Single leg amputee 'Peg leg Bates' tap routine (1980's)

Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates (October 11, 1907 – December 6, 1998) was an African-American entertainer from Fountain Inn, South Carolina, United States.
Losing his leg at the age of 12 in a in a cotton gin accident his uncle, Wit, made his crude first "peg leg" after returning home from World War I and finding his nephew disabled. Bates subsequently taught himself to tap dance with a wooden peg leg.
By the time he was 15, Bates was again adept enough at dancing to enter amateur talent shows, working his way up to employment through the Theater Owners Booking Association, which booked entertainers for African-American theaters in the US.
At 20, Bates was dancing on Broadway. In the early 1940s, at the Paradise Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey, his "Jet Plane" finale, in which he leaped over the stage, landed on his wooden leg, and then executed a series of backward hops accompanied by trumpet blasts from the band, saw his leg puncture the wooden stage floor. It took half an hour to pull him out. After that, the stage floor was reinforced with metal sheeting.
Bates performed on The Ed Sullivan Show at least 22 times, and had two command performances before the King and Queen of the United Kingdom in 1936 and then again in 1938.

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