THAT ELEGANT STYLE. Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard. AB. Composed by Arthur S. Robertson as a tribute to the Aberdeenshire fiddler James F. Dickie (b. New Deer, 1886), who specialised in playing slow strathspeys in an authentic Buchan style. Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 60, pg. 83.
TOM AND JERRY [1]. Old-Time, Texas Style; Breakdown. USA; Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Arizona. A Major. AEAE or Standard. AABB. The title has several associations. Thede (1967) revealed that a Tom and Jerry was a concoction whose ingredients are whiskey, hot water, sugar, nutmeg, and whipped whites of eggs; present-day fiddlers probably remember Tom and Jerry as the cat and mouse antagonists of Saturday morning cartoons. However, the first famous association of the two names together was in the early years of the 19th century in a book called Life in London (1820-1821), by Pierce Egan (1772-1849). It features the characters of a young country squire, Jerry Hawthorne who is shown about town by his elegant cousin, Corinthian Tom, and Bob Logic, as rakes in Regency England who misadventured among upper-class society, especially at one of the most exculusive establishements of the fashionable Regency world: Almack's Assembly Rooms in King Street, London. The book (which also had illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank) was written in thick period slang and was enormously popular with the younger set of the era, although frowned upon by their elders. Arizona fiddler Kenner Kartchner said the tune was from the South, and difficult to play in standard tuning. The tune was played at a fiddlers' convention at the Pike County (Alabama) Fairgrounds, according to an account in the Troy Herald of July 6, 1926. The tune was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from the playing of Ozark Mountain fiddlers in the early 1940's, and by Herbert Halpert in 1939 from the playing of Mississippi fiddlers Stephen B. Tucker and John Hatcher. It is known as a Missouri piece. Sources for notated versions: Ardell Christopher (El Paso, Texas) [Christeson]: Herman Johnson (Brody): J.S. Price (Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma) [Thede]. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, Vol. 1), 1973; pg. 23. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 278. Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; pg. 50. Also published in Howe's Musician's Omnibus (1864). American Heritage 1, Herman Johnson- "Champion Fiddling." County 707, Major Franklin- "Texas Fiddle Favorites." County 724, Benny Thomasson (Texas) - "Country Fiddling." County 727, John Ashby- "Old Virginia Fiddling." County 790, Leftwich & Higginbotham - "No One to Bring Home Tonight" (1984). Elektra EKS 7285, The Dillards with Byron Berline- "Pickin' and Fiddlin.'" Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers Association 002, Taylor McBaine (b. 1911) - "Boone County Fiddler." Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers' Association, Lymon Enloe (b. 1906). Rounder 0068, Mark O'Conner- "Pickin' in the Wind." Yodel-Ay-Hee 05, The Wildcats - "On Our Knees" (1992).
T:Tom and Jerry
S:Sam Bush, Repertoire Tape, 1985
Z:Transcribed by Nigel Gatherer
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:A
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