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Category: Fine and Not So Fine Arts

This category includes dance, art, theater and music related posts.

Tap Dancing cover

Dancing in the Stacks

January 12, 2017 Mary Kelly Fine and Not So Fine Arts 10 comments

Tap Dancing Atwater 1971 I am sure that all the kids will lining up to pick up some tap dance tips from this attractive book. I initially thought this book was much older than 1971 given the somewhat 50s-looking cover

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Fun with Ventriloquism cover

Grab a Dummy!

December 7, 2016 Mary Kelly Fine and Not So Fine Arts, For the Kids 8 comments

Fun With Ventriloquism Van Rensselaer 1955 As a kid, I thought ventriloquism was kind of cool and do remember Edgar Bergen and Shari Lewis. In 1968, I would have been all over this book (if the puppets weren’t too creepy).

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Lawrence Welk covers

Ah-One, Ah-Two!

December 5, 2016 Holly Fine and Not So Fine Arts 8 comments

Ah-One, Ah-Two: Life with My Musical Family Welk with McGeehan 1974 My America, Your America Welk with McGeehan 1976 Submitter: Here are two of the four Lawrence Welk biographies in our collection. The full color foldout of the whole cast

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Disco Dance Steps cover

Disco Lives!

November 11, 2016 Holly Fine and Not So Fine Arts, Talkin 'Bout My Generation 6 comments

Disco Dance Steps Villari 1978 Submitter: […My] coworkers know I love disco music.  Sadly, I can’t dance, even with the help of the hundreds of disco tutorials on YouTube. But I love this book. However, most of our dance items

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Disco With Donny and Marie cover

Disco Dancing with Donny and Marie

October 5, 2016 Mary Kelly Fine and Not So Fine Arts 6 comments

Disco with Donny and Marie Heaton and Zimmerman 1979 I had a reference question a while back where I had to explain Donny and Marie to a teenager. God, I felt old. If you are more than 40 years or

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Be a Clown cover

Be a Clown (or not)

September 28, 2016 Mary Kelly Fine and Not So Fine Arts 9 comments

Be a Clown Stolzenberg 2002 Long time site fans will know that I have clown “issues”. However, that does not mean that I get to exempt my collection from clown materials. I just don’t want to be alone when dealing

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Disco Hustle cover

Do the Hustle

August 22, 2016 Holly Fine and Not So Fine Arts 6 comments

Disco Hustle Lovisone 1979 Submitter: I found this in the 790s…and it was not the only disco book I found. The guy on the cover looks a bit like Freddy Mercury, don’t you think? The song is still running through

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Clowns - cover

Tears of a clown

July 28, 2016 Holly Fine and Not So Fine Arts, Ha Ha Ha? 8 comments

Clowns Baker 1980 Submitter: I found this book in the children’s section of my local library. Each and every page is being held together with tape. There are gross stains and pencil marks all over the book. Yet the library

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