Annotation:Fun's All Over (1) (The)
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FUN'S ALL OVER [1], THE. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; West Virginia, Kentucky. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The tune has been identified as an eastern Kentucky, West Virginia fiddle tune. It was first recorded in 1927 for OKeh Records by the duo of Arnod and Irving Williamson (fiddle and guitar, respectively) along with Curry (about whom nothing is known). The West Virginia act were centered around the coal-mining area of Logan County, W.Va., and, although they only recorded their several sides in the 1920's, they were active local musicians for decades. "The Fun's All Over" was also in the repertoire of Kentucky African-American fiddler Cuje Bertram, who recorded it on a home tape in 1970, made for his family. See also the high part of "Wild Hog in the Woods (1)." A similar title is "Fiddler's Drunk and the Fun's All Over (The)" and has some musical similarities to the present tune.
Source for notated version: J.P. Fraley (Rush, Ky.) [Milliner & Koken, Phillips].
Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 222. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 93.
Recorded sources: Field Recorders Collective FRC 303, "Buddy Thomas: Recordings from the collection of Dave Spilkia & Ray Alden" (2015). Flying Cloud FC-203, Kirk Sutphin - "Fiddlin' Around" (2006). Rounder 0037, J.P. Fraley - "Wild Rose of the Mountain" (1973).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]