Last Saturday I was calling with Mike Driscoll at TTT’s dance and when I was calling the singing call “Next Door to Alice” I got to thinking, how did I wind up standing in front of 5 squares of dancers.

I always call the song “Next Door to Alice”, which the original was written by Chris Norman, the song that launched my calling career.   I got this song in my head while on a trip to Branson, MO.  One of the other people on the trip and I got to trying to name songs that you could not get out of your head, when I looked at her and said “Alice, who the heck is Alice?”  That song did it. For the rest of the trip it was non stop,  “Alice, who the heck is Alice”.

Every dance we went to that week I asked the callers if they had it and would they call it?  Nobody did.  When I got back I was talking to Mike and when I told him about the song he pulled it up on his laptop and played the music for me.  By this time he and I had talked about me becoming a caller.  Mike told me he thought it was a good song for me to learn so he got me a copy that I could pratice with and two weeks later he brought me up on stage and I performed it.

And as they say, the rest is history and I must say I am having a great time.  So, if your ever at one of my dances then by all means ask me if I can do it.  I probably will.