The March 1975 issue of _Sets In Order_ magazine has this on page 39;
CHEROKEE ROAD (42)
By Ken Down, Scotia, New York
Heads right and left thru
Cross trail thru
Separate go around two make a line of four
Just the boys roll a half sashay
Just the girls roll a half sashay
Just the centers roll a half sashay
Everyone roll a half sashay
Left allemande
You can see it in context by going to Sets In Order index at
http://newsquaremusic.com/sioindex.html
and clicking on the thumbnail of the March 1975 cover.
I believe the parenthesized number 42 indicates the routine's highest numbered
call in the recommended teaching order at the time.
As usual for routines published in MWSD sources, no information is included
about the timing. The routine above differs from the one in Sue's query in
that it lacks occurrences of "forward and back", has the "boys" doing the first
roll away, and has the last roll away followed by left allemande with corner
instead of partner swing. But it clearly uses the same gimmick and even has
the same way of setting up the lines of four.
I happened to find the routine above via a Google search for "just the girls
roll" that turned up a hit on the SIO Double Square Dance Yearbook of 1976. So
far, I haven't found an earlier example of the "one gender roll; other gender
roll; centers roll; all roll" gimmick. Such an earlier example, if one exists,
might have been notated with "ladies" or "women" or even "gals" instead of
"girls" or have "rollaway" instead of "roll" or lack the word "just" or have
"TWO girls/ladies/..." instead of "THE girls/ladies/..." etc. Or it might have
been published in some source that hasn't be put online and found its way into
Google's full-text index.
--Jim
> On Sep 16, 2019, at 6:58 AM, Sue C. Hulsether via Callers
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the source for this square?
>
> Roll Away
> A1: Heads* forward and back
> Heads right and left thru
> A2: Heads pass thru, cross trails; go around 2
> Make lines at sides (gent, gent, lady, lady)
> 8 go forward and back
> B1: Ladies roll away*
> Gents roll away
> Centers roll away
> Everybody roll away
> B2: Swing Pt
> *Note: roll away is right-person rolls to the left, no matter the
> gender-role.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> sue
<snip>
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