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A Lucky Duck, Parke Hunter
Looking around on my second favorite website (after this one) The Internet Archive, I found a Parke Hunter recording of "A Lucky Duck".
It is a nice snappy tune and the recording is clear.
https://archive.org/details/78_a-lucky-duck_parke-hunter_gbia0467514a
Is there a score to this floating around?
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Permalink Reply by Sam Harris on
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I found a piano score:
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Lucky_Duck_(Whitney%2C_Howard)
I don't think it would be too hard to get a banjo arrangement out of it - the score is in C, and it sounds like the recording is in C as well.
Also, there's a frog playing a banjo on the cover page.
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Permalink Reply by Joel Hooks on
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Looks like Witmark published it for solo banjo as well as a Paul Eno arrangement for full banjo club. Too bad I can't send them an order.
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Permalink Reply by thereallyniceman on
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Hi Joel you should have checked our ORIGINAL RECORDINGS page. There is Parke Hunter's recording in there! Sorry but I don't have the score!
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Yeah, I found that after I found this one. This just reinforces that this is my favorite website!
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Permalink Reply by Jody Stecher on
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I just now gave a listen to some of the other Parke Hunter recordings here. Check out his William Tell Overture. This is the fastest coherent string playing I have ever heard. There is no muddy picking and...I think... no mistakes. Is the recording sped up? I don't know.
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It's a good tune and Hunter makes it bounce along in his usual effervescent manner, it's quite playable on the banjo from the piano score. Whtiney''s 'Mosquito's Parade' is also worth playing, this one appeared in the Clifford Essex 'ragtime banjo' series of publications.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Harrison on
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Hi Sam, I've downloaded the score, I'll put this on my to do list...Steve.
Sam Harris said:I found a piano score:
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Lucky_Duck_(Whitney%2C_Howard)
I don't think it would be too hard to get a banjo arrangement out of it - the score is in C, and it sounds like the recording is in C as well.
Also, there's a frog playing a banjo on the cover page.
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