Following a comment by Jody mentioning Bob Roberts playing this on tenor banjo, I've come up with this arrangement for classic banjo.

As you would expect, as it's written by Percy Wenrich, it's a good tune but maybe not in the same league as 'Smiler'.

The front cover shows the picture of a sheep having what appears to be pepper blown up its nose. I'm completely at a loss as to the reason for this and I can only surmise that it must be some ancient American Masonic ritual, the origins and purpose of which is known only to the Grand Poobah and his acolytes! 

The score and midi are in the library....Steve.

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PLR is a cool tune, I have an original banjo arrangement (in the old large-format sheet-music). I'll send in my TAB from that.

I imagine peppered lamb would be quite tasty, esp. cooked! ;-)

I tried to find out the meaning of the image on the cover. Instead I found a Vess Ossman recording I had not heard before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ourw7Of-wY

I found it interesting that "Dope" is about information (rather than drugs or model airplane paint). The guy on the cover of "Dope" has been reading an musical journal called "Dope" and he's dreaming of the millions of tunes sold.

I guess he has the "inside dope". And...inside the sheet music, it has a dedication to all the music journalists, etc.

Great Ossman find, Jody. I'd never heard that one either.

Yes, it is a good Ossman tune ... but it has been in the Website Banjo DJ for almost a year ;-)

A pepperette seems to be some sort of sausage. That doesn't solve the mystery at all.

Maybe we are looking at this the wrong way and the gentleman is actually inhaling mystical fumes emanating from the lamb... but that doesn't help either.

... very odd!

Well, now I know way too much about persian lambs...but not much about what the cover implies.

Persian lambs have been a source of food and wool/skins since about 1400bc. I found about a thousand recipies for spicy Persian Lamb Stew online.

The best wool comes from lambs who are less than 3 days old, if not less...sometimes much less.

Pepperettes are simply a type of thin sausage, typically known (around here) as a "Slim Jim" and are related to pepperoni.

The cover depicts a ritual 'peppering' of a lamb, numbing its senses prior to being "processed."* Haggis anyone?

 

 

*I made that up.

 

To me the cover depicts a middle eastern mystic blowing magical "dancing dust" onto the lamb, pulling it upright to a bipedal stance, and it is "kickin' it" to Wenrich's music.

I believe "pepperette" is used here as a slang musical term for a hot, or lively piece.

The lamb seems to have  been hypnotized into believing he or she is a kangaroo.

Here's my TAB of "Persian Lamb". I don't know who arranged it for the banjo but it came from the original publisher. Quite different from Steve's arrangement (which I like a lot).

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Hi Marc, you can never have too many arrangements of a good tune.....Steve

Trapdoor2 said:

Here's my TAB of "Persian Lamb". I don't know who arranged it for the banjo but it came from the original publisher. Quite different from Steve's arrangement (which I like a lot).

Hi Marc

That's a fine sounding arrangement but looking at the tab, it's almost all in the upper register, quite difficult for mere mortals like myself. Back in 1908, the Banjo King set it an octave lower and it is still a challenge.  Attached (hopefully) is my manuscript tab transcription from Ossman's recorded  performance.

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