2/4 IN F AND B Flat

1. Banquet Quadrille: First Change. Cub Berdan published this in his "One Night in a Ball Room" series (no. 3) in 1886. His original version includes a third part in E flat (thanks to Jim Kimball for this information). Wallace Tuttle gave me a manuscript of tunes he had learned by ear as a young man (thus probably around 1910), and it included some items that he or someone had evidently copied. These included three changes of "Sauger Lake Quadrille," credited to one Loranger (no doubt Eli Loranger [1839-1903], of Williamston, Michigan, who led a local quadrille band). The second change was familiar to me from having heard different Michigan fiddlers play different versions of the tune, all without names. In Canada, I heard it as Atlantic Polka No. 2, something popularized by Don Messer. A version of this tune appears in Missouri as Ragged Bill or Ragged-Ass Bill.

a. Nameless tune played by Gale McAfee, accompanied by Paul Gifford, electronic organ, Manton, Michigan, May 1976.

b. Nameless tune in G and D played by Pete Keller, accompanied by Paul Gifford, Cross Village, Michigan, September 7, 1976. Bill Cameron also played this tune in the same keys.

2. Nameless tune in F played by Wilbur Brown, accompanied by Pete Keller, tenor banjo, Paul Gifford, dulcimer, and Daniel Johnston, piano, Harbor Springs, Michigan, September 6, 1977.

3. Nameless tune in F played by Wilbur Brown, accompanied by Pete Keller, tenor banjo, Paul Gifford, dulcimer, and Daniel Johnston, piano, Harbor Springs, Michigan, September 6, 1977.

4. Nameless tune in B flat and F played by Wilbur Brown, accompanied by Daniel Johnston, piano, Pete Keller, tenor banjo, Harbor Springs, Michigan, September 6, 1977. This is a 2/4 version of a 6/8 tune (a version of which by Russ Nelson is included on this website), which is probably the original, although of very obscure origin.

5. Nameless tune in F and D minor played by Bill Cameron, accompanied by Paul Gifford, piano , Brimley, Michigan, August 13, 1977. He learned this tune in Canada, from a brother of Alec Ticks.

6. Nameless tune in F played by Varsal Fales and Les Raber, accompanied by Bud Pierce, guitar, Paul Gifford, piano, William White, dulcimer, Hastings, Michigan, June 15, 1981.

7. Nameless tune in F played by Helen Gross, accompanied by Paul Gifford, piano, Saline, Michigan, April 25, 1978.

8. Nameless tune in B flat and F played by Helen Gross, accompanied by Paul Gifford, piano, Saline, Michigan, April 25, 1978.

9. Nameless tune in F and C played by Luke LaFrenier, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, August 18, 1978. He learned this from Simon Masse, a well-known fiddler from the Garden River Reserve across the border in Ontario.

10. Nameless tune in B flat played by Gale McAfee, accompanied by Paul Gifford, electronic organ, Manton, Michigan, May 1976.

11. Nameless tune in B flat played by George Pariseau, accompanied by Mina Pariseau Hurdell, piano, Bad Axe, Michigan, 1941. This is Bamford Hornpipe in 1000 Fiddle Tunes. Pariseau could not read music, but he must have had access to Ryan's Mammoth Collection or other publications and learned them indirectly.