He then sang Shine On Harvest Moon in a warm tenor voice, while Stan did a
soft-shoe shuffle and then sang I'm a Lonely Little Petunia in an Onion Patch, to which Hardy did a little dance.
And I thought as I went inside, if I had been born in the time of witch hunts, I would most likely have ended up as toast with two old dears like the
soft-shoe shuffle walkers who saw me yell at the dog, bearing willing witness against me.
Mick later became a regular on ITV show The Comedians - which is our excuse to dig out a picture from 1972, which shows fellow stars of the show Charlie Williams, Dave Butler, Ken Goodwin, Jos White and Mike Reid doing a
soft-shoe shuffle outside the Liverpool Empire.
This empty
soft-shoe shuffle where one "who?" replaces another "who?" captures everything about British Prime Minister Theresa May's state of stasis.
Even after Di Matteo's
soft-shoe shuffle Mo Diame and Gayle had further chances to take the game away but did not and that heralded a turn in the tide.
One dusting of glitter and he cha-chas off, leaving us with the Corbyn
soft-shoe shuffle to oblivion.
Regardless of the result on telly Crouch trotted out the old
soft-shoe shuffle as he made one for Charlie Adam and scored the winner against his old club.
Still, it was still preferable to watching Brucie doing one of his famous
soft-shoe shuffle routines, a move which has increasingly come to make him resemble a befuddled OAP slipping around on spilt Complan in the powdered aisle of his local Waitrose.
At his New York Journal, Hearst would "appear at the door to an editor's office, grab both sides of the door frame, and with solemn face perform a
soft-shoe shuffle until he had sorted out what he wanted to say." Hearst also liked to lay page proofs on the floor and study them while dancing and snapping his fingers.
He tried to
soft-shoe shuffle his way through the defence but was always out of step and eventually found himself crowded out.
Speaking as someone who has two left feet and wayward toes, I'm looking forward to learning the
soft-shoe shuffle from the comfort of the settee.
That said, the crowd of 40-plus somethings inside Symphony Hall had a ball as one of the stalwart bands of the 80s took a
soft-shoe shuffle through their repertoire of hits.