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It started with a tap dancing cow!

31 Monday Dec 2018

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A Glass and a Half Full Production, blogiversary, Happy New Year, New Year, Putting on the Ritz, tap dancing, Tap Dancing Cow

Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of this blog, a blogiversary if you will. It all started with a simple post featuring a tap dancing cow Putting on the Ritz. It’s hard to believe that was 7 years ago!

Tap dancing cow

Dancing…and writing…into the New Year

The focus on blogging has changed in the writing world over the last seven years. Today, Authors spend the majority of their time working on their next project, and very little on blogs. Personally, I enjoy the immediate gratification of writing and posting a short piece and will continue here…though less frequently.

Here’s to a New Year filled with ridiculously spectacular accomplishments!

Mooo-ve over, the best is yet to come!


Holy Cow! A Mooonlight Serenade Revival

01 Friday Jan 2016

Posted by Elizabeth Fais in Cows, Dancing, Fun, Humor

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A Glass and a Half Full Production, blogoversary, cow, Elizabeth Fais, Funny Videos, Moonlight Serenade, tap dancing, Tap Dancing Cow

It’s hard to believe that I started this blog four (4!) years ago today. I was so timid about publishing my first post. Ha! Timid no more. That’s for sure.

To ensure that I don’t take myself (or what I write) too seriously, I’m reviving that first post from January 1, 2012. Light in word count (?!), but it launched me into the blogosphere. And that’s what counts.

Thank you all for being part of this wonderful journey.

Fred Astaire, move over for the Tap Dancing Cow!


Moonwalk Mastery … Before Michael Jackson

19 Thursday Sep 2013

Posted by Elizabeth Fais in Dancing, Fun Facts, Moon

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Apollo Theater, Bill Bailey, Billie Jean, Cab Calloway, Dancing, Dick Van Dyke, Elizabeth Fais, Marcel Marceau, Michael Jackson, Moon, Moonwalk, MTV, New York City, tap dancing, The Buzz

There’s a glorious full moon tonight … a marvelous night for a moonwalk. No, not on the surface of the moon … the dance move Michael Jackson made famous in Moonwalk steps1983.

For anyone who’s too young to remember Michael Jackson, or is just unfamiliar with the illusive dance technique, the moonwalk — when done well — creates the illusion of the dancer sliding backwards while attempting to walk forward.

But just like the moon in tonight’s sky, the moonwalk was around long before Michael Jackson…

Who invented the Moonwalk?

Proof-positive recordings only go as far back as recording technology. I, however, wouldn’t be surprised if the moonwalk originated centuries before the first film recording. Anyway…

Here’s what we know for sure:

Cab Calloway, the famous jazz singer and bandleader, was recorded moonwalking back as 1932. Calloway is noted to have said that back in the 1930s, the dance move was called “The Buzz”.

Bill Bailey moonwalkingDick Van Dyke performed a moonwalk move in the 1950’s, in his “Mailing A Letter On A Windy Corner” comedy skit. Then in 1955, Bill Bailey, a well-known tap dancer, was recorded moonwalking in a performance at the Apollo Theater in New York. [image: Bill Bailey moonwalking, at the Apollo Theater, NYC, 1955]

Americans weren’t the only ones to incorporate the enigmatic dance move into their routines. The famous French mime, Marcel Marceau, used the moonwalk throughout his career, starting in the 1940s. In Marceau’s famous “Walking Against the Wind” routine, he moonwalked as he pretended to be pushed backwards by a gust of wind, as he tried to walk forward.

There were more contemporary performers, such as David Bowie, who performed the moonwalk before Michael Jackson busted the move on MTV in 1983. Still, there’s no question that Michael Jackson was the one who made the moonwalk famous for our generation, and a few more to come.

Michael Jackson Moonwalk: In Slow-Mo (MTV)


Pretty awesome. The first time I saw that move I thought, “I want to learn how do that!” And now, with the help of YouTube, we CAN!

Here’s How to Moonwalk Like Michael Jackson


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Mooonlight Serenade

20 Friday Jan 2012

Posted by Elizabeth Fais in Cows, Dancing

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cows, Dancing, fun videos, tap dancing

Nothing says awesome like a tap dancing cow!

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