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WALTZ YOU SAVED FOR ME, THE. American, Waltz. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). A song and waltz instrumental widely recorded by various country music performers and often heard played at fiddle contests. The lyric was by songwriter Gus Kahn, born in Coblenz, Germany on November 6, 1886, who immigrated to the United States in 1891, where his family settled in Chicago. Kahn died in 1941. Composer credits also go to Emil Flindt and Wayne King. It was first recorded by Wayne King and His Orchestra in November, 1930.

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Printed sources:

Recorded sources: Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers Association 001, Pete McMahan (Mo.) "Ozark Mountain Waltz."

See also listing at:
Hear a 1940 recording of Wayne King and his Orchestra playing the tune [1]
Hear fiddler Vi Wickham play the waltz on youtube.com [2]
See Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden's transcription [3]




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