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Cholly Atkins: The Man Who Put Pep In Soul's Step

Tom Vickers, Black Music, May 1977

Choreographer Cholly Atkins is the most important figure in the history of black music stage presentation. The choreographer who conceived all those unison spins and turns for Motown's stars and worked out the slick dance steps for the O'Jays and the Tavares talks to Tom Vickers.

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