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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 29 > Brown, 93, vaudeville tap dancer

Brown, 93, vaudeville tap dancer

By Sarah Halzack / The Bulletin
August 29, 2009

Ernest "Brownie" Brown, a vaudeville entertainer and a founding member of a tap dance ensemble called the Copasetics that helped keep the dance style alive long after its golden age, died of prostate cancer Aug. 21 at a nursing home in Burbank, Ill. He was 93.

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