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bjarvisLast night was lots of fun, but a square dancing disaster in the mesmerizing style of a slow moving train wreck.
It felt like not a single person (except for newbies Gordy & Deb) was awake. I've never seen so many people find novel new ways of mangling "acey-deucey." Hell, "circle left" was a challenge. Still, everyone seemed to be in a happy, giggly mood. We did several tips of Plus, two of class-level MS and I did one of A2 (which I think was the most successful tip of the night).
I was personally gratified to receive several comments about my selections of non-traditional music, esp. an instrumental version of "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" used for the A2 tip. I've been searching for up-tempo music not in the old bluegrass/country hoedown style and it looks like some choices are paying off. My quest for more singing calls continues though, as I have no more than a dozen I really like so far. I figure I need at least 25-30 in my repertoire to avoid repetition and provide variety of style & mood.
The latest eBay acquisition of 25 records arrived yesterday afternoon and I was able to scan through the lot in about an hour. If a recording isn't going to work for me, I can usually tell in the first 64 beats or so; the ones with promise are allowed to run their full length before I skip to the next. In all, there were two potential records out of this stack, although I can't recall which ones they were at the moment. We'll see if I still feel the same way after reviewing them again in a couple of days.
It felt like not a single person (except for newbies Gordy & Deb) was awake. I've never seen so many people find novel new ways of mangling "acey-deucey." Hell, "circle left" was a challenge. Still, everyone seemed to be in a happy, giggly mood. We did several tips of Plus, two of class-level MS and I did one of A2 (which I think was the most successful tip of the night).
I was personally gratified to receive several comments about my selections of non-traditional music, esp. an instrumental version of "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" used for the A2 tip. I've been searching for up-tempo music not in the old bluegrass/country hoedown style and it looks like some choices are paying off. My quest for more singing calls continues though, as I have no more than a dozen I really like so far. I figure I need at least 25-30 in my repertoire to avoid repetition and provide variety of style & mood.
The latest eBay acquisition of 25 records arrived yesterday afternoon and I was able to scan through the lot in about an hour. If a recording isn't going to work for me, I can usually tell in the first 64 beats or so; the ones with promise are allowed to run their full length before I skip to the next. In all, there were two potential records out of this stack, although I can't recall which ones they were at the moment. We'll see if I still feel the same way after reviewing them again in a couple of days.
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Date: 2005-10-19 05:00 pm (UTC)are you looking for ones you make up yourself or some of the more traditional ones from, say the '30's and '40's? I grew up on the traditional square singing calls like "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and "Just Because" (the two I can think of off the top of my head).
Just for fun I should make a copy for you of a book my father found for me years ago of bawdy square dance calls collected in the Ozarks. Some of them are more racist than bawdy, but it might be fun just to have in the collection. Let me know.
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Date: 2005-10-19 07:55 pm (UTC)I've had days like that.
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Date: 2005-10-20 04:46 am (UTC)I thought you were supposed to "Load the Boat", not rock it :)
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