Ragtime Annie
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Ragtime Annie", also known as "Ragged Annie", "Raggedy Ann", "Raggedy Ann Rag",<br> "Raggin' On" or "Bugs/Bug in the 'Tater(s)" is an American and Canadian reel in<br> D Major ('A' and 'B' parts) & G Major ('C' part). The parts are played<br> AAB (Phillips), AA'B (Sweet), AABB (Ford, Welling), AA’BB (Ruth), AA'BB' (Krassen),<br> ABCC (Christeson), AABCC (Jarman, Johnson), AA'BCC' (Reiner & Anick), AA'BBC (Messer),<br> AA’BCC (Silberberg),AA'BB'CC (Miskoe & Paul) and AA'BB'CC' (Phillips/1995).<br> The earliest appearance of "Ragtime Annie"<br> that can be documented, in print or otherwise, is the recording by<br> Texas fiddler Eck Robertson in 1923. It comes in two part and three part<br> versions. If there is a third part, it modulates to G<br> while the first two parts are in D. Eck Robertson’s original version<br> was in three parts. Robertson’s release was backed with "Turkey in the Straw".<br> "Ragtime Annie" was later recorded for the Library of Congress by<br> musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph from Ozark Mountain fiddlers in the early 1940's.<br> The banjo tablature is by John Letscher.<br> It was printed in Beisswenger & McCann's Ozarks Fiddle Music (2008),<br> R.P. Christeson's Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1 (1973),<br> Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940),<br> Frets, July 1980 "Byron Berline: The Fiddle",<br> Jarman's The Cornhuskers Book of Square Dance Tunes (1944),<br> Johnson's Kitchen Musician No. 7: Michigan Tunes (1986-87),<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973),<br> Messer's Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes, (1980) (appears as "Raggedy Ann"),<br> Clare Milliner & Walk Koken's Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes (2011),<br> Miskoe & Paul's Fiddle Tunes of Omer Marcoux (1980, 1994),<br> Phillips' Fiddle Case Tunebook: Old Time Southern (1989) and<br> Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2 (1995),<br> Reiner & Anick's Old Time Fiddling Across America (1989),<br> Ruth's Pioneer Western Folk Tunes (1948),<br> Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Sweet's Fifer's Delight (1964/1981) and<br> Welling's Welling's Hartford Tunebook (1976).<br> It was recorded by Lonnie Robertson (78 RPM) (1926),<br> Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers (Posey Rorer, fiddler),<br> The Kessinger Brothers (Clark Kessinger, fiddler) on Old Time Fiddle Classics,<br> Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, vol. 2.,<br> The Riendeau Family on Old-Time Fiddling from Old New England (1970),<br> Clark Kessinger on The Legend of Clark Kessinger (1971),<br> Smith's Garage Fiddle Band on Texas Fiddle Bands (1998),<br> The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters: Complete Recorded Works in<br> Chronological Order, vol. 2 (appears as “Ragged Annie”),<br> Chet Parker on The Hammered Dulcimer as played by Chet Parker (1966),<br> Yankee Ingenuity on Kitchen Junket (1977),<br> Bill Spence and Fennigs All-Stars on The Hammered Dulcimer (1973),<br> Gordon Tanner on Georgia Fiddle Bands (1982),<br> Floyd County Ramblers on It'll Never Happen Again (orig. rec. 1930),<br> Taylor McBaine on Boone County Fiddler (1987),<br> Cyril Stinnett on Plain Old Time Fiddling,<br> Vance's Tennessee Breakdowners (1927) (78 RPM) ("Ragged Ann"),<br> Byron Berline on Dad's Favorites (1977),<br> Doc and Merle Watson on Doc Watson and Son (1965),<br> Eck Robertson on Early Rural String Bands (a reissue of the original 1922 recording),<br> Howard Marshall & John Williams on Fiddling Missouri (1999) and<br> Benny Thomasson on Say Old Man Can You Play the Fiddle? (1999).<br> <br> <br>
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