Moonwalk (dance) new wave band Talking Heads, authentic street dancers, picked by David Byrne, are featuring, including Stephen "Skeeter Rabbit" Nichols doing the moonwalk. It reached to 20 on the US dance charts. Another early moonwalker was popper and singer Jeffrey Daniel, who moonwalked in a performance of Shalamar's "A Night To Remember" on "Top of the Pops" in the UK in 1982 and was known to perform backslides in public performances (including weekly "Soul Train" episodes) as far back as 1974. Michael Jackson was a fan of Jeffrey Daniel's dancing and would eventually seek him out. Also in 1982, Debbie Allen
Moonwalk (dance) Marcel Marceau used it throughout his career (from the 1940s through the 1980s), as part of the drama of his mime routines. In Marceau's "Walking Against the Wind" routine, he pretends to be pushed backwards by a gust of wind. In 1958, Mexican dancer-comedian Adalberto Martinez "Resortes" also performed the moonwalk in the film "Colegio de Verano" (Summer School). In a November 1969 episode of "H.R. Pufnstuf", Judy the Frog teaches everyone a new dance called "The Moonwalk", which includes two instances of a stationary moonwalk. 1972 Lucie Arnaz in Here's Lucy Episode 9 of Season 5 "Lucy and Jim