Foxtrot Project

I have a Tommy Dorsey CD that I need to know the types of ballroom dance that can be performed to each song.?

If you know dances (e.g., foxtrot, cha cha, east coast swing) for any of the following, please respond. Thanks! Song of India Moonlight in Vermont Silk Stockings Marie The Breeze and I On the Sunny Side of the Street I'm Getting Sentimental over You So Rare I'm in the Mood for Love Embraceable You

Public Comments

1. New to ballroom, are you? Most of those have multiple covers, often with different tempos, even though they're the same song by the same band. You'll find that several of them make good foxtrots at around 30 bars per minute and you can push a social foxtrot (but not a true ballroom foxtrot) to about 36 bars per minute. Any faster, and swing will be more comfortable. When you get up over 40 and especially to 50 bars per minute, you have the option of quickstep. A large amount of the music of the swing era was labelled as foxtrots, especially early on when swing was less highly regarded by adults, but the kids were jitterbugging to it anyway if the tempo was right. Cha cha wasn't even a thought until 1952, so you can safely exclude that from your list.
2. None of those are standard Lindy Hop or Swing repetoire recordings; however, if the recording of On the Sunny Side of the Street is the version from "The Era of Tommy Dorsey" you can definitely Lindy to it. Of course, Lindy isn't ballroom, it was a popular dance.