REMEMBERING Dancing with the (Singing) Stars from middle of the Twentieth Century with songs for and about dancing. Tripping the light fantastic with us are folks like Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Russ Morgan, Paul Whiteman, Helen O’Connell, Fred Astaire, Perry Como, Julie Andrews and Vaughn Monroe.

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E-X-P-A-N-D your Memory Lane Podcast experience when you visit these links to our make-believe ballroom for some fancy dancing:

BALLIN’ THE JACK – Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in “a clip from MGM’s 1942“For Me and My Gal”

WALTZ – Photos, drawings and lyrics to “Tennessee Waltz” as sung by Patti Page in an excellent video mix.

THE HUCKLEBUCK – Ed Norton teaches Ralph Kramden how to dance the Hucklebuck.

THE CHARLESTON – High School dance scene from “It’s a Wonderful Life” with James Stewart and Donna Reed, 1947.

THE CARIOCA —  Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and company dance in a clip from the 1933 RKO film “Flying Down to Rio.”

MAMBO ITALIANO – a video mix with Sophia Loren in various scenes to the dance sung by Bette Midler.

TANGO – Leroy Anderson’s 1951  “Blue Tango” in a video mix presented by Nigel Fowler Sutton in 2013.