r 9 / SQUARE * VOLUME 26, No. 11 SCIURRE NOVEMBER, 1971 THE EDITORS' DANCE "THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE PAGE WITH THE SWINGING LINES" Publishers and Editor- Stan & Cathie Burdick Workshop Editor Willard Orlich Easy-Level Editor Bob Howell Record Reviewers Doug Edwards Phyl & Frank Lehnert Feature Writers Dewey Berry 2 Editors' Page • 4 Mail Myrtis Litman 6 Meanderings Editorial Assistants • 9 Thanksgiving Time Mary Fabik 10 What's Happened To Styling? Mef Merrell 12 Tailor Your Own Table • 16 Conductor Or Performer National Advisory Board As we moved into our fourth year vacation or square dance business, the 19 Round Dance Report of editorship, circumstances evolved mail will not pile up, but be read and Edna & Gene Arnfield 21 Caller-Leader Directory which enabled us to move this whole processed regularly. It means that with Bob Augustin 22 Climbing Up The Golden Stairs operation, lock, stock and filing case, more time to be editors, the content Al "Tex" Brownlee 25 Steal A Little Peek into its own home. Granted, our new of the magazine should reflect more Louis Calhoun ▪ 26 Feedback offices are located just behind our effort spent in locating good feature Orphie Easson 27 Dandy Idea house, but they are no longer IN it, stories, more time given to correspon- Jerry Helt • 28 Dancing Tips and they also include a room for dan- ding with writers, and more writing of John Hendron 29 Calling Tips cing. For several months, we have been articles ourselves. Phyl & Frank Lehnert 31 Straight Talk adding to our part-time staff; this Thanks to all of you for your help Melton Luttrell * 32 The First Dance move will give us the space for addi- and good wishes, which still arrive in Singin' Sam Mitchell 34 Challenge Chatter tional staff to work comfortably. each mail. Our "baby" is growing like Ken Oppenlander ▪ 36 Puzzle Page Personally, we have mixed feelings. a weed and we're proudly watching it Vaughn Parrish 38 Easy Level Page It is with some regret that we relin- enter this new stage of development. Dave Taylor 40 Mix & Match 40 Product Line quish the duties that were time consu- ■ Bob Wickers ▪ ming but kept us very closely involved 41 Best Club Trick with all phases of the total job. It is This month we are also announc- ▪ 43 Workshop with pleasure, however, that we can ing a new partner for "Calling Tips" SQUARE DANCE magazine is published 51 Ladies Choice now devote more time to the editorial called "Dancing Tips" and contributed monthly at 111 E. Shoreline Dr., Sandusky, 52 S/D Record Review 0. by Burdick Enterprises. Second class pos function and less to the clerical chores. by Harold and Lill Bausch of Leigh, • 54 R/D Record Review tage paid at Sandusky, Ohio. Copy deadline 55 National News What does this mean for you, the Neb. They print a local bulletin called first of month preceding date of issue. Sub- • 56 Events reader? it means better service on sub- the Square Reporter, which is always scription: 55.00 per year. Single copies: 50 scriptions, book orders and phone chock full of good material for callers cents each. Mailing address: Box 788, San 61 Bookshelf calls. It means that when we take a and dancers. We welcome the Bausches dusky, Ohio 44870. Copyright 1971 by 63 Sign-Off Word breather and steal away for a week's and their talents to our growing staff. Burdick Enterprises. All rights reserved. * 64 Do-Ci-Do Dolores

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and I could solve my questions of Couples Hinge and Trade by virtue of your kind help in sending me this book. WE'VE GOT A PROPOSAL As you may know, I'm reading your magazine SQUARE DANCE for We enjoy your magazine. As coun- v FOR YOU- several years long and enjoying square try music fans and Tennesseans, we dancing with many Japanese friends were happy to see the article on Ar- at Hamamatsu-shi. chie Campbell. Thank you very much. Pauline Coleman (Mrs. A.B.) Soichi Handa Kingsport, Tennessee Hamamatsu-shi, Japan I would like information on the I am writing in regard to two books amount of money it would cost to advertised in your magazine, Split-Yer- have my name in your directory. I Sides and Do-Ci-Do Dolores. enjoy reading your magazine. I have Would these be appropriate for gotten good ideas from your different square dancers that are in the hospital articles and features. Keep up the good or sick at home? If not, could you re- work. commend something that would be? Joe LeBoeuf Mrs. Betty Blanchard Orange, Texas Oneanta, N. Y. Enclosed please find our check for ED. NOTE: We like to think that either of another year of the square dance maga- the books you mention would bring many zine. Square dancing, after all these a chuckle to square dancers who are unable years, is just not our hobby anymore; to be active for a time. Many areas are conducting subscription dances it is a way of life. A bushel of thanks to ye editors, for to help us promote SQUARE DANCE magazine — Ed & Irene Stebor printing my recent letter.... The two Tonasket, Washington page spread under the caption "Chit I look forward each month to re- Chat — Houston Hearsay" was neatly ceiving SQUARE DANCE. It is very done and I am very proud of it, and readable and one can almost sense the it brought much joy. I wish to let you Want to take this big step? personalities of the various writers and know that the Will Orlich book, "How contributors to its pages. It is obvious To Be A Smooth Square Dancer," Give us a ring that Stan and Cathie Burdick are a de- which you mailed promptly on Sept. dicated team and their personality 8, arrived on Sept. 23, 15 days en comes to the surface in various places route. Third and fourth class mail is from cover to cover. One problem slower than it used to be. only is caused by your magazine; Harry Finer namely, my medical practice tends to Houston, Texas take second place until I have read ED. NOTE: Many complaints have recently SQUARE DANCE from cover to cover been sent concerning late delivery of maga P 0 BO X 7 8 8 at least twice' Incidentally your record zines and books. Issues are mailed from San- SANDUSKY, OHIO dusky between the 23rd and 25th of the 44870 reviews are tops and to fellow square SQUARE DANCE previous month. If your copy is arriving ;7,, dancers 7,000 miles away with no ac- after considerable delay, please check at Please start my subscription NOW. MT check (or money order) is enclosed. cess to record shops, our buying of your post office. Citizens should demand 3 One Year at SS. Two Years at $9.00 more efficient service on all kinds of mail recordings is done largely on your re- (*.m.rdian and 1.-renrn add .■ year for postage Ono year at $3. as postal rates increase. views. So to all your reviewers, may I (FIRST TIME SUBSCRIBERS ONLY) say that you carry a large responsibili- NAME ty on your shoulders. Dr. Dennis Spackman ADDRESS Auckland, New Zealand CITY ._ Today I received "How To Be A smooth Square Dancer" from you STATE ZIP CODE 4 5 .4

-1,—...... emmoimp.m.mmmumwmponimpummommummommpimp In preceding instalments of this "Let's keep 'em dancing the quadrille, traversitrocity you've plodded with me firstly, and secondly, let's figure out a through my New England sojourn and BETTER WAY TO GET 'EM TO THE my New Orleans escapade, so I'll not DANCE ON TIME." And he got out III warm over that hash, except to say his tin snips and soldering iron and that in recent weeks I've added 10 new DID IT. by STAN BURDICK states to the 15 visited this summer, So we lather, we gather; we drive, making a total of 25 in less than four we jive; we sing and swing; we alle- months. That's half the bloom in' USA mande and we alley-meander; we go that has passed by my windshield, my and we grow; we PASS THRU per- and I'm traveling faster than a bat porthole, or my frenetic fenetre. pendicularly and we PASS IT ON flies out of Helsinki. What's more, I'm about to chalk perpetually! Once in a while there's an I'll talk about my travels in a half a up another 10 in this coming dance EDSEL or an IVORY tower slip on an jiffy, but first I'd like to quote what a season, plus three Canadian provinces. IVORY shower chip that causes us to friend named Jerry has said about Now, I know most of you wouldn't lose a little faith on the bathroom obesity. give me the HOLE of CRULLER, Ok- floor, but for the most part we SCOOT You know you're getting fat when: lahoma to find out where the heck I'm BACK to a progressive dance in prance —The sales clerk tells you how very going or why, but there is a point to condition. Thanks, Henry, for your much vertical stripes would do for your be made that may interest you, so well af-FORD-able persistence; and appearance. hang in there, Uncle Gregory. thanks, PROCTOR for taking a —When the belt you bought with a It is this: Wherever I go I'm be- GAMBLE on a really SQUARE \\you kNot.0 Voo'RE little room to grow is no longer large coming more than reassured that AFFAIR. enough. CAN NO SQUARE DANCING IS ALIVE AND The warm southern climate (I mean FAT (F You —When you check your shoe shine WELL. So, for the luvva the MIKE, the sunny personality exposures) en- I-4:446ER SEE rot. and can't see your feet. the square RIG, and the grand DISC- countered at that great Mountain Lake, SILVER LINING ON —When you set your car seat back play, don't believe for a moment any Virginia festival recently was more )1002 wEsre RN eElf, to clear the steering wheel and can't doom-peddlers who try to say other- than inspiring, not to mention the Travel broadens one. I've said it touch the peddles. wise, my friends! scenery. After you've driven up that before. I say it today with more vehe- —When turning sideways to enter a seven mile high mountain to that mence. If I get any broader I won't be narrow door doesn't help. stone mansion hotel you'll wonder if able to travel. Or else I'll have to get —When somebody on the beach you're on the stairway to paradise. the steering wheel installed in the hollers "Thar she blows" everytime Then as you partake of the steak, center of the dash so that my left you go swimming. sample the hospitality, and sway with tires won't wear out sooner than the —When the hostess steers you away the dance foray, you'll think you're right ones. from her prize chippendale chair. in heaven and you wouldn't have But who can resist the fabulous —When you try to put your tea and missed it for the world. Harry Mc- food at the one-and-only Fontana Vil- cookies on your lap and there isn't Colgan, Jim Harlow, Dorsey Adams lage, N.C., where I've just spent a week MOM. and Ray and Bea Dowdy are a talented chock full o' food, dancing, swimming —When you cross your legs and they As I sat in a little old Boeing 707 combination to work with. What ol' and partying that's out of this world? spring back in place. the other day in Cincinnati waiting to Harry can do to punch out a singing Being on top of the SMOKIES has —When the car salesman suggests depart for Nebraska, I was thinking call is fantastic (record companies, GOT to be out of this world, or I'm heavy duty springs as an option. about what a fellow named Proctor take note). out of my tree! —When the restaurant featuring all said to a lardy old soul named Gamble By the time you read this I will you can eat for $1.95 locks you out. For those of you who have never in that city many years ago. have been in Chattanooga, Tenn. and —When the local awning company seen me, I must say that I'm probably He said, "Hey, 'Soapy', let's carve Chittenango, N.Y. Some of those New a 34-50-40. I don't need proportions, sends you their brochure on seasonal up a little of this cake of this stuff, York state names are interesting. A I need PROPS. Move over, Bill Castner savings. keep it pure, and some day we'll really good inter-city slogan up there would and Dick Kenyon! If being wide and —When the cab company sends you CLEAN UP from SOAP LAKE, WASH- be, "If you are FONDA New York girthy is synonomous with being "wide a bus. ington to KAMAY, Texas, to CLEAR- dancing, GOWANDA, New York..." earthy," then I'm rapidly moving from —When you can give your stomach WATER, Florida to BAR Harbor, On the way to Huntsville, Alabama, the minors to the majors on both a free ride on the cross bar of your Maine!" And, verily, it came to pass we passed through the tiny town of counts. bike. that P & G became a household word! luka, Miss. which hadn't much to brag I dare say I'm getting broader faster Jerry is a fellow I hate. He always Likewise, old Henry Ford once said about except a quaint name and a lot than a Venetian can fill his water bed, says things I wished I'd said. to his surrey coachman, they tell me, of ballyhoo about "health-restoring 6 7

