young guys, one teaching the other how to do a paddle by the light of a street light and I love that image, and that's become Levaughn's signature.

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
You mentioned the Nicolas brothers, what the, and I would assume each of these dancers would have their signature style, you mentioned the tempo, by which they dance. Could you say looking back at Bojangle Robinson what was it about him that made him such an exceptional dancer?

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{SPEAKER name="LaVaughn"}
You're talking about the master Bill Robinson. Well I think what made Bill Robinson so exceptional as far as dancing was concerned is that he was even footed.
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Right? yea whatever he did on one foot he would do on the other.
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I mean he was not a one foot dancer. He was very clean. All the taps you could hear, you know, and nothing was muffled, and Bill Robinson could run faster backwards than a lot of people could run frontwards.
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I mean this is a fact about the man.
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You know, a lot of people don't know the history because the man passed away before a lot of your people got a chance to know the man.
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But the man was not just a good tap dancer. The man was also a pool shot. The man was [laughing] a track star. You know the man was very athletic and very sportsman-like, you know, and one of the greatest dancers I've ever seen.