[Squaredancing] squaredance oldies

Stig MALMO stigmalmo at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 09:44:06 EST 2005


By the way - Marshall is also a favorite of mine - his timing is just
perfect and he calls SOO cmooth. I love that guy.
Stig


2005/12/7, Stig MALMO <stigmalmo at gmail.com>:
>
> Yes Dave-
>
> I agree - re-releases are good but many times they don´t match the chrm of
> the old 78 recordings which is why I started on this project of transferring
> these oldies onto cd´s.
> You can if you want get copies for yourself by writing me.
> Stig
>
>
> 2005/12/7, dave <dave at daveswebplace.net>:
> >
> >  Listening to the old recordings was great.  I started dancing in 1963,
> > and have a couple recordings from that time period, both 45s and at least
> > one 78.
> >
> > About 10-12 years ago one of our area callers brought his father's
> > records to a dance.  His father had been the club caller before him.  He
> > warned us ahead of time that we needed to do real back to back dosados, and
> > he was right.  A lot of the timing didn't fit if we did a swing (unless we
> > knew that dosado ended up facing, not side-by-side).
> >
> > This past weekend I had the pleasure of dancing to Marshall Flippo, at
> > the Natural Bridge Holiday Dance-A-Rama.  He has been calling for 55 years.
> > During the weekend he used a few of his old tunes, but they were
> > re-releases, not the original 78s.
> >
> > Dave Hinde
> >
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *From:* Squaredancing-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:Squaredancing-bounces at rbnsn.com]
> > *On Behalf Of *Stig MALMO
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:39 AM
> > *To:* squaredancing at rbnsn.com
> > *Subject:* [Squaredancing] squaredance oldies
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > If you like me enjoy the older music and dances from the 1940´s and 50´s
> > you might want to check out my webpage that I just opened.
> > It´s called www.squaredanceoldies.com  and I have out of extensive
> > collection been recording the old 78´s from the period 1940´s - 50´s onto
> > cd´s after cleaning them up the best I could from surface noise and pops and
> > cracks. I have recorded many of the Cd´s with the caller in mind that
> > doesn´t have access to live music- one version with calls plus the same in
> > an instrumental version.
> > I hope some of you will enjoy this site.
> >
> > Stig
> >
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