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WALTZ YOU SAVED FOR ME, THE. American, Waltz. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). A song and waltz instrumental widely recorded by various country music performers since the 1930's, and often heard played at fiddle contests. The lyric was by songwriter Gus Kahn, born in Coblenz, Germany on November 6, 1886, who immigrated to the United States in 1891, where his family settled in Chicago. Kahn died in 1941. Composer credits also go to Emil Flindt and bandleader Wayne King, "The Waltz King". It was first recorded by Wayne King and His Orchestra in November, 1930. The waltz was popularized by Bob Wills and others, who also performed King's "Goofus." Missouri fiddler Art Galbraith always closed his dances with this number[1]


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Recorded sources : - Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers Association 001, Pete McMahan (Mo.) - "Ozark Mountain Waltz." Rounder Records 0004, Clark Kessinger - "Old-Time Music With Fiddle & Guitar" (1972). Rounder 11661-0133-2, "Art Galbraith, James River Fiddler: Dixie Blossoms" (2007, extended reissue of 1981 LP). Voyager Records, Bob Walsh - "Now That's A Good Tune: Masters of Traditional Missouri Fiddling" (Various artists).

See also listing at :
Hear a 1940 recording of Wayne King and his Orchestra playing the tune [1]
Hear fiddler Vi Wickham play the waltz on youtube.com [2]
See Missouri fiddler Charlie Walden's transcription [3]
See fiddler Austin Rogers' transcription [4]
Hear Missouri fiddler Bob Walsh's recording at Slippery-Hill [5]



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  1. Mark Wilson, liner notes to Rounder 11661-0133-2, "Art Galbraith, James River Fiddler: Dixie Blossoms" (2007, extended reissue of 1981 LP).