Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series

Subject: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: GUEST,Cori S.
Date: 12 Sep 23 - 09:04 PM

Can anyone identify the fiddle tune that begins at 9:40? I just listened to a whoooole bunch of fiddle music and couldn't find it. Thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT26O5re5Mk&list=PLofKYC6TXgl0MKFCYBfEvPz_IDrc8nUY8&index=2

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: cnd
Date: 12 Sep 23 - 09:45 PM

Here's a more direct link: https://youtu.be/GT26O5re5Mk?t=576

I have a terrible ear for fiddle tunes, but a couple of early guesses:
- Altamont: https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/altamont
- Richmond Cotillion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DVXvVohVQ

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: Lighter
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 09:53 AM

Sounds to me like a version of "Sally Gooden" .

This guy is great:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSDNWhOEzYI

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: GUEST,Cori S.
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 03:19 PM

Lighter, thanks, I think you are right. I have started a list of music used on the series which can be found here: https://moviechat.org/tt0057742/Daniel-Boone/64ec3c06253740466dfa77a4/Music-Used-on-the-Series I am also posting information on the Comments under the videos on YouTube.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: Lighter
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 04:17 PM

Whether the tune was played in Boone's day is simply unknown: virtually nobody mentioned the titles of American fiddle tunes in that period.

There was a minstrel song called "Sallie Gooden and Jenny Weaver" in 1848, apparently to a different tune.

The earliest reference I've seen to "Sally Gooden" as a dance tune is from 1878 - in Minnesota!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: GUEST,Cori S.
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 11:54 PM

This is all I can find: "Traditional fiddle tune said to have been renamed "Sally Goodin" during the Civil War. First recording and first release by A.C. (Eck) Robertson (1922/1923)"

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: Lighter
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 08:23 AM

"Said to have been."

By whom? On what evidence? Renamed from what? Color me skeptical.

It's probably no coincidence, though, that the 1848 minstrel song concerns two characters with fiddle-tune names.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 28 Sep 23 - 08:18 PM

^ Lighter,
idk

According to North Carolina fiddler Bruce Greene*, the tune was originally called Boatin' Up Sandy (referring to the Big Sandy River in eastern Kentucky) and was renamed by Civil War Confederate soldiers in Morgan's Raiders while they were camped on the Big Sandy in Pike County, Kentucky.
Sally Goodin ran a boarding house there and allowed the soldiers to camp and play music. To show their appreciation of her kindness, Morgan's men renamed the tune in her honor.
http://bluegrassmessengers.com/sally-goodin--version-1-fiddle-lyrics--kuntz.aspx

* I didn't do any more checking thay this is the correct Bruce Greene ;)

Subject: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: GUEST,Cori S.
Date: 12 Sep 23 - 09:04 PM

Can anyone identify the fiddle tune that begins at 9:40? I just listened to a whoooole bunch of fiddle music and couldn't find it. Thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT26O5re5Mk&list=PLofKYC6TXgl0MKFCYBfEvPz_IDrc8nUY8&index=2

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: GUEST,Cori S.
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 03:19 PM

Lighter, thanks, I think you are right. I have started a list of music used on the series which can be found here: https://moviechat.org/tt0057742/Daniel-Boone/64ec3c06253740466dfa77a4/Music-Used-on-the-Series I am also posting information on the Comments under the videos on YouTube.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: GUEST,Cori S.
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 11:54 PM

This is all I can find: "Traditional fiddle tune said to have been renamed "Sally Goodin" during the Civil War. First recording and first release by A.C. (Eck) Robertson (1922/1923)"

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: Lighter
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 09:53 AM

Sounds to me like a version of "Sally Gooden" .

This guy is great:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSDNWhOEzYI

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: Lighter
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 04:17 PM

Whether the tune was played in Boone's day is simply unknown: virtually nobody mentioned the titles of American fiddle tunes in that period.

There was a minstrel song called "Sallie Gooden and Jenny Weaver" in 1848, apparently to a different tune.

The earliest reference I've seen to "Sally Gooden" as a dance tune is from 1878 - in Minnesota!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: Lighter
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 08:23 AM

"Said to have been."

By whom? On what evidence? Renamed from what? Color me skeptical.

It's probably no coincidence, though, that the 1848 minstrel song concerns two characters with fiddle-tune names.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 28 Sep 23 - 08:18 PM

^ Lighter,
idk

According to North Carolina fiddler Bruce Greene*, the tune was originally called Boatin' Up Sandy (referring to the Big Sandy River in eastern Kentucky) and was renamed by Civil War Confederate soldiers in Morgan's Raiders while they were camped on the Big Sandy in Pike County, Kentucky.
Sally Goodin ran a boarding house there and allowed the soldiers to camp and play music. To show their appreciation of her kindness, Morgan's men renamed the tune in her honor.
http://bluegrassmessengers.com/sally-goodin--version-1-fiddle-lyrics--kuntz.aspx

* I didn't do any more checking thay this is the correct Bruce Greene ;)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Fiddle Tune from Daniel Boone TV Series
From: cnd
Date: 12 Sep 23 - 09:45 PM

Here's a more direct link: https://youtu.be/GT26O5re5Mk?t=576

I have a terrible ear for fiddle tunes, but a couple of early guesses:
- Altamont: https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/altamont
- Richmond Cotillion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DVXvVohVQ