Lost Girl
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lost Girl" is an old-time breakdown or reel in G Major (Silberberg, Titon) or C Major<br> (Phillips, Songer). The parts are played AB (Silberberg), AABB (Songer, Titon) or<br> AA'BB (Phillips).<br> The melody is now known as a Magoffin County, Kentucky, melody, associated with<br> the playing of John Salyer and Walter McNew (of neighboring Rockcastle County, Ky.).<br> Jeff Titon (2001) writes that the tune is thought to have come to Kentucky from<br> Virginia (an older Galax, Va., fiddler, Emmett Lundy, for example, played a version),<br> but that it is not a common tune in Kentucky, although different versions exist.<br> It was played at the Berea, Kentucky, fiddlers contests in 1919 and 1920 by<br> H.F. Green and by Anderson Bowling, according to records of the events reviewed by<br> Titon. Further afield, the title appears in a list of traditional Ozarks Mountain<br> fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954<br> (although it is not known to what music this title was applied in that region<br> i.e. it may or may not be related to the Kentucky tune).<br> "Lost Girl" is usually played in G major (Emmett Lundy, John Salyer), although<br> versions in C major are not uncommon (Walter McNew, and Oregon's Foghorn Stringband).<br> It was printed in<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Songer's Portland Collection, vol. 2 (2005) and<br> Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001).<br> It was recorded by<br> John Salyer on John M. Salyer: Home Recordings 1941-42, Vo. 1 (1993),<br> Walter McNew on Blackjack Grove (1993),<br> Burl Hammons on Old-Time Music of Pocahontas County (1995),<br> Bruce Greene on Vintage Fiddle Tunes (1987),<br> Chad Crumm on Old Time Friends (1987 Key of D Major),<br> Bill Christopherson on Old Time Friends (1987),<br> Foghorn Stringband on Weiser Sunrise (2005),<br> Emmett Lundy on Fiddle Tunes from Grayson County, Virginia (1977) and<br> Reed Island Rounders on Wolves in the Wood (1997).<br>
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