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- --- CHILDREN'S PARK DANCE FESTIVAL at Sheep Meadow, Central Park, Manhattan. This event attracted over seven hundred participants. — All photos courtesy The City Of New York, Department of Parks.

Big things are happening in New big numbers, but there is always a York City in the square and round large, enthusiastic, and attentive audi- dance field. Joe Nash and his en- ence. In order to get a front row seat thusiastic wife, Alice, give instruction — the better to see every step, hop, in various parts of the City under the pivot, and whirl — these eager specta- auspices of the Department of Parks. tors arrive more than a full hour be- At present they are conducting three fore the activity begins. interesting and very popular pro- grams: Central Park, New York; Poe It has been the custom to dedicate Park, Bronx; and Rego Park, Queens. the first half hour of the evening to dances for the very young. This is Their instruction is patient and lu- Alice's forte, and she has an amazingly cid, and they are understanding of rich repertoire of delightful dances. the learning ability of the average It is heart-warming to see the young- person. Programs start with simple sters so thoroughly enjoy their session. routines and gradually broaden into the more involved patterns, thus pre- As dance specialists for the Recre- senting satisfying sessions for all levels. ation Division of the New York City Not only do the dancers turn out in (continued on page 33)

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SCENES OF ONE OF FIFTEEN evening square dances at Wollman Skating Rink, Central Park, Manhattan. New Yorkers have fun square dancing.

IN-SERVICE TRAINING for Bronx Pro- menaders. Classes are held by Alice and Joe Nash for recreation leaders working at Poe Park in the Bronx. PAINS?

GROWING By Irene and Bill Hart

We often hear: "TOO MANY ROUND DANCES!" "TOO MUCH LATIN INFLUENCE!" "TOO MUCH BALLROOM INFLUENCE!"

Why then all the hue and cry? IS IT REALLY TRUE? Actually we think this is a healthy sign. It shows a definite interest and Is there a sound program for de- concern by the dancers for their acti- veloping the rapidly growing round vity. Without this we would have dance activity? We feel that there is. nothing. Let's examine some of the Although a formal, written, definite problems that concern every dancer program as such does not exist, there and leader. is a mutual national understanding Are there too many round dances? among the leaders. The degree and Each round dancer, as in square danc- amount of understanding varies from ing, must find his level of dancing. area to area. By this we mean not only the difficul- Local teachers and avid dancers who ty of the dance, but also the number of travel hundreds of miles to attend dances he learns and his proficiency in camps, conventions, festivals, and va- dancing. cations do their part by bringing back It is the teacher's responsibility to and disseminating information and select wisely from the myriad of dances ideas from the top leaders. available. From those selected the The national square and round dancers should have the privilege of dance magazines do their part by pro- choosing which they want to learn viding the means for a free and well and which they want to drop. healthy exchange of ideas. Round There is plenty of material. We do dance councils also contribute by not lack for material. Rather than pro- forming policy at the local level. test this, let's welcome it by appreciat- 12 ing the advantage of having all this techniques. With the continued in- material, both the good and the bad, crease in round dancing it is doubly to choose from. Most new dances are important for round dance teachers good. The problem is selecting the to be well prepared in advance and to best. continually work at self improvement Let's give credit to all the new so they can do a better job in teaching choreographers whose interest and and instructing their classes. More love for this activity created the in- and more square dance callers are spiration for these new rounds. They teaching rounds. do much to promote and help the Last but not least, this continued growth of round dancing. The square growth is due to the enthusiasm of the dance record companies provide us many wonderful dancers who are say- with better and better music for our ing, "Too many round dances," "Too dances and in so doing have helped to much latin influence," "Too much increase the interest and enthusiasm ballroom influence." Their enthusi- in round dancing. This has helped asm for round dancing is contagious tremendously in interesting the new and without them we would not have dancers. "growing pains." Let's not only be tolerant of the So when you hear these comments birth of new material, but appreciate from your dancers, remember round the efforts of all the people providing dancing is growing. Dancers are in- it. It is the teacher's responsibility to terested in the future of the round evaluate and present only material of dance movement. It is the leader's re- value to his groups. Here, then, is the sponsibility to meet the challenges cut off point at the local level with the caused by growing pains. local teachers who are doing a won- derful job. Is there too much latin and ball- room influence? This is a controver- sial subject and most teachers are do- ing as their consciences dictate. We feel that some latin and ballroom in- fluence is good from an educational standpoint. However, ballroom danc- ing, including latin dancing, as usually danced cannot hold the interest of the ,1 round dancer for long except in iso- lated cases. We have something wonderful and unique in round dancing and it cer- tainly doesn't lack by comparison with other dance forms. Familiarity with all types of dancing improves the abili- ty of all dancers and satisfies their t curiosity. This diversity adds spice to the program and eliminates the un- welcomed heavy hand of censorship for most. The best guide is your con- science. Is round dancing growing? Of IRENE AND BILL HART, North Royalton, Ohio, course it is. We are fortunate in hav- have been dancing and teaching rounds since ing square and round dance institutes, 1956. Teaching rounds in square dance classes, festivals, conventions, vacations, and which they do regularly, reflects their philosophy the like that offer hundreds of oppor- that a combined program of squares and rounds makes better dances. The Harts have tunities for budding teachers to in- taught at many festivals and conventions, in- crease their knowledge of teaching cluding the National this June.

13 PART TWO • YUGOSLAVIA A TRIP TO THE BALKANS BY HUGH THURSTON

To anyone who wants to see or to often play in fine lively style the more take part in the local folk dancing, popular kolos. There is any amount Yugoslavia presents a complete con- of folk music on the wireless. Even trast to Greece. The ordinary tourist the juke boxes have a section re- can travel throughout the country served for local music. The other items without ever making any contact with popular among Yugoslavian juke the dance. That is why we had join- box users apparently being rock and ed the "Tammies" tour. For those roll and Italian popular hits. readers who do not know of this We were greeted with dances the oroup, I should explain that they are moment we touched Yugoslavian soil students of DuQuesne University, at Zagreb Airport. A large group of Pittsburgh, Pa., and they perform children in costumes, executed Croa- Yugoslavian songs and dances semi- tian dances, while we took movies of professionally. them and the local populace took The group is celebrating its 25th movies of us. The heart of Croatia, year, and the tour last summer was as far as music and dancing goes, is the main part of the celebration. I the Sava river area. This river flows might add that the Tammies are not from Zagreb to Beograd, where it only first-class performers, but an ex- joins the Danube. tremely pleasant group of young It is here that the Drmes — the fam- people. They performed at every ous "shaking dance" — has its home. major stop on the tour. Of course we It is here that we find the Slavonsko attended their performances as well kolo and Kalendara kolo (the words as visiting, with them, various local and music of the latter are in the dance groups. ethnographical section of the little Although folk dancing in Yugo- municipal museum in Slavonski Brod.) slavia has to be searched out, folk It is here, and in the adjoining region music and singing does not. The hotel of North Serbia that we find the orchestras — among the semi-classical Tamburitza. pieces and Viennese waltzes — will The week we arrived there was a

