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'''FLYING CLOUDS [1]'''. | '''FLYING CLOUDS [1]'''. American, Reel. USA; Texas. G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The tune was in the repertory of Uncle Jimmy Thompson (1848-1931), learned when he was aged seventeen, probably in Texas, around or prior to 1865, perhaps from returning Civil War veterans. Unfortunately, the elderly Thompson only recorded four sides; two in 1926 and two in 1930, ably backed by his niece, Eva Thompson Jones, who worked as piano accompanist for WSM in Nashville. "Flying Clouds" was the first piece in the 1930 Vocalion recording "Uncle Jimmy's Favorite Fiddling Pieces" (followed by "[[Leather Breeches]]"), introduced by him on the recording: | ||
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''I'm a-gonna play you one of our old-timey pieces, as I learned and knew before the Civil War....It's "Flyin' Clouds"...Oh, it's a good one. It just gets down in'' | |||
''people's heels and they can't keep from dancin'. They have to dance on it.'' | |||
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Brody ('''Fiddler's Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 109. Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes''') | <font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Brody ('''Fiddler's Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 109. Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 90. Songer ('''Portland Collection'''), 1997; p. 80. | ||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/f05.htm#Flyclco]<br> | Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/f05.htm#Flyclco]<br> | ||
Hear Uncle Jimmy Thompson's 1930 recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/flying-clouds] and at youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcF1SrF_ohI]<br> | |||
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Revision as of 22:01, 28 March 2019
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FLYING CLOUDS [1]. American, Reel. USA; Texas. G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The tune was in the repertory of Uncle Jimmy Thompson (1848-1931), learned when he was aged seventeen, probably in Texas, around or prior to 1865, perhaps from returning Civil War veterans. Unfortunately, the elderly Thompson only recorded four sides; two in 1926 and two in 1930, ably backed by his niece, Eva Thompson Jones, who worked as piano accompanist for WSM in Nashville. "Flying Clouds" was the first piece in the 1930 Vocalion recording "Uncle Jimmy's Favorite Fiddling Pieces" (followed by "Leather Breeches"), introduced by him on the recording:
I'm a-gonna play you one of our old-timey pieces, as I learned and knew before the Civil War....It's "Flyin' Clouds"...Oh, it's a good one. It just gets down in people's heels and they can't keep from dancin'. They have to dance on it.