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I AM GONNA MARRY THAT PRETTY LITTLE GIRL. American, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCC'. Recorded by the Galax, Virginia, area band The Sweet Brothers in July, 1928, in Richmond, Indiana, their only recording session. The band consisted of Herbert and Earl Sweet (fiddle and banjo) along with Ernest Stoneman (guitar), whom they had met at a few years earlier a fiddlers' convention in Elizabethton, Tennessee. The brothers were originally from Washington County, but moved to Grayson County for some time, before finally settling in Pennsylvania. The cut (an instrumental with some square dance calls) 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]
Hear the Sweet Brothers 1928 recording at Slippery Hill [1] and on youtube.com [2].



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