Leroy Anderson, America's preeminent composer of light concert music, wrote such lively and evocative Pops orchestral favorites as "Sleigh Ride," "The Syncopated Clock" and "Blue Tango".
The following is an excerpt from the chapter, "Leroy Anderson" in Howard ... The Waltzing Cat, Blue Tango, and Sandpaper Ballet, which was a kind of soft-shoe number. Other numbers were ...