14 Tamburitza festival at a small indus- the stage than for a party. It was at trial town called Osijek, north of the this reception that the girls of our party Sava. The Tammies left for Osijek really got to know our bus driver. almost immediately, and we joined Drago (we called him Charlie) was a them later. Apparently the Yugo- thick set mustached Serbian. He was slays were very impressed by the a superb driver and never drank on Tommie orchestra. The discipline, or- the job, but tonight he was relaxing. ganization, and arrangements were He knew just how to mix the plum way ahead of what most Yugoslav brandy which is Yugoslavia's stand- orchestras could manage. Here some ard hard liquor, and is about as Tammies, walking out after dark, potent as Vodka, with other more came across a small gypsy band, and flavorsome drinks to produce some- persuaded them to play at our hotel thing with the right amount of punch while we ate - a real piece of local in it. At any rate it had enough atmosphere. punch that two of the girls went up to After the Tammie performance they him and kissed him after the first had dinner (their performance was glassful. too strenuous for them to eat before One interesting morning we spent it) and we joined them at their hotel. watching the Tammies record a pro- The tables were cleared, and we gram for the Belgrade Radio. Then danced — mostly dances familiar to the Radio Corporation's own "Na- American folk dancers like Eleno Mo- tional ensemble" entertained us. It me, U sest, Setnja, Ciarlama, Veliko was a small combination, the lea:7!ing kolo, and so on. instrument being the fiddle, end the Following the Sava into Belgrade fiddler looking like a real "character" we eventually crossed into Serbia. with hair about a foot long. Thcy had Belgrade is the capitol of Serbia as a good soprano—Radmila Dimic, some well as being the capitol of the whole of whose records were on sale at the country. There is not so much as a Seattle World's Fair when we got roadside notice to mark the border. back. But the performer who really Although the six divisions of the coun- took our fancy was the player of the try are nominally separate republics Frula (which is a small wooden pipe and have very different histories and something like an unsophisticated re- rather different cultures, very little corder) who apparently was a shep- outward show is made of the dif- herd until the Radio people discover- ferences, far less than the differences ed him. He still wore his rustic shoes between the states in the U.S.A. with turned-up toes. At a reception in the town hall in The culmination of our stay in Bel- Belgrade (formerly the Royal Palace) grade was a visit to the Krsmanovic which was given for the Tammies and dancers' headquarters, a big base- to which we went along too, of ment hall, where they normally have course, there was a sudden hush, and their rehearsals. We sat on chairs then a burst of song as beautiful as and benches and the floor and they it was unexpected. The Branko Krs- gave us a performance all the more manovic choir, who had (unknown to exciting because we were only a foot most of us) been among the guests, or two from them. were giving us an impromptu concert They started off, to my mind, of welcome. After the songs and rather badly. A man in Dalmatian dance music (they had one of the costume with a one-string fiddle sat most agile players of the button-ac- in the middle of the floor, and then cordian I've ever heard, besides a another man danced on and tapped first-class clarinetist) the Tommie him on the shoulder, and he began dance ensemble struck up and there to saw furiously at the fiddle, not was general dancing. Again mostly really touching the strings, while the from the Tammie repertoire. accordionist off stage began to play. We gathered that the Krsmanovic More people came on and they danc- group's repertoire was suited more for ed "Lindjo", a kind of landler at

15 breakneck speed. Like nearly every- dance group we met there — the thing in Dalmatian, the music and the Ortse Nicohov group — were ama- dance gave more an impression of teurs. Their practice room was a dark Italy than of Yugoslavia. basement, their costumes were dirty, and there was a general atmos- However, the program got better phere of garlic and perspiration. But as it went on. There was another they were terrific dancers. Unlike the "foreign" touch in "Bunjevacko Mo- group in Belgrade, these people did macko kolo," this time Hungarian. only local dances, and the whole The dance comes from Vojuodina evening of dances was accompanied which is on the Hungarian border. by just two instruments, a drum like The men wear boots, the girls wear the one described above, and a reed- gorgeous costumes which do not look pipe, which sounded like a power- like peasant costumes (as most of the ful oboe. It was played with great Yugoslavian ones do) but more like verve by a stocky dark-complexioned something from a sumptuous produc- man in a fez, who walked around he tion of a 19th century operetta. dance floor while playing. The melo- Between dances there were songs, dies were perhaps a little crude, but and like the dances they came from the rhythm was tremendously inspir- all over the country. Folk dancers in ina, and the coordination of crashing the audience picked up their ears thumps on the drum with the prodi- when "Vranjanka" started for it is a gious leaps of a roomful of whirling favorite kola with folk dance groups dancers gave me the biggest thrill in America. However, the dance we of the trip. saw was quite different from the one The third place where we saw familiar to us. It looked very Turkish, dancing was in Zagreb, by "Lado", almost harem-like. This we might this time on a theatre stage. The have expected because Vranje (where atmosphere was rather like that of the dance comes from) is in South a touring "folk ballet" company with Serbia, where Turkish influence was a varied program well danced and strong. They even made the music beautiful staged. Also in Zagreb we sound oriental, by contrast with the were guests of the Tamburitza Orch- rather pedestrian mazurka-like rhy- estra. They are sponsored by, and thm which one hears over here. rehearse in, the Zagreb municipal Their most spectacular dance was brewery. a Macedonian one — Teskoto. This Americans are fond of applying the is for men only, and is a slow state- word "authentic" to folk material. ly dance with high-lifted legs and Well, it may be a paradox, but the deep knee bends. The main accom- Zagreb Tamburitzans were a lot less paniment is on a drum, the drummer "authentic" than the DuQuesne Tam- moving around the dance floor with buritzans. They gave a really varied the dancers and indulging in some program, ranging from the latest slow but spectacular acrobatics him- American translation of "0 Sole Mio" self. At one time he is kneeling, bend- to a screamingly funny parody of a ing over backwards, with his head popular song as it would be per- almost touching the floor — and still formed in various regions of Yugo- playing. After a while the tempo of slavia. the dance changed, and the chain of There was not much local material, men broke up, and filled the dance but what there was was good and ihe floor with dervish-like whirling jumps. pile of bread, ham, and sausage pro- After the performance there were re- vided for our refreshment, to say freshments and general dancing to nothing of the beer, had to be seen to the Tummies band until the wee be believed. hours. So ended a varied and exciting Dancing in Skopje, the capitol of tour of one of the most interesting Macedonia, was quite different. The countries in the world today.

