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Thread #5016   Message #28380
Posted By: Dale Rose
14-May-98 - 11:46 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Alabama Jubilee
Subject: RE: Who wrote Alabama Jubilee?
Gene's right: Yellen/Cobb, 1915. I have seen the sheet music and for the most part, the words are never sung. The ones you usually hear are just the chorus. They are not all that great(my opinion), which is probably why you never hear them. If you ever get a chance to hear it performed by Bill Helms' Upson County Band, c.1930, don't pass it up. A wild, raucous version with double or maybe even triple fiddles almost playing in unison. Helms was a North Georgia fiddler pretty much in the mold of the Skillet Lickers.