Background and Purpose
Chuck McDowell scanned these cue sheets, which came from the collection of Kay and Forrest Richards. Some of these dances go back as far as 1950. I need your help to catalog all these cue sheets, including rhythm, phase, year of release, record and artist information.
There are almost 1700 cue sheets in the list. When you load the page, you will see all of them.
As the dance information gets filled out, I will pull the cue sheets off this temporary web site and move them into the main mixed-up.com database. In the future, I hope to add this kind of collaboration to the main mixed-up.com project so we can get year, record, and artist information for all those cue sheets also.
Searching
You can enter multiple search terms in the box. You will see entries that match all the search terms. For example, if you enter ...
...it will search for all dances that have both the word "waltz" and the letters "cha" (probably in the dance name or choreographer name.
Collaboration
Split up the work among yourselves; divide and conquer. Choose to work on one letter of the alphabet. The following search will find all the dances that start with the letter N that have not yet been assigned a status. Note that the N must be a capital letter, and use the percent sign.
The last field, STATUS, gives you the opportunity to rate the readability of the cue sheet: Excellent, Good, Fair, Pair. You can also mark the cue sheet as being a Duplicate. I call them Fair if they have washed out portions, and Poor means unreadable as-is.
Special Searches
To find all the cue sheets for which specific information has not yet been collated, use these special searches for fields that have already been filled in. (Click to try.) YEAR, RHYTHM, PHASE, CHOREO, RECORD, ARTIST, STATUS. Add a minus sign to find fields that have not yet been filled in: –YEAR, –RHYTHM, –PHASE, –CHOREO, RECORD, –ARTIST, –STATUS.
Combine searches. Use the minus sign to indicate a reverse search. The following very useful search will find all the dances for which the rhythm has been recorded but not the phase. (I can usually tell what the rhythm is, but not the phase.)
Filling out the form
When you click on a cue sheet, it will show you similar dances if it can find any, and a picture of the cue sheet. For example, by clicking on the following link, you can see that the dance is Phase II (or II+1) by looking at the similar dances.
You may also see a list of possible NCRDTA ROM matches. If you find a match, you can click the checkbox for NCRDTA ROM.