Broadcast: 26th August 1936

Starring: Various

Added: Aug 26 2004

“America has always been a dancing nation from the days when the old fiddle and the concertina played for the rollicking barn dance to the present day with its hundreds of dance orchestras beating out their rhythms on roof gardens high up to the clouds. Dance rhythms of today give us a smooth pattern of restful tones or a brilliant flash of rhythmic design. Phonographs and radios made the varying styles of different dance orchestra familiar to Americans from coast to coast. How did it all happen? Let us turn the calendar back to the 1880’s and look in on an old fashioned square dance…”