Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on November 20th 2005 by Stewart.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Forest Rogers'
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
D2FA|d2Ad|c2B2|BA cB|A2ce|a2^ga|b2a2|
a^g a2|D2FA|d2Ad|c2B2|BA cB|A2ce|a2c2|d4|d4:|
|:A2f2|fe dc|B2g2|gf ed|cA ce|
a2^ga|b2a2|a^g a2|A2f2|fe dc|
B2g2|gf ed|cA ce|a2c2|d4|d4:|
Unknown Polka
This was an unknown tune discussed at Mudcat http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=86411&messages=53
"from a 1941 recording of a NY fiddler (Catskill region)"
Anyone know the name? I've called it Forest Rogers' since in the comments on the recording it sounds like some says "we're going to play Forest Rogers' tune," but that might not be correct.
# Posted on November 20th 2005 by Stewart
"Gan Ainm" ~
though I've suspicions this might be in one of the two Christeson collections, "Old Time Fiddler's Repertory", University of Missouri Press? It is definitely 'Old Time' where I came across this one first, played for just plain polka-ing around in one form or another but with a definite 'hop'-1-2-3... Here's as best I can remember it, but if I come across more on it I'll comeback and add that, like a name would be nice, and I know it had one but that isn't coming to mind as yet.
T: Gan Ainm / without name for the moment...
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|: A/G/F/E/ |
DF/A/ dA/d/ | cB B/^A/B | Ac/e/ a^g/a/ | ba a/^g/a |
D (3F/G/A/ d/A/F/d/ | cB B/^A/B/^G/ | Ac/e/ a/e/c/e/ | d2 :|
|: d>B |
|:Af f/e/d/c/ | Bg g/f/e/d/ | c/A/c/e/ a^g/a/ | b/a/^g/a/ f>d |
Af fd/c/ | Bg g/f/e | cA/c/ ac | ed :|
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by ceolachan
Stewart ~ as you are in the heart of some strong 'old-time' sentiment, the Pacific Northwest and specifically Seattle, for a name and maybe more context and ways with this tune you might try Greg & Jere Canote, damned fine musicians, or Phil & Vivian Williams, and there's also Kerry Blech in your neck of the woods, another excellent resource for this kind of thing. I think I may have first learned it off of one of them, or in a group setting, maybe out the Olympic Penninsula, or in tents somewhere in the mountains there, or possibly from Sandy Bradley and gang? I honestly can't remember. There's still old-time jams in your neck of the woods, someone is bound to know this old chestnut... As to sessions and the 'where' and 'when' of them, any of those mentioned previously would know as would other Seattle Folklife folk. Unfortunately, my copies of the Christeson and other North American resources are mostly not at hand, being on loan to dear friends involved in that line of business...
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by ceolachan
Two other possible sources ~ you might also check the Don Messer and Bill Guest collections...
# Posted on November 22nd 2005 by ceolachan
"You can't just leave well enough alone can yuh?" ~ sorry, but ~
I was playing this on another instrument, which required me to slow it down, and you know that tendency of mine to swing things, well ~
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: schottische / barndance
K: Dmaj
|: A>F |
D2 F>A d>AF>d | (3cdc B>^A B>Ac>B | A2 c>e a>e^g>a | (3bc'b a>^g a>fd>A |
(3DED (3FGA (3ded A>d | c2 B2 B>Ac>B | (3ABA c>e a>ec>e | d2 d2 d2 :|
|: c>d |
A2 f2 f>ed>c | B2 g2 g>fe>d | c>Ac>e (3aba ^g>a | b2 a2 a>^ga>f |
(3ABA f>=f ^f>ed>c | (3BcB g2 g>fe>d | c>A (3cde a2 c2 |1 d2 f2 d2 :|
2 d2 A2 D2 ||
I'm not sure what others will make of it, but just maybe this melody had an earlier existence as a schottische. It works really well that way and I've been mating it up with other Germans/Schottisches/Barndances here on site and elswhere. But whatever the case, it's another possibility, and personally I think it swings nicely either way...
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# Posted on November 24th 2005 by ceolachan