Wreck of the Old '97 - Jim Munyon
Creator: Jim Munyon
Jim Munyon was a popular caller in southern California in the early 1950s. Indeed, he was one of the callers at the famous (and enormous) 1950 square dance in Santa Monica with Lloyd Shaw as the MC. (There, he called another singing square, The Old Pine Tree.)
This recording, complete with train chugging and whistles, has very much the sound of western swing music popularized by bands such as Bill Boyd and his Cowboy Ramblers or Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
Munyon is also listed as calling the same dance with Henry and His Cornpoppers as the band. We've been unable to date the recording, but it's probably early to mid-1950s.
Subjects: Transitional/Western 1950s
Tags: Jim Munyon, singing square
Tags: Jim Munyon, singing square
Item Relations
| This Item | is related to | Item: Saturday Night Square Dance - Jim Boyd, 1949 |
| Item: Jim Munyon | is related to | This Item |
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Jim Munyon, “Wreck of the Old '97 - Jim Munyon,” Square Dance History Project, accessed March 29, 2025, https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1902.
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Wreck of the Old '97 - Jim Munyon
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Jim Munyon was a popular caller in southern California in the early 1950s. Indeed, he was one of the callers at the famous (and enormous) 1950 square dance in Santa Monica with Lloyd Shaw as the MC. (There, he called another singing square, The Old Pine Tree.)
This recording, complete with train chugging and whistles, has very much the sound of western swing music popularized by bands such as Bill Boyd and his Cowboy Ramblers or Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
Munyon is also listed as calling the same dance with Henry and His Cornpoppers as the band. We've been unable to date the recording, but it's probably early to mid-1950s.
This recording, complete with train chugging and whistles, has very much the sound of western swing music popularized by bands such as Bill Boyd and his Cowboy Ramblers or Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
Munyon is also listed as calling the same dance with Henry and His Cornpoppers as the band. We've been unable to date the recording, but it's probably early to mid-1950s.