Annotation:Tom and Jerry (2)
TOM AND JERRY [2]. AKA and see "Old Dominion Reel (2)." American, Scottish(?); Reel (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Apparently, "Tom and Jerry [2]" was the original tune from which the old‑time version derived (see "Tom and Jerry (1)." It’s provenance is labelled as “Scotch” in Ryan’s/Cole’s, although with what authority is not known, however, it is a transposed copy of "Old Dominion Reel (2)" printed in Knauff's Virginia Reels vol. 3 (1839, No. 10, p. 5). It appears as "Reel Tom & Jerry" in the mid-19th century music manuscripts of Setauket, Long Island, painter and fiddler William Sidney Mount.
Perhaps the earliest sound recording of the tune is from 1905 by violinist Charles D’Alamaine, born in 1871 in England, who died in 1943. D’Alamaine immigrated to the United States in 1888, and by 1890 had established himself as “instructor on violin” in Evanston, Illinois; by 1910 he had removed to Yonkers, and in 1920 was a chiropractor in New York City (info. from Paul Gifford).
