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Tune Annotations:	'''SOAP IN THE WASHPAN.''' AKA - "Soapsuds in the Washpan." AKA and see "[[Hot Corn]]." American, Reel (cut time). USA, Kentucky. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Soap in the Washpan" was recorded by Andy Palmer (b. 1881, Anderson County, Ky., the featured fiddler and vocalist for north-central Kentucky's Jimmy Johnson String Band, in Richmond, Indiana, in August, 1932. It was released on Champion Records, a subsidiary of Gennett. The tune is played in Franklin County as "[[Hot Corn]]," and is related to the Stripling Brothers' "[[Horse Shoe Bend]]," according to Guthrie Meade (1980).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:	Clare Milliner & Walt Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 619.
Recorded sources:	Champion CH 16516 (78 RPM), Jimmy Johnson's String Band (1932). Morning Star 45003, Jimmie Johnson's String Band - "Wink the Other Eye: Old Time Fiddle Band Music from Kentucky" (1980. Originally recorded for Gennett in 1932). Yazoo 2200, Jimmy Johnson String Band - "Kentucky Mountain Music vol. 3" (2003).
See also listing at:	Hear a 'crooked' (irregularly metered) version by Henry County, Ky., fiddler Artie Vandergriff at Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/3512]<br>

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