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TULSA WALTZ [1]. AKA - "Tulsey Waltz." American, Waltz (3/4 time). USA; Arkansas, Oklahoma. C Major (Thede): D Major (Phillips). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Thede): AA' (Phillips). The tune was recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, from the playing of Ozarks Mountains fiddlers in the early 1940's. However, it is a composition by Howard L. Cawley, fiddler for Jack Cawley's Oklahoma Ridge Runners (consisting of Howard Cawley, fiddle; Leonard C. Fulwider, guitar; and Forrest A. Turner, mandolin) who recorded the tune in Memphis, Tennessee, in June 1930 for Victor Records. Cawley is also credited with the 'B' side of the recording, "Oklahoma Waltz." Oklahoma folksinger Woody Guthrie's "Cowboy Waltz" (there are several tunes with this title) leans heavily on borrowed melodic material from Cawley's "Tulsa Waltz."

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - J.S. Price (Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma) [Thede]; Howard Cawley with Jack Cawley's Oklahoma Ridge Runners (Oklahoma) [Phillips].

Printed sources : - Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 316. Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; p. 154.

Recorded sources : - Library of Congress AFS 05377 A03, Lon Jordan (1941). Victor 40254-A (78 RPM), Jack Cawley's Oklahoma Ridge Runners (1930).

See also listing at :
Hear Lon Jordan's 1941 field recording at Slippery Hill [1]

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