The Moffatts are 12-year-old lead singer Scott Moffatt and his 11-year-old triplet brothers, Bob, Clint and Dave. The next Polydor quartet scheduled for introduction to the market (June 20) is The Moffatts, a Canadian-born group of brothers whose halfdozen years in the music business doesn’t sound like an awful lot until you realize it constitutes half or more of their lives. Polydor Records executives slightly discomfited the mid-to-late-30s-aged members of the Polydor quartet 4 Runner (which has the current “Cain’s Blood” in the upper quarter of the hit charts) at a Polydor reception by announcing that Polydor-Nashville was going to be a youth-aimed label.īut the executives weren’t kidding. They just wanted to try to line dance to it.” You need to be wrapped up: This is a love song.’ Y’all are line dancing, not even touching each other. The reason they created this tempo, this beat, this rhythm, is so you could get real close and hold onto one of them gals. “I stopped in the middle of the song and said, ‘Hold on a minute.’ I said, ‘Listen, fellas, this is a waltz. Up there, and out West - in Arizona and Nevada and California - it’s all line dancing.”īyrd recalls once playing the Gatlin Brothers Theatre at the Mall of America in Minneapolis where he and his band introduced “this real sexy waltz” titled “Satin and Lace” and were amazed to see everybody in the place start line dancing to it. “It amazes me how big line dancing is up North, because like in Chicago, for instance, they don’t two-step. They call it ‘The Freeze,’ and they’ve been doing it forever, but they won’t do any of this other stuff. There’s only one line dance that they’ve been doing for about 15 years to a Ronnie Milsap song. “But the funny thing about South Texas is, line dancing still hasn’t caught on down there. So dancing - two-step, polka, waltz and jitterbug - has been involved in my music from the beginning.
“I’m a big Western swing fan, and back then in the clubs a third of the stuff we were playing was old Bob Wills or Spade Cooley. “The music I naturally loved just always was dance music,” Byrd says. Tracy Byrd, whose “Keeper of the Stars” has been one of the most popular country songs of the past several weeks, recently won a couple of dance awards for his recent “Watermelon Crawl” and the line dance it inspired.īut he confesses that although he has long played music for dancers, he and most of his fellow natives of southern Texas don’t know much about line dancing.
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