Show Notes 012 - Sylvia Sykes

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0:00:40 Check out our Show Notes

0:01:00 Welcome to episode #012 of The Track with Ryan Swift - March 2016. This episode’s guest is Sylvia Sykes.

0:02:14 The Track 004 - Shana Worel

0:03:26 Boston Balboa - What is Balboa? (Pure Balboa vs Bal-Swing)

0:03:34 Pure Balboa Final, California Balboa Classic 2016

0:04:34 Inez & Ed Thompson

0:05:26 Dean Collins

Maxie Dorf

0:05:45 Jonathan Bixby

0:07:11 Shirley Fietsem & Tom Boots Happy Daze (Anaheim CA. 1982)

0:07:52 Sansabelt

0:08:25 Dean Collins & Jewel McGowan in 'Buck Privates’ (1941)

0:09:37 Casey Kasem

0:10:28 Shebang! “Ops n’ Pops” Dance Contest (1967)

0:11:05 The Larks - The Jerk (1965)

0:11:54 Sixties Dance Crazes

0:13:00 American Bandstand (1967)

0:14:36 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around the Bend (Amazon, iTunes)

0:14:43 Chubby Checker - Pony Time

0:15:30 1960-1969 TV Guide

0:16:17 Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers in 'A Day at the Races’ (1937)

0:16:50 Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers in ‘Hellzapoppin’’ (1941)

0:18:13 Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport 1956 (Amazon, iTunes)

0:19:08 NPR: Diminuendo/Crescendo 

0:19:45 Newport 1956 - Diminuendo & Crescendo in Blue

0:23:27 Dance Santa Barbara

0:23:40 Joe Liggins

Joe Liggins - Rag Mop (Amazon, iTunes)

0:27:12 The Running Man

0:34:06 Jazz on the West Coast - The Lighthouse

0:36:13 Explorer 1 - The First US Satellite

0:40:24 A Touch of Evil (1958) (Amazon, iTunes)

0:46:25 Dean Collins - Sylvia Sykes & Jonathan Bixby Private Lessons 1981-1982

0:46:40 Bobby McGee’s

0:48:05 Kenny Wetzel interviews Dean Collins

0:50:24 Dean Collins film playlist

0:51:05 Dean Collins & Martha Raye in ‘Hellzapoppin’’ (1941)

0:51:55 Jewel McGowan

Jewel McGowan compilation

0:54:00 Hollywood Paladium

0:54:57 Sylvia Sykes, Maxie Dorf, Mario Robau Jr. & Ellen Taylor, 1998

0:56:55 Dwight Lupardus interviewed by Peter Loggins

0:57:12 Maxie Dorf - Sylvia Sykes Private Lessons

0:58:30 Maxie Dorf compilation

0:59:40 US Open Swing Dance Championships, 1983 Part 1

US Open Swing Dance Championships, 1983 Part 2

1:00:55 US Open Swing Dance Championships, 1984

1:06:15 Beach Music

1:07:30 Tommy Dorsey - Well, Git It! (Amazon, iTunes)

Count Basie - Jumpin' at the Woodside (Amazon, iTunes)

1:08:19 Jack & Jill - Jack Carey

1:08:51 Invitational Jack & Jill, ILHC 2015

1:10:39 Invitational Strictly Lindy Finals, ILHC 2015

1:11:08 Pro Classic, ILHC 2015

1:13:05 Swungover - On #ImprovRespect

1:20:07 ALHC, ULHS

1:24:06 Team, ILHC 2015

1:24:08 Silver Shadows, Lindyfest 2010

1:25:49 Canadian Swing Championships

1:29:22 Swungover - On Judging, Part 2: Watching and Note-Taking Technique

1:36:13 Jonathan Bixby & Sylvia Sykes, 1998

Team USA, US Open Swing Dance Championships, 1991

1:37:48 World Champions Boogie-Woogie 1991-2013

1:48:22 Sylvia Sykes & Marty Lau, Boston Swing Central, 2012

1:48:27 Randy Maestretti

1:49:16 Swungover - Meditatin’: On the Nature of (Pure) Balboa

The Track 004 - Shana Worel - Show Notes

1:50:15 Frim Fram Jam

1:52:00 The Spirit Moves

1:53:25 Mura Dehn

1:53:30 New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

1:59:55 Frankie 100 - Share Your Frankie Story - Sylvia Sykes

Sylvia Sykes & Frankie Manning, Santa Barbara, 2005

Willie Desatoff compilation

2:00:02 The Track 006 - Dawn Hampton

2:00:35 Maxie Dorf - “Out and In"

2:02:15 Dawn Hampton with John Dokes

2:04:17 Skye Humphries & Frida Segerdahl, ILHC 2015

Naomi Uyama & Peter Strom, CampSwingIt Korea, 2015

Sylvia Sykes & Nick Williams, 2008

Laura Keat & Jeremy Otth, All Balboa Weekend, 2012

Alice Mei

2:05:32 The Track 007 - Ramona Staffeld

2:08:45 The Track 001 - Peter Strom

2:09:20 The Track 003 - Skye Humphries

2:10:18 The Track 005 - Naomi Uyama

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