Annotation:I am Gonna Marry that Pretty Little Girl
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I AM GONNA MARRY THAT PRETTY LITTLE GIRL. American, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCC'. Recorded by the Galax band The Sweet Brothers in July, 1928, in Richmond, Indiana. The band consisted of Herbert and Earl Sweet (fiddle and banjo) along with Ernest Stoneman (guitar). The cut was rejected by the Gennett Record company and was not issued, but does appear on reissue albums.
Source for notated version: Sweet Brothers (Galax, Virginia) [Milliner & Koken].
Printed sources: Milliner & Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 308.
Recorded sources: Indiana Univ. Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Sweet Brothers - "Round the Heart of Old Galax, vol. 1" (1981).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [www.ibiblio.org/keefer/i01.htm#Iamgom]