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Push Pa, Shove Ma (clip) - Caroline Oakley
Caroline Oakley, Portland, Oregon, learned to call from her mentor, Bill Martin. Here she is as a beginning caller in a piece by Oregon Public Broadcasting. In this audio clip, she's leading the… View itemDocument
Push Your Pa and Shove Your Ma
PUSH YOUR PA AND SHOVE YOUR MA P.53From Wes McVicar’s 75 More Square DancesMusic: Doc Boyd's jigThird changeINTRODUCTIONThe first couple balance The first couple swing.FIGUREGo down the center split… View itemSound
Pussy Cat -Red Bates - 1973
The 1973 singing call, Pussy Cat, Windsor Records #4173, was recorded by Bruce Johnson; it is one that became a Red Bates trademark. The figure was difficult in a unique way. The challenge was the… View itemSound
Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet (clip) - Charley Thomas
Charley Thomas was a vendor of records and books for squares and contra dances. He founded American Squares magazine after World War II, and edited it until it was purchased by Frank Kaltman and… View itemSound
Puttin' on the Style (clip) - Al Brundage
This is an excerpt (opener and first figure) from Al Brundage's recording of the dance on the Windsor label. View itemMoving Image
Quadrille - 3 changes
Tony Parkes calls the figures at the Christmas Cotillion, Scout House, Concord, MA, December 21, 1985. Music provided by Yankee Ingenuity. View itemStill Image
Quadrille - J. Scott Skinner, 1905
The People’s Ball Room Guide, published by musician James Scott Skinner in 1905, is a description of 19th century ballroom dances.A website devoted to Skinner's work includes a series of videos… View itemMoving Image
Quadrille - late 19th century
From a series of dances videotaped for the Library of Congress, illustrating different styles throughout several centuries of American dance. View itemMoving Image
Quadrille (2 figures)
This is part of a lengthy presentation of historical dances by "Veronica's Vagabonds," Veronica McClure, director; recorded May 19, 1985, at Kramer's Hayloft, South Weymouth,… View itemMoving Image
Quadrille (Länger, 1824, №1)
The first figure of a quadrille from 1824; the source document is Christian Länger's book, Terpsichore, Ein Taschenbuch der Neuesten Gesellschaftlichen Tänze, and can be read, in German,… View itemSound
Quadrille #1 - Gene Gowing
Gene Gowing, here accompanied on piano by Willa Semple, prompts a quadrille to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw." Gowing was an associate of Ralph Page for many years, a co-producer of their… View item
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