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Square dance callers - photos
A series of square dance magazine covers featuring these modern square dance callers:
Baldwin, Charlie
Brower, Jim
Brundage, Al
Burdick, Stan
Calhoun, Louis
Castner, Bill
Davis, Johnny
Gaudreau, Herbie
Gilmore, Ed
Haag, Jerry
Helt,…
Baldwin, Charlie
Brower, Jim
Brundage, Al
Burdick, Stan
Calhoun, Louis
Castner, Bill
Davis, Johnny
Gaudreau, Herbie
Gilmore, Ed
Haag, Jerry
Helt,…
Al Brundage - Blue Eyes (clip)
This is an excerpt from Al Brundage's recording on the Windsor label. You'll hear the second time through the figure and then the middle break.
Al Brundage - Puttin' on the Style (clip)
This is an excerpt (opener and first figure) from Al Brundage's recording of the dance on the Windsor label.
Doc Alumbaugh speaking to Al Brundage, 1957
Doc Alumbaugh, based in southern California, was one of the first traveling callers. In 1950, he founded Windsor Records, which became one of the foremost square dance record labels. (In addition to hiring excellent session musicians, Windsor…
Docey-doe / Do Paso agreement
Docey-doe / Do Paso / Do-si-do / Dos a Dosexcerpt from Step by Step Through Modern Square Dance History by Jim Mayo... Others were more receptive to change. Another action that spread, probably from the Shaw schools, was the Wagon Wheel. It was a…
SDFNE 1960's Era Recordings
Jim Mayo undertook a project to use the Square Dance Foundation of New England's audio archives and locate representative samples of square dance calling from the time period when Modern Western square dancing was taking off, but before the call…