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Come Dancing in sequence

~ a review of sequence dance CDs ~

 

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 Monty Pearce

 

 

Monty Pearce: Happy Feet: Savoy Records (SAV 333CD) Added 06/12/07

Track

Dance

Music Titles

Data on CD

Reviewed Data

Time

bpm

bpm

Seq

Grades

1

Quickstep

Zing went the strings of my heart / Happy feet / I double dare you

-

-

48

7

X

2

Quickstep

I’m gonna sit right down / One dozen roses / Beyond the blue  

-

-

48

6

P

3

M. Waltz

Deep in my heart dear / Ev’rywhere

-

-

30

5

P

4

M.Waltz

Don’t ask me why / Softly, softly

-

-

30

5

P

5

Foxtrot

Manhattan / There goes my heart

-

-

29

6

P

6

Foxtrot

I’ll close my eyes / They didn’t believe me

-

-

29

6

P

7

Rumba

Man without love / Strangers in the night

-

-

27

7

X

8

Rumba

Serenade in the night / O’Sole mio

-

-

27

6

P

9

Swing

Everybody wants to go to heaven / Lucky lips / Salty dog

-

-

48

6

P

10

Swing

Carolina / When the saints go marching in / Charleston

-

-

48

8

P

11

Tango

The clouds will soon roll bye / No other love

-

-

32

6

X

12

Tango

Blue tango

-

-

32

5

X

13

Cha Cha

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah / It had to be you

-

-

32

6

P

14

Cha Cha

Catch a falling star / Love and marriage

-

-

32

5

X

15

Saunter

June night / In the gloamin’

-

-

28

5

X

16

Saunter

If I could only make you care / It’s almost tomorrow

-

-

28

5

P

17

Jive

All my loving / When I’m sixty-four

-

-

34

6

X

18

Jive

Hot toddy

-

-

34

5

X

19

M. Waltz

Vaya Con Dios

-

-

30

6

X

20

M. Waltz

Last waltz of the evening / It’s time to say / ‘Till we meet again

-

-

30

6

P

Total Playing Time: 60 minutes

Grades: P (good music) X (‘uninspiring’)

 

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Monty Pearce: Easy Dancing No 12: Keyboards: Savoy Records (SAV 302CD) 24/04/09

Track
Dance
Music Titles

Data on CD
Reviewed Data

Time

bpm

bpm

Seq
Grades

1

Rumba

Always in my heart / Be mine tonight

3:44

-

27

6

X

2

Rumba

Feelings

3:07

-

27

5

X

3

Swing

King of Dixieland / Alexander’s ragtime band

2:25

-

48

7

P

4

Swing

Puff (the magic dragon) / High hopes

2:06

-

48

6

X

5

Saunter

Sentimental me / Can’t help falling in love / Love is a song

3:35

-

28

6

X

6

Saunter

Morningtown ride / I’d like to teach the world to sing

3:02

-

28

5

X

7

Tango

That tiny teashop

3:08

-

32

6

X

8

Tango

Song of the rose

2:38

-

32

5

X

9

Jive

Delaware / Down by the riverside

2:52

-

35

6

X

10

Jive

I’m shy, Mary Ellen, I’m shy / The one rose

1:59

-

35

4

P

11

Quickstep

Five minutes more/You are my lucky star/Bring your smile along/ Over my shoulder

2:45

-

48

8

X

12

Quickstep

Whispering / Rose Marie / I’ll see you in my dreams

2:05

-

48

6

X

13

M. Waltz

Wonderful world of the young / Dream, dream, dream / Tenderly

3:23

-

30

6

P

14

M. Waltz

Tammy / Falling in love again / Eternally

3:23

-

30

6

P

15

Foxtrot

Diane / Near you

3:23

-

30

6

X

16

Foxtrot

Someone’s rocking my dream boat / Music, maestro please

2:52

-

30

5

X

17

Cha Cha

Wheels / Tea for two

2:44

-

31

5

X

18

Cha Cha

C’est si bon / Let’s do it

2:44

-

31

5

X

19

Blues

Out of town / Hello summertime / Ballad of Davy Crocket

3:23

-

30

6

X

20

Blues

You won’t find another fool like me / Big head / It all depends on you

2:52

-

30

5

X

Total Playing Time: 58 minutes

Grades: P (good music) X (‘uninspiring’)

 

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Monty Pearce: Monty Goes To Town: Keyboards: Savoy Records (SAV 291CD Added 17/03/09

Track
Dance
Music Titles

Data on CD
Reviewed Data

Time

bpm

bpm

Seq
Grades

1

Rumba

Spanish eyes

3:08

-

27

5

X

2

Rumba

Rumba Andalucia

3:43

-

27

6

P

3

Jive

I’m beginning to see the light

2:35

-

34

5

X

4

Jive

Blueberry hill

2:30

-

34

5

X

5

Saunter

My kind of girl / Memories are made of this

4:08

-

28

7

X

6

Saunter

Wish me a rainbow /A handful of rainbows

3:01

-

28

5

X

7

Quickstep

Don’t break the heart that loves you / I may be wrong / Look at that girl

2:07

-

48

6

X

8

Quickstep

This is sequence time / It’s sequence time again

2:47

-

48

8

X

9

Samba

Tzena, tzena, tzena

1:57

-

52

6

X

10

Samba

Enjoy yourself

1:38

-

52

5

X

11

M. Waltz

Daniela

3:20

-

30

6

P

12

M. Waltz

Darf Ich bitten

2:48

-

30

5

X

13

Foxtrot

I could have danced all night / People will say we’re in love

4:29

-

30

8

P

14

Foxtrot

I’m in the mood for love / When I fall in love

3:25

-

30

6

P

15

Cha Cha

Anna

3:16

-

31

6

X

16

Cha Cha

Undecided

2:45

-

31

5

X

17

Mambo

Mambo Italiano

2:31

-

40

6

XX

18

Mambo

Zambesi

2:07

-

40

5

X

19

Tango

Born free

3:14

-

31

6

X

20

Tango

Tango party

3:14

-

31

6

X

Total Playing Time: 61 minutes

Grades: P (good music) X (‘uninspiring’) X (out of sequence/phase)

 

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Monty Pearce: Easy Dancing No 11: Keyboards: Savoy Records ( SAV 284CD) Added 04/05/08

Track
Dance
Music Titles

Data on CD
Reviewed Data

Time

bpm

bpm

Seq
Grades*

1

Quickstep

Those were the days / A world of our own

-

-

48

7

P

2

Quickstep

Sing

-

-

48

7

P

3

M. Waltz

Under the roofs of Paris / Moulin Rouge waltz

-

-

30

6

P

4

M. Waltz

The thornbirds theme

-

-

30

6

X

5

Rumba

I just called to say I love you

-

-

27

7

X

6

Rumba

Estrellita

-

-

27

5

X

7

Foxtrot

Guilty / I apologise

-

-

29

6

X

8

Foxtrot

Don’t laugh at me (cause I’m a fool) / Just loving you

-

-

29

5

X

9

Tango

Ole guapa

-

-

31

5

P

10

Tango

Majanah

-

-

31

6

X

11

Saunter

Chanson d’amour / Love’s been good to me

-

-

28

5

P

12

Saunter

Sailor / Sailing

-

-

28

5

P

13

Cha Cha

Smile

-

-

31

7

X

14

Cha Cha

Latino

-

-

31

5

X

15

Foxtrot

A little on the lonely side / I left my heart in San Francisco

-

-

29

7

P

16

Foxtrot

On the street where you live

-

-

29

6

P

17

Jive

Don’t sit under the apple tree / Jeepers creepers

-

-

34

5

X

18

Jive

I taut I taw a puddy tat

-

-

34

5

X

19

Blues

Ballin’ the jack / Birth of the blues

-

-

30

6

X

20

Blues

I can’t give you anything but love / Who’s sorry now

-

-

30

5

X

Total Playing Time: 65 minutes

Grades: P (good music) X (‘uninspiring’)

* Several tunes spoilt by what appears to be an excessive use of vibrato

 

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Monty Pearce: Easy Dancing 10: Keyboards: Savoy Records (SAV 280CD) Added 17/08/08

Track
Dance
Music Titles

Data on CD
Reviewed Data

Time*

bpm

bpm

Seq
Grades

1

M. Waltz

Would you / Love will find a way / Love’s last word is spoken

0:00

-

30

6

X

2

M. Waltz

Meet me in my dreams tonight / Beautiful Ohio

0:00

-

30

5

X

3

Quickstep

Come dancing / It’s just the time for dancing / You’re dancing on my heart

0:00

-

48

7

X

4

Quickstep

Anything goes / Crazy rhythm

0:00

-

48

6

P

5

Rumba

A woman in love / My own

0:00

-

27

5

X

6

Rumba

Nightingale

0:00

-

27

5

X

7

Tango

Amapola / That’s my desire

0:00

-

32

7

X

8

Tango

Beside my caravan / Jezebel

0:00

-

32

5

X

9

Swing

Limehouse blues / Chinatown, my Chinatown / Chinese laundry blues

0:00

-

48

8

X

10

Swing

Sweet Georgia Brown

0:00

-

48

6

X

11

Blues

I’m confessin’ (that I love you)/Happy days and lonely nights/Love letters in the sand

0:00

-

30

6

X

12

Blues

When I’m sixty four / Another little drink won’t do us any harm / Salome

0:00

-

30

5

X

13

Cha Cha

Toy balloons

0:00

-

31

6

X

14

Cha Cha

In the old bazaar in Cairo

0:00

-

31

5

X

15

Saunter

Heartaches / Me and my shadow / Bye, bye blues

0:00

-

28

6

P

16

Saunter

Goodnight sweetheart / When day is done

0:00

-

28

6

X

17

Jive

Glow worm / Across the alley from the Alamo

0:00

-

34

5

X

18

Jive

When my sugar walks down the street / Mobile

0:00

-

34

5

X

19

Foxtrot

Sleepy time gal / You belong to me / Love is a many splendoured thing

0:00

-

29

6

P

20

Foxtrot

Fools rush in / Till then

0:00

-

29

5

X

Total Playing Time: 61 minutes

Grades: P (good music) X (‘uninspiring’)

