My husband Frank had a very interesting gig tonight,
and I'd like him to tell you about it.
Can you tell me where was this dance
that you played tonight?
I played a wonderful dance
at the Mormon Church
Recreation Hall
in Pomona.
What type of dance was this?
Well,
this is the swingiest dance you've ever seen.
Man, this was really beautiful.
It was a Christmas dance
and this recreation hall
was about as big as our living room.
I dig it. It had a hardwood floor,
it had a little stage,
and on the floor
they had a basketball thing marked off,
and it was all decorated up,
you know, like they really
went to a lot of trouble.
They had these wires
going across the room like
that, and millions of them,
and they had these little threads
coming down with cotton balls tied on the end
so it looked like snow
they had these trees
these dead trees set up on
these pedestal deals
all around the wall
then they were sprayed with snow
an d they had little ribbons
bows and parasols
and little boofers
and all these things attached to them
and then they had these colored
lights
underneath lighting it up
it was real real lovely
And then they had the,
when you walked into the place,
they had like a beaded drape,
only it wasn't beads,
it was these little cotton
balls like snow,
tied onto threads,
and then they had the big crystal punch bowls,
and all these wonderful
Mormons
standing around there
getting ready to have this fine party.
So, Ray told me, he says,
you shouldn't smoke
when you go over there,
man, they don't like it. So I said,
oh man, he's just being too cautious
because he's a pretty tame guy.