Annotation:Candy Girl (1)

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 CANDY GIRL [1]. AKA - "Candy Gal." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Cumberland Plateau (Ky./Tenn. border area), Tenn. A Major. Standard or AEae tunings (fiddle). AAB (Ford): ABAB' (Phillips). Uncle Bunt Stevens, a some-time WSM radio performer, recorded the tune for Columbia in 1926, the same year he defeated the famous Uncle Jimmy Thompson in a regional fiddling contest. He later was crowned national champion by automotive king and fiddle buff Henry Ford (Charles Wolfe).  Source for notated version: Bunt Stephens and Bruce Molsky [Phillips].  Printed sources: Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 118. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 2, 1995; p. 28.  Recorded sources: Columbia 15085-D (78 RPM), Uncle Bunt Stevens (Lynchburg, Tenn.), 1926. County 541, Uncle Bunt Stevens - "Nashville - The Early String Bands, vol. 1." County 786, "Gettin Upstairs: Traditional Music From the Cumberland Plateau, vol. 1." Rounder Cd0278, Mike Seegar - "Solo-Old Time Country Music" (1991). See also listing at Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: A Guide to Recorded Sources.

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