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Georgie Tapps

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    Paul Draper and Georgie Tapps were the first to popularize tap-dancing to classical music, and they performed at such glamorous nightclubs as Manhattan’s Rainbow Room. Throughout the Big Band era, tap dancers performed with well-known orchestras; Bunny Briggs, for example, danced with the bands of Duke Ellington, Earl…

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    Paul Draper and Georgie Tapps were the first to popularize tap-dancing to classical music, and they performed at such glamorous nightclubs as Manhattan’s Rainbow Room. Throughout the Big Band era, tap dancers performed with well-known orchestras; Bunny Briggs, for example, danced with the bands of Duke Ellington, Earl…

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