AMERICAN SOURRE DANCE NOVEMBER 1983 Single Copy $1.00 Annual $9.00 OUTSTANDING IN ITS FIELD "THE BOSS" by CLINTON %.. CLINTON INSTRUMENT COMPANY, PO BOX 505, CLINTON CT 06413 Tel: 203-669-7548 Say you saw it in ASO (Credit Burdick) 2 AMERICAN SOURRE MINCE VOLUME 38, No. 11 THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 1983 WITH THE SWINGING LINES ASD FEATURES FOR ALL SQUARE DANCE sun 4 Co-Editorial 21 URDC Report 5 By-Line 23 United SID of America 7 Meandering 31 Callerlab Confab 11 Thanksgiving 39 33rd National Convention 13 Variety Is The Spice 82 Challenge Chatter 15 The Night The Power Died 123 Date-Line 17 "It's An Emergency!” 19 Lloyd Shaw & the LSF Archives 25 Encore 27 Linelight ROUNDS 35 Hemline 21 URDC Report 43 Sketchpad Commentary 41 Wants 44 Dancing Tips 89 Flip Side/Rounds 48 Dandy Idea 103 Facing the L.O.D. 81 Best Club Trick 104 R/D Pulse Poll 92 People In The News 121 Choreography Ratings 94 International News 97 Product Line 99 Puzzle Page 109 Plumb Line FOR CALLERS 112 Rhyme Time 31 Callerlab Confab 114 Quest 45 Calling Tips 125 Book Nook 46 Easy Level Page 126 Finish Line 84 Creative Choreography 128 Do-CI-Do Dolores 90 Flip Side/Squares OUR READERS SPEAK 105 SID Pulse Poll 107 Underlining The Note Services 6 Grand Zip 111 Steal A Peek 37 Feedback 119 Straight Talk Workshop Editors Publishers and Editors Ed Fraidenburg Bob Howell Stan & Cathie Burdick Howie Shirley Feature Writers Member of NASRDS Harold & Lill Bausch Dave Fleck National Association of S&R/D Suppliers Mary Jenkins Russ & Nancy Nichols Gene & Thelma Trimmer Bev Warner AMERICAN SQUAREDANCE Magazine Editorial Assistants (ISSN 0091-3383) is published by Burdick Mona Bird Virginia Bridgman Enterprises. Second class postage paid Mary Fabik Bob Mellen at Huron. Ohio. Copy deadline first of Mef Merrell month preceding date of issue. Sub- scription: $9.00 per year. Single copies: $1. each. Mailing address: Box 488, Record Reviewers Huron OH 44839. Copyright 1983 by Bur- Frank & Phyl Lehnert John Swindle dick Enterprises. All rights reserved. American Squaredance, November 1983 3 This year as Thanksgiving draws close and we wonder what track this editorial train of thought should take, recovery is being mentioned in much of our correspondence. Al Moses thanks his friends and substitute callers, Erna Egnder is back to dancing after major surgery. Often dancers write in apprecia- tion of the outpouring of good wishes and caring thoughts from their square dancing friends and acquaintances. All are grateful when they can resume their dancing activities. So many recoveries today might have been considered miraculous just a few years ago. Cathie's mother just under- went cataract-implant surgery which recovered nearly 20/20 visition in the damaged eye within two days. Amazing C to ponder! Modern medicine enables dancers to POSTAL AIR LINER. stay active for years longer than once Right here we'll squeeze some postal a was possible. On the other side of the facts into a few short lines. Your renewal coin, active dancing enables dancers to date is on your label— check the last a stay healthier than if they were inactive. date shown. Send changes of address Two nights ago, the speaker's topic at immediately— list old and new ad- Stan's Torch Club meeting was, "How dresses— both are essential. Send $1.00 Old Would You Feel If You Didn't Know for any back issue desired. We're not How Old You Were?" His speech and the responsible for missing issues when you ensuing discussion concluded that at- move and don't tell us in time! titude is a big factor in health and aging. Magazines are sent (all locations The square dancers who are enjoying simultaneously) by second class bulk thoroughly their dancing clubs and mail on or about the 22nd of each month c related activities and who stay en- before the cover date. If yours comes thusiastic are contributing to their own very late or not at all, let's verify the ex- mental and physical health. How old do act address, then ask your local post of- you feel when you're dancing? fice to trace it. We can't. You can. For this activity, for the friends we make through it, and for the medical miracles that enable more men and I women to enjoy dancing longer in their lives, we are profoundly thankful this month. • 9 9 9 0 • IQ oifrQ90 9 0 9 9. •••"3.4 if you lack direction... head north..south..east or west 9 but join us in wInnipeg .. Heart of thecontinent for the TH NATIONAL 4Canadian Square & Round Dance Convention o August 2, 3, 4, 19114 Winnipeg Manitoba Canada 4:), Z.7:1;`". CONVENTION