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Birth Name |
Heath and McIntyre |
James McIntyre |
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Thomas K. Heath |
Dancers and musical comedy stars. Perhaps the
most famous Tap
dancing team was McIntyre and Heath. They joined forces in the
spring of 1874 in San Antonio, Texas. In 1880, McIntyre claimed
that he and Heath, were the first to introduce the syncopated
buck
and wing on the New York stage
McIntyre told a reporter that he had learned
it by "watching Negro's in the South soon after the Civil
War." The song that was used for this Buck and Wing was
called "the Rabbit" and the team introduced their number
at Tony Pastor's Theater in New York in 1879. McIntyre also claimed
that this was the first time ragtime had been presented on the
legitimate stage (from Tap Roots Book.) Heath passed away
in 1938 in Setauket, N.Y. |
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Birth Place |
Birth Date |
Spouse |
Offspring |
| Kenosha, Wisconsin (M) |
8/8/1857-???? |
n/a |
n/a |
| Philadelphia (H) |
8/11/1852 - 8/18/1938 |
n/a |
n/a |
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Night Clubs |
Theaters |
Stage |
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Circle Theatre (1909) |
1905 - The Ham Tree |
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New York Theatre (1905) |
1909 - In Hayti |
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Percy Williams Theatre (1910) |
1922 - Red Pepper |
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Shubert Theatre (1922) |
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Tony Pastor's Theatre |
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Television |
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5/25/1910 - NY Times section |
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1964 - Jazz Dance - Marshall Stearns |
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2002 - Tap Roots: The Early History of ... |
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