FAMU in Paris on Good Morning America (1989)
July 4, 1989
FAMU goes to France
July 4, 1989
A Birthday Gift to France: 500 American Feet in Paris
LEAD: The Florida A & M University band calls itself the Marching 100. But it isn’t. Its members number 250, not 100. And they don’t march. They boogie.
The Florida A & M University band calls itself the Marching 100. But it isn’t. Its members number 250, not 100. And they don’t march. They boogie.
The moon walk, the California worm, the funky chicken, the mashed potato, the Alf - these are the steps that move their ranks down the avenue. And on July 14 that avenue will be the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Out of thousands of possible choices, the Marching 100 of Florida A & M, a predominantly black school here with 6,500 students, was the band picked by the French Government to represent the United States in the grand parade marking the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Read more
