Three Ladies Chain - Rickey Holden
Instead of the women chaining over and back within their own square, in this variation of Three Ladies Chain, caller Rickey Holden has the women leaving their square and chaining all the way over the hall and back again.
The basic dance figure can be found in disparate traditional settings, ranging from a singing square set to Red River Valley or to Tavern in the Town, or, on the other hand, recorded live on an album of "Real Western Squares" at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs in 1949. See the Related Items for examples.
The recording used is Black Mountain Rag, by Sleepy Marlin, on the Folkraft label, with which Rickey was associated for decades. Callers wishing to download a copy of that instrumental can find a clean copy at Don Ward's Podbean site:
Subjects: Transitional/Western 1940s, Northern / Prompt & Patter
Tags: Rickey Holden, Three Ladies Chain
Item Relations
| This Item | is related to | Item: Chain 2 Ladies, Chain 3 Ladies (walkthrough) - Bill Litchman, Traditional Western Square Dances 2a |
| This Item | is related to | Item: Chain 2 Ladies, Chain 3 Ladies - Bill Litchman - Traditional Western Square Dances 2b |
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Instead of the women chaining over and back within their own square, in this variation of Three Ladies Chain, caller Rickey Holden has the women leaving their square and chaining all the way over the hall and back again.
The basic dance figure can be found in disparate traditional settings, ranging from a singing square set to Red River Valley or to Tavern in the Town, or, on the other hand, recorded live on an album of "Real Western Squares" at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs in 1949. See the Related Items for examples.
The recording used is Black Mountain Rag, by Sleepy Marlin, on the Folkraft label, with which Rickey was associated for decades. Callers wishing to download a copy of that instrumental can find a clean copy at Don Ward's Podbean site: