Where in the world are you stevethesqueze?

I can't make the same offer as McGrath of Alcar and record you but again like the idea you are putting stuff out for kids to dance to.

If North Norfolk (Cromer, UK) was in your range, I could lend you a Yamaha MG10/2 mini mixer for a week if it's of any help to you. That would allow you to combine a few inputs and output to a recording device in such ways as illustrated here. I could also lend you one low end condenser mic (audio-tehnicha MB 4000C) and maybe a couple of leads but beyond that, you would need your own kit, eg. a second mic to plug in.

As for the dicatphones, I have a unit that takes the small cassete. I do use it sometimes for learning a tune I hear in a session. It is perfectly adequate for that but is not a device you would be using for your purposes.