Annotation:Grace Waltz

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 GRACE WALTZ. AKA and see "Old Southern Waltz." American, Waltz. Paul Gifford was told by fiddler Jim Moran that the waltz was written and published by O. F. ("Cub") Berdan, a publisher of dance music in Detroit who was active in the 1880s, and named for his daughter. Paul goes on to add: "Berdan's widow married "Col." John A. Pattee, leader of a vaudeville troupe called the "Old Soldier Fiddlers," who recorded two sides on Columbia in 1924. Incidentally, Berdan supposedly played cornet in Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was shot."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources:

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