Ralf Bender's (SQUARE DANCE) MUSIC Page

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Music is an essential part of square dancing. In principle, all music with appropriate beat and tempo can be used for square dancing. However, in today's square dance, music especially produced for square dancing is used in most cases. I have the opportunity to produce high quality square dance singing calls as Staff Caller on SNOW Records. Additionally, I'm a Special Guest Caller on Gramophone Productions. My SNOW Biography Page My Gramophone Biography Page STING & SNOW Newsletters The Sting Productions AMBASSADOR Club 2012 Catalogue of STING & SNOW Recordings STING & SNOW Page on Dosado.com If you like to know how YOU can produce a singing call from a song you like, you can download the slides of my seminar held during the ECTA Convention in Kamen on June 26, 2010. How to Produce a Singing Call from a Song You Like


I'm quite happy to present my CDs. If you like to have a copy please send me a mail 1) Release date 15.08.2009 Contains 10 Mainstream Singing Calls from STING & SNOW Inlay with detailed information for each song Published by courtesy of Sting Productions
2) Release date 09.04.2010 Contains 10 Plus Singing Calls from STING & SNOW Inlay with background information for each song Published by courtesy of Sting Productions
3) Release date 20.08.2011 Contains 10 Basic (Part 1) Singing Calls from STING & SNOW Inlay with background information for each song Features Fiona Bender on 2 songs No. 1 Hits of the 40's, 50's, 60's, and 70's Contains 2 bonus tracks Published by courtesy of Sting Productions
Please find a list of my recordings below. The records (vinyl, CD, mp3) are available via HANHURST'S Music Review Service. The vocals were recorded in Cologne or in Hilchenbach. I thank Markus Brachtendorf from TONSTUDIO BE!

1) The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (SNW-2006)

Music clip
Music recorded in Nashville in November 2006
Released on SNOW Records in July 2007
Record information sheet
Position No. 4 in HANHURST'S Best Selling Square Dance Record Index in July 2007
Singing Call listing on Vic Ceder's Record Data Base
Song information on Songfacts
Song information on Wikipedia
Cover version listing on The Band's Website (no longer active but still a great site!)

2) Everybody Knows But You (SNW-1203)

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Music produced by Klaus Strand-Holm from Denmark in the 90's
Released on SNOW Records in September 2008
Record information sheet
Position No. 10 in HANHURST'S Best Selling Square Dance Record Index in September 2008
Singing Call listing on Vic Ceder's Record Data Base
Position No. 5 in the first OZZIE Square Dance Music Awards, category "Best Choreography"

3) Red Staggerwing (SNW-1204)

Long music clip (mp3)
Music recorded in Nashville in September 2008
Vocals by myself and Steffi Celler (one of the vocalists of the Little Opry Band, Cologne)
Released on SNOW Records in June 2009
Record information sheet
Position No. 7 in HANHURST'S Best Selling Square Dance Record Index in June 2009
Singing Call listing on Vic Ceder's Record Data Base

4) It's All Over Now Baby Blue (GP-819)

Music clip (mp3)
Music produced by Joe Kromer, Germany, for Gramophone Productions in June 2010
Released on Gramophone Productions in October 2010
Cue and lyric sheet
Singing Call listing on Vic Ceder's Record Data Base
Song information on Wikipedia

5) Ooh La La (I Wish That) (STING-21109)

Music clip (mp3)
Music recorded in Nashville in April 2011
Vocals by myself and Fiona
Exclusively released on the first Sting Productions Ambassador Club CD in June 2011
Will be regularly released in March 2013
Singing Call listing on Vic Ceder's Record Data Base
Song information on Wikipedia

My favourite (SQUARE DANCE) MUSIC links:
Square Dance Music Hanhurst's Music Review Service (Tom & Pam Dillander, USA) Jutta's Plattenkiste (Jutta Erfurth, Germany) Sting Productions (Paul Bristow, UK) Toddys Tunes (Thorsten Dudziak, Germany) Gramophone Productions (Joe Kromer, Germany) LeMa Music Production (Leif Ekblad, Sweden)

Free Music Freeplay (New York, USA) Last.fm (London, UK)
Karaoke Music Karaoke Version (France) Creative Sounds (Germany)
Equipment for Callers Hilton Audio Products, Inc. (USA) Electro-Voice (USA) RSC-Beschallungstechnik (Roland Federle, Germany)
Software for Callers CallerCaddy (David Göbel, Germany) SqView (Thomas Bernhed, Sweden) SqRecord (Thomas Bernhed, Sweden) Ceder Square Dance System (Vic Ceder, USA) Callerama (Reinhold Roedig, USA)