More than 75 years ago, a special floor show and jitterbug contest at the Jefferson County Armory downtown provided the sensational climax to the fourth annual Kentuckiana Fall Festival and Woman's ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — On Tuesday, Pacific Historic Parks announced Pearl Harbor civilian survivor Pat Thompson died at the age of 90. As a little girl, Pat loved music and dancing. She took ballet ...

On the night before the day of infamy, 10-year-old Patsy Campbell was at Bloch Arena in Pearl Harbor for a semifinal round of the battle of music between the bands from the Navy’s big ships. “All the ...

Dance historians who research such things credit American jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway for coining the term “jitterbug.” In 1934, he recorded a lively tune, “Jitter Bug,” that some credit ...

ThisWeekNews.com brings back its weekly stroll down memory lane, with snippets of news stories from years ago in ThisWeek Rocky Fork Enterprise's predecessor, the Tri-Community News: • ...

As the smirky title character in “Ed” (NBC, 8 p.m.), Tom Cavanagh can be plenty unconvincing, but never so much as when he decides to enter a jitterbug contest tonight, in full zoot-suit regalia. All ...

A 16mm print of the film Jittering Jitterbugs. It consists of a single reel of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical sound. It opens with people dancing in ...