16 DANCE IN THE LAND OF SKY BLUE WATERS at the 12th National Square Dance Convention, June 20-22, Municipal Auditorium, St. Paul, Minn. Mayor Vavoulis of St. Paul (left above) is invited to lead the Grand March by Lynn Woodward, Program Chairman. The Grand March will begin the big Saturday evening dance. All facets of square dancing are included in the three-day program in- cluding workshops, squares, rounds, folk, contra, panels, and exhibitions. Plan to attend and take part in the many activities offered at the National Convention this year. Write to Box 3330, St. Paul, Minn. for information and registration forms. See you there!

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Zero movements accomplish noth- CHOREOGRAPHY ing in the progress of the figure. No Becoming more and more promin- change of partner or sequence. Let's ent in today's square dance choreo- take a real simple figure. graphy vocabulary are such words as zero movement, equivalent, set up, Heads to the right and circle up four, get out, and the like. Sight calling is head gents break and line up four but a part of the total picture. The Forward eight and back with you, hashing of breaks is only part of the right and left thru go two by two dance. From these breaks singing calls Cross trail thru to a left allemande ... are written with changes of partners. Square dance choreography is like Let's add a couple of zero move- chess. It takes study. ments and a few equivalents like those The past several years have seen above and you have an entirely differ- many dances set up with lines of four. ent dance each time you change the The most common being: "Heads to combinations. In fact, an entire hash the right and circle up four, head tip can be called by injecting these gents break to lines of four." ideas. Equivalents of this call are numer- ous. Here are some examples. First and third half sashay, up to the middle, back that way Head gents and the corner girl up to Pass thru, both turn right, around two the middle, back you whirl and line up four Square thru, count four hands, all the (equivalent to three other ways way round, split those two above) Around one, line up four, forward Forward eight and back you whirl, eight and back in time . . . pass thru, arch the middle and dixie twirl You're using star thru figures this (zero movement) tip? Try this. Wheel and deal out two by two, first Head couples go forward and back, couple left, next one right double star thru across the track (zero movement) Both turn right single file, hook on Square thru 3/4 around, lady on the the ends and line up four . . . right California twirl (zero movement) And this tip it's ocean waves? Here's Square thru 3/4 again and this time, one. U turn back and box the gnat One and three a right and left thru, (equivalent to right and left thru) ladies in the lead dixie style to an Dixie chain, don't take all night, she ocean wave goes left and he goes right Walk straight ahead and circle four, Left allemande . . . head gents break and line up four (equivalent to cross trail thru to left allemande)

19 This is all just plain hash. No name and is trying it out with different to the figure is needed for identifica- figures for dancer reaction and tim- tion because there was no "gimmick". ing while using a "dub" of the new It can be called without watching the music in the background. dancers. Competition is keen and the music could possibly be picked up and used before the record could be released. Experience has taught people in the CALLER'S QUESTIONS recording field that several releases of the same number kills the sales BILL CASTNER, Pleasant Hill, Calif.: of all of them. Ac least the first re- "I believe the call for ends cross over, lease is the one that sells the best. centers turn back (from lines of four The day of general taping at any facing each other) is very poor since and all dances seems to be coming to cross over is more likely construed to a grinding halt for several other rea- mean that the ends facing would cross sons. Poor judgment by the tapers over to change places." on the use of these tapes has caused As a dancer, Bill, my reaction is to many of the recording companies to cross over to the other line. The only threaten the enforcement of a Federal time I feel sure about this command law that has been in existence many is when the line is facing out. Then years. Part of it is stated here. there is no other place to go. It is a federal offense to reproduce The dancers will react correctly if by tape, wire, or disk, all or any part the command is changed to something of a record. This applies to both a like "ends in line trade places, centers direct copy and/or when used to turn back." This then will apply no supply background music for voice matter which direction the line faces reproduction. or even if it is in an ocean wave set No complaints were registered as up. If the ends are expected to go long as the tapes were used for a across to the next line it can be called teacher's benefit to learn something. as "ends pass thru, hook on the ends" But it has reached the point where or "ends promenade 1/4." unscrupulous people are selling copies of tape recordings for use at another SEVERAL SOURCES: "Why do some open dance without the caller's know- callers allow taping at their dances ledge or permission. and others do not? A more flagrant mis-use of taping There are several reasons why some is the taping of all of the new round callers will not allow taping at their dances by an entire group and then dances. If the entire dance is used, returning the records to a dealer with- the progression of the figures a caller out making a purchase. Imagine the may use leads up to a climax for that time, effort, thought, and money that particular dance. Taking out a piece goes into one recording. It must pay of this dance program may not fit for itself and allow a profit for those on another occasion because the mood people whose business it is to provide of the dance as a whole is lost or not the music and dances for our square understood. dance and round dance entertainment. In fact, it might even seem silly if Personally, it makes me blush to not understood. A "goof" by the caller think that any of the wonderful can never be forgotten once it is taped people in our favorite recreation and this hurts individual ego. Would could be so thoughtless as to cause you like to have a part of your con- such a situation to exist. Many warn- versation with your friends repro- ings have been given over the past duced sometime in front of strangers? several years but it has now reached To say the least, it might be mis- the point where the recording com- construed or embarrassing. panies have to take some steps to Another reason is that the caller even barely survive. Have you ever may be about to record a new dance tried dancing without music? 20 Two ladies chain across from you FIGURES and BREAKS And cast off 3/4 round Go right and left thru and turn your girl FIGURES Pass thru, heads only California twirl by Jim Gammalo, Olmsted Falls, Ohio Wheel and deal two by two Promenade, one and three wheel Two ladies chain across from you around, pass thru Half square thru across the town Bend the line, pass thru And cast off 3/4 round Centers arch, ends duck thru Star thru, square thru 3/4 man Pass thru, curlique And find the corner for a left alle- Swing thru two by two mande . . Then centers swing half again Centers arch, ends duck thru Follow that one left, single file around HEADLINE by John Ward, Alton, Kans. the land Gents turn around and dixie grand, Side ladies chain across the track right, left, right, left allemande . . . Couple number one stand back to back Four ladies chain 3, 4 around, turn With your corners box the gnat 'em The heads go up and back with you Chain them across the way Square thru 3/4 round and when you All four couples half sashay do Heads square thru four hands Go round one, make a line of four Then curlique, swing thru two by Go forward up and back once more two Star thru, follow the leader, separate Centers swing half again go round Centers arch, ends duck thru Meet your girl, promenade back across Follow that one left, single file the town Men turn around and dixie grand, First couple left, next couple right right, left right, left allemande . . . Next couple left, next couple right Travel four in line across the world Head ladies chain across the way The lead line arch in the middle for a Roll away with a half sashay dixie twirl Square thru four hands Go right and left thru and turn 'em Do-sa-do to an ocean wave man Swing thru two by two Cross trail thru to a left allemande ... Centers swing half again Ends promenade 1/4 BUSY BOYS Centers turn around, wheel and deal by John Ward, Alton, Kans. Face your partners, join hands, circle The heads to the right and circle four left The head gents break and line up Reverse back, single file four Men turn back for a dixie grand, Go forward eight and back with you right, left, right, left allemande ... Pass thru, boys fold, star thru Wheel and deal two by two HALF FACE OUT Dive thru, pass thru, star thru by John Ward, Alton, Kans. Two ladies chain across from you The heads go up and back once more Pass thru, boys fold, star thru Then lead to the right and circle Wheel and deal two by two four Dive thru, pass thru, star thru Head gents break to a line you do Two ladies chain across from you Go forward eight and back with you Pass thru, boys fold, star thru Go right and left thru and turn your Wheel and deal two by two girl Dive thru, pass thru, star thru Pass thru, heads only California twirl Two ladies chain across from you Wheel and deal two by two Cross trail thru to a left allemande ... 21 Two Great Square Dance :j N

