Katydid
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Katydid" is an American reel in cut or 4/4 time in C Major ('A' part) and A Minor<br> ('B' part). The parts are played AAB (Silberberg), AABB (Brody, Reiner & Anick) or<br> AA'BB' (Phillips).<br> North Georgia fiddler Lowe Stokes recorded the tune in this third session, in 1929,<br> with guitarist Mike Whitten. Stokes' "Katy Did" was backed with<br> "Take Me Back to Georgia" and some confusion of titles existed because many labels<br> were reversed on the 78 RPM record; thus, some fiddlers called "Katy Did" by the name<br> "Take Me Back to Georgia"; furthermore, both tunes are in the key of 'C' major.<br> However, "Take Me Back to Georgia" is instead related to "Boston Boy"/"Ladies in the<br> Ballroom "/"Rattlesnake Bit the Baby". Fiddlin' John Carson used the minor mode second<br> strain of "Katy Did" as part of his recording of "Billy in the Lowground".<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Larsen's Fiddler Magazine vol. 25, No. 3, Fall 2018,<br> Milliner & Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of Ameriand Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes (1994),<br> Reiner & Anick's Old Time Fiddling Across America (1989) and<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002).<br> It was recorded by Lowe Stokes & Mike Whitten (1929) (78 RPM),<br> Lowe Stokes on Hell Broke Loose in Georgia (Orig. rec. 1929) and<br> Lowe Stokes, vol. 1: 1927-1930 (reissue).<br>
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