Tracy Brown
Owner/Producer
Tracy is a Square Dance Caller who, during the late 1980’s had the forethought to purchase
record companies which had been producing professional instrumental and vocal recordings
for use by: Square Dance Callers, Round Dance Cuers, Contra Prompters, Clogging Cuers
& Record Clubs. Many of these producers had been operating for many decades, but were
now winding-down their operations and appeared as though some could fade from existence
and be lost forever. Over the following years, Tracy continued rescuing additional record
labels. This was a very volatile time, as technology was progressing through the stages of
music being played from: Vinyl Records, Compact Discs, Mini Discs, through to the Mp3
files which most Callers, Cuers & Prompters now use from their laptops, and even mobile
phones. I can recall when I first started calling, we were using 10” 78 r.p.m. bakelite discs.
If you accidentally dropped one of these, it would usually break into several pieces. In addition
to being fragile, they were also rather heavy, so a box of 20, or 30 10” discs was very
weighty..!! NOW, I’ve discovered that it doesn’t matter how many Mp3 files you load onto your
laptop, it doesn’t get any heavier :- ) How times have changed. Several of the well known
labels which Tracy purchased had their audio masters on 10” reel-to-reel magnetic tape,
which meant that he then had the laborious task of carefully creating digital files from these
analogue tapes. The files would usually be created in “wav” format first (which are higher
quality), then into Mp3s. Because of Tracy Brown’s forward thinking and his hard work in
converting the analogue tape recordings to digital format, much of the wonderful music
which was recorded in the past has been preserved and remains available now for both
new and experienced Callers to purchase and use for their Dancers to enjoy.
CO-Producers
Glenn Walters
Co-Producer
Brian Hotchkies
Co-Producer
I would like to thank this group of callers for helping me out over the years. Working together as a team we continue to provide you with new music and older songs that were not available. ~ Tracy Brown
Chris Froggatt
Knee-Depp Melodies
Corben Geis
Silversounds Records
Glenn Wilson
Graham Elliot
Ingo Schumacher
Double "M" Records
Mel Wilkerson
Tony Simmons
Yodeling Sam Rowan
Japanese Square Dance Callers
Duke Ookada
Gaku Nakagawa
Hiromi Kaneko
Kaz Tsujimra
Kumi Takahashi
Kuniko Kawashima