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Box 16, Bath, Ohio ENDS CROSS OVER — CENTERS SWING HIDDEN ACE by Dick Kenyon, Lansing, Mich. by Gordon Blaum, Miami, Fla. From a do-sa-do to an ocean wave, Side ladies chain across the track the ends cross over to the other end Head gents and corner girl go up and of the line in a half circle and the back centers keep center hands joined and Square thru four hands then do-sa-do swing half way around. to an ocean wave Balance up and back, swing by the One and three go up to the middle right half about and back Balance up and back, acey ducey Go forward again, do-sa-do to an (gents advance 1/4, girls turn half) ocean wave Balance up and back, box the gnat Rock up and back Box it hack then eight chain three Ends trade places, centers swing Pull on by, allemande left . . . Rock up and back Cross trail thru to a left allemande ... SWINGIN' CAST OFF by Sal Fanara, Independence, Mo. One and three star thru Heads square thru, four hands you do Do-sa-do to an ocean wave Do-sa-do the outside two Rock up and back All the way around, make an ocean Ends trade places, centers swing wave Rock up and back You balance, go forward and back Pass thru ''."Now swing thru, go two by two Do-sa-do to an ocean wave you do You balance, go forward and back Rock up and back Now swing thru, go two by two Then right and left thru You balance, go forward and back Do-sa-do to an ocean wave Then cast off 3/4 round Rock up and back "New ocean wave, you balance, go Ends trade places, centers swing up and back Left allemande ... (repeat one more time) Go right and left thru, turn the girls Promenade, don't slow down Then dive thru, square thru 3/4 round One and three wheel around Allemande left with your left hand ... Do-sa-do to an ocean wave Rock up and back SWINGIN' GNAT Ends trade places, centers swing by Sal Fanara, Independence, Mo. Rock up and back, pass thru on to Four ladies chain, a grand chain four the next Turn 'em boys, we'll dance a little Do a do-sa-do to an ocean wave more Rock up and back Now one and three a half square thru Ends trade places, centers swing Do-sa-do the outside two Rock up and back All the way around, make an ocean Cross trail thru to a left allemande ... wave You balance, go forward and back GIRLS ACEY DUCEY Now swing thru, go two by two by Gordon Blaum, Miami, Fla. You balance, go forward and back All four couples do a half sashay Now swing thru, go two by two Heads square thru that way to the You balance, go forward and back outside two Then box the gnat, now box it back Do-sa-do all the way to an ocean Change hands, left allemande ... wave Rock forward and back, acey ducey LEAD COUPLES ARCH NO. 1 (girls advance 1 /4, men turn half ) by Walt Swan, Riverside, R. I. Rock forward and back, acey ducey Just number one swing and sway Rock forward and back, box the gnat Two and four a half sashay Change hands, left allemande . . . Just number one cross the floor

24 Split that couple, round one, line up Square thru 3/4 round inside the land four Allemande left . . . Four to the middle, back in time Four to the middle, bend the line QUICK CAST Box the gnat across from you by Mary Worrell, Hamilton, III. Come right back with a right and left Head two ladies chain thru thru Then heads cross trail, go around one Everybody double pass thru Stand behind those two, go forward Lead couple arch, second couple thru eight and back You turn back, do a right and left Double pass thru then centers in thru, turn your girl Cast off 3/4 round Dive thru, square thru 3/4 Two ladies chain across that land, Left allemande . . . turn the girls Left allemande . . . LEAD COUPLES ARCH NO.2 by Walt Swan, Riverside, R. I. WHAT? Four ladies chain, here's what you do by Mary Worrell, Hamilton, Ill. Two and four right and left thru Turn, then roll a half sashay Side two ladies chain across, turn the Heads square thru in the middle I say girls Count to four inside the world One and three lead to the right and Girl on your right California twirl circle four Double pass thru Head men break to a line of four Lead couple arch, second couple thru Forward eight and back you reel You turn back, star thru Pass thru and wheel and deal Right and left thru, turn you do Double pass thru then centers in and Then star thru cross fold Duck to the middle Look out man, allemande left . .

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PROMENADE BREAKS Go forward eight and back so neat by Howard Liffick, Evansville, ind. Pass thru, the lines retreat You promenade, go round the set Wheel and deal and stick out your The head two couples back track hand Pass thru, on to the next Allemande left . . . Square thru just like that CAST OFF TO DIXIE Go full around, the center four by Jack Lasry, Miami, Fla. Square thru 3/4 more Four ladies chain 3 /4 round The centers in and cast off Turn that girl and circle eight 3 4 round, don't get lost Allemande left the corner maid Walk up to the middle and back with Come back one and promenade you Don't slow down, keep welkin' Jack And then you pass thru Heads back track, half square thru, Wheel and deal, the center two boys turn back Right and left thru, now what do you Girls dixie daisy, cross by the right, do turn half by the left Allemande left . . . Cross back by the right, centers in Cast off 1 /4 Promenade, don't slow down Wheel and deal and 1;/4 more All four couples wheel around Cast off 3/4 round Promenade, don't look back Go up and back, half square thru Head two couples back track Girls turn back, boys dixie daisy Pass thru, on to the next Cross by the right, turn half by the Square thru just like that left Go full around, the center four Cross back by the right, centers in Square thru 3/4 more Cast off 1/4 The centers in and cast off Wheel and deal and a 1/4 more 3 4 round, don't get lost Casr off 3/4 round, left allemande ...

