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|f_annotation='''TEXAS QUICKSTEP [2].''' Canadian, Breakdown. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Related to "[[Texas Quickstep (1)]]", but more of a reel. The composition of “Texas Quickstep [2]” is credited to Canadian fiddler Jim Magill by publisher Harry Jarman. Canadian radio and TV fiddler and entertainer Don Messer and his band played the tune on live TV in the 1960’s. A close relative, an untitled lancers tune collected from a Prince Edward Island, appears in Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle''', 1981, Appendix No. 5, p. 574). Another tune called "[[Elk's Festival (The)]]" is similar. | |f_annotation='''TEXAS QUICKSTEP [2].''' Canadian, Breakdown. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Related to "[[Texas Quickstep (1)]]", but more of a reel. The composition of “Texas Quickstep [2]” is credited to Canadian fiddler Jim Magill by publisher Harry Jarman. Canadian radio and TV fiddler and entertainer Don Messer and his band played the tune on live TV in the 1960’s<ref>"Don Messer's Jubilee" ran 1958-1969 on the CBC TV network.</ref>. A close relative, an untitled lancers tune collected from a Prince Edward Island, appears in Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle''', 1981, Appendix No. 5, p. 574). Another tune called "[[Elk's Festival (The)]]" is similar. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Harry Jarman ('''The Cornhuskers Book of Square Dance Tunes'''), 1944; p. 8. | |f_printed_sources=Harry Jarman ('''The Cornhuskers Book of Square Dance Tunes'''), 1944; p. 8. | ||
|f_recorded_sources=London 16064 (78 RPM), Jim Magill & Northern Ramblers () | |f_recorded_sources=London 16064 (78 RPM), Jim Magill & Northern Ramblers (). Don Messer - "Live TV." | ||
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TEXAS QUICKSTEP [2]. Canadian, Breakdown. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Related to "Texas Quickstep (1)", but more of a reel. The composition of “Texas Quickstep [2]” is credited to Canadian fiddler Jim Magill by publisher Harry Jarman. Canadian radio and TV fiddler and entertainer Don Messer and his band played the tune on live TV in the 1960’s[1]. A close relative, an untitled lancers tune collected from a Prince Edward Island, appears in Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle, 1981, Appendix No. 5, p. 574). Another tune called "Elk's Festival (The)" is similar.
- ↑ "Don Messer's Jubilee" ran 1958-1969 on the CBC TV network.