12 Jun
2017
12 Jun
'17
3:19 p.m.
Tom -
My Pretty Girl, known here as My Little Girl never lost its popularity. Both Ted Glabach
(VT) and Ralph Page have notedit's popularity in print since it became a dance in the
'40s.
The break danced at Heath (MA) and elsewhere in southern New England does not let the
dancers stop or swing at home but calls for the next active couple to immediately begin
the promenade. It goes like this:
Dosado your corner girl Dosado go round your own (two dosys called within a single phrase
and danced in a single circle around two bodies;not a figure eight.)
Go back and Swing you corner lady round (and round and round)
Go home and Swing your darlin' - she's the cutest girl in town
Allemande Left with the ole left hand - partner right with a Right and Left Grand - go all
the way aroundAll the way go round, you are homeward bound - to the sweetest girt....2nd
couple you take a walk..(1st phrase again) around the outside.
More comments; I might call over the phrase on the active couple promenading keeping
comfortable the dancers who have no desire to rush
to finish in eight bars Chains then are just prompted and flow one into another.
Dance and figure used at ONS and senior events where you might have 5-6 couples in
formation. Each one or two couples promenades and thenchooses whom they would chain
with. It was never danced at public dances as fast as Ed Gilmore recorded it. Maybe at
clubs!
Bob Livingston
From: "Tom Hinds twhinds(a)earthlink.net [trad-dance-callers]"
<trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com>
To: trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [trad-dance-callers] Singing Squares
I've been doing My Pretty Girl as done on the Ed Gilmore record with an easier
middle break.
T
On Jun 11, 2017, at 10:12 PM, Rich Sbardella richsbardella(a)gmail.com [trad-dance-callers]
wrote:
Hello folks,
I am curious what singing calls, if any, are being called nowadays. I am hoping to build
a traditional"singing square dance locally, and hope to use tunes that bands might
have heard or been exposed to.
I am familiar with the ones on Ralph Sweet's CD and Bob Dalsemer's two
collections.
Thanks,Rich SbardellaStafford, CT
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