"Jingle Bells" - Part 18 - Square Dance!

We leave the somewhat square renditions of "Jingle Bells" from Rondo Records to some actual square dance versions!

First, from 1946 is this cut from a 78 rpm album of square dances from veteran country and western artist Carson Robison on RCA Victor:

Interesting that the tune is definitely "Jingle Bells" but the calls from Lawrence V. Loy make no reference to the title or anything seasonal.

(Maybe not the whole world!)

Next are a couple of records from Folkraft Records that don't have calls. I think the idea was that you'd play the record and have your own caller do the calls.

Here's the "American Squares Country Dance Band" from 1948:

And Harold Goodfellow and his Goodfellows from 1951:

I think those are both pretty snappy! No idea who the artists are, though!

Who knew "Jingle Bells" was such a popular tune for square dancing?