Annotation:Goodnight Waltz

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GOODNIGHT WALTZ. AKA and see "Mayflower Waltz." Old-Time, Waltz. USA, Widely known, esp. in Mid- and Southwest. C Major ('A' part) & F Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Phillips, Silberberg): ABB (Christeson). The Leake County Revelers' version of this tune (backed by "Wednesday Night Waltz") was the second best-selling country music record for the year 1927. Learned in the 1930's by Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner. It was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from Ozark Mountain fiddlers in the early 1940's. Curiously, a recording of the tune was released in Québec for the French-speaking market with the completely different title "Valse des Amoureux."

Source for notated version: Bill Driver (Miller County, Missouri) [Christeson]; Red Herron [Phillips].

Printed sources: R.P. Christeson (Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1), 1973; p. 198. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 264. Silberberg (93 Fiddle Tunes I Didn't Learn at the Tractor Tavern), 2004; p. 16.

Recorded sources: June Appal 007, Tommy Hunter - "Deep in Tradition" (1976. Learned from his grandfather, James W. Hunter, Madison County, N.C.). Voyager VRCD 344, Howard Marshall & John Williams - "Fiddling Missouri" (1999).

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]