Joe Morley's "Yankee Glide"

[Jody Stecher]

Does anyone have the dots for Yankee Glide?  And are you willing to post it here? Joe Morley plays this appealing and slightly demented sounding solo on a home made cylinder reproduced on CD in the Tarrant Bailey Collection. I assume it's Morley's own composition but I don't see it listed on http://www.joemorley.co.uk/pages/complist1.htm.

For those who haven't heard the recording I've attached it below.

[Adam]

Hi Jody,

I can't help you with the dots ... But I'm hoping you might have more information on the Neophone site/label. You've mentioned their collections a couple of times on this site and I've always been intrigued to find them. Unfortunately, their web site is non-existent. Do you know if the label still exists? If the label is dead, what about the collections? Is anybody sitting on case of them who would be willing to sell me a couple? Any help from you, Jody, or anyone else here is greatly appreciated, as always.

Best,
Adam

[Trapdoor2]

Funny, I was listening to "Yankee Glide" on my way to work yesterday. It is an odd little piece, ain't it?

Some of these things were re-titled when they made it into sheet music. I was looking for some of the O.Oakley titles when David W. popped in with their sheet music titles. Perhaps he'll do the same with "Yankee Glide".

BTW, the term "Yankee Glide" and "American Glide", etc. refers to the extravagent bass slides you hear in the music. Evidently these were a typical "American" banjo idiom of the period...associated primarily with the minstrel show style of banjo. You hear it in tunes like "A Coon Band Contest", etc.

[Jody Stecher]

Yankee Glide is also the name of a racehorse who has sired some winners. Stud fee is 20k. I kinda thought maybe the title of this banjo solo might be in honor of an earlier horse of the same name.

Trapdoor2 said:

Funny, I was listening to "Yankee Glide" on my way to work yesterday. It is an odd little piece, ain't it?

Some of these things were re-titled when they made it into sheet music. I was looking for some of the O.Oakley titles when David W. popped in with their sheet music titles. Perhaps he'll do the same with "Yankee Glide".

BTW, the term "Yankee Glide" and "American Glide", etc. refers to the extravagent bass slides you hear in the music. Evidently these were a typical "American" banjo idiom of the period...associated primarily with the minstrel show style of banjo. You hear it in tunes like "A Coon Band Contest", etc.