Eugene Stratton
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J. Scott Skinner
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Eugene Stratton" is a Scottish hornpipe in B-Flat Major. The parts are played<br> AABB.<br> It was composed by Scots composer and fiddler J. Scott Skinner (1843–1927),<br> recorded by him on a 78 RPM disc in the 1920's, at the end of his career, as<br> part of "The Celebrated Hornpipes" medley. Skinner had also earlier recorded<br> "Eugene Stratton" in 1910 in London with pianist Ethel Stuart.<br> This tune demonstrates clearly that Skinner was an accomplished violinist.<br> New York-born Eugene Stratton (1861–1918) came to England with a minstrel troupe<br> and established himself as a solo music hall performer, whose act included<br> blackface routines at which times he was styled as "The Dandy Coon," or<br> "The Whistling Coon". His most famous song was "Lily of Laguna".<br> He was the President of the Grand Order of the Water Rats in 1896. This<br> charitable group began in 1887 with several music hall performers who owned a<br> trotting pony called Magpie that was winning many races around London. The<br> proceeds from such victories were used to help troubled and distressed<br> music hall stars and to help sustain soup kitchens in London's east end.<br> The name of the group came about when, during a torrential downpour, the pony<br> was being returned to stable. A horse drawn taxi driver, seeing the sodden<br> beast shouted: "Blimey, wot you got 'ere?" The trainers replied they had a<br> trotting pony. The cabbie replied "Trotting pony! Looks more like a bleedin'<br> water rat".<br> The tune was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Cranford's Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes (1997),<br> Henderson's Flowers of Scottish Melody (1935),<br> Phillips' Natalie MacMaster's Cape Breton Island Fiddle (2010) and<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: British Isles (1989).<br> It was recorded by Frank Ferrel on Yankee Dreams: Wicked Good Fiddling from<br> New England (1991),<br> Jean Carignan on Old Time Fiddle Tunes (1960),<br> Rodney Miller & David Surette on New Leaf (2000),<br> J. Scott Skinner (78RPM),<br> Natalie MacMaster on No Boundaries (1996),<br> J. Scott Skinner on The Strathspey King (remastered - 1975) and<br> Patty Furlong on Traditional Irish Music on the Button Accordion (1999).<br>
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