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26 ROCKIN' THE BOAT EXAMPLES by Jack Lasry, Miami, Fla. by Doc Heimbach, Blue Island, Ill. One and three left square thru four One and three bow and swing hands around Side ladies chain across the ring Left square thru the outside two Heads to the right and circle four Heads go three, the sides go four Head gents break to a line of four Heads square thru, sides divide and Forward eight and back a while star thru Gents half fold, go single file Right and left thru the outside two Turn to the left and the girls pass Dive thru, square thru 3/4 thru Left square thru the outside two Allemande left . . . Heads go three, the sides go four Or Heads left square thru, sides divide Forward eight and back a while and star thru Girls half fold, go single file Left allemande . . . To the left around the town Gents, just turn around, allemande NEW BASICS left . . . TURN AND DEAL HALF FOLD by Colin Walton, Miami, Fla. by Doc Heimbach, Blue Island, Ill. On call to half fold, the designated From a line of four passing thru, folding dancer makes an appropriate same traffic pattern as wheel and deal. 1/4 turn toward his adjacent partner Right couple turns left face individu- to end in front of, and perpendicular ally, steps forward and left face and to, that person. Any ends bend com- 1/4 more while the left couple turns mand would be identical to ends half right face individually, steps forward fold. behind that couple and then right h octor NEW RELEASES PREVIOUS HIT RELEASES records No. 1506—Illue Moon & Lullaby No. 1507 No. 1505—Mardi-Gras & Let Me Call You Sweetheart BROWN VELVET (two-step) No. 1504—Irishman's Dream & I'm Confessin' MOULIN ROUGE (waltz) No. 1503—Ragtime Two-Step I Margie's Mixer No. 1508

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27 face 1, 4 more to end up in a double Head gents lead them to a line of pass thru position. A single couple four movement would be the same as a Forward up and back with you single wheel. Boys fold and star thru Promenade the wrong way round GOOD DEAL One and three wheel around by Colin Walton, Miami, Fla. Cross trail thru to a left allemande ... Heads to the right and circle four (don't use the 1;/4 more figures Head gents break and line up four until the dancers fully understand Forward eight and back you reel their turning direction with turn Pass thru, turn and deal and deal) Double pass thru across the way Face your partner, back away Star thru, first couple go left, next go right SINGING SQUARES Star thru the first in sight Square thru 3 '4 around HEAR THEM BELLS Corners all left allemande Record: Square L No. 109 — Instru- mental/calls by Tommy Farris. FILTER FOLLY Dance: Tommy Farris, Ft. Worth, by Colin Walton, Miami, Fla. Tex. Heads to the right and circle four Music: Square L Outlaws. Head gents break and line up four Forward eight and back Opener, Break, and Closer: Pass thru across the floor Allemande left in alamo style Turn and deal and 1/4 more Balance out and in Two left hand stars on the side of Swing by the right half way around the floor And balance once again

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28 Swing by the left a full turn round Don't you Hear Them Bells Pull that corner by They are ringing out a song for you Corners all left allemande and me. Grand right and left on by (Sequence: Opener, Figure twice for Hear Them Bells heads, Break, Figure twice for sides, Don't you Hear Them Bells Closer.) Do-sa-do and swing and promenade that ring BLUE SIOUX CITY FIVE Hear Them Bells Record: Blue Star No. 1661 — Instru- Don't you Hear Them Bells mental/calls by Marshall Flippo. They are ringing out a song for you Dance: Marshall Flippo, Abilene, Tex. and me. Music: The Shannonaires. Figure: Opener, Break, and Closer: Heads to the middle and come on Come on now join your hands, circle back left around that ring Roll a half sashay Those girls star left one time Star thru and split the outside Turn your partner by the right, your Round just one I say corner with a left hand swing Come into the middle and circle four Those gents star right one time Once around that ring (exactly one Same old girl left allemande time) A grand old right and left until Star thru and pass thru the moment you arrive That corner girl you swing Then promenade back home to the Hear Them Bells rolling rhythm New corners allemande Of the Blue Sioux City Five. Do-sa-do your own and promenade Figure: that ring And now those four ladies chain, turn Hear Them Bells 'em with a left around

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29 Those heads go forward up and back Don't slow down, till you love me as Roll on away, star thru, do-sa-do that I love you lady Head couples wheel around, do a Make an ocean wave and balance up right and left thru and back You cross trail thru and swing the Cross trail thru, you turn back, swing one you meet a brand new lady And promenade the night and you Gents star left, why man alive will come to me soon Same girl you promenade to that roll- Until you will, be still my heart ing rhythm How High the Moon. Of the Blue Sioux City Five. Figure: (Sequence: Opener, Figure twice for Head couples right and left thru then heads, Break, Figure twice for sides, roll away Closer.) Same couples star thru, do a do-sa-do Go all the way, an ocean wave, go HOW HIGH THE MOON forward and back Record: Top No. 25059 — Instrumen- Square that four hands around tal /calls by Bern Aubuchon. The girl on the right California twirl, Dance: Bern Aubuchon, St. Louis, Mo. same girl swing Music: Russal's Men. You promenade her, go round the ring Opener, Break, and Closer: The darkest night will shine if you Four ladies chain across, roll promen- will come to me soon ade Until you will, be still my heart Somewhere there's heaven, How High How High the Moon. the Moon (Sequence: Opener, Figure twice for The men roll back, a left face whirl, heads, Break, Figure twice for sides, promenade a new Sue Closer.)

NEW RELEASES GOLDEN No. 6010 Flip/Instrumental THIS CAN'T BE LOVE SQUARE By DON ATKINS No. 6011 Flip/Instrumental RECORDS LIGHT IN THE WINDOW GOLDEN SQUARE RECORD SERVICE 1956 Solana Way, Concord, Calif. By TOMMY STOYE Tacoma, Wash.

Also Get Last Month's Releases! No. 6012 Flip/Instrumental NO. 6008 CES'T MAGNIFIQUE OBJECT OF MY Flip/Inst. by JERRY FIRENZI NO. 6009 ROSE ANN AFFECTION Flip/Inst. by DON ATKINS by FRANNIE HEINTZ NO. 6503 RICKS RAMBLE AND Monson, Mass. JERRYS HOEDOWN Two new hoedowns on one record by the Westernaires Band.

