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'''WALDO.''' Old Time. USA, Missouri. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. According to Missouri fiddler Howard Marshall, some older regional fiddlers associate this melody with a violin dealer and fiddler from Kansas City named John Jernigan. Drew Beisswenger (2008) points out similarities with “[[Frisky Jim]],” and says that the tune is sometimes linked to “[[George Booker]].” | '''WALDO.''' Old Time. USA, Missouri. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. According to Missouri fiddler Howard Marshall, some older regional fiddlers associate this melody with a violin dealer and fiddler from Kansas City named John Jernigan. Drew Beisswenger (2008) points out similarities with “[[Frisky Jim]],” and says that the tune is sometimes linked to “[[George Booker (1)]].” | ||
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WALDO. Old Time. USA, Missouri. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. According to Missouri fiddler Howard Marshall, some older regional fiddlers associate this melody with a violin dealer and fiddler from Kansas City named John Jernigan. Drew Beisswenger (2008) points out similarities with “Frisky Jim,” and says that the tune is sometimes linked to “George Booker (1).”
Sources for notated versions: Lymon Enloe (Mo.) [Phillips]; Dean Johnston (1919-2007, Lamar, Barton County, Mo.), learned from either Lonnie Robertson of Lyman Enloe [Beisswenger & McCann].
Printed sources: Beisswenger & McCann (Ozarks Fiddle Music), 2008; p. 77. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 251.
Recorded sources: Marimac 9017, Vesta Johnson (Mo.) "Down home Rag." Caney Mountain Records CEP 213 (privately issued extended play LP), Lonnie Robertson (Mo.), c. 1965 66. Rounder 0436, Dean Johnston – “Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks, vol. 2: On the Springfield Plain” (2000. Various artists.
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources []