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    • Singing Squares

    		 January 14th, 2012
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    There's a saxophone and a drummer with a full kit, and the caller is singing the calls. Some new contra syncretism? Or just a typical night in 1955?

    The singing square, "Just Because," from live recordings over the years:

    1952 Frank Fortune (studio)
    1955 Frank Fortune
    1973 Glenn Pease
    2008 David Millstone (youtube)
    2011 Tod Whittemore (youtube)
    2011 Walter Lenk
    (If you compare a dance program from 1955 or 1965 to one now, the biggest thing you notice is half the dances were singing squares, and the ones that weren't were mostly couple dances.)

    Update 2012-01-22: I later transcribed the 'Just Because' recordings.

    Update 2012-02-29: I tried my hand calling this yesterday and wrote about it after.

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