30 SLOW POKE ROUND DANCES by Jess and Ellis Gates San Antonio, Tex. MY IDEAL Record: Blue Star No. 1657. by Lorraine and Dean Ellis Position: Semi-closed, facing LOD. Dallas Center, Iowa Footwork: Opposite. Directions for M. Record: Windsor No. 4687. Introduction Position: Semi-closed, facing LOD. Meas Footwork: Opposite. Directions for 1-4 Wait; Wait; Apart, -, Point, -; M. Together, -, Touch, -; Introduction Dance Meas 1-4 Two, Step, FWD, Sweep; Two, 1-2 Wait; Apart, Point, Together (to Step, FWD, Sweep; (Scissors) Side, Semi-CP), Touch; Close, Cross, -; Side Close, Cross, -; Dance 5-8 Two, Step, FWD, Sweep; Two, 1-4 Run, 2, 3, Brush, Run, 2, 3, - Step, FWD, Sweep; (Scissors) Side, (face); Turn Two-Step; Turn Two- Close, Cross, -; Side, Close, Cross, -; Step; 9-12 (Box) Side, Close, FWD, -; Side, 5-8 Twirl in, 2, 3, Point; Wrap, 2, 3, Close, Back, -; Dip Back, -, Re- Touch; (Hitch) FWD, Close, BWD, cover, -; Pivot, 2, -; Close; Unwrap, -, 2, -( to Bfly); 13-16 FWD, Close, FWD, Swing; 9-12 Vine, 2, 3, (Open) Brush; Turn, Back, Close, Back, Touch; (to B- -, Place, -( to L-Open); fly POS) (Quick) Two Step, Bal L, 13-16 Run, 2, 3, Brush; (Hitch) Two Step, Bal R; Twirl, -, 2, -; FWD, Close, BWD, Close; FWD, -, 17-20 Two, Step, FWD, Sweep; Two, Face, -(to CP); PIVOT, -, 2, -(to Step, FWD, Sweep: Side, Close, Semi CP); Cross, -; Side, Close Cross, -;

NEW RELEASES No. 6013 Flip Instrumental OTHER NEW RELEASES "SWINGING ON THE ROBERT E. LEE" • No. 6012 Flip Instrumental By Don Atkins, Concord, Calif. OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION by Frannie Heintz, Monson, Mass. Nice figure — wonderful music — get this one — it's great! • No. 6011 Flip Instrumental LIGHT IN THE WINDOW by Tommy Stays, Tacoma, Wash.

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• No. 6008 Flip Instrumental CESIT MAGNIFIQUE RECORDS by Jerry Firenzi, San Jose, Calif. GOLDEN SQUARE RECORD SERVICE 1956 Solana Way, Concord, Calif. • No. 6503 Flip Hoedown RICKS RAMBLE and JERRYS HOE- DOWN by Westemaires Band

3 21-24 Two, Step, FWD, Sweep; Two, 9-12 FWD Waltz; FWD Waltz (W Step, FWD, Sweep; Side, Close Twirl to Closed); FWD Waltz; Cross, -; Side. Close, Side, -; FWD Waltz (W Twirl R); 25-28 FWD, Close, Back Close; FWD, 13-16 Waltz Away; Spin Manuv (to Close, FWD, Swing (W-Roll, 2, 3, Closed); Waltz Turn (R); FWD Swing;) Back, Close, Back, Touch; Waltz (W Twirl R); Apart, Touch, Together, Touch; 17-20 BAL Apart, TCH, -; FWD 29-32 Step, Turn, Step, -; Step, Turn, Waltz (W Wrap); FWD Waltz; Step, -; Twirl, -, 2, -; Walk, -, 2, ; Side, FWD, Close W roll Across); ONE KISS 21-24 Twinkle (LOD); Twinkle by Es and Joe Turner (RLOD); Spot Turn (W Twirl L); Bethesda, Md. Side, Draw, -; Record: Grenn No. 14051. 25-28 BAL Apart, TCH, -; FWD Position: Open-facing, M's R and Waltz (W Wrap); FWD Waltz; W's L hands joined. Side, FD, Close (W Roll Across); Footwork: Opposite. Direction for M. 29-32 Twinkle (LOD); Twinkle Introduction RLOD); Spot Turn (W Twirl L); Meas Side, Draw, - (to Closed); 1-4 Wait; Wait; Bal Apart, Point, -; Together (to Closed ), Tch, -; gr,••■•■■•■■••■■•••■••••■■■■•■•••■■•■■••■■■■•••■■•.••■■••••■ •••• ■••••■••■■••■••■■■•■•■••••• `1 Dance CHANGE OF ADDRESS 1-4 FWD Waltz; FWD Waltz (W Please notify us at least 3 weeks 4 Twirl); FWD, Face, Close; Change before moving. Include old ad- Sides, 2, 3 (to Closed); dress. The Post Office will forward 5-8 BAL BWD, TCH, -; Manuv, 2, magazines only if YOU guarantee Close; Waltz Turn (R); FWD postage. Waltz (W Twirl to Closed);

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BALANCE 112 CHANGES Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by Ed Gilmore An up-dated version of the old fa- vorite dance that Ed made into a stand- ard a few years back. Features the Boom Chuck Boys on the instrument- MIDWEST al. Gilmore fans will be happy with this one.

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BLUE STAR 1661 • DUDES & DOLLS BLUE SIOUX CITY FIVE everything for dancer and caller Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by 7 S. Ritter Ave. Marshall Flippo Indianapolis 19, Ind. FL-7-7377 Another easy dance your club dan- cers will enjoy. The Shannonaires provide a new sound in Blue Star music and Marshall uses it fully. For • ENGLE'S S/D & WESTERN SHOP consistently good releases, you can most complete s/d shop in Midwest count on this caller. 2616 W. 16th Street Indianapolis 22, Ind. ME-7-3098 BLUE STAR 1662 IS IT TRUE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT DIXIE Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by • KELLY'S RANCHWEAR Vaughn Parrish complete square dance attire Music with a horn lead and an ex- 1200 S. Milwaukee Ave. cellent performance by Vaughn com- Wheeling, III. LE-7-2745 bine to provide another Blue Star re- lease. The dance is fairly easy.

3 4 BLUE STAR 1663 HELLO BLUEBIRD Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by Bob Fisk Just about every Blue Star caller is heard from this month. The entire series is useable. This is Bob's best performance as a recording artist. Mu- sic is by The Texans on this one.