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.111Mm.. ■ • 11•1 IMP' selves! MUST have as it ends. Think back to It seems that every now and then a the dancers who always used to turn hen I was a beginner, the first new way to do things comes along, about 360 degrees on a Dos-a-dos, in- thing my teacher did was to get us into and this too, is often a matter of styl- stead of facing the same direction a big ring, and we all shuffled around ing, though it may acquire another sig- throughout the figure, as the literal the floor till he was satisfied there nificance. Let's take the "Walk-Out translation implies (back to back) - were no more "bouncers" or "walk- Promenade" as an example. You know, those innovators frequently ended up the signal is man's hand on the girl's ers" or "feet dancers" left. Every shoe facing the wrong way during a spell of waist, she holds out her skirt with the What's, Happened had to "sandpaper" the floor to his "hot hash" because they lost track of right hand (very pretty - you see, it is satisfaction. their revolutions. The same thing is styling too), and at the end of the That was my first experience with happening with the Hungarian Swing promenade, Instead of the twirl, they the rhythm of square dancing, and I version. I just wish there were some walk out catty-wampus to avoid crash- never forgot it. It was really my first way of making this pretty movement a ing into another square, and come back experience with styling, because one regular basic, to be used at the caller's with a little hop to face center. My may actually square dance with a hop- discretion as a substitute dor Dos-a-dos. to gtglinq? plea is - could we come up with a few ping movement, or walk around, or It's chaos now, with a smooth swing ground-rules? Like, if the man reaches even do a clog step as on T.V. But our only between friends who do it most for both the girl's hands, as in a regu- callers decided that the shuffle was of the time. At a party, with strangers, lar promenade, she accedes without what looked and felt best to the ma- the Swing causes instant panic on making him take back his right hand jority, so that's what they taught. It occasion. added a little time to the teaching and fumble to put it behind her waist. process, but it was so central to com- It's a man's world, ladies, and for the fortable dancing that they felt the time sake of smoothness, the man's de- If one dances occasionally in the was well spent. cision has to take precedence. (The East, one is impressed with the neat- Next, they taught us to swing from poor boob may not know how to end ness of their men's star figures. As side to side as we circled. This felt the promenade from that hand-behind- requested in Sets in Order a few years good too, but we later realized it was the-waist position!) And also, if one is ago, the "THAR" position of the hands very helpful in several patterns, in- going to walk out at the end, you go in the center is vastly more helpful to cluding Left Allemande, Swing Your far enough to use up the proper num- smoothness than the inadequate touch- Corner, etc. It got us into the habit of ber of beats. Personally, I do this ing or grasping of fingers high in the doing those figures smoothly, not hesi- method of promenade only where air. Yet, I've seen three men in the by Allen Conroy there is lots of room, and for the sing- square, Star in this neat way, each tantly or roughly, and that too is what from DANCER DIGGINS styling is all about. ing call "Hertz Rent-A-Chick," where grasping the wrist of the man ahead, San Francisco, California There seems to be a feeling among the little hop at the face-in is just right and the fourth man defying the rest to teachers that because there is so much for the rhythm of that call's music. make him put his hand down out of more to teach in the way of figures, Getting to a line from a circle is he old loose Star position. Yet a that there's no time for styling. Lord really a matter of styling - turning the route later, this same man has no knows, there's plenty to learn, and end lady under is OK, but I wonder if trouble with holding a buddy's wrist in twenty weeks only scratches the sur- it would not be simpler if all dancers an Allemande Thar' Maybe a word face nowadays. Yet, I believe that a broke to a line, as about 75% of ex- from the workshop callers would make little time out now and then is good perienced dancers do. There is nothing this bit of styling acceptable to the for the dancers, if they realize that 5 sacred about the old way, and the holdouts. minutes spent on styling will make newer way does not interfere with their dancing so much more spontan- other dancers nor with subsequent pat- The most sensible way to get some eous and smooth. You can't prove this terns. uniformity in styling and execution of to them while they are learning, but I'm not so sure about the Hungarian figures is through the Callers' Associa- the realization will come when they Swing as a replacement for Dos-a-dos. It IS very pretty to watch, and enjoy- tiort but it will take pressure from the get out with more experienced dancers dancers. Let the teachers know that we who do have a smattering of styling. able to do. But there are some situa- appreciate time spent on styling, and So far, my plea has been to teachers, tions where the subsequent sequence they will take the time even with the because they are the key to starting us is blown to the winds unless the Hun- dancers who have made the same styl- off on the right foot while we are most garian Swing is done with full under- ing mistakes for years and call it susceptible. Now for the dancers them- standing of the facing that the dancers experience.

1 0 11 bility of the entire table unit. 3. Four 2" hinges are used at each TAILOR YOUR OWN TABLE end of the table to fasten the trestles in position. Probably two would be quite sufficient, but as the table is in effect supported on the trestles via the hinges, the use of four sturdy hinges at each end again ensures absolute rigid- ity. 4. You will note that there is a space of 3/8" left between the sides of the folded trestle legs and the inside front and back rail of the table. This space is important because as the measurements should be self-explana- trestle legs are folded down inside the tory, but one or two points worth table top the aluminum stays lie be- noting are as follows: tween the trestle leg and the inside 1. The legs are constructed in a back rail of the table. On the inside of trestle form each looking like a square the front rail of the table two pins top letter A. As the legs fold down project slightly less than 3/8" from the one on top of the other inside the inside surface of the front rail. These undersurface of the table the two pins are made from 6" long V." thick "trestles" are of different lengths. This nails which have been driven into a is because they are fastened to the 3/16" hole 3" in from the two ends of undersurface of the table so that one the table and then cut off with a trestle can lie on top of the other. As hacksaw so as to project slightly less the timber from which they are con- than 3/8" into the space beneath the structed is %" in thickness, one trestle As a caller, have you ever arrived at using for your programme. table. These pins are the method of is %" shorter than the other, but is a one-night-stand at a church hall or 3. A full size rigid shelf beneath the keeping the shelf in place when the fastened by means of the hinges %" at a school assembly hall to find that table will accommodate a tape re table is folded. They work as follows. closer to the floor. The crosspiece or there is no table available for you to corder, more recordings, your brief- Having fixed the pins in place the shelf brace on the trestle is measured the use on the stage. Perhaps a table has case and any other equipment. is placed on top of the folding legs same distance from the bottom part of been available, but has proved unsuit- 4. The table is absolutely rigid. and the position whei:e the pins touch the trestle (i.e. the two legs) because able being too small or too flimsy There is no chance of the pickup the edge of the shelf are marked. A the shelf rests across the upper surface (the folding card table type), or too jumping tracks while a record is play- '/''2" deep V." diameter hole is drilled at of these two crosspieces and acts as an big (have you ever used a full sized ing. these two marks into the undersurface table tennis table on a stage?) etc. If, 5. The table top height of 34" additional very firm brace to keep the of the shelf so that when the shelf is as a caller, you have had a table prob- avoids the necessity for the caller to legs rigid when the table is assembled, now placed with a sliding action on lem then this folding table which has stoop when adjusting his equipment thus the upper edge of the two cross Continued on Page 60 been designed specifically with the etc. pieces is the same height 14" from the caller in mind should solve all your 6. The table can be assembled or floor. problems. packed away in less than 30 seconds. 2. Further rigidity is given to the Think about these features: Additional storage for extension leads, table by incorporating two aluminum 1. Fully portable, when folded the speaker cables etc. is available inside stays which are screwed to the back table measures 48" by 211/2" by 3'/4" the folded table. surface of the two trestles. When the deep. Its weight enables a child to Construction Details trestles are opened a '/4" bolt is inserted carry it. Is easily carried in ore hand The table is constructed of '4" tim- through the back rail of the table and and will fit on the back seat or inside ber and the table top is made of ply- through each of the stays and locked the trunk of the average automobile. wood or hardboard. The shelf which in position with a wingnut. The table 2. The table top (48" by 21'4") is goes below the table is made from is then turned the correct way up and the ideal size for your turntable-am- 3/8" hardboard, chipboard or plywood stood on the floor and the bottom plifier and your monitor speaker and and also serves when the table is folded shelf is slid into position where it rests still allows plenty of room for you to as the cover to keep the legs closed across the crosspieces on the two lay out the records which you will be inside the table. The diagrams and trestles. This further increases the sta-

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He is performing - It shuts out visual distractions and al- '16 PART 2 just as much so as any member with an lows the listener to concentrate his at- instrument, he is performing in every "•••• tention on the music alone. But notice way at his disposal. that one over there — and this one He does it in the way he holds his right here — making noises. That's baton, by the way he throws his long snoring! They're asleep! hair back as he leans backward in the And look at some of the others. more powerful passages. He performs They are not paying much attention to with gestures and facial expressions the music, the orchestra, or the leader. o\ making up instructions to certain mu- They are looking around at one an- sicians during particular passages. He other, making comments concerning performs in the disgust or icy con- clothing, hair styles, and the like, and tempt he exhibits if something is done murmuring at delayed entrances by wrong. well-heeled patrons of the arts. In his every posture, every move, Now let us go on to a program pre- every action, he performs — and in per- sented by an orchestra under the di- forming, he himself entertains. It is no rection of a leader who does have a happenstance. He does it all quite cal- personal following. All the members of culatedly for any one or more of sev- that group of followers are present, of eral reasons. But the paramount one is course. And what are they doing? this: He knows that a considerable Watching the maestro. Intently. portion of his audience loves it, be- Making a dramatic entrance, he cause it adds considerably to their en- picks up his baton and imperiously joyment of the music that his musi- taps it for the attention of the orchest- cians are producing. Awareness of the ra, which he instantly receives. From the moment he comes thru the curtain, fact that he is performing never leaves the attention of all his fans is riveted his mind for an instant. So should it be with squaredance on him and his actions. Do any of them close their eyes to callers, but it isn't. A top-notch caller should give a good enough perform- enjoy the music? Not on your life! ance that if an observer did not even Their gaze never leaves the leader. But glance at the floor, but only watched does it appear that they enjoy the the caller, the observer would thor- music any less than those who closed oughly enjoy what he saw, because of their eyes (and did not make noises) at its being entertaining in itself. Think the other musical program? Not in the hard, now. How many callers do you least. It appears that their rapt atten- know who would pass that test? tion to the doings of the conductor The conductor of a philharmonic There may be some I don't know does not reduce in the slightest degree orchestra is, of course, what his title about, but there is only one that I the pleasure they derive from the mu- says he is: a conductor who leads the positively know of myself. And it is players in performing the music. But sic. Rather, it seems to enhance it, interesting to note that he receives adding some indefinable capacity for why is it that certain conductors have about three times as much money, for enjoyment that acts in the same man- followings of their own? That is, they his efforts, as his next closest com- ner that monosodium glutamate (MSG) have sizeable numbers of personal fans petitor. Anyone for increased rewards? by John Jones does on protein foods, bringing out all who will come to hear any orchestra Perform and you are sure to receive the flavor that otherwise might pass Glendale, California they may be directing, whether it is them. their usual one or not. unnoticed. i n 17 Reutad DaaceR evtt The 20th National Square Dance ing foot resulting in the legs being Convention Round Dance Terminolo- locked together at the thighs. When gy Panel met June 24, at 10:30 AM, the first step is forward, the other leg in the Momus 111 Room, Rivergate locks behind. When the first step is GRENN Exposition Center, New Orleans, La. backward the other leg locks in front. Panel members were Emmett and LUNGE— Changing weight from Newest GR 14152 HEAVENLY BLUE Monette Courtney, N. Hollywood, Cali- one foot to the other with a motion of Rounds Waltz by Charlie & Marge Carter fornia; Blackie and Dottie Heatwole, the body in the direction indicated, McLean, Virginia; Frank and Phyllis accentuating the movement by bend- EYES OF BLUE Lehnert, Toledo, Ohio; Clancy and Bet- ing the supporting knee in the direc- Two step by Glen & Beth McLeod ty Mueller, New Whiteland, Indiana; tion indicated with the other leg re- Wayne and Norma Wylie, St. Louis, maining straight. Newest GR 12129 SQUARE DANCE MEDLEY Missouri (moderators). The evaluators PAS DE BASQUE— Step to side, Flip Square by Earl Johnston were Pat and Louise Kimbley, San leading with the heel step in front or Diego, California. Approximately 100 in back lifting lead foot very slightly dancers and instructors made up the off the floor, but maintaining position, participating audience. step in place. This movement should The following terms had been ap- be identified as front or back. TOP proved at the Louisville Convention The term "fishtail" had been de- Newest TOP 25244 SQUARE DANCING LIFE in 1970, and were on trial for one year fined at Louisville and was brought to Flip Squares by Mike Litzenberger, Slidell, La. waiting period. Each term was pro- a vote in New Orleans but due to con- posed and seconded and after discus- siderable disagreement as to timing TOP 25245 DO YOUR THING sion was voted upon. The following and clarity of the woman's footwork by Ed Fraidenburg, Midland, Mich. terms were accepted by a majority of it was decided to drop the term and the voting audience. They are now to have it re-submitted at a future con- be considered as standard terms used vention. Twel g renn by round dancers and instructors. The following terms were defined by They are: (Dealers Only) the panel members and accepted by ROCK— Transferring weight from the audience for a one year trial basis. We stock LP's for teaching square dancing, and for easy, fun dancing. one foot to the other stepping in the STANDARD TWO STEP— (pre- We list them in parallel series (overlapping material) in order of progression: direction indicated and recover on free sented by Frank and Phyl Lehnert) FAMILY SQUARES SETS IN ORDER KIMBO foot, without progression. Three foot movements to 4 counts 43003 4002 4060 CANTER— Two foot movements with the fourth count a hold. The first 43002 4005 5080 to one measure of )/4 (waltz) time mu- in the direction indicated, the second 43004 4007 8070 sic accomplished by stepping in the in- step is a close step, the third step is in 43001 dicated direction with the free foot on the same direction as the first. 43005 4012 MacGregor the first beat of the measure, drawing RUNNING WALTZ— (presented by 4013 1204 the other foot toward the supporting Clancy and Betty Mueller) A variation GRENN 4014 1207 foot on the second beat and closing on of the standard waltz in which each of 43014 the third beat of the measure. the three steps is of equal length and 43015 6001 BLUE STAR BALANCE— A step in the direction all counts of the musical measure are 6002 1004 indicated followed by bringing the free equal in value. 6003 foot to the supporting foot and touch- CHASSE— (presented by Blackie & ing lightly to the floor. Dottie Heatwole) A three step figure LOCK STEP— Two foot movements in which the feet are closed on the sec- starting with a forward or backward ond step and the first and second steps step with the free foot, followed by are each done to one half beat of the moving the other foot up to and cross- music. ing it behind or in front of the support- CUT STEP— (Presented by Frank

