Tune Req: Back Up and Push

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: greg stephens
Date: 05 Jul 08 - 08:08 PM

Miss Lemon(or may I call you Sal?)
If you scroll back a few posts you will find a link to the title track of said ancient album.

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 05 Jul 08 - 04:50 PM

Greg, didn't your band do an album called 'Back up and Push'?

Sal

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: greg stephens
Date: 05 Jul 08 - 06:09 AM

Gavin Lewery was doing his best on melodeon on the version mentioned earlier in this thread!
Hope it goes well tonight. We are playing a barn dance tonight in Market Drayton, but won't be playing Back Up and Push. It seems to have dropped from the repertoire.

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: Tradsinger
Date: 05 Jul 08 - 01:57 AM

Hi Greg,

The band is 'Pitchpole Jack' and we operate around the Gloucestershire area. (Google us) The caller for tonight particularly wanted that tune and our fiddle player is good on that sort of tune. Not an effective melodeon tune, so I will play banjo for it.

Cheers

Tradsinger

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: greg stephens
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 04:39 AM

Tradsinger: what band are you in? I take it you need these dots for some purpose.

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 12:02 PM

The tune is one part of the ragtime piece Creole Belles, Mississippi John Hurt used it once or twice. An alternative title is Rubber Dolly Rag which I seem to remember Woody Guthrie recorded and which appears to be a kids skipping rope song.

Hoot

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: Melissa
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 11:49 AM

it's at that link I posted..

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 11:32 AM

In print, just in my limited collection (limited mostly to the cheap stuff), Back Up and Push appears in:

The Craig Duncan Master Fiddle Solo Collection, Mel Bay Publications, ISBN 0-7866-3387-5

The Fiddler's Fakebook, D. Brady/Oak. Melody Line w/ Chords Only

Mel Bay's Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin Book, Mel Bay Publications, 1993, ISBN 1-56222-663-0

Anthology Of Mandolin Music, Bud Orr, Mel Bay MB93952,

I'm not advocating that you run out and buy a book, but these all are (or have been) popular enough that one of your friends has a copy of at least one of them. (Almost a certainty.) With the variability of older songs in print, you might want to take a look at more than one version before picking the one you want to use.

If you can't find it more easily elsewhere, PM an email addy and I can probably find my books to scan one or more, but I can't promise a really prompt response at the moment.

John

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: Tradsinger
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 11:27 AM

Thanks. Nice version from the Boat Band and thanks also to Melissa for her version. Rest assured in the knowledge that our group 'Pitchpole Jack' will be playing it for a dance in Cheltenham on Saturday.

Tradsinger

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: greg stephens
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 07:53 AM

Here's a link to our version, at the Boat Band Myspace
"Back Up and Push" is there now, though it may not be in a few days, we rotate songs so the site's always a bit different. At the minute, the site has some trial recording of our shanty/rap/hornpipe "Shanty Town" project for the Liverpool City of Culture, which looks set to become weird and wonderful.
Also a few other tracks.

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: Melissa
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 07:39 AM

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bluegrass-songbook/000563.HTM

Subject: RE: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: greg stephens
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 07:24 AM

Can't help with a link to any dots(though I could certainly post you a copy, but there must be easier ways than that). May I draw your attention to an excellent recording, on the Boat Band's first album called(wait for it) "Back Up and Push".

Subject: Wanted: dots for 'Back up and Push'
From: Tradsinger
Date: 02 Jul 08 - 07:19 AM

Can any kind person provide me with the musical notation for Back up and Push (the Old Timey/Bluegrass tune, not the Canadian reel). ABC2WIN or similar would be ideal.

Thanks

Tradsinger