BLUE STAR 1664 YOU'RE NOBODY UNTIL SOMEBODY LOVES YOU MIDWEST Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by Sal Fanara • MIDWEST RADIO COMPANY The usual combination of basics. records — Calif oner — Newcomb: Less music on the called side would 3414-16 W. North Avenue have improved this release. Music is Milwaukee 8, Wis. HI-4-4671 good. • SQUARE DANCE & RECORD SHOP GOLDEN SQUARE 6503 clothing and records RICKS RAMBLE/JERRYS HOEDOWN 3317 S. Euclid Ave. Hoedowns Played by The Western- Berwyn, Illinois aires Ricks Ramble is a boogie-type hoe- • SQUARE RECORD and down that features an electric guitar CLOTHING CENTER lead. Excellent boogie material. Jer- records and clothing mailed anywhere rys Hoedown features a horn lead P.O. Box 612 which will be a challenge to most call- ers. Generally in the past horns have Wausau, Wis. not been used too frequently on hoe- downs. • SQUARE DANCE SHOP complete line of western wear 3119 South 4th Street GOLDEN SQUARE 6008 C'EST MAGNIFIQUE Louisville 14, Ky. EM-7-7491 Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by Jerry Firenzi • SQUARE YOUR SETS There are two figures published largest stock in the world with this record. The intermediate to P.O. Box 143 advanced figure, which ferry calls, Niles 48, Illinois features cast off and wheel and deal. An easy figure is included for begin- ner dancers. CANADA • BOUTHILLIER MUSIQUE, INC. GRENN 12054 French and Englirh Canadian Records PORTUGAL 6405 St-Hubert St. Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by Ron Schneider Montreal, Que. Excellent music by the Al Russ Or- chestra. Ron does a nice job calling • GERRY HAWLEY this one. The figure is not too hard square and round dance records and club dancers should enjoy doing 34 Norman Crescent it. Saskatoon, Sask.

35 GRENN 12055 RAGTIME COWBOY JOE Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by Earl Johnston Ragtime music by Al Russ, excellent calling, and a fairly easy dance com- bine to make a record worth having. Feet-tappin', sing-along music that your dancers will enjoy. Singing call- ers can really swing with this one.

MacGREGOR 975 BILL'S POOR BOY Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by Bill Ball EAST A new version of an old favorite. Both music and calling are good. If your old record of Poor Boy needs re- placing, try this one. You can use • DANCE RECORD CENTER Bill's figure or write your own. fastest service — biggest stock 1159 Broad Street Newark 2, N.J. MA-2-0024 MacGREGOR 976 HEART OF MY HEART No. 2 Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by • RECORD CENTER Don Stewart folk-square-educational records Another new recording of an old 2581 Piedmont Road, N. E. favorite. This seems like the month Atlanta 5, Ga. for old favorites. Again both the mu- sic and calling are good.

MacGREGOR 977 WEST PRETTY BABY Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by Fenton "Jonesy" Jones • AQUA RECORD SHOP Jonesy does a nice job with this old largest s/d record stock in NW favorite. This is one of his best re- 1230% Westlake Ave. N. cent performances. The music is rhy- Seattle 9, Wash. AT-4-9966 thmic and will make you want to dance. Well done.

• MAIL ORDER RECORD SERVICE MacGREGOR 978 send 5c stamp for our new catalog II MANY TIMES P.O. Box 7176 Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by Phoenix, Arizona Bob Van Antwerp In only a month, this record has already become a hit. Dancers and • SCHLEUNING'S RECORD SERVICE callers both are praising it as a top- square and round dance records notch release. Choreography features Rt. No. 2, Box 15 substitute basic. The music is excel- Rapids City, S. Dak. 343-2517 lent and Bob does a great job of call- ing.

36 MacGREGOR 979 GREEN RIVER Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by MAC GREGOR Chuck Raley Swing thru with Chuck on the Green River. Club dancers will enjoy NEW ROUND DANCES this one. All of the MacGregor re- leases this month are good. Of course No. 989-A some are better than others, but they are all good to excellent. "LIGHTS OF VIENNA" A beautiful waltz by Doris and Scotty Garrett, Hayward, Calif. SETS IN ORDER 134 APRON STRINGS No. 989-B Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by "SANDY EYES" Johnny Le Clair A two-step by A smooth calling job by Johnny. Mary and Nonie Moglia, An easy dance with a frontier whirl Castro Valley, California and square thru as the hardest basics. MUSIC BY FRANK MESSINA Music is the usual Sets In Order sound AND THE MAVERICKS —easy to call to.

SQUARE L 110 HER FRONT DOOR IS OPEN MacGREGOR RECORDS Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by 729 S. Western Ave. Dusty Randell Los Angeles 5, Calif. Another hit from Square L. Only on the market a few weeks, this rec- ord is already a best-seller. Each month there are three or four excep- tional releases. This is one of them BE "IN" this month. Excellent calling, music, and dance. READ

TOP 25058 AMERICAN SQUARES SWING ME A LITTLE BIT EVERY MONTH Instrumental Square Dance/Calls by Ralph Kinnane Ralph hails from the deep south— AMERICAN SQUARES Birmingham, Ala. As a new record- 6400 N. Leoti Ave., Chicago 46, III. ing caller, he does a fairly good job Please enter my subscription immediately. with this release. One of the main ob- jectives of Top Records is to record Name callers from all sections of the country. This they are doing quite well. Address

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• CALIFORNIA — jean and Tom Cahoe, Sunnymead, Calif. instructors, will teach rumba and samba basics at the 2nd Round Dance Latin Institute in Northern California on June 9, Grove Community Center, Berkeley, Calif. For more info, contact: Myrtle Fuller, 1427 Spruce St., Berkeley, • TRAIL DANCES — More Trail Calif. —Davey Jones Dances for the 12th National Con- vention in St. Paul this month have • MASSACHUSETTS — Beginners been announced. Here are the addi- as well as expert dancers are welcome tional dances at press time. June 18: at the Pinewoods Camp, Plymouth, Omaha, Neb. Municipal Stadium; Mass. for the 21st Annual Weekend of June 17: Denver, Colo. B-Bar-B Hall; English country and American square June 18: Kansas City, Mo. Landing dancing on June 28 - July 1. Staffers Shopping Center; June 18: Mt. Pros- include Rod Linnell, Bob Hider, pect, Ill. Randhurst Shopping Center; Louise Chapin, Art Cornelius, and June 18: Sterling, Ill. Coliseum. Renald Cajolet. Write: Country Dance Society, 3 joy St., Boston, • SOUTH DAKOTA — Dance to Mass. —Louise Winston Don Ferrie, Grand Falls, N. Dak. cal- ler, in the Roosevelt School Gym, • CALIFORNIA — Vacation with Watertown, S. Dak. on June 8. A free Nita and Manning Smith, Shirley and lunch will be served by club mem- Bruce Johnson, and Mary and Lee bers. Contact: Edith Steenberg, 17 Helsel at Flamingo Daze, June 16-21 Third St., S.E., Watertown, S. Dak. at the Flamingo Hotel, Santa Rosa, for details. —Jean Jensen Calif. Fun, learning, and friendship