18 19 and Phyl Lehnert) The first step is 2. Heel turn made by bringing free foot around 3. Reach and across the supporting foot, plac- 4. Breakaway CALLER LEADER ing it along side of supporting foot, 5. Spin turn resulting in locking of legs approxi- 6. Basketball turn (pivot) 7. Fallaway DIRECTORY mately at the knees. The second step CONTACT THESE CALLER—LEADERS FOR is made by the free foot in the direc- 8. Telemark Don Archambeau (623-2436 11039 Main St. DANCE 'INFORMATION AND 9. Switch THEIR AREA tion indicated. Roscoe, 111. 61073 10. Knee FOR B OOKINGS AT YOUR CLUB OR EVENT HEEL PIVOT— (presented by Em- Calls designed with dancers in mind! 11. Oversway Larry Jack mett and Monette Courtney) Begin- Don Belvin 200 011nda Dr. ning on either foot, however choreo- 12. Twirl maneuver 1002 Oak Drive Brea, California 92621 13. Stop, hold, freeze, or some other Manchester, Tenn. 37355 Recording artist — Windsor graphed. Example— Step back on right Caller for H.A.T. records foot slowly, turn left pivoting on right word to indicate no action. Bill Kresge — 609-854-4166 Sonny Bess 322 Washington Ave. heel bringing the left heel to close, then The following suggestions were 646 Adams Avenue Oaklyn, N.J. 08107 Huntington, W. Va. 25701 made for consideration by future con- Caller-teacher lowering the ball of the foot and raising Teacher/caller for wkstips, festivals, the right heel slightly off the floor. ventions. Dick Kenyon Cliff Brodeur 598 Mayfield Dr. Note: There is no change of weight as 1. More time should be allowed for 235 First Ave. Lansing, Michigan Pittsfield, Mass. 01201 the feet are parallel during the pivot, panel discussions. Hash, sings, anytime, anywhere Now booking for late '72 & '73. the pivot/close is QQ. This is followed 2. The results of the terminology Jack Leonard Stan Burdick and choreography panels should be dis- 1818 N. Washington with a forward step on the left foot, Box 788 Roswell, N.M. 88201 slowly. tributed to all round dance organiza- Sandusky, Ohio 44870 Write for open dates — 72 & 73. Bringing the HI and HO from OHIO The following terms were suggested tions for their consideration and re- Ken Oppenlander Louis Calhoun at this and prior meetings as ones to commendations at the final meeting. 619 Echo Lane 319 S. 6th St. Manhattan, Ks. 66502 be discussed and standardized. Wayne & Norma Wylie Madisonville, Ky. 42431 Calling tours Festivals, Clubs, Workshops 1. Fishtail Panel Moderators Russ Perfors Mal "'likes" Cameron 992 Tioga Trail 6 Laraway Ct. Apt. 3C Willoughby, Ohlo 44094 Derry, N.H. 03038 THE SOUND WITH THE SOLID BEAT Calling on TOP Rustle your bustle with Russell Bill Ryan (Yodeling) Jack Cloe 138 University 3507 Drumm Buffalo, N.Y. 14214 t:13.0. /Yd Independence, Mo. 64055 ,rf Recording on TOP, tours Traveling full time— booking for 72 & 73! 11006104 Fred Staeben Gordon Densmore P.O. Box 446 2451 Haines Rd. Palmer Lake, Colo. 80133 SOS 54 SOS 54 Madison, Ohio 44057 CALLERS, NEWIONVILLI =M- 141IWYONVILLI Midwest & Rocky Mt. States, 71,72,73 New VOI. 1111111 NM YORK 15111 Clubs, workshops, clinics LEADERS, Jim Duckworth BOTH Maurice Warner We are proud to announce a new addition to our J-B-K staff: 3404 Colson Court R.D. 5 Warner Rd. Louisville, Ky. 40220 "LOCAL" Rome, N.Y. 13440 JK-130 I WANT TO BE YOUR SALTY DOG Weekends, write for open dates. AND Tell your corner, for fun call VVamer I Ed Fraidenburg "NATIONAL" Gene Webster Caller: Singin' Sam Mitchell 1916 Poseyville Rd., Rt. 10 1803 Heather Lane Midland, Michigan 48640 ARE Pdrt Clinton, Ohio 43452 RECENT RELEASES Recording on TOP, tours Open dates — western style JK-129 PIL-1008 INVITED Dave Friedlein 216-543-5882 TO Bob Wickers PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND RHYTHM IN THE RAIN 18313 Haskins Rd. 714 La'Marite Dr. INQUIRE Caller: Don Hanhurst Chagrin Falls, 0 44022 Manchester, Mo. 63011 Caller: Ken Anderson Sat. nite most anywhere — Call me Traveling full time anywhere ROUNDS ABOUT Deuce Williams Willie Harlan LISTING JK.505P JK-506M P.O. Box 338 3955 West Point Ave. AVERAGE PEOPLE MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUND Vinita, Oklahoma 74301 NAMES Dearborn Hts., Mich. 48125 For the best in square dancing The Rhythm Dealer — Hash & Songs Lou 'n Darlene Fair Howard & Phyllis Swanson AND JK-505N JK-506W Dave "Hash - Hass Web Witter P.O. Box 5 ADDRESSES 2904 Northeast Dr. NASHVILLE WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW East Hampton, Conn. 06424 ON Austin, Texas 78723 Paul & Laura Merola Bud & Shirley Parrott Square Tunes recordings for fun Now booking for 1972-73. THIS Frannie Heintz Francis Zeller PRODUCED BY: J—B—K, Box 54, Newtonville, N.Y. 12128 27 Flynt Ave. PAGE Box 67 Monson, Mass. 01057 McCracken, Ks. 67556 Dance with con-fer-dance! 72-74 Calendar available— vinyl cover 21 20 Your scribe who had been doing a ping here and there a stair or two in One club has skipped several stairs here fifty years ago so proper methods have little Square Dancing, on and off, for disorderly fashion to the point where and there while another club has been been tried, either proven or disproven; the past 60 years had the privilege of his dancers are in a class by them- drilled on those stairs but has skipped then the proper ones adopted; thus, sitting in on a conversation between selves, schooled in certain procedures others. Then again every now and then our youngsters now enjoy marvelous two so-called traveling callers who had but lacking in others. Thus bringing some teacher will become entranced educations. They go up the stairs one never met before. They were both together several clubs for one big dance by some figure he sees in some maga- by one in real orderly fashion and fairly new at the game as one of them can truly test the ability of a traveling zine or is exchanged to him by some don't reach the firmament till they are had only been calling for about forty caller to the utmost. In his first two other caller that is rated at about cloud ready completely for clouds number years and the other merely boasted or three tips he generally runs a few nine, ten or eleven level, so skipping nine, ten, and eleven. about a quarter of a century at the art. test flights to find the ability of the plenty of stairs he makes his club pro- However, today's square dancing in It was real interesting and the conver- combined floor. He stays down on the ficient in that particular pattern or its present form is in its mere infancy sation drifted from one subject to first few stairs so to speak. Thinking dance. It is all helter skelter here and with hardly a quarter of a century of another till it got to the methods of he has felt the pulse of his floor he there with different proficencies in progress behind it. Tho good articles teaching and progress of dancers where starts to progress on the next few tips each valley or club. appearing in many magazines and it truly delved into the very meat of and things start to happen. On one tip Now let us compare this with our books are available, covering proper the project. containing movements that should have own education during our schooling. methods of teaching today's dancing. The conclusion by both men seemed been taught on stair five, what does he In the first grade we had McGuffey's We may have to go thru several periods to jell on an idea that progress in ad- see? Well the club in the plaid-pat- First Grade reader; in the second, his of unrest before standard ways of uni- vancement of dancers could be com- terned raiment are sailing joyfully second grade reader and so on for our versal teaching are adopted so that pared to a flight of stairs reaching up along in perfect procedure but one 12 to 18 years of education in orderly progress of dancers in the art will be to the firmament and winding up on club in polka dot uniforms is com- progressive steps. Thus in every valley uniform. cloud nine, ten, eleven, twelve and so pletely lost and a square or two made progress in education took that orderly We are now long past the days when on. up of over-runs from several clubs is advancement over the years of child- any one with two feet and two hands They had both experienced the also in trouble, although those in plaid ren's education. A child moving from could attend a dance somewhere or same problems in their travels. Often are hauling and pushing the polka dots one valley to another was able to enter anywhere and be gently pushed or in order to afford the fee of a nat- thru the pattern about 6 beats behind school there at the same level that he steered thru a few visiting couple ionally known traveling caller several the music. As tip follows tip, the same left in the valley his family had moved dances to become a proficient square clubs in adjacent valleys will combine, chaos results but the pushing and haul- from. Now general education has been dancer before the evening is over. But hire a big hall and hold a joint dance. ing is taken up by different uniforms developing for ages and ages and the we sure do need - and time will de- Each individual club has a different as one particular club finds themselves methods of teaching our young folk velop this as it did in public education- caller or teacher who employs different familiar with the movements and calls, had been pretty well generalized over a well laid out method of ascending methods of instruction. Now on that that all should have been taught when the past generations. In our own Ame- that long flight of stairs which slowly flight of stairs, step one, two, and climbing stair six, or seven, or eight. rican Continent general schooling really lead to the ability to perform in three seem to be common practice but It seems that no orderly method of got organized about one hundred and clouds twelve, thirteen and fourteen. after that each teacher deviates, skip- instruction is general through the art. CLIMBING UP THOSE GOLDEN STAIRS

