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'''PAT THE BUDGIE.''' AKA - "Pat the Budgie Breakdown." Canadian, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC (Phillips): AA’BB’CC’ (Songer). Composed by the Ontario fiddler Graham Townsend (), written | '''PAT THE BUDGIE.''' AKA - "Pat the Budgie Breakdown." Canadian, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC (Phillips): AA’BB’CC’ (Songer). Composed by the Ontario fiddler Graham Townsend (), written around 1960. It was named for a real budgie (bird) who used to perch on his fiddle bow. The reel is occasionally mistakenly attributed to Canadian fiddler Don Messer, however, three members (Waldo Munro, Duke Neilsen & Warren MacRae) of Messers band the Islanders, accompanied Townsend on his first record for Banff Records in 1960. | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Green Linnett, Seamus Connolly - "Here & There" (1989). Green Linnett 3085, Four Men and a Dog - “Barking Mad” (1991). RC2000, George Wilson – “Royal Circus” (2000). Gerry Conlon & Seamus O'Sullivan - "All Around the World" (2003). Pam Weeks - "Waiting for the Perseids." | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Banff Recors RBS 1083, Graham Townsend - "Famous Canadian Fiddlers vol. 1" (1960). Green Linnett, Seamus Connolly - "Here & There" (1989). Green Linnett 3085, Four Men and a Dog - “Barking Mad” (1991). RC2000, George Wilson – “Royal Circus” (2000). Gerry Conlon & Seamus O'Sullivan - "All Around the World" (2003). Pam Weeks - "Waiting for the Perseids." | ||
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Revision as of 14:53, 22 August 2015
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PAT THE BUDGIE. AKA - "Pat the Budgie Breakdown." Canadian, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC (Phillips): AA’BB’CC’ (Songer). Composed by the Ontario fiddler Graham Townsend (), written around 1960. It was named for a real budgie (bird) who used to perch on his fiddle bow. The reel is occasionally mistakenly attributed to Canadian fiddler Don Messer, however, three members (Waldo Munro, Duke Neilsen & Warren MacRae) of Messers band the Islanders, accompanied Townsend on his first record for Banff Records in 1960.
Source for notated version: Becky Tracy [Phillips].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 181. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 157.
Recorded sources: Banff Recors RBS 1083, Graham Townsend - "Famous Canadian Fiddlers vol. 1" (1960). Green Linnett, Seamus Connolly - "Here & There" (1989). Green Linnett 3085, Four Men and a Dog - “Barking Mad” (1991). RC2000, George Wilson – “Royal Circus” (2000). Gerry Conlon & Seamus O'Sullivan - "All Around the World" (2003). Pam Weeks - "Waiting for the Perseids."
See also listing at:
Hear the reel performed on youtube.com by Blazing Fiddles [1]