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"H I REK RETU1iNS
GUDJ&EGN V/0
9 June 74
500' 1ATUBAL SOFDANu 11;!7 D sCIiNG Ii ONL OE 1A , ' OLDEST SOCIAL I\ TI T
MANY
AND THRU T E CENTURIES IT HAS UNDERGONE DRAMATIC
CHANGES.... FROM THE WALTZ TO THE FROG DANCING NOW Az I EA
TO BE TAKING A GIANT STEP BACKWARDS.... JOHN G. REPORTS.
GUDJOHNSEN V/0.... (TAKE 10 S COIDS CF MUSIC UP)...THY CALL IT THE BIG
BAND SOUND....IT*S HEYDAY CAME AND WENT DURING THE
THE THIRTIES AND FORTY*S WHEN NAMES SUCH AS HARRY JAMES
BENNY GOODMAN, AND GLENN MILLER TOURED THE NATIONS ]IH
THOUSANDS OF BALLROOMS. BUT THIS IS THE SOARING X
SEVENTIES NOW, AND X THE BIG BAND SOUND IS
MAKING IT*S COMEBACK.
EzX XXECIT*S NOT SO MUCH THE MUSIC I1
ITSELF THAT IS FE +HG A RESURGENCE OF POPULARITY, IT*S
WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO XX THE MUSIC. ,..THAT OF COURSE IS
DANCE. DANCING HAS NEVER REALLY DIED OUT BUT WITH THE
EMERGENCE OF ROCK MUSIC DURING THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES,
THE MUSIC SEEMED TO BE FOCUS OF ATTENTION AND DANCERS
BECAME lIORE AND MORE SPECTATORS. COUPLES NOW APPARENT
WEARY OF TWO DECADES OF DANCING AT ARMS LENGTH NOW SEEM
MORE THAN READY TO RETURN TO""THE CHEEK TO CHEEK VARIETY. THE
WINTER GARDEN BALL ROOM IN DALLAS IS JUST ONE OF MANY
DANCE PALACES THAT IS BEGINNING TO FEEL THE ECONOMIC
IMPACT OF THE RENEWED POPULARITY OF THE FOX TROT, TANGO
THE WALTZ...ACCORDING TO OWNER JOHN WILSON THE MASSIVE
DANCE MUM HALL IN EAST DALLAS PACKS IN MORE THAN
A 1-THOUSAND PEOPLE EVERY SRIDAY AND SATURDAY NITE.
THE DANCE INSTRUCTION BUSINESS POPULARIZED BY SUCH
NAMES AS ARTHUR MURRAY, NOW HAS GROWN TO MORE THAN 100-
MILLION DOLLAR A YEAR BUSINESS..... ABOUT A THIRD
OF THE NEW BUSINESS IS COMING TXE, X X E1TERETX
MK1 FROM THOSE UNDER THIRTY. BANDS THAT STILL CARRY TH
NAMES OWO JAREAT BANDS OF THE fiA0 1 THK ARE
IN OUO DEMAND...BUT THE LOCAL SMALLER BANDS ARE ALSO
GETTING THEIR SHARE OF THE AC eRRIT IOLOGISTS WILL
UNDOUBTEDLY ATTACH SOME SORT OF MEANING TO THIS RNEWED
INTEREST IN BALLROOM DANCING...RTXUEXXXITXEMKXXThE
BUT IT*S REALLY RATHER SIMPLE...WHE-E ELSE CAN A MAN
AND WOMAN EMBRACE EACH OTHER IN PUBLIC ',ITHOUT BEING
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Wintergarden], script, June 9, 1974, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1971059/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.