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Tunnel Through - Handley's Oldtimers
A photograph of the band from the late 1940s is available here.This is an excerpt from the full audio file, available here.Piano - Melody Handley Accordion - Roger Handley Banjo - Lloyd Handley Bass… View itemWebsite
Square Dance collection at University of Denver
The archives at the University of Denver (DU) hold a vast collection of square dance material. DU is the repository for two vast archives, those of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation and the personal… View itemDocument
Square Dance Timing for Callers: Philosophy
New England caller Dick Leger, "the man with the guitar," believed strongly in fitting calls to the musical phrase. In this, he was sometimes an outlier in the modern square dance community… View itemStill Image
Buffalo Boy Go Round the Outside
Lawrence Loy is the caller, working with Carson Robison and his Old Timers. (Click on the Additional Files link to hear the audio clip.) You can also download the cover or the instructions from inside… View itemMoving Image
Mr. Pastry Dances the Lancers
Richard Hearne (aka "Mr. Pastry") was an English vaudeville performer and a regular performer in children's shows on the BBC starting in the 1950s.Here he mimes being part of a set dancing the… View itemPerson
Herbie Gaudreau
Massachusetts caller and choreographer Herbie Gaudreau is perhaps better known in today's contra dance world than in the modern square dance world. Gaudreau created a contra dance that he named the… View itemSound
Take a Little Peek
Bob Dalsemer is the caller, with music provided by the McLain Family Band, recorded live at the 1986 Christmas Country Dance School, Berea, Kentucky. After the first couple dances the figure with… View itemDocument
Meet the Docey-Doe Family - 1949
Square dancers in the late 1940s and 1950s encountered a variety of similar-sounding terms meaning very different figures. The do-si-do / docey-doe / dos-a-dos / do-paso confusion produced several… View itemDocument
Old Time Dance Calls (1919)
It's interesting that two of the early manuals describing square dancing-- not formal quadrilles-- come from Iowa, this one and the 1925 booklet by Dunlavy and Boyd (see Related Item).We'll let Tony… View itemStill Image
Bill Castner - Fiesta de la Cuadrilla
Flyer from the Fiesta de la Cuadrilla featuring California caller Bill Castner View itemSound
Patter Call at Hoedown Hall - Bill Castner
This is a short clip of Bill Castner, a caller from California, calling at the Fiesta de la Cuadrilla at Hoedown Hall, September 29 & 30, 1961 View itemSound
Basin Street Blues - Bill Castner
This is a short clip of Bill Castner, a caller from California, calling at the Fiesta de la Cuadrilla at Hoedown Hall, Mantua, New Jersey, September 29 & 30, 1961.Castner was inducted in the… View item
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