Abe Kanegson - live recordings, 1953 and 1955
These are four audio files from live recordings made in Dover, New Hampshire, in the 1950s. They feature caller Abe Kanegson.
Notes (by Jim Mayo) on the choreography of the audio files:#1: In the first clip here, recorded October, 1953, he has a routine with couple #1 to the right and circle 1½ then R&L Thru to home. That repeats to the couple on the left then for each of the other couples. That is followed by the same routine for Heads and then for Sides. That seems to me to be an early extension of the visiting couple routine to the same routine done for two couples at the same time which would have been a step toward what would become MWSD.
#2: Later in the program, on that same tape, he does the only singing call on this tape to Jingle Bells. The routine is also unusual, I believe, for that time with lines of three swinging the opposite and then circling six.
#3: These next two clips are from 1955. In the first tip he does an interesting routine with lines of 3 doing a pass thru, U-turn and pass thru again.
#4: Les Fraises et les Framboises (Strawberries and Raspberries). This is set to a traditional French-Canadian tune; listen to a clip by La famille Soucy here. During the walkthrough, he explains that he wrote the figure. This figure, also, has both head couples active together which, I believe, was not common at that time.
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These are four audio files from live recordings made in Dover, New Hampshire, in the 1950s. They feature caller Abe Kanegson.
Notes (by Jim Mayo) on the choreography of the audio files:#1: In the first clip here, recorded October, 1953, he has a routine with couple #1 to the right and circle 1½ then R&L Thru to home. That repeats to the couple on the left then for each of the other couples. That is followed by the same routine for Heads and then for Sides. That seems to me to be an early extension of the visiting couple routine to the same routine done for two couples at the same time which would have been a step toward what would become MWSD.
#2: Later in the program, on that same tape, he does the only singing call on this tape to Jingle Bells. The routine is also unusual, I believe, for that time with lines of three swinging the opposite and then circling six.
#3: These next two clips are from 1955. In the first tip he does an interesting routine with lines of 3 doing a pass thru, U-turn and pass thru again.
#4: Les Fraises et les Framboises (Strawberries and Raspberries). This is set to a traditional French-Canadian tune; listen to a clip by La famille Soucy here. During the walkthrough, he explains that he wrote the figure. This figure, also, has both head couples active together which, I believe, was not common at that time.