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SATURDAY NIGHT BREAKDOWN [1]. Canadian, Reel (2/4 or cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was recorded by fiddler Don Messer, and, in 1956, by New Brunswick fiddler Ned Landry (1921-2018), a three-time Canadian Open Fiddle Champion who received the Order of Canada and who was inducted into the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia halls of fame. Messer's playing of the tune predates Landry's recording, however. A CBC program schedule for Friday, December 21st, 1945, records that it was played by Messer and his band The Islanders on his 5 P.M. broadcast (along with "Honeysuckle Schottische," "Haste to the Wedding" and "Cuckoo's Nest").

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Printed sources : - Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 4. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 24, p. 26. Sannella (Balance and Swing), CDSS.

Recorded sources: -RCA Victor 56-3258 (78 RPM), Ned Landry and His New Brunswick Lumberjacks – Saturday Night Breakdown/The Plough Boy’s Reel (1956). RCA/Camden Records CAL-780, Ned Landry – “Saturday Night Breakdown” (1963).

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