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When the stage show had been running for a few months, C. L. Heimann, managing director of the Locarno Dance Halls, got one of his dancing instructors, Adele England, to elaborate the walk into a dance. "Starting from the Locarno Dance Hall,
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in 1938, popularized by Boston-based orchestra-leader Joseph (Joe) Rines, among others. Rines and his band frequently performed in New York, and the dance became especially popular at the "better" night clubs.
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in Germany. However, the song continued to be popular with the German public and was even played on the radio, particularly during the war, as part of the vital task of maintaining public morale.
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drew attention to it in 1939 by declaring The Lambeth Walk "Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping", as part of a speech on how the "revolution of private life" was one of the next big tasks of
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to make it appear as if they were goose-stepping and skipping to "The Lambeth Walk". The propaganda film was distributed uncredited to newsreel companies, which would supply their own narration.
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I got the idea from my personal experience and from having worked among cockneys. I'm a cockney born and bred myself. The Lambeth Walk is just an exaggerated idea of how the cockney struts.
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An earlier, different song titled "The Lambeth Walk" (composed in 1899 by Edward W. Rogers) was popularised by
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who inherits an earldom but almost loses his Lambeth girlfriend in the process. It was turned into a 1939 film
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in October 1938: "While dictators rage and statesmen talk, all Europe dances – to The Lambeth Walk."
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As with most dance crazes, other well-known orchestras did versions of the song, including
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The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism
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The choreography from the musical, in which the song was a show-stopping
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that quickly became popular in swing clubs. A member of the
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composer. Notable are the variations in the styles of
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was recorded in French by the French-Italian singer
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attending a performance and joining in the shouted "
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Index

Song
Genre
Show tune
Composer(s)
Noel Gay
Lyricist(s)
Douglas Furber
musical
Me and My Girl
Douglas Furber
Noel Gay
Lambeth Walk
street market
working-class culture
Lambeth
London
Cockney
Lupino Lane
Cockney
barrow boy
The Lambeth Walk
Cockney
Streatham
King George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Oi
United States
Duke Ellington
Mass Observation
Adalbert Lutter

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