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'''PARIS WALTZ'''. Old-Time, Waltz. USA, Tenn. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Arthur Smith (1898-1971), named for the town of Paris, Tennessee. | '''PARIS WALTZ'''. Old-Time, Waltz. USA, Tenn. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Arthur Smith (1898-1971), named for the town of Paris, Tennessee, near where Smith was born and raised. | ||
[[File:Smith.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Arthur Smith]] | [[File:Smith.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Arthur Smith]] Smith recorded the waltz for Bluebird Records in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1938, backed by the Delmore Brothers, Alton and Rabon, who both played guitar. | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Bluebird | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Bluebird BB B-8158 (78 RPM), Arthur Smith (1938). County Records CO-3526-CD, "Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners." Starday SLP 202, "Rare Old Fiddle Tunes - Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and the Dixieliners" (1963).</font> | ||
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See also listing at:<br> | See also listing at:<br> | ||
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/p02.htm#Parwa]<br> | Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/p02.htm#Parwa]<br> | ||
Hear Arthur Smith's | Hear Arthur Smith's 1938 recording on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLCJkaGn7Uw]<br> | ||
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PARIS WALTZ. Old-Time, Waltz. USA, Tenn. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Arthur Smith (1898-1971), named for the town of Paris, Tennessee, near where Smith was born and raised.
Smith recorded the waltz for Bluebird Records in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1938, backed by the Delmore Brothers, Alton and Rabon, who both played guitar.
Source for notated version: Howard Forrester and Dwight Lubiniecki [Phillips]; Floyd Engstrom [Silberberg].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 292. Silberberg (93 Fiddle Tunes I Didn’t Learn at the Tractor Tavern), 2004; p. 35.
Recorded sources: Bluebird BB B-8158 (78 RPM), Arthur Smith (1938). County Records CO-3526-CD, "Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners." Starday SLP 202, "Rare Old Fiddle Tunes - Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and the Dixieliners" (1963).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear Arthur Smith's 1938 recording on youtube.com [2]