My Little Girl - Tony Parkes
Tony Parkes calls the final square at the Dare To Be Square weekend held November 18-20, 2011, at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC. Musicians are Steve Hickman and Jim Morrison, fiddles; Claudio Buchwald, piano; Sam Bartlett, banjo.
This square was one of Ed Durlacher's signature dances in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and it is possible that he wrote it, although he never took credit for it. Tony learned it in the 1960s from the calling of Jon Lurie, Dick Kraus, and Ralph Page. The humorous patter toward the end of the first couple's turn is from Page; the patter in subsequent turns is by Tony.
A more recent (2024) video recording of Tony Parkes calling this dance is here.
Recorded 20 November 2011 by John-Michael Seng-Wheeler
Subjects: Northern / Singing
Tags: Claudio Buchwald, Dick Kraus, Ed Durlacher, Jim Morrison, Jon Lurie, My Little Girl, Ralph Page, Sam Bartlett, singing square, Steve Hickman, Tony Parkes
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This square was one of Ed Durlacher's signature dances in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and it is possible that he wrote it, although he never took credit for it. Tony learned it in the 1960s from the calling of Jon Lurie, Dick Kraus, and Ralph Page. The humorous patter toward the end of the first couple's turn is from Page; the patter in subsequent turns is by Tony.
A more recent (2024) video recording of Tony Parkes calling this dance is here.
Recorded 20 November 2011 by John-Michael Seng-Wheeler