All the drummers during that era - Jo Jones, for example, Buddy Rich - Steve Gadd was a Mouseketeer. They all tap-danced. They told jokes. Because when you played the theaters, you did everything. You were m.c. You had a dance routine. You had a dance routine called a b.s. chorus. It was nothing but a series of taps. That's how Baby Laurence  Lawrence, Teddy Hale, Bunny Briggs - that's where all those guys came up, from the tap-dance era. My sister Mary - full sister - taught me how to tap-dance. She taught me the time-step first of all, and then the shim-sham-shimee. That's how that started.