X:1
T: Steamboat Bill
S:From the playing of Clark Kessinger (W.Va.)
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
N:All the (B-c) notes in the 2nd strain are played as slides.
D:Brunswick 563 (78 RPM), The Kessinger Brothers (1930).
D:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRhhNNiblxs
Z:Andrew Kuntz
K:A
(3EFG ||SAGAB cfec|dB3 e2e2|AGAB cfec|.B2 GE- E3G|
AGAB cA.B2|A2FA- A2B2-|cecB cfeB|(c=c^c)A- A2(B2|
[c2e2])[ce]A cdec|d2B2 e2E2|[c2e2][ce]A cfec |.B2 GE- E3G|
AGAB cA .B2|AF3 A2B2-|cecB cfeB|(c=c^c)A- A4||
|:B2-c2 A3B-|cABA ce-e2|B-ccA- A(Bcd) |ef-ec- BGFE|
B-cA2- A4|cABA ce-e2|1a2f2 ecAB|cAB2 A4:|2 fefd ecAB |cA B2A2E2S||
Steamboat BillSTEAMBOAT BILL. American, Quadrille (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. According to Wikipedia, "wikipedia:Steamboat Bill" is a 1910 song with music by the vaudeville group The wikipedia:Leighton Brothers and lyrics by Ben Shields which became one of the first hit recordings in the United States through its 1911 recording by Arthur Collins. "Steamboat Bill" notably inspired two major works of American film with long-lasting influence: the 1928 Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill, Jr. and "Steamboat Willie", the first Mickey Mouse cartoon.
An instrumental version was recorded by Kanawha County, West Virginia, fiddler Clark Kessinger (1896-1975), accompanied on guitar by his nephew Luches (billed as 'The Kessinger Brothers'), in New York in September, 1930.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Ruth (Pioneer Western Folk Tunes), 1948; No. 61, p. 22.
Recorded sources : - Brunswick 563 (78 RPM), The Kessinger Brothers (1930).
See also listing at : Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear the Kessinger Brothers recording at youtube.com [2]
Watch "Steamboat Willie" [3]
