found: Data from ALA Booklist for No maps on my taps [MP] 1979 (subj.)(Bunny Briggs; jazz tap dancer)
found: Barnet, Charlie. Charlie Barnet and his orchestra, 1948:label (Bunny Briggs; novelty vocal)
found: New York times (online), viewed Nov. 28, 2014(in obituary published Nov. 26: Bunny Briggs; b. Bernard Briggs, Feb. 26, 1922, Harlem; d. Nov. 15, Las Vegas, aged 92; elegant and versatile tap virtuoso whose career bridged dance eras, from Bill (Bojangles) Robinson's to Savion Glover's)
found: African American National Biography, accessed December 29, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Briggs, Bunny; dancer; born 22 February 1922 in Harlem, New York, United States; natural performer; attended St. Mark the Evangelist; baptized into the Catholic faith as Bernard Morris; danced with the jazz trumpeter Erskine Hawkins and became known as one to beat; worked with Earl "Fatha" Hines,Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, and the Dorsey Brothers; from 1945 to 1949 performed with Charlie Barnet as vocalist as well as tap dancer; featured in the 1949 film Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra; appeared at the Apollo with the Duke Ellington Orchestra; after Ellington's death in 1974 Briggs worked cruise ships and stage shows; in 1988 worked on two projects with Gregory Hines: the Emmy-winning Gregory Hines, Tap Dance in America and the film Tap; was a founding member of the International Tap Association; in 2006 received the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame Award from the American Tap Dance Foundation)
