Square Dance - live recordings
In cooperation with the Square Dance Foundation of New England, SDHP has created a page on the Internet Archive with live recordings of some 300 evenings of modern square dancing. Although most files are from actual dances, there are also a few recordings from callers' clinics or workshops. Many of the tapes have a short introduction by Jim Mayo, explaining the background or source of the particular recording.
The reel-to-reel tapes were part of the collection of the Square Dance Foundation of New England and were digitized into mp3 format to save on bandwidth. Most of the files come from the 1950s through the 1980s. The collection includes well-known New England callers as well as many others from elsewhere in the U.S., comprising a strong collection of the traveling callers from the first 50 years of MWSD.
Gardner Patton has been developing an index to the recordings. There is an overview index by name of caller, but each item on that list can be expanded to a listing of individual dances. As of November 2020, 43 of the tapes are indexed, and anyone interested in assisting with this project could get in touch with Gardner.
Among the callers represented are:
Don Armstrong
Pancho Baird
Charlie Baldwin
Red Bates
Al Brundage
Joe Casey
Bill Castner
Decko Deck
Marshall Flippo
Herbie Gaudreau
Ed Gilmore
Cal Golden
Les Gotcher
Frannie Heintz
Lee Helsel
Chip Hendrickson
John Hendron
Bruce Johnson
Earl Johnston
Lee Kopman
Arnie Kronenberger
Frank Lane
Jack Lasry
Dick Leger
Joe Lewis
Jim Mayo
Butch Nelson
Ralph Page
Bob Ruff
Marvin Shilling
Ray Smith
Deuce Williams
Jim York
Subjects: Modern square dance - general
Tags: Al Brundage, Arnie Kronenberger, Bill Castner, Bob Ruff, Bruce Johnson, Butch Nelson, Cal Golden, Charlie Baldwin, Chip Hendrickson, Decko Deck, Deuce Williams, Dick Leger, Don Armstrong, Earl Johnston, Ed Gilmore, Frank Lane, Frannie Heintz, Herbie Gaudreau, Jack Lasry, Jim Mayo, Jim York, Joe Casey, Joe Lewis, John Hendron, Lee Helsel, Lee Kopman, Les Gotcher, live recording, Marshall Flippo, Marvin Shilling, Pancho Baird, Ralph Page, Ray Smith, Red Bates
Citation
Dublin Core
Title
Subject
Description
The reel-to-reel tapes were part of the collection of the Square Dance Foundation of New England and were digitized into mp3 format to save on bandwidth. Most of the files come from the 1950s through the 1980s. The collection includes well-known New England callers as well as many others from elsewhere in the U.S., comprising a strong collection of the traveling callers from the first 50 years of MWSD.
Gardner Patton has been developing an index to the recordings. There is an overview index by name of caller, but each item on that list can be expanded to a listing of individual dances. As of November 2020, 43 of the tapes are indexed, and anyone interested in assisting with this project could get in touch with Gardner.
Among the callers represented are:
Don Armstrong
Pancho Baird
Charlie Baldwin
Red Bates
Al Brundage
Joe Casey
Bill Castner
Decko Deck
Marshall Flippo
Herbie Gaudreau
Ed Gilmore
Cal Golden
Les Gotcher
Frannie Heintz
Lee Helsel
Chip Hendrickson
John Hendron
Bruce Johnson
Earl Johnston
Lee Kopman
Arnie Kronenberger
Frank Lane
Jack Lasry
Dick Leger
Joe Lewis
Jim Mayo
Butch Nelson
Ralph Page
Bob Ruff
Marvin Shilling
Ray Smith
Deuce Williams
Jim York