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THP 1E DANDY IDEA A These opinions are written by readers in reply to articles and thoughts already pub- r lished in previous issues and do not necessarily reflect those of the editors. k tifix n I am taking this opportunity to ex- someone else. Round dancing is chal- tend to you my thanks for the tremen- lenge dancing to me. I only know one CHEYENNE dous effort you are putting forth for and it is very simple. I further submit all areas of square dancing. I have a that at any given time a caller can habit, a pleasurable one, of scanning switch his level of calling from ex- all of my back issues from time to ploratory workshop material to the time, and just recently accomplished basic fifties without lowering the "chal- Clubs across the country have started a new trend — awarding their own this ritual. I was amazed that I could lenge" level of the floor. I may be distinctive mini-badges to visitors to their clubs, either as a special award to find nothing to justify a quarrel with wrong but I do not believe there is an special guests, or on a resale basis to visitors from within that club's home area. you, (my wife doesn't believe this) organization offering trophies for the The badges are produced by the hot-stamp method and are kept very econo- because I am not easily pleased. Your, Most Valuable Square Dancer, nor do mical this way. Here's an idea that makes lasting friends and encourages inter- or may I say our, magazine is always I believe there are any elimination con- club visitation. Further information may be obtained from your favorite waiting to greet me as I arrive home in tests going on to determine the best badge company or from Llorry's, 10790 West 66th Ave., Arvada, Colorado. the evening on the day of its delivery, dancer, club, etc. of the area or nation. and it is thoroughly read and digested Let me restate that I believe there is a no less than three times that same need for this type of dancing just as B. & S. SQUARE DANCE SHOP evening. Once before dinner and twice the need for round dancing is very Billy and Sue Miller MAGNET, INDIANA 47555 Phone: (812) 843-2491 before bedtime, and let me say that it real, but the needs must be equated to 50 yards Nylon mar• is precisely what the doctor ordered. those needing it. All I am really at- guisette — stiff, cotton The shoe most square My wife, while an avid square dancer, top, wide elastic band. dancers wear. 1h" heel tempting to say is that in my opinion Order 1" shorter than with elastic binding simply detests its arrival. I suspect it the term "Challenge" does not clearly skirt 4 tiers on 21" around shoe. Strap and longer ond 3 tiers across instep. interferes with her plans for my even- and adequately describe this type of on 20" and shorter. Black and White $8.95 black, Yellow, Pink ing, although she makes very few verbal dancing. Does do-sa-do describe defi- Colors. white, $9.95 yellow, pink, blue. and Orange comments (one does not live twenty nately an "Irish Swing"? Challenge...as ■cl and Silver and Gold $10.95 tend for free catalog. forest green, rif multi•co101. Sizes 4 to 10 — Med. years with a wife and not know at described and defined by The Ame- $12.95 plus 75$ postage and Narrow times what she has on her mind). The rican College Dictionary is as follows: Dealer inquiries welcome on petti-pants & slips Postage paid. Immediate delivery. above routine is observed by me each "A call to engage in a CONTEST of Indiana residents add 2% sales tax arrival date unless that date happens skill and strength, etc., A call to fight;

to be dance night. as a battle, a duel, etc., to demand * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AIL May I add my few thoughts con- DEFIANTLY, to take exceptions to." Cal will be touring eastern states from mid-March through April 1972. cerning this "Challenge Dancing" VAL3 NOVEMBER I can only conclude that if callers and OLLD*51 ► CALLERS' COURSE thing? As a dancer of about ten years dancers of this type dancing insist that RECORDS 3, 10, 17, 24 YWCA for new callers Hot Springs, Ark. NEW RELEASE Aug. 20-25, 1972 with the last five aspiring to learn to it is truly "challenge dancing," then 18 Florence, S.C. call and lead, I have reached a de- they must accept the definition of GS 702 CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE 19 Shelby, N.C. in the beautiful Called by Cal Golden 20 San Antonio, Tx. vacation land of cision that "challenge dancing" (which challenge, and gear their dancing to 21 Greenville, Tx. Hot Springs, Ark. has been explained by some, but I have subscribe to that definition. However, GS 701 GOLDEN ROCKET 25 Thanksgiving Special Write for information. as yet been unable to find a definition I would suggest then that they change Called by Cal Golden Pentagon, Wash GS 700 STEEL GUITAR RAG Pentagon, Wash. D.C. which clearly explains challenge danc- the "dance" to "contest". This way 27 Workshop & Dance Called by Cal Golden ing; your attention is called to the defi- we would have a clearer insight to what Alexandria, Ind. J GS 400 Hoedown: SALTY DOG 30 Jackson, Ohio nition at end of letter) is a necessity to they are talking about since challenge RAG / UP JUMPED THE DEVIL DECEMBE R those who feel they need it. If the type and contest compliment one another. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 YWCA GS 1000 SOUVENIR ALBUM of dancing referred to as challenge is This has not been an effort on my Hot Springs, Ark. FOR INFORMATION, WRITE: 11 Memphis, Tenn. in reality challenge dancing, then I part to create more static. I'm just 16 Springfield, Mo. Sharon Golden P o BOX 2274 submit that round dancing is also interested in the preservation of the PHONE S01.614 7274 HO I SPRINGS. ARKANSAS 11401 17 Fayetteville, Ark. 18 Madison Ala, 4 0 challenge dancing. I cannot apply that * K of 4 * 4 * * * * * * * * * 4 K * Jf which is challenge to me personally to Continued on Page 60 27 26 ...•••••••••••••• So many times dancers have come *************** **it one, line of four, roll a half sashay up to us with this remark after they • (same sex), star thru, centers swing have attended a special dance in ano- thru, boys trade, turn thru, do sa do, Dancing ther area, "We stood three-fourths of calling spin the top, men run, wheel and deal, the evening, but, he was a good caller." right and left thru, slide thru, alle- No "good" caller has his floor stand- mande. Tips ing a good share of the time. Just be- tips MIKE MANNERS • • cause he is from several hundred miles Everyone won't agree with these ...... it away, doesn't make him a "good" cal ideas, but we'll stick our necks way out ler. The people who book a caller to present a few mike manners, as IT'S GREAT TO CREATE by Harold & Lill Bausch should know what sort of fellow he is, follows: and if he is capable of handling their Shag Ulen of Wellston, Ohio, is a A. Plan to politely refuse most in- Have you ever come home from a event and keeping the majority of dan- competent, imaginative newer caller formal invitations to call a guest tip dance feeling that you had been run- cers on the floor dancing. who takes the time and makes the when it is not your dance and you ning all night long? Let me tell you Recently, one person who hooks effort to put together most of his own know that folks have come to hear an about a man we had dancing with us well-known callers had this experience. hash material. Shag knows, as do many infrequent visiting caller. Accept the several years ago, who was just a little A very popular caller from another others, that this kind of creativity can tip only if strongly urged and never heavier than average, and just a little state was calling the dance. Many of greatly sharpen a caller's perception, consent to a second tip. B. older than the average club member. It the dancers were standing, but the cal- aid memory, and assure a degree of Be brief. If you're "guesting" a amazed us that he almost always made ler made no adjustment to his program. smoothness and/or challenge that can tip by yourself, on the patter call, go it through the calls, even though some The booker went up to the caller and become that caller's trademark. no longer than once and a half through of the younger and more agile men got said,"Now look here, these people are Furthermore, there is a certain intan- the record. If you are "passing the lost. This fact struck home; I started my dancers, and if you don't call so gible satisfaction that comes to a caller mike," do two figures each alternately, wondering about it and watching him. they can dance, then I'll never book when he sees his creative work pro- and let the host decide when to wind The secret of his success finally dawned you into this area again." The rest of ducing good response among the danc- it up, If sharing the singing call, do a on me! He never hurried! The rest of the evening the greatest share of the ers. We recommend Shag's method figure or breaks, alternately, not two the dancers would rush along and of- dancers danced and enjoyed it. particularly to callers who feel they are each. C. Don't try to "outdo" the host ten get into the wrong call as a result The person who does the booking getting in a rut with their material or or featured caller - you know what we of anticipation on their part and then should have the responsibility to see methods. Square dance choreographers mean! couldn't make a correction in time to to it that the caller calls an appropri- will never have their "names up in D. The right time to pass the mike, complete the next call. But, there was ate program. lights." But, as callers, they'll find a when sharing the "hash" is immedi- good old "Joe" still plugging along at new edge of competence can develop. ately after the calls "allemande, grand his own rate of speed completing each A word of caution: enough new "bas- right and left," so your fellow caller command without a mistake. ics" have been invented for awhile - can have plenty of time to decide Don't anticipate the call! This lit- concentrate on the limitless ways to whether to "promenade home" or tle tip is so simple that many overlook put them together interestingly. "promenade, don't slow down..." You it. You are supposed to be executing RECORDS VAgion PUTTING IT IN KING- LY FASHION should step back one step out of his the command a beat or so after the cal- 1 Mt vell01 CAW& IN MIND 11(010 Of SIGNED "Professor" Jay King (H.I.O.) says: ler has given it. If all the dancers on way when you are not calling. "Start with simple patterns as a frame- the floor would dance with a smooth, E. If you should "goof up the sets" work and substitute equivalents or in- unrushed tempo, there is not a caller and you know it' it isn't fair to pass sert zero's to build your hash." Here's in the country who could make you WW 700 the mike and expect the other guy to a good way to start being creative, to run. Callers should watch the dancers straighten them out. If you can't re- ELI STUBBS further illustrate Shag's principle. Jay very carefully and try to call to them solve things, it is better to say, "Sorry, provides a few examples such as this not so fast that they are standing be- GRASS BAND folks, get home and square your sets" cause they cannot keep up, and not so (which, incidentally, fits a 64-beat before you pass the mike to him. singing call pattern with a little "filler" slow that they are waiting for the by GARY SHOEMAKE CORRECTION next call. stuff): Heads pass thru and separate, Our apologies are extended to the We believe there is a lesson to be and th e around one, line of four, star thru, "caller from Indiana" (see p. 29, Sept. learned from good old "Joe" that we WAGONMASTERS centers pass thru, right and left thru, issue) who DID assure the host on the should contemplate, and then put to allemande. Now, see if you recognize New Orleans TV show, later on in that good use as a means of achieving that the same general pattern emerging if it same show, that he was definitely not ultimate goal of being a good, smooth P.O. Box 364 Arvada, Colorado is done this way: Heads right and left "second in the field," and that callers and happy square dancer. thru, square thru, split two, around aren't rated in any way.

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INTRODUCING THE DIAGRAMMED GUIDE TO BETTER SQUARE DANCING Readers&Ida are invited to send opinions, TALKsu%pistons and thoughts for publication in this new regular feature. Opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect those of the editors. who get together to play cards are a Diagrams of 120 movements, showing starting posi- I note in SQUARE DANCE some clique; men who hunt and fish toge- Cad, tions, turning directions and ending positions. Each talk about the appearance of pants by ther are a clique; families that go camp- basic, extended basic, and commonly called club level I women and mini skirts and shorts on ing together are a clique; dancers who BETTER SQUARE DANCING movement is written in detail. Preface shows hand the dance floors. I think the best way sit together at refreshment breaks are holds, arm holds, other set-ups. Booklet includes terms, all over our country to stop this prac- a clique; a square dance club is a clique rules, differences in figures; indexed for reference. I tice is to have ALL Clubs put an article when viewed in the regional picture. into their By-Laws and state, "ONLY It's a natural, human trait for people DANCERS PROPERLY ATTIRED IN with similar interest to associate with SQUARE DANCE CLOTHING PER- each other. At such times a person is MITTED. All others will be turned more relaxed, has confidence, and A MUST FOR EVERY SQUARE DANCERI $2.00 away." We must make a stand or it will finds greater enjoyment. be just as in the Catholic Church (mini Newcomers may get the feeling they skirts, pantsuits, etc.) where the worst are being excluded from small sub- offenders are the older people. Some- divisions of the club. Such is not the times I feel like not even attending usual intent. People aren't born into SQUARE DANCERS church anymore because our priests cliques. Be friendly. Keep your eyes ENCYCLOPEDIA don't have the courage to speak up for and ears open. Get to know the people what is right, decent and proper. So, around you, and even more important, 1220 DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL MOVEMENTS with square dancing, we must let danc- let people get to know you. As com- ■ 3 PAGES OF TERMS ers know that western attire is the only mon ground is developed, you will attire. They may get mad for a little ■ 114 PAGES OF RULES someday wake up to the fact that you THE while but if they can't dance any- belong to many cliques. I hey are very ■ 2 PAGES: WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES? SQUARE DANCING where, they will soon return to proper similar to "friendships." • 1 PAGE OF DIAGRAMS ON COMMON SET-UPS, FN ucosa dress. I think our State Organization Bob Kendall from Wash. Footnotes • INDEX should handle this. Alma Miller ■ SUPPLEMENTS Will be sent out three times per year, April, A lot of people miss out on the full STAR'RING in the LAND August, and December, The December supplement will in- MU 11111MUMMI fun of square dancing because even clude a new index In that this list is very large, supplements OF will cost WOO per yeor plus 3 — 4"s8'4" self addressed though they are part of the large group envelopes with 60 postage on 2 and I 20 on the other. It is such as a club, they feel left out or ex- EL very important to include the last number in your booklet and $3.50 STAR OF DAVID for you to remember wheA these are due. cluded from the smaller groups within make your circle the club. Those not "in" refer to the AL Result of 10-year survey. A rapid, comprehensive reference, small groups as cliques. The "outs" Teach Sheba & David to square dance Shows movement differences. not an endorsement of all. are•.also a clique. Swing partners to dance the Hora In other words, people with corn An aid to standardization. 125 offset-printed pages, 8Y2 x 11" Leave for Israel, the Holy Land - mon interests, similiar likes, or affinity March 7, 1972; Return, March 17; for each other are a clique. And ,this From New York Bill Burleson isn't all bad. In fact, it's my observa- $65000 Includes: Meals, First class hotels, Transfers, 2565 Fox Ave. tion that it is usually a good happen- Sightseeing, Dancing, Round trip air N.Y,-N,V, Minerva, Ohio 44657 ing. Cliques can be the spice of group Required deposit $100.00. life. Everyone should belong to a do- For brochure: Stew Shacklette of zen or more. Just make sure that every- RICH TRAVEL t= a exi Louisville, Ky. will :jur sim i tm one with a similar interest is welcome 2100 Gardiner Lane be your caller. to join your clique. Louisville, Ky. 40205 7•Irri 7117 7171 i ! ;• 711r; . ;11; ;T: If you ride to dances regularly with another couple, that is a clique; ladies 30 31 74e c're Datce

