"Avalon Quickstep", also known as "Avalon Quick Step" and "New Charleston No. 1" is an American reel in cut time and D Major. The parts are played AABB (irregular). The melody was first recorded in June, 1930, in San Antonio, Texas, by W.T. (Willie) Namour and S.W. Smith, Mississippi musicians and named for the hamlet of Avalon, Mississippi. The Avalon area was home to a number of influential musicians, including blues guitarist John Hurt and the string band the Mississippi Possum Hunters, who all knew each other (Narmour and Smith helped Hurt to get signed with OKeh Records). Apparently, the town was so obscure by the latter part of the 20th century that it could only be located with the help of old maps. The alternate title was an attempt by Namour and Smith to cash in on association to the Charleston dance craze of the 1920's, however, the dance was named for the town of Charleston, Mississippi, near where the musicians lived. The tune is irregular in that 'B' part has ten measures instead of the usual eight. It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983), Milliner & Koken's The Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011) and Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995). It was recorded by Namour and Smith on Traditional Fiddle Music of Mississippi, vol. 1 (1975), Mississippi String Bands vol. 1., Narmour & Smith on Volume 2: Complete Recorded Works (1930-1934) (2013) and Arm and Hammer String Band on New England Conta Dance Music (1977).