Roundtown Girls
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Roundtown Girls", also known as "Buffalo Gals", "Alabama Gals won't You come out Tonight?",<br> "Lubly Fan" or "Midnight Serenade" is an American reel in cut time and G Major.<br> The parts are played AABB.<br> While "Albany/Syracuse/Rochester/Buffalo Gals" was the New York<br> version of the old minstrel "Lubly Fan", "Round Town Girls" is the name of the tune/song as<br> played by western Virginia and North Carolina musicians.<br> The tune was recorded in New York City in October, 1926, by the North Carolina/Virginia band<br> The Hill Billies, whose line-up for this number was Elvis "Tony" Alderman and Fred Roe<br> (fiddles), Charlie Bowman (Banjo), Henry Roe and Joe Hopkins (guitar), Al Hopkins (piano),<br> and John Hopkins (Ukulele). The band's name on recordings released on the Vocalion label<br> was The Hill Billies, but on the parent Brunswick label the group was called Al Hopkins and<br> His Buckle Busters. They sang one stanza (nearly identical to a stanza of "Buffalo Gals")<br> on the recording:<br> Roundtown girls, won't you come out tonight,<br> Won't you come out tonight,<br> Wont' you come out tonight?<br> Roundtown girls, won't you come out tonight,<br> And dance by the light of the moon?<br> The tune was recorded in the field by Herbert Halpert for the Library of Congress from<br> the playing of the Houston Bald Knob String Band (Franklin County, Va.) in 1939 {as<br> "Round Town Girl Won't You Come Out Tonight"}.<br> It was also collected by Alan Lomax from Emmett Lundy (1864-1953) in Galax, Va. in 1941.<br> This version is a close transcription of Lundy's playing.<br> It was printed in<br> Kaufman's Beginning Old Time Fiddle (1977) and<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973).<br> It was recorded by<br> Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters (AKA The Hill Billies) (1926) and on<br> “The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters: Complete Recorded Works in<br> Chronological Order, Vol. 1” (1999, reissues),<br> Ernest Stoneman (c. 1928) and<br> Ernest V. Stoneman's Trio (1927).<br>
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