She bowed to me And I to her... The prettiest in the hall Dressed in her peasant gown And set in our square! Round we went In a swing of delight! f A do-sa-do.. And an allemande left... A grand right and left... And all! Down I looked To her long hair of blond As I held My "little thing" by George L. Bell Close Huron, Ohio In a promenade home. Others I met Waved at And touched In the warm Communion Of the dance! But none came near Her softness... And lightness of foot... Or sparkle of joy Save only one, Her mother! Twas a night To remember In sight I Touch And sound 1 In "Fellowship Hall." We followed his calls Over light lifting music On our first dance of all. Yes, mistakes we made last night But I danced with a doll.... Photo courtesy of Sandusky Register, Sandusky, Ohio. Taken at Father-Daughter Dance, Erie Shores Girl Scout Council. My dear little daughter! 32 33 "Square chain thru," "trade circu- his dancers. His dance programs are late," "split circulate" and other ba- varied and interesting. He and his wife sics were used at club dances. The Sue are excellent dancers. flood gates of new square dance basics Success has followed Al and the had opened. With the magic of John Odds and Ends with capacity atten- Hendron's calling ability and wonder- dance for a number of years. The offi- ful personality, Odds and Ends attrac- cers have always insisted that the level ted better dancers in the area. The of dancing be of the highest. This poli- dancing was always at an advanced le- cy, with the great number of new ba- vel. sics being used, necessitated making The Ides of March befell Odds and Odds and Ends a closed club. Ends in 1963 when John's company transfered him to another area. The club has supported the Natio- The clubs that are dancing at the Our feature this month on clubs Al Soya, a young caller from Mil- nal Challenge Convention every year challenge level are normally small. But comes from the Chicago area. Thanks waukee, had filled several club dates what they lack in size is sure made up to Herb and Hazel Johnson for the ar- in the Chicago area and the dancers since its inception in Philadelphia. Ex- by their enthusiasm and love for ticle. liked him. The officers chose him to perienced dancers visiting the Chicago square dancing at all levels. I called for ODDS AND ENDS is the oldest replace John. Al has a thorough know- area are invited.to attend the dances, one of these clubs in September, the challenge square dance club in the ledge of the mechanics of square dan- the second and fourth Saturdays, Sept. Chargers of Dayton, Ohio. There were midwest. Ten years ago this spring, cing. He has the ability to satisfy a to May, at the Elmhurst YMCA. The ten sets in attendance, from six states. a group of Chicago area dancers felt floor of new dancers as well as dancers present officers are Vince and 011ie We had each couple tell us the one that an advanced level club was needed of all levels, up to the most experienced MacCourt, presidents; Herb and Hazel way mileage they drove to the dance, so with the help of John Hendron, the challenge dancers. His quick mastery Johnson, vice-presidents; Sven and and came up with a grand total of Odds and Ends came into being. The of the many new basics with their ex- Ruth Ljungberg, secretaries; William 6,510 miles — just one way! I think first staff of officers included Wally tensions and variations is surprising to and Peg Gale, treasurers. this is a great tribute to challenge dan- and Debbie Green, Ernst and Arlene cing and to square dancing in general. Wehausen, Harry and Ann Hill, Sven These dancers work very hard and and Ruth Ljungberg. The club danced Mustang anb MERRBACH PRESENTS to John Hendron on alternate Satur- BLUE STAR: •F LIP INSTRUmEN l'ALs spend countless hours and money to 1911- Once A Day, Caller: Bob Fisk* keep challenge dancing alive. The chal- days and Fridays, and sponsored ex- 1910- Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams, cellent out-of-town callers on other Caller: Dave Taylor* lenge callers salute you, the dancers, 1909- Standing Room Only, Jerry Helt* and hope that we might be able to re- Saturdays and Sundays. Because of 1908- Georgia Sunshine, Caller: Al Brownlee* pay you in some way for your part in the irregular dance dates, the club 1907- June Night. Caller: Dave Taylor* name was chosen: Odds and Ends. 1906- Ft. Worth, Dallas or Houston, Flippo* the development of challenge dancing. LP RELEASES: 1021- Marshall klippo calling 50 Basics 1020- Bob Fisk calling on Blue Star, Dances Looking for Christmas gifts? 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JINGLE BELLS MIXER ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH

RECORD: Blue Star 1637B, or any Jingle Bells record you may have. RECORD: Lore 1053 POSITION: Single circle. Partners facing with hands joined. Intro, Middle Break, Closer: Count Four men center with a left hand star, turn it around from where you are 1-4 Sashay four steps toward center of the circle. Do-sa-do with your own sweet girl 5-8 Sashay back out toward the wall. Turn your corner with a left hand whirl (like an allemande left) 9-16 Repeat all of above. Come back home and swing your own, swing her high and low, 17-24Taking partners right hand in your right hand, grand right and After you've swung, hear my song, promenade the outside now left three people, counting your partner as number 1. All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, 25-32Promenade number 3 person you meet in grand right and left. My two front teeth, my two front teeth, (Swing) All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth Music is different for verse and chorus, however, repeat basic dance Tho I can with you Merry Chrithmith. figures as long as interest remains. Figure: Two head couples full promenade, while two and four swing the opposite maid. Swing them pretty, don't let them roam, now everybody's gonna get back home. Side two couples promenade the same, while one and three swing the opposite Jane Swing em handy, don't let em fall, now head for home and hear my call SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN Take the corner lady and you promenade, go struttin right along with that corner maid RECORD: Jay Bar Kay 119B All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth Intro, Middle Break, Closer: Tho I can with you Merry Chrithmith. Twice for heads and twice for sides. Honor partners and your corners all, do-sa-do around your pretty taw Sae-saw round your corner I say, swing your partner once around Then promenade go round the town, go walking in the snow that way JINGLE BELLS You back right our and circle, circle left around the ring Grand Circle Progression (Modern Contra) When you get back home you swing your own, and promenade the ring. Better watch out, better not cry, better be good, I'm telling you why, by Bob Brundage Santa Claus is coming to town. RECORD: Folkraft 745-1289 Figure: Introduction: Last 8 counts — BALance PARTners ALL — Four ladies walk inside the set, get back home and swing your pet, the LEFT you SIDEST_ SP E_ RIGHT and LEFT thru Swing your Santa baby around. _ _ • _ _ Gents do-sa-do with your corner maid, come home and don't be afraid _ TURN_ your GIRL and BALance_ AGAIN To swing and melt the snow off the ground. To the LEFT you SIDE STEP, __ CROSS TRAIL Four men promenade now, once inside the ring _ _ _U turn BACK, and MAKE a LEFT hand STAR _ Do-sa-do your partners all, then your corner lady swing (Promenade) HALFway ROUND HELLOAGAIN, TO the RIGHT 2 LADIES CHAIN He's keeping a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice. Santa Claus is coming to town. _ _ CHAIN right BACK SAME TWO RIGHT and left THRU

TURN your GIRL and BALANCE ALL

And bow to your partners all

38 39 Nix & Match • M Here we go again with some more Fred Freuthal adaptations, all featur- Trick ing tricky swing thrus. Try them with your favorite singing calls, callers. Rest Club HALF-SASHAYED (tough and fast) Original writeups on unique and successful clubs are solicited from readers for use on this page. Head couples rollaway, go forward up and back Do-sa-do one time around, swing thru just like that Slide thru and pass thru, right and left thru you know Rollaway with a half sashay, swing thru you do Step thru, left allemande, your partner do-sa-do Back to the corner, swing her and promenade you go (Tag ending)

FOUR MEN Head men bow to the corner girl, and with her box the gnat Circle eight hands round, go walking round like that Four girls go up to the middle and back, do-sa-do right there Swing thru two times around in the middle of the square Twice around you go, cross trail to the corner man Swing that guy around and round, promenade the land (Tag ending) The I.O.F. Squares have just sponsored their second annual Operation Parent Lift Benefit Square Dance. Veterans of Vietnam coming directly from the front to Fitzsimons General Hospital on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, often can't be visited by their families right away, because of the costs involved in flying to Denver. This benefit project enables them to do so and has been an important factor in the speedy recovery of several injured ve- PRODUCT LINE fk7Vovecietelece rikego/ terans in the past two years. The project was given much planning help this If your state gives you only one Plate you've got to fill the extra year by a young man who was a previous recipient of the benefit fund, as a bumper space with this attractive wounded veteran in 1970, and is now a square dancer. baked enamel plate to advertise Again, here's what square dancers can do for others when they decide to our hobby. Or, it can be used on SQUARE a record case, or above the plate, "give a lift by giving a lift." Last year's fund totaled $1800.00. or on a camper, or most anywhere. Order a set for $ 2 from Ray Dow- dy, 100 Marion St., Beckley, W.V. INCING

