The Richmond Cotillion
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Richmond Cotillion", also known as "Corn Huskin' Sally", "Green Mountain Polka",<br> "Hanging Around the Kitchen (Till the Cook Comes Home)", "Jackson's Breakdown", "Little Boss",<br> "Oh Aunt Jenny", "Oh Dear Mammy", "Old Richmond", "Pin a Rose on Me", "Plaza Polka",<br> "Redman's Reel", "Le Reel de Richmond", "Richmond Polka", "Robert E. Lee Swing",<br> "Run them Coons in the Ground", "Sally there's a Bug on Me" and "Stonewall Jackson" is an<br> old-time breakdown or reel in D Major ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). The parts are played<br> AB (Silberberg), AABB (most versions) or AABB’ (Songer).<br> This is a tune that is genuinely in two keys with the A part in in D major and the B part in<br> A major. The rising sequence that ends the B part makes it feel more like an ending to repeat<br> the A part one last time.<br> The title may have derived from "Richmond Polka" which is said to have been printed in the<br> 1850's. The tune’s original title may have been simply "Richmond" or "Richmond Polka" and<br> the ‘cotillion’ part became appended by its appearance on some of the Gennett stencil labels<br> of Da Costa Woltz’s 1920’s recording which read "Richmond" Cotillion meaning the dance form.<br> Emmett Lundy's tune, also known as "Richmond Cotillion", recorded for the Library of<br> Congress in 1941, is unrelated to this tune and other "Richmond" melodies.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler’s Fakebook (1983),<br> Christeson's Old Time Fiddlers Repertory, vol. 1 (1973),<br> Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940) (appears as "Redman's Reel"),<br> Leftwich's Old-Time Fiddle, Round Peak Style (2011),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002),<br> Songer's Portland Collection (1997) and<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980).<br> The Montreal fiddle and guitar duo Joyeux Montréalais recorded the tune in 1934 as<br> "Le Reel de Richmond".<br> It was also recorded by Delaware Water Gap on Fox Hollow String Band Festival,<br> Frank Neal and His Boys (1927) (A pseudonym for Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters),<br> Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters on Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters: 1927<br> Recordings,<br> Mike Seegar on Old Time Country Music (1962),<br> Tommy Jarrell on Joke on the Puppy (1976) and<br> John Engle, John Herrmann and Meredith McIntosh on Chicken Train (2012).<br>
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