Featured Tunes Music Library
Featured Tunes Music Library
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Played by: Andrew John Cairns
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Patrick Joseph McCall (6 March 1861 – 8 March 1919) known as "P.J. McCall"
Played by: Jatek Zenekar
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Ernie Carpenter (1909-1997)
Played by: Kevin Roth
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Rickett's Circus, Philadelphia, on the corner of Market and 12th St.
Played by: Bruno Bruzzese
Source: Soundcloud
Image: Portrait of J.C.Fischer (1733-1800) painted by Thomas Gainsborough, 1780 (Royal Collection).
Played by: Virgil Ed Sellers
Source: Soundcloud
Image: General John Sappington Marmaduke (1833-1887).
Missouri oral tradition gives that the tune was named for Confederate general John Sappington Marmaduke (1833-1887), son of pre-conflict Missouri governor M.M. Marmaduke, who was "from a dynasty of Little Dixie tobacco and hemp farmers, slave holders, and politicians.