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Thread #169723   Message #4103129
Posted By: cnd
22-Apr-21 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Baptist Shout / Babtist Shout
Subject: RE: Origins: Baptist Shout
Thanks for that Joe and #, I can definitely hear the resemblance.

Here's a few other versions of the tune which for me helped bridge the gap between Norman Blake's version and the Fred Jenkins version. The list of Spanish Fandango-named versions isn't exhaustive.

1925 - Smith & Algood (Okeh 45010-A) - Spanish and American Fandango
1927 - Fred Jenkins (Gennett 6187-B) - Babtist Shout
1938 - Pete Steele (Library of Congress) - Spanish Fandango
1957 - Oren Jenkins* (American Banjo Tunes & Songs In Scruggs Style, Folkways Records FA 2314) - Spanish Fan Dango
1962 - Art Rosenbaum (Folk Banjo Styles, Elektra EKL-217) - Spanish Fandango
1962 - Snuffy Jenkins (Carolina Bluegrass, Folk-Lyric FL 123) - Spanish Fandango
1964 - Winnie Winston (Old Time Banjo Project, Elektra ?EKL-276) - Spanish Fandango (no link but her version is reportedly similar to Oren's)
1966 - Lena Hughes (Oldtime Fiddling And Other Folk Music - 1966, Century Records 25425) - Spanish Fandango
1966 - Dock Boggs (Dock Boggs 1966, Field Recorders' Collective FRC312) - Spanish Fandango**
1970 - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy, Liberty LST-7642) - Uncle Charlie Interview #2 / Spanish Fandango
1972 - Norman Blake (Home In Sulphur Springs, Rounder Records 0012) - Spanish Fandango
1972 - A. J. Morris, Sr.(The Rackensack, Volume I, Rackensack Records LP 278) - Spanish Fandango
1973 - Pete Stanley & Roger Knowles ("Banjo Bounce", XTRA 1134) - Spanish Fandango
1972 - Roger Nicholson (The Gentle Sound Of The Dulcimer, Argo ZDA 204) - Spanish Fandango
1975 - Stacy Phillips (All Old Friends, Revonah Records RS-930) - Spanish Fandango
1986 - The Lazy Aces (Still Lazy After All These Years, Marimac Recordings 9008) - Spanish Fandango
1986 - Steve Garcia With Matt Levine (Marimac Recordings 9004) - Spanish Fandango
1991 - Doug Phillips and Roger Howell (Blue Ridge Mountain Music, Ivy Creek Recordings ICR 101) - Spanish Fandango
1991 - Etta Baker (One-Dime Blues, ROUNDER CD 2112) - Spanish Fandango
1992 - Dr. Horsehair's Old-Time Minstrels [Bob Flesher] (Old-Time Clawhammer Banjo, NOT ON LABEL) - Spanish Fandango (modern recording)

(A fuller list can be seen here under "Spanish Fandango #1")

* (no relation to Frank Jenkins, but nephew of Snuffy Jenkins
** some collections call this either Banjo Chimes or Coke Oven March rather than the proper name

I'll have to investigate a few more of the fandangos listed on this page too to see if I hear any similarities.

So, in summary