* Leaflet accompanying CD appears to show zero track times

 

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Monty Pearce: Monty’s Christmas Cracker: Keyboards: Savoy Records (SAV 278CD) Added 27/05/08

Track
Dance
Music Titles

Data on CD
Reviewed Data

Time

bpm

bpm

Seq
Grades

1

Jive

Deck the halls / A holly jolly Christmas / Jingle bell rock

2:31

-

34

5

X

2

Jive

Rocking around the Christmas tree / The fairy on the Christmas tree

2:30

-

34

5

X

3

Saunter

Merry Christmas (and a happy new year)/ I saw mommy kissing Santa

3:03

-

28

5

P

4.

Saunter

When a child is born / I’ll be home for Christmas

3:03

-

28

5

P

5

Quickstep

Jingle bells / Santa Claus is coming to town

2:27

-

48

7

X

6

Quickstep

Snowbells

2:07

-

48

6

X

7

Rumba

A winters tale / Little donkey / The nativity

3:43

-

27

6

X

8

Rumba

In the bleak midwinter/The baby boy/Have yourself a merry little …

3:07

-

27

5

X

9

M. Waltz

Have a Christmas by the fireside / Mistletoe and wine

2:53

-

30

5

X

10

M. Waltz

Silver bells / The first Noel

3:24

-

30

6

X

11

Cha Cha

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer

3:15

-

31

6

X

12

Cha Cha

Where did my snowman go? / Here comes Santa Claus

3:15

-

31

6

X

13

Foxtrot

Christmas and you / Christmas Island / Winter wonderland

3:30

-

29

6

X

14

Foxtrot

White Christmas / The Christmas song

3:30

-

29

6

X

15

Quickstep

The Santa Claus express/ I’m going home for Christmas/We wish you

2:27

-

48

7

X

16

Quickstep

Ring those Christmas bells / C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S

2:07

-

48

6

P

17

Blues

Frosty the snowman / Let it snow! / The holly and the Christmas pud

3:21

-

30

6

P

18

Blues

Snowy white snow and jingle bells / A marshmallow world

2:49

-

30

5

X

19

M. Waltz

Let there be peace on earth / The very first Christmas of all

3:52

-

30

7

P

20

M. Waltz

Away in a manger / Mary’s boy child

3:24

-

30

6

X

                                    Total Playing Time: 62 minutes

Grades: P (good music) X (‘uninspiring’)

 

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Monty Pearce: Easy Listening No. 9: Keyboards: Savoy (SAV 271CD) Added 17/03/08

Track
Dance
Music Titles

Data on CD
Reviewed Data

Time

bpm

bpm

Seq
Grades

1

Quickstep

You’ve been away too long / Everybody loves a lover

2:28

-

48

7

P

2

Quickstep

Thumbelina / Walk tall

2:08

-

48

6

P

3

M. Waltz

My September love / Try to remember / Innamorata

3:26

-

30

6

P

4

M. Waltz

The last waltz of the evening / Goodnight my someone

2:52

-

30

5

P

5

Bossa Nova

It’s not unusual

2:31

-

40

6

X

6

Bossa Nova

The more I see you

2:08

-

40

5

X

7

Saunter

Make believe / Vilia / A pretty girl is like a melody

3:38

-

28

6

P

8

Saunter

The sweetest music this side of heaven

3:03

-

28

5

P

9

Cha Cha

Singing in the rain / My blue heaven

2:44

-

31

5

X

10

Cha Cha

Senora

2:44

-

31

5

X

11

Foxtrot

I’m getting sentimental over you / So tired

3:30

-

29

6

P

12

Foxtrot

The sound of music

2:57

-

29

5

X

13

Rumba

The very thought of you / Fly me to the moon

3:44

-

27

6

X

14

Rumba

Autumn leaves

2:33

-

27

4

P

15

Tango

Play to me gypsy

2:39

-

32

5

X

16

Tango

Marta

2:39

-

32

5

X

17

Mambo

Mambo in the moonlight

2:07

-

40

5

X

18

Mambo

Mambo rock

2:10

-

40

5

X

19

Jive

The alley cat song / Let’s twist again

2:31

-

34

5

P

20

Jive

Comin’ thru’ the rye / My bonnie

2:31

-

34

5

X

Total Playing Time: 57 minutes

Grades: P (good music) X (‘uninspiring’)

 

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Monty Pearce: Easy Dancing No 6: Keyboards: Savoy Records (SAV 244CD) Added 24/04/09

Track
Dance
Music Titles

Data on CD
Reviewed Data

Time

bpm

bpm

Seq