"Fun requires a little dance music."
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Fun and dancing are equated in my book. They are synonymous. You can’t have one without the other. On a list of the most fun things to do, dancing is right there at the top for me. It is true for a lot of women. How I wish more men found it so. No matter where you go where there is music, you can see women, young or old, just itching to get out on the dance floor and shake a leg or hip or two.
When I was a young woman playing tennis on the tour (this was in the pre-pro era) the men and women traveled together. Each tournament took a week. So it was a different week in a different town, a different club and different parties. The men and women enjoyed each other’s company. Now it’s all business, but then it was fun. Certainly we trained, played our matches, but in the evening we went to parties – lovely, elegant, dinner parties where music was part of the evening and dancing was part of the music.
Tennis players are wonderful dancers on and off the court. Besides the dinner parties during the week, the clubs where we played ended each tournament with a ball, a formal event with large dance orchestras like Lester Lanin’s (you would have heard his music in every Woody Allen movie that had a dance band playing in the background). That was the east coast – mainline Philadelphia; South Orange, New Jersey, Manchester by Sea in Massachusetts; Forest Hills, New York.
Then there was the Caribbean circuit with tennis and dancing in Caracas; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Kingston and Montego Bay in Jamaica. After one party a doctor had to be brought in to remove the splinters in one player’s feet in order that he could play his finals match. He had been dancing all night to the steel band on a wooden floor!
It was no different in Ireland or England. Everywhere we went there was music and along with it fun. I hope you have had as much fun on the dance floor as I. It is a place where no age exists, no competition is needed and worries are sweep under the rug. Ole!
Smiles,
Sally
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