You could do Grandfather’s Clock, ‘Round the Clock Loving, and various time related songs (Any Old Time, Every Second, Every Minute, among others).
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How about breaking out the old “one now, one later” routine. Then you could procrastinate on the later, all the way to the singing call…or the next tip…
I did a quick web search on “one now one later” and found only one square dance reference: Square Dance Teaching Points – Glossary / NOL.
The basic idea is you say something like “Do two scootbacks, one now and one later.” The dancers do one scootback. A little while later, you say “It’s later!” and the dancers are supposed to remember to do the other scootback.
Elvis sings on The Ed Sullivan Show, but is only shown from the waist up.
Yet another day to feature Elvis songs. If we work at it, we might find some Elvis connection for every day of the year.
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Presidential candidate Richard Nixon goes on Laugh-In and says, “Sockit to me!”
If you’re calling A2 or higher, this would be an appropriate day to feature the C2 calls Sock It To Me and Here Comes the Judge. You can do this at A2 by starting out with “Prefer the end [boy or girl, as appropriate] for an out roll circulate, and then give the name of the call.
Seems like September is a big month for the Beverly Hillbillies: first episode, last episode. Today is also Donna Douglas’ birthday; she played Elllie Mae.
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Lots of square dance songs: El Paso City, White Sport Coat…I think there’s a Marty Robbins medley.
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Gershwin composed an amazing number of songs. There are square dance versions on Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) and I Got Rhythm.
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Shamu was born this day in 1985 in Orlando, Florida. She was the first killer whale to be born in captivity and survive. Her place of birth was Sea World.
A good day to do fish songs: Three Little Fishes, Fisherman’s Luck, Mack the Knife (sharks, anyone?). I can’t think of any songs about killer whales, or even whales.
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Jim Croce died when his plane crashed into a tree on takeoff.
You could do Croce songs (Bad, Bad Leroy Brown: CIMCD 101; I don’t think there’s a square dance version of You Don’t Mess Around with Jim), or airplane songs (how about Leaving on a Jet Plane?).