PO 00x M7+ 51N B Pr.PIP.PEG .APPIOBP CAN.OP,e2P, 9.9 O O 4 Amencan Squaredance. November 1983 Something old, something new! Not for a June bride but for this issue of ASD! Dolores is back for another dizzy visit: many requests forced creator Stan back to his drawing board. The "new" is the inclusion of a catalogue in this issue. a first for ASD, and strictly an experiment in size, mailing and customer approval. What do you think? Another old name appearing again is that of Lib Eddy. who writes one of the Thanksgiving poems. The other is by frequent contributor Mary Heisey A "new' feature by Bruce Jaeger started as an "old" one, written in a country dialect on the first submission. We told him about square dancing's modern image, he re-wrote his feature and it appears here as "The Night the Power Died." Trying to approach our activity from many angles, we publish Mary Jenkin's feature on variety in nursing home dance experiences and Bev Warner's reminder that medical emergencies arise even at recreational activities. Round dancing is treated by Fred Haury with another excerpt from ABC's of Round Dancing, soon to be re-issued in an updated form. All of the regular features are included here to give you a really "fat" issue this November. No diets or slimming down for ASD! THE BRIGHTEST IDEA EVER LISTEN FIRST - BUY LATER / / The only way for a really "bright" caller to keep current with all he great new music coming out. Add to this the convenience / / and sp eed of toll free ordering of records, and you have the / finest tape s rvice anywhere in the world. / • 3-Year S&RID Cale ndars Available / 8' 2"x11", 1983, 1984, 1985 / HANHURST'S ♦ 3508 Palm Beach Blvd. Fort Myers, Florida 33905 (813) 332-4200 / Need Records in a Hurry? Call Toll Free 1-800-237 2442 IM.114410016-1 -11.. %'16 N. 5 American Squareclance. November 1983 round dance leaders in a remote area, 64,161 Zip one of the many useful articles to us is the "Pulse Poll." The Poll helps us to keep our dancers prepared for the dan- ces they're likely to encounter when they return for vacation...Keep up the good work! Phil & Royna Thomas Enclosed is discount certificate, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia received at "Cope Crest," Dillard, GA April 1983, where we had enjoyed our 3rd Just wanted to say thank you for year of dancing there, with good callers, featuring us in the "Steal a Little Peek'' friends, and Becky and Jerry Cope, section in the August issue of your "wonderful hosts" and all the staff and magazine. It was quite a treat for us and personnel who make for a week of great we appreciate the exposure. memories! You have a great magazine. Keep up Please extend my present subscrip- the good work! tion for another year. My check will By the way, should you ever need a cover that year. Thank you, and as place to stay or some transportation always, enjoy receiving and reading when you're in the area, please let me American Squaredance magazine, as in know. the past. Jerry Junck Vivian S. de Brueys Carroll, Nebraska Slidell, Louisiana Al Moses (Al"e"Mo Squares) of Hello from Saudi Arabia! We were Brooklyn, N.Y. would like to thank all his looking at the calendar and realized we members, dancers, friends, Northern should starting thinking about getting New Jersey Callers and the callers for our ASD subscription renewed...ASD the Long Island Federation Assoc. for continues to be a favorite of ours. As Continued on Page 120 * * * * ******* 41 NEW RELEASE BY WAGON WHEEL SQUARE DANCE PARTY FOR THE NEW DANCER, No. 1 Calling by Bob Ruff, L.P. 1001 • HERE's an L.P. for new dancers using Callerlab Basics 1-22 in 8 singing calls and 1 contra and pro- * viding 1 hoedown for creative calling. Complete dance descriptions on the jacket cover with defini- * lions of the basic movements inside. The music includes the following: BIG BAD LEROY BROWN GENTLE ON MY MIND IF MY FRIENDS COULD SEE ME NOW • BIG SOMBRERO GLENDALE TRAIN LONG LONESOME HIGHWAY 4' BILLY JOHN HOEDOWN HEY LEI LEE LEI LEE ROBINSON CRUSOE ENGINE 9 • ATTENTION SCHOOL TEACHERS: This album will provide your students with easy dances, good • music. and clear and distinct calling. Use it with "The Fundamentals of Square Dancing. Level 1." • The progression of movement parallels the Level 1 movements making this record an excellent corn- * panion album. • • ATTENTION CALLERS: All music listed above is available on 45 rpm with dance descriptions for both • easy and alternate figures. Very useful for one-nighters and for the first lessons of a beginners class.