Tarrant Bailey Junior Recording on Youtube

[thereallyniceman]

I spotted a recording that I have never heard, and bet that you ain't either !!!

A great medley of Old Time Tunes...even a snatch of Morley's Georgia Medley in there!!

My research tells me that this was recorded around 1933.

TBj was a great player indeed, and I am proud to have spent time with him.

[Trapdoor2]

Very cool, Ian!

 

A side:

1. ? This is very familiar but I don't know the name of the tune.

2. Golden Slippers

3. Kingdom Comin' and the Year of Jubilo (by H. Work)

4. Old Black Joe

5. Sweet Genevive

6. Yankee Doodle

B side:

1.? again, familiar but unknown to me

2. Little Brown Jug

3. Suwanee River

4. ?

5. British Grenadiers

6. The Girl I Left Behind Me.

7. Marching Thru Georgia

[thereallyniceman]

Track 1 side B:   Go Tell Aunt Rhody  (the old grey goose is dead)  ?

[Trapdoor2]

I don't think it is Aunt Rhody (one of the tunes I am practicing on the viola lately), but I have nothing else to guess.

B side #4 is "After The Ball Is Over", I finally remembered the lyrics...

edit: aha! The very first tune is "The Minstrel Boy To The War Has Gone". I had to hum it a few times before a lyric presented itself...

[Joel Hooks]

Side B #1 is Blue Tail Fly.

[Trapdoor2]

I don't hear "Blue Tail Fly" (cracked corn or not). I keep getting faint hints from me auld brain-pan but they're not loud enough. It is a familiar old tune but we haven't hit it yet. Where's Jody when we need him?

[Jody Stecher]

Jody was in the Mission District of San Francisco buying hand made tortillas, still hot, and some Queso Oaxaca. But I must desist from referring to myself in the third person or someone might confuse me with Donald Trump. Um, the fourth line is like the last line of the well known sanitized version of The Blue Tail Fly. But the first three lines sound more like a harmony to it. But there could well be another melody to the Blue Tail Fly that  I don't know. Have youze heard the Dan Emmett version? It's entirely different and excellent.  Speaking of corn I must go attend to my tortillas. 

Trapdoor2 said:

I don't hear "Blue Tail Fly" (cracked corn or not). I keep getting faint hints from me auld brain-pan but they're not loud enough. It is a familiar old tune but we haven't hit it yet. Where's Jody when we need him?

[Jody Stecher]

It's also not Go In And Out The Window As We Have Done Before, which also has the same last line.

[Trapdoor2]

Yah, the Emmett version is truly weird...so is the Briggs 1855 version. I don't think this is either. I suspect this is a "standard" (for the period) but I can't put my finger on it.

[thereallyniceman]

Hmmm, 

track 1,  side B:  Chorus from Mr Noah Built an Ark  (10 seconds in)

http://share.gospelriver.com/Music/Children/Mr_Noah-singing_only.mp...

I have no idea if this is based on some other traditional tune, but it seems pretty close to me!

[Trapdoor2]

That indeed sounds like the melody but like you, I think it is from a trad. (and still unknown) source tune.

[thereallyniceman]

track 1 Side A:

The minstrel Boy to the War has Gone

Ta Dah !!

:-)

[Trapdoor2]

Too late, I posted that earlier (see my second post). Now you have to go ring out all the changes for punishment. ;-)
 
thereallyniceman said:

track 1 Side A:

The minstrel Boy to the War has Gone

Ta Dah !!

:-)