Evocative songs and learning to dance

@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

I loved dancing but my legs won't work for too long now if I dance.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

4 Mar 24

@JudyEv I loved going to the dances at school, but I never learned the various dance steps. I more or less swayed to the music.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Mar 24

@just4him I was old enough to learn old-time dancing before the more modern stuff came in.

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much2say

@much2say (57760)

• Los Angeles, California

4 Mar 24

Awwww, look at you two

- love your photo!! There are many songs, especially from my teens, that seemed like were written with my thoughts of that time in mind. Anytime I hear them, I still think of those times

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much2say

@much2say (57760)

• Los Angeles, California

8 Mar 24

@JudyEv I do think the teen years are quite impressionable . . . we connect to music so much emotionally for some reason and carry it with us the rest of our lives. Maybe - I guess many places ask to not use confetti or rice anymore.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Mar 24

@much2say I know there are a lot of churches here that have banned confetti.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

I guess, in some ways, we all go through similar emotions at times.

I think confetti might be banned now.

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snowy

@snowy22315 (208857)

• United States

4 Mar 24

Vince looks like he is besotted with you.

.. We did square dancing in school. It was fun actually.

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snowy

@snowy22315 (208857)

• United States

4 Mar 24

@JudyEv That is when we did it too. I suppose Covid has had a big impact on the square dancing set.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

I suppose he does a bit. The feeling was pretty mutual. We did square and folk dancing in primary school. Square dancing is still big here.

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marguicha

@marguicha (230350)

• Chile

4 Mar 24

The title of your post made me remember a crush I had when I was 13 years old. I had a classmate who had several siblings. She invited me many times to her house which was very different than my house with just a small amount of children. There was a boy older than I, dark hair as I´ve always liked, named Paul. They had the Elvis single "Don´t be cruel and he taught me to dance rock to it. I now can imagine that their mother must have been nuts to listen to that all afternoon

It is still, for me, one of Elvis best songs. It will be forever united to Paul.

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marguicha

@marguicha (230350)

• Chile

4 Mar 24

@JudyEv Song names are sometimes hard to remember.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

What a lovely story. I broke up with someone once. It might even have been Vince as he dropped me for a while. I played some sad song over and over for several days. I can't remember what song it was though.

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Laurel (L_B)

@Happy2BeMe (99353)

• Canada

4 Mar 24

What a great picture. I love the way he is looking at you. You two are adorable.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

Thanks for the kind words. There seems an awful lot of confetti.

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Laurel (L_B)

@Happy2BeMe (99353)

• Canada

7 Mar 24

@JudyEv there sure is..looks like it was snowing lol

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M Cheung

@Beestring (15372)

• Hong Kong

4 Mar 24

What a great picture! We did folk dancing at school.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

Folk dancing was fun, wasn't it? I always enjoyed dancing.

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M Cheung

@Beestring (15372)

• Hong Kong

4 Mar 24

@JudyEv Yes, it was fun.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (117220)

• El Paso, Texas

4 Mar 24

Fantastic shot of you two. Looks like you were both attacked by flying rice, is that correct?

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

It was probably confetti. It hadn't been banned at that stage but a few years later it was banned in churches because of the mess it made.

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OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (91297)

• United States

4 Mar 24

I totally get what you mean about songs echoing your own life! It's like finding a hidden message that resonates deeply. Mark Knopfler's "Secondary Waltz" sounds like a perfect example. The way it captures the awkwardness and nervousness of learning to waltz, especially with girls, definitely mirrors your experience in high school. It's amazing how music can transport us back to specific moments in time, just like your story with the waltz class. I met Mark by the way Judy..close up and personal at a party back in the day in London. He has the bluest eyes.

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OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (91297)

• United States

4 Mar 24

@JudyEv I did..but you know years ago...I was only in my twenties.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

I just love Mark's songs and playing. You met him?? I am SOOO jealous.

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (56207)

• Canada

4 Mar 24

You were a beautiful bride, and Vince looks like the happiest man alive. You are lucky to have been taught to waltz as you were. One of my hubby's brothers and his wife could waltz around the dance floor like nobody else, it was so sweet to watch them.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

I was always grateful for those lessons. We enjoyed old-time dancing but are past it now unfortunately.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502404)

• Italy

4 Mar 24

We never did square dance, but I learnt to dance the waltz. My husband is a much better dancer than I am. We danced together very few times.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502404)

• Italy

4 Mar 24

@JudyEv We only went dancing when we went out with friends when vacationing by the sea.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

We were able to go to country dances from time to time and enjoyed them.

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (97990)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

4 Mar 24

Great photo and memories. Since I was raised as a Latvian-American Latvians were renewing life in the New World as they were used to it in Latvia. Latvian organizations sprung up all across the US and many different kinds of dances were held, So I learned ballroom dancing and also enjoyed wearing ball gowns.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Mar 24

Ballroom dancing was what we learnt too. I always enjoyed dancing.

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MARILYN

@Marilynda1225 (91068)

• United States

5 Mar 24

Yes some songs can jolt me back in time to a person or event. I never learned to waltz but I did fake it on the dance floor many a time doing some sort of dance. What a great picture of you at your wedding reception. I love the joy in your faces

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MARILYN

@Marilynda1225 (91068)

• United States

6 Mar 24

@JudyEv My aunt and uncle took dancing lessons (way back when) and any wedding or function where there was dancing they would waltz and it was really amazing to see them glide around the floor. I always wished I had learned to dance (ballroom) but I always had fun doing popular dances which basically didn't require much style

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

7 Mar 24

@Marilynda1225 'Much less style' soon became the rage for us too but I always enjoyed ballroom dancing.

@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Mar 24

Other dances were just coming in about the time I left school. Waltzing became much less important.

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (222314)

• United States

4 Mar 24

What a sweet picture. We never had dance lessons in school. Have a good week..

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

I think we were lucky. I don't know if other year groups had lessons.

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Jim Bauer

@porwest (112850)

• United States

4 Mar 24

Some songs do sort of "sing" directly to us. Great pic of you and Vin. Interesting about Knopfler as well. I know him only from Dire Straits and an entirely different style of music.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Mar 24

He was done some really lovely ballads either solo or with various others.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Mar 24

@porwest I hope you enjoy them. My BIL introduced us to his later works.

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Jim Bauer

@porwest (112850)

• United States

5 Mar 24

@JudyEv I guess now I will have to check out some of his other work. Might be an interesting little adventure.

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Fleur

@Fleura (34989)

• United Kingdom

4 Mar 24

Nice little song by the way, not what you expect from Mark Knopfler.

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@JudyEv (382036)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 24

I love this song. You can just see the poor boys being 'slippered' if they got it wrong. Knopfler's later songs are really special. You might like Love and Happiness which he sings with Emmy Lou Harris.

Fleur

@Fleura (34989)

• United Kingdom

4 Mar 24

What a great picture. You look as if you are trying not to laugh! I haven't yet managed to waltz properly although I remember my mum trying to teach me as a child. Thankfully we never had to do anything like that at secondary school as I would have been the one on the sidelines, but not for being fat - I was skinny as a rake - I was just the one considered so unattractive that no-one would dare go near me even if they wanted to for fear of ridicule!

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