Ragtime Annie Vitally

RAGTIME ANNIE [1]. AKA and see Ragged Annie, "Raggedy Ann (Rag)," "Bug(s) in the 'Tater(s)." Old‑Time, Canadian; Breakdown. USA, very widely known. D Major ('A' and 'B' parts) & G Major ('C' part). Standard tuning. AAB (Phillips/1989): AA'B (Sweet): AABB (Ford, Welling): AABB (Ruth): AA'BB' (Krassen): ABCC (Christeson): AABCC (Jarman, Johnson): AA'BCC' (Reiner & Anick): AA'BBC (Messer): AABCC (Silberberg): AA'BB'CC (Miskoe & Paul): AA'BB'CC' (Phillips/1995). A popular tune and a staple of the North American fiddling repertoire, of uncertain origins. There is much speculation along the linges of the following: "Ragtime Annie is almost certainly a native American dance tune, possibly less than 100 years old" (Krassen, 1973). Guthrie Meade has a similar point of view regarding the tune's antiquity, noting that this very popular piece appears in many relatively modern collections, but not in early ones. The are presistent rumors that it first was heard played by Texas fiddlers around 1900-1910, but no firm evidence. Reiner & Anick (1989) suggest the tune is derived from a piano piece called "Raggedy Ann Rag," and catagorize it as a 'Midwest' and 'Southwest' tune, but they did not cite a source and so far no one has been able to access a piano melody similar to the fiddle tune (The title Raggedy Ann Rag does appear on printed music, written by Joe "Fingers" Carr and published in 1952, far too late to have been the original for Ragtime Annie.) The earliest appearance of Ragtime Annie that can be documented, in print or otherwise, is the recording by Texas fiddler Eck Robertson (along with Henry C. Gilliland) in 1923, and a few years later by the Texas duo Solomon and Hughes. Robertsons release was backed with Turkey in the Straw. Ragtime Annie was later recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from Ozark Mountain fiddlers in the early 1940'sI was bashful back then and wouldnt go in anybodys house hardly. Id
sit on the railroad and listen to Dorvel play the fiddle at night. And I
learned most all of Dorvels tunes. I just set down there and listened
to all his tunes and then go home and play them.

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[MrKingamb]

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Marshall reports that local speculation is that the third part was inserted to relieve a square dance fiddler from the stress of keeping the main part of the tune going through a long set. Some feel the third part is reminiscent of Little Brown Jug, although there can be considerable variation from fiddler to fiddler in the way third parts are rendered.

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I only learned the third part many years later from Eck's recording. Little Dixie, Missouri, fiddler Howard Marshall says the third part has been a vital part of the tune in Missouri for many many years, offering that the renowned regional fiddler Taylor McBaine remembered playing it that way as a child in the very early 1920s.

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Other Texas fiddlers only learned the two-part version. Glen Godsey writes: Of the fiddlers I knew in Amarillo in the 1940's-1950's, Eck was the only

one who played the third part. I learned only two parts as a kid, and we always played just two parts for the square dances.

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There is often some confusion among fiddlers whether to play the tune in two or three parts, and both are correct depending on regional taste. Eck Robertsons original version was in three parts (the third part changes key to G major) as are many older south-west versions, and some insist this form was once more common that the two-part version often heard in more recent times

[fiddlnbanjo]

i have an old sheet music and he played it note for note, before some variations each time around, nice...

[stevesprinceofsteaks]

Great version. I have always played 3 parts as that is how Learned it in TX in the 70s. Either way it is one of the all time great fiddle tunes.