Annotation:Harvey (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
HARVEY, THE. Canadian, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Harvey, New Brunswick, was the home town of Canadian radio and TV fiddler Don Messer (1909-1973). Parts of this tune are equivalent to several Pennsylvania collected untitled quadrilles that appear grouped together in Bayard (1981, Nos. 527-530, pp. 472-474), and the first part of "Rolling Off a Log" (Cole/Ryan's Mammoth).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 79. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 137, p. 88.
Recorded sources: