SPANISH_TWO-STEP. American, Two‑Step. USA; Texas, Arkansas. A Major ('A' and 'B' parts) & D Major ('C' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'CC. "Spanish Two-Step" was composed by Texas fiddler Wikipedia:Bob Wills (1905-1975), who developed the melody while playing in a New Mexican band that included some Mexican‑American musicians. Wills' version become the fourth best-selling country music record for the year 1936. The title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountains fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.
Additional notes Source for notated version : - Bob Wills (Texas) [Phillips].
Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 134.
Recorded sources : - Arhoolie 7029, Adolph Hofner & his Texans - "South Texas Swing" (1994). Folkways FA 2381, "The Hammered Dulcimer as played by Chet Parker (Mich.) (1966). Old Blue 501, Lewis Thomasson - "Old Texas Tunes Played the Old Way" (c. 1969). Vocalion 03230 (78 RPM), Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys (1936). Lee Stoneking - "Rainbow of Fiddle Tunes" (197?).
See also listing at : Hear Arkansas fiddler Clyde Blair's version at Slippery Hill [1]
Hear Cecil & John Snow's (Ark.) version at Slippery Hill [2]