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BUY ANY TWO BOOKS BELOW AND GET FREE THE 50 EXPERIMENTAL BASIC BOOKLET -11T11 This year give the caller of ybur choice something he always needs — S/D Choreography material. Your choice of two of the following items will entitle him to a free 50 Experimen- tal Basic book (1970 edition). CHOREOGRAPHY GUIDELINE SHOP Annual Note Service — $5.00 A five-times-a-year S/D Choreography note service designed for the caller who doesn't have time to create his own mate- WILLARD for the basic 50 and basic 75 programs. Each issue includes a "spotlight figure" with a complete figure breakdown. SET-UP and GET-OUT plus Zeros & Equivalents ($6.00) ORLICH Create your own figures at any level: Beginning, Intermediate, or Advanced Club level. A complete reference book on Square dancers. Actually then, the Scoot back Dance choreography with thousands of variations. involves FOUR dancers in their own CHOREOGRAPHY GIMMICKS ($5.00) little box, much like a "split" or box circulate pattern. All eight dancers Complete descriptions and figures for scores of the gimmick fig- move only because they are in a posi- ures of today and yesteryear: the Grand Squares, Prowls, Slams CA-AOREPV-V tion to do so, as in parallel ocean waves. and Slides, All the Chain variations, Progressive, Tandem, Mini, So, let's look at just TWO couples Hexagon Squares, If you can, etc. SCOOT BACK is a newer idea in working as follows: ARKY SQUARE DANCING ($5.00) the square dance choreography that Head couples" slide thru, curlique The first and only manual available with rules and choreography Scoot Back, boys run• has become quite popular at the ad- Crosstrail thru to left allemande of Arky square dancing complete with figures. Shows how to vanced club level of dancing. Any. (From • to • equals a right and left thru) change normal figures into an Arky style version. Hundreds of thing that is good immediately has Remembering that a Scoot back variations. A reference MUST for every club caller and experi- variations by the cozen. As it is used movement itself merely trades the enced dancer. more and more, in-depth exploration places of the "scooter" and his adja- HOW TO BE A SMOOTH SQUARE DANCER ($3.00) continues sometimes to the point of cent dancer, a swing thru from two A special booklet which outlines each of over one hundred stretching the rule a bit too far. This parallel ocean waves can be accom- square dance BASICS as to what each is, where each starts and is the time then to back away and let plished with Scoot back, i.e., All 8 ends, and the correct traffic pattern to follow. Correct facing well enough alone. So let's give some Scoot back, then centers only (boys) thought to an analysis and see how far Scoot back (using left hands). direction, body flow and styling are emphasized throughout we can go. to help make each reader a "smooth" dancer. The original thought to Scoot Back An example figure could be: ORDER POST-PAID FROM WILL ORLICH was introduced from two parallel Head couples square thru To the outside two SQUARE DANCE MAGAZINE BOX 8577 ocean waves. Those facing in are to Box 788 BAYSHORE GARDENS Do-sa-do to ocean wave and balance step straight forward until shoulder to Scoot back SANDUSKY, OHIO 44870 BRADENTON, FLA. 33505 shoulder and then turn thru to come Boys (centers) scoot back THIS SPECIAL OFFER EXPIRES DEC. 31, 1971 back into the ocean wave set up. In Centers run Wheel and deal to face those two the meantime, those facing out ori- Left allemande ginally are expected to make a U-turn Another example could be: back towards and into the vacated Head couples box the gnat fl spot of their "neighbors" or adjacent Then slide thru, swing thru 42 43 position where left hand person leads Scoot back, girls only Scoot back tutes a "new basic" and how that de- Pass to the center termination is made. out single file with partner following Square thru three quarters ED. NOTE: For several years now, the as though finishing Tag the line. Move- To left allemande following definition of a "basic" has ment ends here but can be varied with The rule of those facing IN walking been generally used as a yardstick to a following command of left, right, in, straight ahead until shoulder to shoul- CALLERS' measure its value: out, or zig-zag as with Tag the line. der to turn thru becomes apparent in A basic is a necessary movement LEFT TAG THE STAR is a left- left handed waves: QUESTIONS (Not a combination of movements) hand star with right-hand person in the Head couples right and left thru with a short, descriptive-as-possible, lead, single file, etc. Star thru, pass thru, right and left thru clear call (Not to be confused with the See-saw left all the way round to TEACHING EXAMPLES Ocean wave and balance sound of other calls) that cannot other- (Boys in center of ocean wave) wise be given in the time needed for by Will Orlich Scoot back (left hands) execution. It should also lend itself to Head couples TAG THE STAR Centers scoot back (right hands) BILL DARBY, Beaver, WV.: Received rapid teaching and be smooth-flowing in Boys go right All scoot back, centers scoot back my SQUARE DANCE magazine Sept. compliment to those basics already es- Go left allemande issue Page 47 figures on "circle to Girls left around one tablished. To be a lasting basic, it must Following up the thought of FOUR a two-faced line" and "Dancing Flutter In the middle turn thru to the corner prove itself to withstand the test of people doing the Scoot back works Wheel" do not work properly.... Please Left allemande time through continued usage and dan- very well in an Alamo style ring: from now on check the figures before Heads star thru cer acceptance. Allemande left, Alamo style they are printed. TAG THE STAR Partners right and balance No doubt you have seen a similar ED. NOTE: Bill, the first mistake we Split the sides Head couples scoot back explanation from other sources which ever made! But seriously, we are sorry Boys go left, girls right around one Side couples scoot back proves that the leadership is alike in its Head couples scoot back because ALL figures are dance-proofed Down the middle right and left thru thinking. As to who determines what Side couples scoot back before printing, but these particular Crosstrail thru to the corner Left allemande constitutes a "new basic," probably ones were not. Somehow, the wrong Left allemande each author thinks he does, each caller Or: sheets of material got into the printer's *Head couples TAG THE STAR right who uses it does, and each dancer who hands that month. We prepare this Bend the line* (zero) Allemande left, Alamo style never heard of it before does — that's Partners right and balance stuff six weeks in advance of release Box the gnat why the number suggested in today's All eight scoot back which just about puts the time at your TAG THE STAR right (girls lead ) (4 boys right hand star back home) SiD encyclopedia is close to 1300. We editor's trip to Ohio and a celebration Bend the line All eight scoot back do know that with in-depth experimen- of a 35th wedding anniversary, so any- Slide thru (Box 1-4) (4 girls right and star back home) tation and analysis, a new idea becomes Left allemande thing could have happened — and did! Left allemande a "basic" as such only with time, usage One step further in our exploration At least we are now sure that callers and dancer approval in spite of what Heads lead right circle to a line use the material printed because you came up with this "those who can" the author and callers think and do Right and left thru were not alone in calling our attention version: over the years. Some ideas that your TAG THE STAR to the error. We'll try to print the cor- Heads lead right and circle to a line editor thought should die, didn't - (Boys lead into finished double pass Curlique rect versions soon. thru position) (Four in single file shoulder to shoulder with and others that should have lasted another four in single file facing opposite di- DICK BAYER, Fenton, Mich.: Why proved to be ahead of their time. Cloverleaf, substitute, Dixie chain rection) can't a Trade by be called from a dou- Lady go left, gent right Grand Scoot back (or Triple Scoot back) ble pass thru position? To left allemande (Those facing someone step forward and turn thru to return to neighbors' vacated spots ED. NOTE: Because the rule of Trade while the two lone facing out ends fold back by is to have those facing each other ffit. Heads lead right circle to a line into their neighbors' vacated spots — sort of pass thru while those facing out (part- Turn thru, partners trade "turn the corner.") ner) trade. In reference to your exam- NE tji DEA Boys run, star thru (All half sashayed) Crosstrail thru to left allemande ple of parallel ocean waves, the com- TAG THE STAR mand must be to STEP THRU and There are many figures now being (Girls lead into finished double pass then trade by. danced at advanced club level dances thru position) Cloverleaf, girls turn thru using the above theories. To say the MIKE LITZENBERGER, Slidell, La.: TAG THE STAR Star thru, bend the line (1P2P) least, they make quite interesting dan- I heard a great deal of discussion at (Author unknown) cing. We will include many of these the National concerning "new basics." TAG THE STAR, new partner trade variations in future pages of SQUARE The whole discussion left me wonder- Dixie chain on double track DANCE magazine in order to give you ing just exactly what the word "basic" From two couples facing, right-hand Ladies left and gents right more ;3,—, mition for your use. means, who determines what consti- star them until back toward starting To left allemande 44 45 Couples trade, wheel and deal Box the gnat Head couples square thru four hands Pass thru, girls crossfold Left allemande Pull her by, left allemande. TAG THE STAR right Men turn back . Wheel and deal Square thru % Heads square thru, right and left thru EIGHT CHAIN TAG THE STAR right Left allemande Dive thru, everybody face your partner by Hayes Herschler, Colmar, Penn. Just the ends box the gnat Wheel and deal Heads square thru, Promenade, don't slow down Pass to center, square thru % Right and left thru Everybody right and left thru Heads wheel around Left allemande Do-sa-do to an ocean wave Do the full square thru Right and left thru, star thru Heads lead right circle to a line All eight crossfold Make the last hand Eight chain one, allemande left TAG THE STAR in Left allemande A left allemande Allemande thar, shoot the star Promenade, don't slow down TAG THE STAR out ROUND OFF FIGURES Sides swing thru, men run Sides wheel around Bend the line (zero) by Art Daniels, Los Angeles, Calif. Wheel and deal, swing thru TAG THE STAR zig-zag Men run, partner trade Right and left thru, star thru Heads lead right circle four to a line (Boys right, girls left) Couples trade, wheel and deal Eight chain three Pass thru, round off, Swing thru, centers run Square thru, swing thru Allemande left and promenade Double pass thru, centers in Heads wheel around Bend the line, star thru Men run, wheel and deal Cast off 3/4 Right and left thru, star thru Dive thru, flutter wheel Swing thru, men run Right and left thru, crosstrail Eight chain five Square thru 3/4 to Partner trade, couples trade Left allemande Allemande left and allemande thar Left allemande Wheel and deal, star thru Heads square thru Shoot the star, promenade Half sashay, star thru Half square thru Sides wheel around California twirl Round off, centers pass thru Right and left thru, star thru Left allemande Half square thru, round off Eight chain seven Centers pass thru Heads star thru, swing thru Left allemande Girls trade, sides face Left allemande EIGHT CHAIN 2-4-6-8 Everybody grand right and left Sides lead right circle to a line Heads half square thru Pass thru, round off Sides square thru Right and left thru Dixie daisy, centers in Right and left thru Eight chain two Cast off % Box the gnat, change hands. Right and left thru Right and left thru, crosstrail Left square thru % Eight chain four Left allemande Partner right a right and left grand Dive thru, pass thru Heads square thru, centers in Heads star thru, swing thru Right and left thru Cast off 3/4, ends run Girls trade, sides face Eight chain six The following figures are from the California twirl, round off Right and left grand Right and left thru Southern California Callers Notes. Dixie daisy, centers in Heads square thru, swing thru Eight chain eight by Ray McMillan, Alhambra, Cal. Centers fold Men trade, do-sa-do Dive thru, square thru % Four ladies chain Left allemande Men circulate, do-sa-do Left allemande Heads crosstrail Grand right and left Sides pass thru, separate trit4 tr.ri Separate go round two and hook on Round one to a line the ends Pass thru, round off RIGHT HANDED Pass thru, ends crossfold Double pass thru, centers in by Bruce Welsh, New Orleans, La. FIGURES AND BREAKS Left allemande Cast off 3/4, pass thru Promenade, don't slow down by Ed Fraidenburg, Midland, Mi. Head ladies chain right Round off centers pass thru Heads wheel around Heads square thru Heads crosstrail Star thru, pass thru Right and left thru Do-sa-do the outside two Separate round one to a line of four Round off, double pass thru With the lady on the right Head men start a swing thru Pass thru, boys crossfold Centers in, cast off % Half sashay Everyone swing thru Girls turn back Pass thru, round off With the lady in front Girls trade, right and left thru Do a Dixie chain Centers star thru Star thru Barge thru, do-sa-do Girls turn back Backaway, others star thru With the lady on the right Side men start a swing thru Left allemande Left allemande California twirl Everyone swing thru Heads square thru by Bill Armstrong, Los Angeles, Calif. With the lady on the right Girls trade, right and left thru Split the sides Heads square thru, swing thru Half sashay Barge thru Round one to a line of four Men run, partner trade With the lady in front Left allemande

46 47 Pass thru, tag the line right Heads right and left thru, Half square thru, give a right to mother Same two spin the top Girls trade and cast off 1/4 Star thru, flutter wheel Pull by, allemande Turn thru to the corner, Pass thru, flutter wheel Pass thru, wheel and deal Left allemande One and three star thru, pass thru Swing thru, boys run Centers pass thru Right and left thru, pass thru Heads lead right circle to a line Bend the line Left allemande Clover, centers star thru Turn thru, bend the line Centers flutter wheel Heads square thru, slide thru Pass thru, right and left thru Flutter wheel Ends star thru, others star thru Flutter wheel, pass thru Square thru 1/4, clover Turn thru, bend the line Left allemande Tag the line, peel off Centers swing thru, spin the top Flutter wheel Star thru, swing thru Heads lead right circle to a line Pass thru, star thru Turn thru, bend the line Boys run, tag the line Pass thru, tag the line Swing thru, girls trade Flutter wheel Cloverleaf, centers pass thru Peel off, pass thru Box the gnat, square thru 3/4 Turn thru, bend the line Tag the line right Swing thru, boys trade Allemande Flutter wheel Wheel and deal, double pass thru Centers trade and cast off Left allemande CHAIN DIAGONALLY, SALLY Peel off, centers flutter wheel Pass thru, wheel and deal by Norm McLeod, Oakland, California No. 1 couple back to back Ends star thru, left allemande Centers square thru % With corner box the gnat Left allemande Head ladies chain Heads square thru Heads right and circle to a line New head couples, crosstrail thn. Heads square thru, slide thru Slide thru the outside two Forward eight and back Separate around two and line up four Pass thru, tag the line Pass thru, tag the line End ladies chain diagonally Turn thru, bend the line Cloverleaf, centers pass thru Cloverleaf, centers pass thru Right and left thru (all eight) Flutter wheel Spin chain thru Do-sa-do, spin chain thru End ladies chain diagonally Turn thru, bend the line Girls trade, flutter wheel Girls trade, right and left thru All Dixie style to ocean wave on a Flutter wheel Left allemande Flutter wheel double track Turn thru, bend the line Flutter wheel Star thru, pass thru by Jeanne Moody, Salinas All eight U-turn back Turn thru, bend the line Left allemande Double swing thru DIVIDE AND CLOVERLEAF Flutter wheel All eight circulate Heads pass thru, go round one One and three swing thru Star thru, Box gnat, change hands To a line, do-sa-do Sides divide and star thru Lead couple California twirl Left allemande Double swing thru Heads pass thru, circle four Dive thru, center four square thru Boys run, wheel and deal Ladies break to a line fides square thru, split two To the corner, left allemande Substitute, wheel and deal Boys square thru round one to a line, pass thru Head couples turn thru Left allemande Girls pass thru Arch, ends turn in, right and left thru Separate around one into the middle Hook on and make a line with the boys Square thru Split the heads Heads square thru, swing thru Flutter wheel Bend the line, boys do-sa-do Around one to a line, pass thru Boys run, tag the line right Double pass thru, peel off To an ocean wave, spin the top Arch, ends turn in, circle four Boys trade, cast off % Flutter wheel, right and left tnru Pass thru, left allemande One time, pass thru, split two Star thru and trade by Star thru, eight chain three Around one, box the gnat, pull by Do-sa-do HASHING THE CLOVER To a left allemande Left allemande Side men start a swing thru One and three right circle to a line Head couples lead right circle to a line Everyone swing thru Square thru, centers swing thru Heads square thru Pass thru, wheel and deal Girls trade, barge thru Ends cloverleaf, centers spin the top Right hand star with the sides Double pass thru, peel off Star thru, pass thru Pass thru, square thru 3/4 Heads to the middle, left hand star Flutter wheel Wheel and deal Centers swing thru, ends cloverleaf Go once around, skip your corner Pass thru, wheel and deal Substitute and pass thru Centers spin the top, pass thru Pick up the next arm around Centers flutter wheel Left allemande Star thru, crosstrail thru Boy get a boy, girls get a girl Keep on going, boys wheel around Double pass thru, peel off Side flutter wheel Left allemande Star thru, double pass thru Flutter wheel Heads star thru One and three promenade half way First left, second right Pass thru, wheel and deal Flutter wheel, pass thru Lead right and circle to a line Flutter wheel, crosstrail Centers pass thru to Flutter wheel, star thru Centers only, box the gnat Left allemande Left allemande Centers flutter wheel Right and left thru, pass thru Head ladies chain star thru Left allemande Go around one to a line by Willard Orlich Wheel and deal, pass thru Star thru, centers square thru four hands Heads pass thru go round one to a line MORE FLUTTER WHEEL Centers in, cast off % Pass thru, tag the line right Others divide and star thru Head couples forward and back Center four flutter wheel, ends trade Centers trade and cast off 3/4 Cloverleaf, centers star thru FLUTTER WHEEL All star thru, centers flutter wheel 48 49 ▪

