Annotation:Flying Clouds (1)
Tune properties and standard notation
FLYING CLOUDS [1]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Texas. G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. "Flying Cloud Cotillion" is the way the name is sometimes given, when someone pointed out that tunes in two keys were sometimes called cotillions. Learned by Uncle Jimmy Thompson (widely credited as being the old-time fiddler who "started" the Grand Old Opry) when he was aged 17, probably in Texas, around 1865.
Source for notated version: Alan Garren (Portland, Oregon) [Songer]; Gary Craig [Phillips].
Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 109. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; p. 90. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 80.
Recorded sources: Vocalion 5456 (78 RPM), Uncle Jimmy Thompson (recorded in 1930 and appears as 1st tune of "Uncle Jimmy's Favorite Fiddling Pieces"). Hilltop Records 6022, Uncle Jimmy Thompson. Kicking Mule 209, Bob Carlin- "Melodic Clawhammer Banjo."
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]