Annotation:Reel St-Siméon
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REEL ST-SIMÉON. AKA and see "Ronfleuse Gobeille," "Snoring Mrs. Gobeil." AKA - "Reel de St-Siméon," "Saint-Siméon (1)." French-Canadian, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBCC'. The "Reel St-Siméon" title is from the repertory of fiddler Jos (Joe) Bouchard (1905-1979) who recorded it in Montreal in 1938 for Victor Records (issued on their subsidiary label, Bluebird). The first two strains of the tune, however, are credited to fiddler Willie Ringuette (1898-1969, Trois-Rivieres, Québec), who recorded the reel as "Ronfleuse Gobeil" in 1927 (Columbia 34109-F [1]), along with a third strain borrowed from the Irish reel "Maid Behind the Bar (1) (The)." Ms. Ringuette and passed it on to her violin student, Jean Carignan, whose own recording of "Ronfleuse Gobielle" helped to popularize the tune in modern times.
Saint-Siméon, Charlevoix-Est, is a town on the St. Lawrence River.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Recorded sources: Bluebird B-1156-A (78 RPM), Jos Bouchard (1938). Carnaval CS-530, "Jos Bouchard." Disques Mérite 221364, "Les grands folklorists Québécois: Jos Bouchard" (2006). Patrimoine, PAT-2001, "Jacques Labrecque chante Gilles Vigneault" (1984). Chris Norman - "The Beauty of the North" (1994).
See also listing at:
See Pascal Gemme's blog entry on the tune, with standard notation transcription [2]
Hear Joe Bouchard's 1938 recording at youtube.com [3][4]