Here's a 40-bar singing square from the 1950s. It's only 6 times through, but 
it's in five 8-bar phrases (two in the "A" part, three in the "B").

Tony Parkes
Billerica, Massachusetts, USA

-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Cann via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> 
Sent: Friday, January 3, 2020 1:48 PM
To: John Sweeney <j...@modernjive.com>
Cc: contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: [Callers] Re: Recordings of 40 Bar Tunes

I'm going to head off-list and talk to my friend Norb Spencer, accordionist 
extraordinaire, major tune-hound, and player of all three
likely-to-be-not-32 genres (Oldtime, Fr.C, and Scottish). Watch this space...

On 1/3/20, John Sweeney via Contra Callers 
<contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Hi Amy,
>       You asked about the 40-bar dance.
>
>       The dance I am currently working on is " Ladies Walk Around Their 
> Contra "
> http://contrafusion.co.uk/Dances/FormationsDances.html#LadiesWalk
>
>       I was at a dance on New Year's Eve where it was called and realised 
> it was a new formation for me.  It is a Becket dance for Trios 
> (Lady-Man-Lady).  It is Formation #102 at 
> http://contrafusion.co.uk/Formations.html
>
>       I don't know who wrote it.  Does anyone know?
>
>       A good 40-bar tune will also be useful for:
> "Major Hey" by Erik Hoffman
> http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=5030
> “Apple Pie Quadrille” by Ron Beeson
> http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=12522
> "Not So Solitary" by me (Nine dancers in a 3x3 grid doing lots of 
> Heys)
>
>       Thanks.
>
>             Happy dancing,                    
>                    John                       
>                       
> John Sweeney, Dancer, England   j...@modernjive.com 01233 625 362 & 07802
> 940 574                       
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>
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