Buddy Weaver Podcast

The Sets In Order American Square Dance Society under the direction of Bob Osgood, established two lists of calls that made up Modern Square Dancing; 50 Basics and 75 Extended Basics.  This album used the brand new Mainstream list as created by CALLERLAB.  By contrast to the 75 Extended Basics for club dancers, the Mainstream list had many more calls and was for the dance enthusiast.

MC is Sets In Order owner/publisher - Bob Osgood

Featured callers are:

Jack Lasry

Shelby Dawson

Harold Bausch

Martin Mallard

Chris Vear

Ed Fraidenberg

Vaughn Parrish

Warren Rowles

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The Sets In Order American Square Dance Society under the direction of Bob Osgood, established two lists of calls that made up Modern Square Dancing; 50 Basics and 75 Extended Basics.  SIOASD released albums for their subscribers which featured prominent callers from around the world to support use of the SIOASD lists.  This album used the 75 Extended Basics for the regular club square dancer.

MC is Sets In Order owner/publisher - Bob Osgood

Featured callers are:

Bruce Johnson

Harry Lackey

Jim Mayo

Bob Dawson

Bill Peters

Masaru Wada

Ernie Kinney

Ken Anderson

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The Sets In Order American Square Dance Society under the direction of Bob Osgood, established two lists of calls that made up Modern Square Dancing; 50 Basics and 75 Extended Basics.  SIOASD released albums for their subscribers which featured prominent callers from around the world to support use of the SIOASD lists.  This album used the 50 Basics which was designed for the occasional square dancer.

MC is Sets In Order owner/publisher - Bob Osgood

Featured callers are:

Bob Van Antwerp

Bob Wickers

Orphie Eason

Elmer Sheffield

Dick Leger

Tex Brownlee

Curley Custer

Tommy Cavanaugh

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Lee Helsel one of the more recognized names on the travel calling circuit in the 1950s and 1960s.  He maintained a strong home program in Sacramento, California, held down a full-time job for the State of California and flew out almost every weekend for festivals and conventions.  He kept this pace until his retirement in 1980.

This album released in January 1957, was his first for the Sets In Order label and is presented with permission of the Bob Osgood family.

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Al started calling in West Texas in 1948 and by 1957 became a full-time caller covering most of the region.  In 1968 he became recreation director for Fontana Dam Resort in North Carolina, spending summer months there as resident caller while returning to Texas in the Fall.  He recorded for Blue Star Records from 1962 to 1982.  This episode features Blue Star 1008, released in December 1963, a long-play album of Al "Tex" Brownlee

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Buddy Weaver, host of this podcast is presented in this episode calling six singing calls that are brand new from the Blue Star and Hi Hat labels.  All of the dance movements come from the SSD (Social Square Dance) program - the new Mainstream.  Great for listening or when you don't have a caller for your party or demo.

Learn more about Buddy Weaver at: https://buddyweaver.com/

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Here is part two of the live dance called by Frank Lane in Petaluma, California - 1979.

Part one was released on August 10, 2025 - go back and listen then we'll pick it up from there.

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Frank Lane was one of the most important callers in modern square dancing.  A sought-after traveling caller with many recordings on various record labels.  Frank Lane was considered the first to explore what is today called "dancing by definition".

His annual calling tours covered some 60,000 miles every year and included engagements in the San Francisco area, usually following the Asilomar Weekend in California.  Here is a live dance called in Petaluma in 1979.  This would have been Plus in the late seventies.

Part of the George Knox collection of tapes.

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Melton Luttrell began calling in 1950 and over the past seventy-five years has left a last legacy in the square dance activity.  In his home area of Ft. Worth, Texas, Melton has taught thousands of people to dance, mentored dozens of callers, and was instrumental in the construction of Swingtime Dance Center - the premier square dance hall in the U.S.  He producer Square L Records for many years and was a founding father of CALLERLAB.  He is the recipient of the Milestone Award, Gold Card, and Lifetime Achievement Award.  At 97, Melton still gets up to call at his beloved Swingtime Center.

This album was released in 1963 on Square L Records.

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Contra dance and Modern Western Square Dance have co-existed for many decades along separate paths.  This episode is another episode featuring the intersection of Contra and MWSD.  Released as part of a package put together by the Southern California Contra Callers Association - here are the audio tracks.

The caller, Mike Seastrom, is one of the most popular callers in the activity with a long list of accomplishments.  Learn more about Mike by clicking here.

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