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38 is yours with a top-notch staff. You and Frank Hamilton on September can obtain more information by writ- 22. Details about this upcoming event ing to: Flamingo Daze, 4509 Thor will be announced later. Recent favo- Way, Sacramento 35, Calif. rite rounds in the area included Man- ning's Mixer, That Happy Feeling, • INDIANA — Caller-instructor and Kiss In the Dark. —Anita Stark Jim Spall graduated a class of five squares of new dancers recently in • COLORADO — Square dancers Anderson, Ind. The group is made up throughout the state will take a "Holi- of Guide Lamp employees and the day in Aspen" on June 28-29 for the lessons were provided by the com- Annual State Festival sponsored by pany. Is there a firm in your city the Colorado State Square Dance As- that may be interested in sponsoring sociation and held this year in Aspen, square dance classes as a part of its Colo. Joe Lewis is the featured caller. employee relations program? For a brochure and more information • NATIONAL — Pioneer square contact: jack Halfacre, 3050 W. Har. dance caller and leader Ed Durlacher, yard Ave., Denver 19, Colo. famous for his Honor Your Partner —Kay and Vince Hayes, Martha and Records, passed away a few weeks ago George Madsen. while at a convention in Long Beach, Calif. Square dancers and callers • NEW YORK — The Do-C-Do throughout the country were saddened Club of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. recent- at the news. —Bart Haigh ly held their annual festival which featured Al Brundage and Marty • WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Winter. The Tarry Squares in Os- Round Dance Teachers Council of sining, N.Y. featured Marty Winter the Greater Washington, D.C. Area and Chip Hendrickson at their spring will sponsor a session with Carolyn festival. —Dick Counihan

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Mi iMP • NATIONAL — MacGregor Rec- BALLROOM DANCE RECORDS • ords announce that Doris and Scotty Strict Tempo 45 RPM. Garrett, 30230 Treeview St., Hayward, Imported from England and West Ger- many and recorded by the big bands Calif. have been appointed consult- of John Warren, Joe Loss, Horst Wende, ants and advisors for all round dance Victor Silvester, Phil Tate, etc. Good releases on the MacGregor label. selection in Waltz, Fox Trot, Cha Cho, General Manager E. H. Lowry asks Tango, Rhumba, Samba, Bossa Nova, Viennese Waltz, Quick Step, Paso Dob- people interested in submitting round le and Swing. Perfect for teaching, so- dances for possible publication to cial dancing or listening. Singles $1.10. mail them directly to Doris and We Pay postage. Send for frac' cata- Scotty Garrett. Their recommenda- log today. tion will greatly influence the re- STRATFORD DANCE RECORDS P. 0. Box 887, Dept .B, lease of new round dances on the West Palm Beach, Florida MacGregor label. MacGregor has been a leader in the square and round dance field for over fifteen years. Many of their releases are standards. attention: • NATIONAL — Hoctor Records, SQUARE JEWELRY Waldwick, N.J. announce that Rita DANCE DIRECT FROM MANUFACTURER and Lee Kenney have been appointed STORES TO YOU ! round dance coordinators for the Hoctor Round Dance series. If you Write 0.n Made by Square Dancers For Square Dancers are interested in writing a round to your letterhead any of the music that is available in for assortment Pins, Bracelets, Pendants, Ear- rings, Bolos, Key Chains, Belt the Hoctor Ballroom series, write to of Returnable Buckles, Car Emblems, Etc. Rita and Lee, 1110 Southport Ave., Samples Lisle, Ill. for complete details. Present FRANK L. WILMARTH CO. plans are to release six new rounds a 6 Curtis St., East Providence 14, R.I. year. Square Dance Dresses • IOWA — Dance with the Ur- Mother and Daughter Dresses bana, Iowa Night Owls at their dance Peasant Dresses, Peasant on June 7 in the School Gym. Var- Blouses and Skirts ious callers will be featured. Square Dance Skirts —Rex Barber Ready to wear and made to order . . Send for brochure and name of local supplier. • NEW YORK—The 10th Annual City-Wide Spring Folk Festival spon- sored by the Boys' Athletic League, Inc., was held April 4, in the Grand ORT Ballroom of the Hotel Astor in New York City. Sally Ray directed the 1460 WASHINGTON AVENUE festival. MIAMI BEACH, FLA. TEL. JE 8-8794 • ARIZONA — There are many ex- THE INTEREST IN QUADRILLES cellent ways to promote square danc- has TRIPLED in the past six months, to ing. Phoenix dancers and caller judge from letters we receive from callers Johnny Schultz were featured on the and teachers. front page of the Phoenix Sun re- WE KNOW QUITE A LOT cently. The same photo, which in- about quadrilles — plain, fancy and waltz, cluded members of the Belles and We have some wonderful records and we are making a list of other records, too. Write Beaux Club, Johnny, and Tee Green's to us. Orchestra appeared later on the front cover of Arizona Guide, a monthly LLOYD SHAW RECORDINGS, INC. publication which has a calendar of P.O. Box 203, Colorado Springs, Colorado events and various maps of interest to tourists.

.4: • GEORGIA — Salt water hoe- downers will congregate for the 4th wv 77 Annual Aqua Duck Festival at Savan- ON THE LABEL nah Beach, Ga., June 29. Dance to Al G0 "Tex" Brownlee at Memorial Park. NEW RELEASES: Program and information: Tybee No. 111 "One Time Too Often" Twirlers Club, P.O. Box 11, Savannah Mack McCoslin Beach, Ga. —Shirley Knauz No. 112 "Polly Wolly Doodle" Wes Dyer • WASHINGTON — The Annual Two More Old Favorites: State Festival of the Square and Folk No. 104 "Chewing Gum"—Allis Morvent No. 105 "Liza Jane"—Allie Morvent Dance Federation of Washington will Record distributors order through Edwards be June 14-16 at the Eisenhower High Record Service, P.O. Box 194, Park Ridge, School, Yakima, Wash. A highlight Illinois. of the Festival will be the presenta- tion of the Almon F. Parker Inspira- tional Award Cup to the person or VELCO couple who has made an outstanding MEANS SAFETY contribution to square dancing during NO DUST — NO PARRAF IN the past year in his area. For reserva- NO ABRASI tions, write: Bob Laird, 219 N. 29th 16 OZ. CAN SlO•DOWN Or Ave., Yakima, Wash. 11 OZ. CAN SPEEDUP Postpaid 1.75 (USA only) 1.50 (Calif. only)

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