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Sometime in 1955, Jack O'Connor (then a teenager) brought a 'Voice of Music' reel to reel tape recorder to one of Frank's dances at his barn. He set it up in front of the stage, and recorded a good part of the evening (about 120 minutes). As Jack remembers it, the mic (a ceramic mic that came with the tape recorder) was originally set up on the stage floor, but after Frank's first set of squares he moved it up to Frank's mic stand to better pick up his voice.
The format of the evening was typically 3 round dances (i.e. waltz, foxtrot, polka, schottische, etc), followed by a set of 3 squares (mostly singing), followed by 3 round dances, followed by 3 squares, etc. The dances are presented in the order that they appear on the tape. |
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Transferred from cassette tape and edited October 2006 by Walter Lenk Round dance tune titles supplied by Janice Boynton et al More tunes identified 10/2008 by Adam R. Boyce of Williamstown, VT If you can identify any of the 'Unknown' items, please let us know. |