Legendary jazz tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was born on May 25, 1878, in Richmond, Virginia. His given name was Luther, but he despised it and appropriated that of his ...

And each night, Gary's parents Camille and Georges dance lovingly to their favorite song, Mr. Bojangles. There is only room for fun, fantasy, and friends while at home.

“Mr. Bojangles,” a song about a tap-dancing drifter, has been covered numerous times by the likes of Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Sammy Davis Jr., Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton.

In 1965, a night in jail in New Orleans for public intoxication yielded Mr. Walker’s signature song, “Mr. Bojangles,” the story of a dancing man and a dead dog that the Nitty Gritty Dirt ...

“Mr. Bojangles” will dance no more. Al Ford of Georgetown, the man known as Mr. Bojangles to the Beach Ball Classic crowds that he entertained for well over a decade, died Monday at the age of 74.

His career in American dance was unprecedented. Even today, those unfamiliar with his work know his name from the song 'Mr. Bojangles' and Fred Astaire's classic dance routine 'Bojangles of Harlem.' ...

Bojangles . . . dance.The person I see dancing is not tap-dancing legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. It’s Gregory Hines, the tap-dancing legend of my time.I can’t believe he is dead.

A night of music, dance and stories from a bartender you've never known and famous singers who don't exist. The drinks are near but the dreams are far. Take a seat at Bojangles bar.

Many people know the song “Mr. Bojangles,” about a raggedy man with a fondness for alcohol, a pain in his heart for his dead dog and dancing feet. “A lot of people think the song … ...

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was a one-of-a-kind entertainer whose feet were two of America’s greatest national treasures. In tribute to this dancer among dancers, T. G. Cooper has l… ...

"That's the last of the true honky-tonks," Jerry Jeff Walker said on a drizzly Wednesday last month as we left the Broken Spoke, a country music dance hall in south Austin, Tex. Walker should know ...