Pass thru, left allemande Right, left, right PROMENADE BREAK Left allemande Promenade LOOPSI DE D Head couples wheel around Heads lead right circle to a line ladies' Backtrack, keep going Turn thru Side couples backtrack Centers arch, choice Box the gnat Ends turn in with a half sashay Pass thru, partners tag Peel off, bend the line To a left allemande Crosstrail thru, centers arch Ends turn in with a half sashay ALLEMANDE THAR BREAK This is the month to catch up on Peel off, bend the line ■ Allemande left, allemande thar Star thru, pass thru, helpful hints and tips gleaned from the material. --"111"1811. Go right and left and form a star Left allemande friends and other square dance bulle- Also, she suggests that one definite Boys back up a right hand star tins. So here goes, with a little bit of way to beat the high cost of living is Stop the star, girls run LSQUARE DANCE magazine WORKSHOP this and that: to make your own square dance Calfiornia twirl features original material submitted to the • Lill Bausch tells of a great break- clothes. 'ditor. New ideas are presented each month. • Is your club having a box supper Boys run, swing thru through in petticoat care. This is the Mail new and creative material and ques- this season? Or do you need a S/D Box the gnat and change hands tions to Willard Orlich, Workshop Editor, absolute suggestion to restore a limp lunch basket to carry goodies Vir- Left allemande SQUARE DANCE Magazine, P.O. Box 788, petticoat to its original crispness. in? ndusky, Ohio 44870. ginia Carlson, writing in Hooley-Ann ALAMO MIX-UP Just go to your favorite grocery II Whirl, suggests a used 5 qt. plastic ice- Allemande left, Alzmo style store and pick up a bottle of the acry- cream container with lid, to be cov- Partners right and balance lic floor finish called "Future," put it ered with appropriate contact paper, Heads swing thru in a sprayer bottle. Lay your petticoat such as checks, flowers or any bright Boys circulate, girls trade out and spray the net with the Future. gay colors. Sides swing thru, heads circulate Let it dry and with your hands pull Sides trade, boys run left the bottom tier smooth all around as • A hot tip from Monette Courtney California twirl, crosstrail if you were ironing it. This finish will in Round Dancer: For that arm that gets all the sun when you travel and Left allemande 1 stay in for a long time. Then if you do have to wash it, just swish it through makes you "unmatched" or causes the HEAD COUPLES RUN little sun blisters, why not make a Forward eight and eight fall back some cold water in your bathtub or ,•.• .e.a.?1,%•IMv.sessie,•.•,:. machine, let dry, and pull to straighten sleeve? Take a straight piece of materi- California twirl al (black), sew a hem at each end, Head couples run as before. le: ■ make a tube, insert elastic at both California twirl KALOX- Fetus- Did you see the cape pattern sold ti at the National by Anna Moss? It can ends, slip on up to shoulder and what All turn back and circle eight have you got? An unburned arm. Mo- Four boys square thru four hands be made of many materials and flips Longhorn 411 nette says she's busy (or maybe lazy) Then star thru . over to be worn three different ways. .•• % To make it, a large circle is cut from so she cut off both sleeves of her hus- Bend the line, centers run s o New on Kalox K 1124 11/2 yards of 54 in. material. More than band's old shirt and used safety pins New ends fold to attach them to their shoulders (of Centers swing thru double COUNTRYFIED this we will not divulge, except to say Flip/Inst. Caller: Harry Lackey ■4 the clothes they had on, that is.) They Others divide, all box gnat 116 that the pattern can be ordered for $1 both had a sleeve, and when the high- Change something ti from Moss Ceramic Shop, 249 Louisi- way turned one way and then another Left allemande • Recent releases on Longhorn ti ana Ave., Jackson, Miss. 39209. This will not only be fun to make and wear and the sun was on one and then the LH 190 I'm Gonna Steal Your Shoes TURN BACK for square dancers, but teens in the other, we didn't have to shift sleeves. Heads pass thru, partner trade and Flip/Inst. Caller: Bob Rhinerson • :11 family will love it — it's the "in" thing! Cool suggestion! more • New on Belco a.% N I. Helen Smithwick, in her Taw Chat- Double pass thru o B247A— SATIN DOLL V w s ter column, suggests that in cutting • Remember: Good Humor is one Peel off, centers arch e Two step by Lu & Toni Delson % out your next pattern, hold it to the of the best articles of dress one can Ends duck out but turn back % B247B— ILLINOIS WALTZ % • Waltz by Jack & Lee Ervin material with Scotch Tape, using small wear in society. Costing nothing, it Centers star thru but turn back • % PRODUCED BY a strips up to one inch in places to hold donates much toward happiness and Circle up eight IL, KALOX RECORD DISTRIBUTING CO. ,5 those who cultivate it are truly blessed. . — 2832 Live Oak Dr. Mesquite, Texas na the pattern in place neatly. Cut right Reverse back single file a Another good tip from the Hooley-ann Boys turn.back, Dixie grand through the tape, and you won't have ...110.2.11: amaaaVaxamealleamamamma to worry about pin holes or snags in Whirl, South Dakota. 50 51 swing thru, boys run, couples circulate, nade. BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN OF VIRGINIA wheel and deal, dive thru, square thru three Scope 546, Caller: Earl Rich quarters, swing corner, Into the middle NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE, Blue This dance moves nicely as do all dances stamp your feet, stamp, stamp, stamp, left Bolt, 102, Caller: Mike Luna on the Scope label. The opener and ending allemande, do sa do, bow low and weave We had so many orders for this record Is the Grand Sashay. the ring, meet your honey and clap three before it was released that we thought it FIGURE: Heads up and back, half times, box the gnat, pull by, left allemande must be the hit of the year coming out. sashay, turn thru, separate round one, Into and promenade. Well, we danced it and thought that it was a good dance, but our dancers did not throw the middle circle four, roll away, make a SINGING FOOTBALL HERO, Jay Bar Kay 127 their hats in the air about It. All the figures right hand star to the corner go. Left alle- Caller: Kip Garvey are so basic that the record can be used for mande, do sa do your own, swing corner ALL RECORDS ARE REVIEWED AND Football Hero was a hit when Bob Van class work. It includes a figure for beginners and promenade. Antwerp made It some years ago and we VVORKSHOPPED BY DOUG EDWARDS. and a figure for Intermediate dancers. Either STANDING ROOM ONLY, Blue Star 1909 think that this new one will also go a long figure Is so simple it can be used In class. Caller: Jerry Helt THEY MAY BE PURCHASED FROM: way. Nice figure and fine Rustler Music FIGURE new dancers: Four ladies chain, Jerry's records are always well-timed and should make Kip Garvey a Hero. join hands, circle, roll away and circle, left good. The dance Is very elementary and can EDWARDS RECORD SERVICE FIGURE: Four ladies chain three quart- allemande and weave the ring. Do sa do and be found by the dozens in any caller's record P.O. BOX 538 ers, roll promenade, heads wheel around, promenade. case. flutter wheel, spin the top, girls move up FIGURE Intermediate: Heads prome- FIGURE: Heads to the middle, circle Park Ridge, Illinois 60068 and a right and left grand. Meet partner and nade three quarters, sides swing thru and four three quarters round, pass thru, right promenade. box the gnat, Right and left thru, pass thru and left thru, do sa do, ocean wave, swing As usual we will list the new hoedowns THINK OF ME, Blue Ribbon 205, Caller: and swing. Left allemande and weave the thru, turn thru left allemande, do sa do first. We tried them out on about 50 callers Glenn Zeno ring. Do sa do and promenade. Partner swing corner and promenade. and we will list them according to their Another fine record on the Blue Ribbon MY FEETS TOO BIG, Lucky Records 008 LITTLE ROCK, Windsor 4978, Caller: label. We seem to be getting a lot of Flutter popularity with the callers who tried them Caller: Bob Van Antwerp Larry Jack Wheel figures In the new dances. Maybe A good record but not a great one like Another dance that is Just like hundreds and gave us their opinions. the dancers will soon get tired of Fluttering. KINFOLK which we have on top of the of other dances; nothing new. KALOX 1122, CHARGE UP CRIPPLE FIGURE: Heads promenade half way, heap this month. Uncle Bob Van Antwerp FIGURE: Heads square thru four hands, down the middle with a flutter wheel, same concentrated more on his feet in this dance split the outside two, around one to a line, CREEK, Key F, ROMPIN, Key F two, star thru, pass thru, do sa do and swing than he did on his choreography. The dance circle eight, rollaway, allemande left and TOP 25243 TAG ALONG, TORRENT thru, turn thru, left allemande, partner do Is good but we have gotten spoiled with weave the ring, do sa do and promenade. BLUE STAR 1904 RUBBER DOLLY, sa do corner swing and promenade. Bob's great dances and we expect him to TOMORROW NIGHT IN BALTIMORE, Key A, SALLY GOODIN, Key A BACK IN CIRCULATION, TOP 25242 come up with magic every time. The intro- Square Tunes 139, Caller: Danny Robinson Caller: Dave Friedieln duction is basicly Grand Square. BLUE RIBBON 206 GOSH, MY BEST "1 he gaudy goodbye can't replace the This Is a great dance but It's a little FIGURE: Heads square thru four hands, girlish giggle of her sweet hello." At least GIRL tough for the average floor. Might be well to swing thru, boys run right, wheel and deal, that is what the caller says. These sweet prepare the dancers for this figure by giving face that two, circle left half way, dive thru, KINFOLKS, Lucky Records 006, Caller: words may leave some in raptures but they them some previous patter on the dance. Bob Van Antwerp square thru three quarters, corner swing and go right over my head. Maybe that's because After we got the mess cleaned up from the promenade. Bob Van Antwerp finally got back in the I am just a dirty old man. Danny's dance Is middle of the floor our"dancers loved It. groove with a great recording. It's a "Make GEORGIA SUNSHINE, Blue Star 1908 good and could be used to advantage for FIGURE: Heads right and left thru, star you wanta dance" type of record and Bob Caller: Al Brownlee beginner classes. thru and pass thru and star thru again. Pass gives it the works. This is a beautiful smooth and com- FIGURE: Four ladles chain across, heads thru and tag the line, then peel off, lines of INTRO: Grand Square, Four ladles Chain fortable dance. Nice rhythm. Our dancers right and left thru, sides star thru, pass thru four up and back, square thru three hands, across, Chain them back and Promenade. liked it. and swing, left allemande and weave the swing corner, left allemande new corner, FIGURE: Heads square thru four hands, FIGURE: Heads promenade half way, ring, do sa do and promenade. sashay thru, boys run right, all eight circu- come back and promenade. down the middle right and left thru. Square LOVING YOU IS KILLING ME, Kalox late, right & lett thru, swing thru, box the ELI STUBBS GRASS BAND, Wagon Wheel thru four hands, make a right hand star with 1123, Caller: John Saunders gnat, right & left thru, swing corner, prome- 700, Caller: Gary Shoemake the outside two, heads star left In the middle This dance is great. The music is good nade. Gary Shoemake was an erstwhile caller to the same two, do sa do, swing thru and but anyone who picks a tune like this Is for Kalox where he made a couple very the boys run. Wheel and deal, right and left COUNTRYFIED, Kalox 1124, Caller: good records. This record Is quite dance- certainly living dangerously. Harry Lackey thru. Dive thru and square thru three FIGURE: Four ladies chain across, heads able because of the great Wagon Wheel quarters, swing corner, promenade. The tune "Countryfied" has made sev- music that makes any dance sound good. square thru three quarters, face out and eral appearances lately but here is the best As far as the choreography is concerned, it WISH I COULD SEE YOU, Mustang 136 clover leaf, sides do sa do, square thru three one. The tune, the dance and that great is just another dance. Caller: Chuck Bryant hands, left allemande do sa do your own, Rhythm Boys music makes this a record FIGURE: Four ladies chain across, join The figures are much used but If you swing the corner and promenade. that all callers will want to use and all danc- by the record only for the music you will hands and circle half way, heads star thru, GYPSY FEET, Lightning S 5004, Caller: ers will want to dance. It really jumps. pass thru, split those two, around one to a have your money's worth. This Mustang FIGURE: Heads square thru four hands, DeWayne Bridges line, up and back, pass thru, ends fold, swing music is getting better all the time. with the sides right and left thru, same The tune is quite popular with round corner, left allemande and promenade. FIGURE: Heads square thru four hands, dancers. ladies chain, do a flutter wheel, slide thru corner do sa do, right hand star and turn it, square thru three hands, corner swing, PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND, Jay heads star left in the middle once around. FIGURE: Heads right and left thru, roll away and pass thru, around one and line up promenade. Bar Kay 129, Caller: Ken Anderson Right and left thru, roll away, corner swing, "Put your hand in the hand of the man Promenade. four up and back, right and left thru and KNOCK THREE TIMES, White Lightning from Galilee," We thought that this was as slide thru, pass thru, left allemande, do sa 501, Caller: Bill Castner fine a record as Jay Bar Kay ever made but do your own, swing corner and promenade. Here is where the Bill Castner magic we hesitate to put it higher on this list be- RHYTHM IN THE RAIN, Pilgrim 1008 comes through in both calling and choreo- cause we realize that many callers and Caller: Don HanhurSt AS TIME GOES BY, Hi Hat 407, Caller: Erhie Kinney graphy,. It's a fun dance but it Is different dancers have strong objection to dances A very good dance. Not much tune to and this is what both callers and dancers made to a spiritual tune. This writer does the song. Right and left thru and a quarter FIGURE: Four ladles back track, men keep walking, meet partner do peso, roll want. We have always maintained that if not object to any dance even if Satan him- more might confuse some dancers. promenade heads wheel around, right and the recording caller cannot make a record self did the choreography and Vice President FIGURE: Heads promenade half way, that is different, then what's the use making lead right and circle to a line, right and left left thru, cross trail back, corner swing and Agnew does the calling. Promenade. One at all. FIGURE: Heads square thru four hands, thru and a quarter more, eight circulate, FIGURE four times through: Heads do a do sa do, spin Chain thru, girls circulate bend the line, up and back, right and left The rest of the records arrived too late to promenade half way, down the middle and two times. Boys circulate, turn thru, left thru, star thru, pass thru, swing corner and workshop, but we will give you the figures square thru four hands, corner do sa do, allemande, come back, do sa do and prome- promenade. on them. We know that all you callers want

