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<p><font face=" | <p><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> '''Additional notes''' </font></p> | ||
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<font color=red>''Sources for notated versions''</font>: - Highwoods String Band (New York) [Brody, Phillips]; John Hilt (Tazewell County, Virginia) [Krassen]; Wilson Douglas (W.Va.) [Phillips]; Charlie Acuff [Phillips]; Oscar ‘Red’ Wilson [Silberberg]. | <font color=red>''Sources for notated versions''</font>: - Highwoods String Band (New York) [Brody, Phillips]; John Hilt (Tazewell County, Virginia) [Krassen]; Wilson Douglas (W.Va.) [Phillips]; Charlie Acuff [Phillips]; Oscar ‘Red’ Wilson [Silberberg]. | ||
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Brody ('''Fiddler’s Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 284. Krassen ('''Masters of Old Time Fiddling'''), 1983; pp. 114 115. Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 252 (two versions). Silberberg ('''Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 164. Spadaro ('''10 Cents a Dance'''), 1980; p. 6. | <font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Brody ('''Fiddler’s Fakebook'''), 1983; p. 284. Krassen ('''Masters of Old Time Fiddling'''), 1983; pp. 114 115. Phillips ('''Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1'''), 1994; p. 252 (two versions). Silberberg ('''Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern'''), 2002; p. 164. Spadaro ('''10 Cents a Dance'''), 1980; p. 6. | ||
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> -Anachronistic 001, John Hilt (Va.) - "Swope's Knobs." Document 8039, “The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, vol. 1” (reissue). Rounder 0047, Wilson Douglas (W.Va.) - "The Right Hand Fork of Rush's Creek" (1975). Lee Hammons "Shaking Down the Acorns." Rounder 0023, Highwoods String Band - "Fire on the Mountain." Rounder 0089, Oscar and Eugene Wright - "Old Time Fiddle and Guitar Music from West Virginia." Rounder C 11565, Eugene Wright - "Rounder Fiddle" (1990). Vocalion 5024 (78 FPM), The Hillbillies (1926). In the repertoire of Luther Davis, Galax, Va. </font> | <font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> -Anachronistic 001, John Hilt (Va.) - "Swope's Knobs." Document 8039, “The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, vol. 1” (reissue). Rounder 0047, Wilson Douglas (W.Va.) - "The Right Hand Fork of Rush's Creek" (1975). Lee Hammons "Shaking Down the Acorns." Rounder 0023, Highwoods String Band - "Fire on the Mountain." Rounder 0089, Oscar and Eugene Wright - "Old Time Fiddle and Guitar Music from West Virginia." Rounder C 11565, Eugene Wright - "Rounder Fiddle" (1990). Vocalion 5024 (78 FPM), The Hillbillies (1926). In the repertoire of Luther Davis, Galax, Va. </font> | ||
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<p><font face=" | <p><font face="sans-serif" size="2">See also listing at:<br> | ||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/kwframe.htm]<br> | Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/kwframe.htm]<br> | ||
Hear the tune played by Paul Tyler slow and moderately at the Old Town School of Folk Music [https://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/walkingintheparlor6154.mp3] [https://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/walkingintheparlor9351.mp3]<br> | Hear the tune played by Paul Tyler slow and moderately at the Old Town School of Folk Music [https://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/walkingintheparlor6154.mp3] [https://www.oldtownschool.org/fiddle/fun/walkingintheparlor9351.mp3]<br> | ||
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WALKING IN THE PARLOR [1]. American, Reel (cut time). USA; West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Silberberg): ABB (Brody): ABA'A'B'B' (Krassen). A melody with minstrel-era origins (for which see "Walk in the Parlor (1)"), although some hear distinct echoes of the English morris dance melody “Shepherd’s Hey.” It was widely disseminated in the Upland South and Piedmont regions, the deep south and MidWest, propelled by early 78 RPM-era recordings by D. Dix Hollis (1924) and The Hill Billies (1926). The tune was mentioned in an account as having been played at a LaFollette, northeast Tennessee fiddlers' contest in 1931. The title (as "Walk in the Parlor") appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountians fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954. Wilson Douglas (Ivydale, W.Va.) remarks it was noted W.Va. fiddler French Carpenter's favorite tune, and says of its origins with his mentor:
A lady composed that. She was a fiddler and a top square dancer. She lived during Carpenter's time, but she was old. French said she played that tune and nobody could beat her. That's where he learned it. Her name was Trod Evans. She was a lady fiddler.
Indeed, the tune is sometimes called “Trude Evans.” It took five years, according to Douglas, for him to learn the tune with "the proper time at the proper time, or the proper rock, or the proper swing, or the proper shuffle." Despite its minstrel beginnings Gerald Milnes found a version with topical references regarding the nature of John D. Rockefeller (Milnes, Play of a Fiddle, 1999).
This version of "Walking in the Parlor" was recorded in New York City in October, 1926, by the North Carolina/Virginia group The Hill Billies (AKA Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters), with Tony Alderman and Fred Roe on fiddles for this cut (Charlie Bowman, another famed fiddler with the group, played banjo on this cut).