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'''NELLY GRAY.''' American; Air, Schottische, "Sand Jig" (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed in 1856 by Ohio minister and schoolteacher Benjamin Russell Hanby as "[[Darling Nellie Gray]]," about a slave who is sold away from her beloved to work on a plantation in Geogia. The popular song fueled abolitionist sympathies. It was variously arranged in tradition as an air, stage vehicle (for a sand jig, a solo dance on a sanded stage), and a play party game. 78RPM-era recordings were numerous, by early country music stars that included the Stanley Trio (1924), Riley Puckett (1924), Vernon Dalhart (1925), Al Hopkins (1927) and Carson Robison (1930). See also note for "[[Annotation:Darling Nellie Gray]]" for more. | '''NELLY GRAY.''' American; Air, Schottische, "Sand Jig" (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed in 1856 by Ohio minister and schoolteacher Benjamin Russell Hanby as "[[Darling Nellie Gray]]," about a slave who is sold away from her beloved to work on a plantation in Geogia. The popular song fueled abolitionist sympathies. It was variously arranged in tradition as an air, stage vehicle (for a sand jig, a solo dance on a sanded stage), and a play party game. 78RPM-era recordings were numerous, by early country music stars that included the Stanley Trio (1924), Riley Puckett (1924), Vernon Dalhart (1925), Al Hopkins (1927) and Carson Robison (1930). See also note for "[[Annotation:Darling Nellie Gray]]" for more, and the excellent tune history at the Banjo Hangout site [http://www.banjohangout.org/archive/193739]. | ||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/d02.htm#Darnegr]<br> | Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/d02.htm#Darnegr]<br> | ||
Hear Arkansas fiddler Absie Morrison's (1876-1962) version at Lyon's College [http://web.lyon.edu/wolfcollection/songs/morrisonnelly-1270.mp3] [http://slippery-hill.com/Arkansas/AbsieMorrison/NellieGray.mp3] (collected by Mary Celestia Parlker, Nov. 1954, in Campbell, Arkansas). | Hear Arkansas fiddler Absie Morrison's (1876-1962) version at Lyon's College [http://web.lyon.edu/wolfcollection/songs/morrisonnelly-1270.mp3] [http://slippery-hill.com/Arkansas/AbsieMorrison/NellieGray.mp3] (collected by Mary Celestia Parlker, Nov. 1954, in Campbell, Arkansas). | ||
See/hear a clawhammer banjo versions on youtube.com [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pauhltKbhk4] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZV1-y46N0] | See/hear a clawhammer banjo versions on youtube.com [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pauhltKbhk4] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZV1-y46N0]<br> | ||
Hear the Columbia Quartet's 1905 cylinder recording at the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project [http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/4000/4787/cusb-cyl4787d.mp3]<br> | |||
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NELLY GRAY. American; Air, Schottische, "Sand Jig" (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed in 1856 by Ohio minister and schoolteacher Benjamin Russell Hanby as "Darling Nellie Gray," about a slave who is sold away from her beloved to work on a plantation in Geogia. The popular song fueled abolitionist sympathies. It was variously arranged in tradition as an air, stage vehicle (for a sand jig, a solo dance on a sanded stage), and a play party game. 78RPM-era recordings were numerous, by early country music stars that included the Stanley Trio (1924), Riley Puckett (1924), Vernon Dalhart (1925), Al Hopkins (1927) and Carson Robison (1930). See also note for "Annotation:Darling Nellie Gray" for more, and the excellent tune history at the Banjo Hangout site [1].
Source for notated version: Absie Morrison (1875-1964, Sercy County, Arkansas) [Beisswenger & McCann].
Printed sources: Beisswenger & McCann (Ozarks Fiddle Music), 2008; p. 104. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2); No. 403, p. 45.
Recorded sources: Columbia Phonograph Co. 32836 (Cylinder), The Columbia Quartet (1905).
See also listings at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Hear Arkansas fiddler Absie Morrison's (1876-1962) version at Lyon's College [3] [4] (collected by Mary Celestia Parlker, Nov. 1954, in Campbell, Arkansas).
See/hear a clawhammer banjo versions on youtube.com [5] [6]
Hear the Columbia Quartet's 1905 cylinder recording at the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project [7]