52 53 unusual choreography and good familiar mu- also celebrated another first: the wed- sic. ding of I M2 Bill Glover and Elaine Ro- THAT MAN — HiHat 891 mero. Following the wedding march Choreography by Bud & Shirley Parrott Good "Nice To Have A Man Around The and ceremony, the wedding party House" music and a flowing easy two step. squared up for a tip of dancing to a THE FLIP SIDE— HiHat 892 revised singing call entitled "Help Me ROUND DANCES Choreography by Ron & Maryellen Hays Make It Through This Life." Bill and by Frank & Phyl Lehnert Good "King Of The Road" music and a cute fast but easy fun level dance featuring Elaine met while taking square dance the Flip Wilson hand shake. lessons. YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU—MacGregor 50- WALTZ CAREFREE— HiHat 892 24, Choreography by Oscar & Fran Schwartz Jack Frantal Choreography by Paul & Bunny Davis Good music to familiar tune, Intermediate Agana, Guam Pleasant music and a different type inter- two step. mediate waltz routine. WITH YOU— MacGregor 5024 SQUARE DANCER DAFFODIL I'M SORRY— Paramount 0095 IN MEMORIAM The Park Seed Co. features a split Choreography by Louie & Lila Leon Choreography by Toni & P.J. Martin "If I Could Be With You;" good music and Good music (Mills Brothers vocal); very Thad K. Miller of Ruthad Petti- cup daffodil called the Square Dancer. a flowing Intermediate two step. slow waltz for first half and a snappy two coats passed away on July 20, 1971. The flowers are quite different, al- EVERYBODY LOVES— Grenn 14150 step for the second part; intermediate. Deep sympathy is extended to Ruth, though a little more expensive than Choreography by Elva & Walt Blythe HAPPY SONGS— Paramount 0095 his wife, and their families. Thad's A re-release with good music; a fast-moving the usual. Dancers with green thumbs Choreography by Toni & P.J. Martin friendly greetings will be missed at three part intermediate two step. Easy level two step with Mills Brothers vocal. may want to investigate the availabili- WITH LOVE— Grenn 14150 dances and festivals throughout the ty of these bulbs. Unfortunately, the Choreography by Ann & Andy Handy midwest. correspondent who sent us this clip- A good Intermediate waltz with good music OCTOBER BUCKEYE POLL FAR WESTERN S/D CONVENTION to a contemporary tune. ping did not include the address of the PINK CHAMPAGNE— Grenn 14151 1. Roses For Elizabeth All dancers are invited to join the seed company. Choreography by Jack & Na Stapleton 2. Knock Three Times Grand Parade which will be part of the 3. The Shiek of Araby DANCING IN PUERTO RICO "Real" waltz music and a good easy Inter- Far Western S/D Convention, July 13- mediate waltz routine. 4. My Love The island of Puerto Rico has had 15, 1972. Carry banners, decorate cars, DEEP IN THE HEART— Grenn 14151 5. Winston-Salem square dancing since 1964 and 1965, Choreography by Pete & Carmel Murbach 6. Kind A Hush enter floats, march or whatever you'd 7. Third Man Theme when three clubs were organized. To- Good cha cha "In The Heart Of Texas" mu- like to do. Dress as you like, anything day there are six clubs on the 100 x sic, challenging cha cha routine. 8. La Cumparsita goes. No prizes will be awarded; the 9. Baby Mine 30 mile island. MOONLIGHT AND ROSES— HiHat 891 goal is fun. Choreography by Nine & Charlie Ward 10. Birth Of The Blues The San Juan area has two clubs, The parade will be held in down- Excellent strong intermediate two-step with the San Juan Squares and the Carib- towh Portland, Oregon, starting in the bean Castoffs, and two callers, John Park Blocks at Ninth and Main, going S/D RECORD REVIEWS THIS OLD HOUSE, Bogan 1240, Caller: Badenhop and George Edwards. to be "Fustest With The Mostest" and you down Broadway, across the bridge and John Johnston The Tropical Twirlers of Ramey just can't bet on a horse unless you know FIGURE: Heads lead right and circle to into the Coliseum for disbanding. his name. a line, up and back, swing thru and spin the If you are interested in participating AFB is the home club of George Ed- PRETTY WORLD TODAY, Red Boot 122 top, do sa do once around and pass thru, wards, a veteran caller and an amateur swing corner, left allemande, come back in the Grand Parade, write to Bill and Caller: Don Williamson pilot, who often flies to his calling en- Pretty melody but basement dancers and promenade. Ardelle Eppers, Route 1, Box 44, Bea- should not purchase this one because the KNOCK THREE TIMES, Lore 1130, Caller: vercreek, Oregon 97004. gagements. The Mayaguez Stompers record has so much musical volume that you Don Whitaker also dance to George or to records. cannot understand the caller. FIGURE: Heads into the middle and S/D WEEK ON GUAM FIGURE: Heads square thru four hands, back, do sa do once around, swing thru, The Double R Squares of Roosevelt do sa do and do a spin chain thru, girls will star thru, circle up four and make a line, SID Week was proclaimed by Lt. circulate twice, turn thru, allemande left four up and back, flutter wheel, spin the Gen. Sam J. Byerly of Andersen AFB. Roads Naval Base have the largest club, and weave by three, swing next and prome- top, turn thru swing corner and promenade. with George calling once a month and nade. For many of the dancers it was a hec- HOW I LOVE THEM GOOD OLD SONGS record dances in other weeks. Huma- SQUARE DANCE HILLBILLIE FEVER Windsor 4979, Caller: Bill Martin tic week, beginning when three squares Blue Bolt 101, Caller: Lee Buckingham FIGURE: Allemande left, allemande performed during half-time of a foot- cao has the newest club and dances to FIGURE: Heads up and back, roll a half thar, shoot the star full turn, corner right ball game between the Andersen Bom- records. sashay, star thru and right and left thru, for a wrong way thar, shoot the star, left do sa do, make a wave and rock it, spin allemande, weave by one, see saw the next, bers and the NCS Bluedevils. Then An Island-wide Jamboree is held chain thru, partner turn thru, corner swing left allemande and promenade. two squares taped a performance later three times a year with sponsorship promenade. A couple of new L.P. records have arrived. televised on KUAM-TV. To round out shared among the clubs. Attendance COUNTRYFIED, Rocking A 1355, Caller: Blue Star 1020, Square Dance Album Earl Wright by Bob Fisk, 5 Patter and 5 Singing calls. the week, a real old hoedown was runs between 100 and 200 dancers. FIGURE: Heads right and left thru, Singing calls: Heaven Says Hello, Honey held at the Tropicana Service Club, Visitors• to Puerto Rico should have square thru three hands and separate, around Love, I Left My Heart In San Francisco, with a near capacity crowd of dancers no difficulty finding places to dance. one line of four, up and back, pass thru and Rainbow Girl and In The Morning Of My wheel and deal, substitute, four men a right Mind. end spectators. Roy L. Bodine hand star to the corner swing, left allemande Blue Star 1021, Marshall Flippo calls The square dancers of Guam have /recently of Guam) Duarte, Cal. and promenade. the Basic 50 for new dancers. 54 55 Atlantic City, Nov. 25-28, Al Brun- dage & Marshall Flippo. Write Al Brun- KX.T.T.TX.T.T.AC.T.X dage, 83 Michael Rd., Stamford, Ct. ONTARIO— Maple Leaf Weekend, Park Books Motor Hotel, Clifton Hill, Niagara, Nov. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIKE (347 pa- MODERNends ALBUMS FOR INSTRUCTION • ges) The most complete caller textbook ever 26-28, with Frank Lane, Dave Taylor "The Fundamentals of Square Dancing" written. Ideal training guide for new or stu- 4--: EVENTS & the Stapletons. Write Taylormade (SIO Label) Level 1; Level 2; Level 3; Write dent callers, or for those who may be won- for descriptive literature to Bob Ruff, 8459 dering what It's like "On The Other Side Of . -i, Holidays, 458 Shelbourne Rd., Grosse -c Erimmta, Wittier, the Mike." Order from Bill Peters, 5046 Am- Pt. Farms, Michigan 48236. California 90605. ondo Dr., San Jose, Ca1.95129. ($12.50 ppd) ...1 VIRGINIA— 6th Annual Turkey Time, AFTER PARTY FUN, $2.50 plus 15¢mail- Nov. 27, Robert Frost Int. School, ing. Contains two books combined into one, *-51X7::1;1= with new material that will put life Into your Fairfax, with Les Chewning, Jim Schna- club or festival. Edited by the man who ori- bel, Howie Shirley, Blackie & Dottie Si Products ginated after party fun at dances and festivals. SQUARE DANCE SEALS— Colorful and Heatwole. Write Ruby Zabawa, 341 Order from Ray Smith, Star Harbor, Mala- VIRGINIA— Sweet 16th Richmond eyecatching seals on your correspondence koff, Texas 54148. N. Edison St., Arlington, Va. 22203. are an invitation to square dancing. S & R/D Festival, Hotel John Marshall, Order FLORIDA— 4th Ann. Winter Festival, from Bill Crawford, Box 18422, Memphis, STEP-CLOSE-STEP ROUND DANCE BA- Nov. 12-13. Write Joe & Rae Wootton, Tenn. 38118. Samples on request. 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ALBUM No. 1 (Ages 8 to 10; Grades 3 aid 4) Shoo Fly; Duck for the Oyster; Red River Valley; Girls to the Center; Take a Peek; Hinkey Dinkey Parlez-vous; Divide the Ring; The Noble Duke of York; Little Brown Jug (without calls) EEB-3000 (45); ALBUM No. 2 (Ages 10 to 12; Grades 5 and 6) Skating Away; Life on the Ocean Wave; Swing at the Wall; Nellie Gray; Form an Arch; Uptown and Downtown; Double Sashay; Bow Belinda; Angelworm Wiggle (without calls) EEB-3001 (45);

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