By Popular Request

By Popular Request concentrates on club and social-dance categories that extend beyond a conventional ballroom-and-Latin selection. Its eight tracks each carry a documented dance assignment, from the opening Charleston, Just What You Want, to the closing Club Salsa, Baila Mi Hermano Como Yo. The result is a concise cross-section of music for several different kinds of dance session.

Let Me Hold You is designated Night Club Two Step or Slow Dance, while Where I Go You Cannot Come is Club Cha Cha. I Know That We're In Love supplies St. Louis Shag, Easy Listening is marked Bossa Nova, and Jim's Polka retains its explicit Polka assignment. Lindy Combo provides the Lindy Hop selection. These distinctions matter because the collection should not be presented simply as swing music or as an album devoted entirely to Latin rhythms.

A historical Dance Vision catalogue connects several of these exact titles with its teaching catalogue, corroborating the collection's identity and the corrected brand spelling. This product, however, supplies music rather than the instructional videos referenced in that catalogue. Customers can use the documented rhythm list to consider tracks for their existing social-dance repertoire without assuming that lessons or choreography are included. The instrumental collection is especially relevant to customers whose social-dance interests include Polka, Bossa Nova or St. Louis Shag alongside the better-known club and swing categories.

Track List