Come and Trip It
Liner Notes   Cat. No. 80293     Release Date: 1994-01-01

Instrumental Dance Music 1780s to 1920s

The Federal Music Society; Dick Hyman and His Dance Orchestra; Gerard Schwarz and His Dance Orchestra

This recording demonstrates some of the major developments in American social dancing and its music from after the Revolution up to the beginning of electrical recording in the mid-1920s. Dances such as the waltz, polka, tango, quadrille, charleston, cakewalk and turkey-trot are still familiar today, their names holding a permanent place in popular culture. The music they were danced to, however, is often forgotten.

This collection of hits, fads and phenomenons from the history of social dancing makes clear the evolution of popular dances and the reason they were popular. The lively performances capture an old-time feel with modern-recording clarity. The 36-page booklet includes extensive liner notes revealing the history behind each dance, where it came from and how it differed from region to region. Their stories, as they crossed back and forth between the continents and up through the classes, show the history of the United States from an intriguing angle. Come and Trip It is a delightful romp through the history of the exquisite social dance.

Gerard Schwarz's Dance Orchestra

Come and Trip It

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Track Listing

Prima Donna Waltz
G. Juillen
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Jenny Lind Polka
Allen Dodworth
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Minuet and Gavotte
Alexander Reinagle
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Country Fiddle Music
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Natalie Polka-Mazurka
Charles Grobe
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Flying Cloud Schottische
Charles d'Albert
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Victoria Galop
Francis Johnson
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The Flirt Polka
Charles Grobe
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La Sonnambula Quadrille Number Two
Francis Johnson
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Eliza Jane McCue
L. O. de Witt
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Blaze-Away!
Abe Holzmann
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Ma Ragtime Baby
Fred S. Stone
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Hiawatha
Neil Moret
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Chinatown, My Chinatown
Jean Schwartz
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El Irresistible
L. Logatti
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At The Mississippi Cabaret
Albert Gumble
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Valse de Ma Coeur
M. K. Jerome
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Kansas City Blues
E.L. Bowman
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Hold Me
Art Hickman
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Waltzing The Blues
Clarence Gaskill
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Sweet Man
Maceo Pinkard
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