Vintage MSD - Joel Pepper with Jack Barbour at Sunny Hills Barn (1960)

A live recording done at Sunny Hills Barn in Fullerton, California.  From 1948 to 1962, it was the largest square dance hall in America boasting a dance floor that would hold 150 squares.  Ed Smith, operator of the barn would bring top callers in on Saturday nights and Joel Pepper was considered one of the best in California at the time.  

The accompaniment is live music played by Jack Barbour and his Rustlers.  Jack Barbour was the king of square dance bands from the forties until live music faded from dances in the sixties.

Recorded around 1960, here is a "Saturday Night at Sunny Hills".

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