WALTZ ME AROUND AGAIN WILLIE a 1927 Hillbilly tune by Chris Bouchillon
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- WALTZ ME AROUND AGAIN WILLIE a 1927 Hillbilly tune by Chris Bouchillon.
This record is pretty beat, I feel lucky to have been able to clean it up enough to listen to. One part, near the end of the song, was damaged so bad that I cut it out and inserted a segment of the chorus from an earlier part of the song. Can you figure out where?
2:47 to 2:53
Chris Bouchillon was part of a South Carolina family of musicians who recorded over 30 sides for Columbia 1925-1928 in Atlanta,GA. He sang, his brother Uris,g, played on this and many other sides. Brother Charley played fiddle on others but not here. Many songs were old vaudeville ones. His most successful were among the earliest examples of the talking blues style later used by Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and others. Talking Blues which Chris recorded 6 months before this sold over 90,000 copies.
Hi, I was aimlessly scrolling through and saw this song title and made a bee line! I have heard the title only because Groucho Marx mentioned it in an interview as a song his brother Chico performed! Thank You, and no, I couldn't tell where your cut/reinsert was, you did great!
Oh, and the song was an old Vaudeville tune from about 1905 or so, possibly earlier based on Chico's age and the context of what Groucho was saying, he performed it as either a teenager or young man. Pretty sure Chico was born in 1882, as he was oldest, Harpo about 1885, a brother who died somewhere in there, then Groucho born in October 1890! So that could push the song back to about 1895 or so. Your performance on this record is Hill-billy style, but of a much older song, because I don't think Hill-billies did too much Waltzing!
Harpo mentions this song in his autobiography as one of only two songs he (Harpo) knew on piano in his teens, when he used to "sub" for Chico. The other song was "Love me and the World is Mine."
Waltzes were a staple part of the Southern fiddle tradition and of southern rural dances
Tony Russell's Country Music Records has 20 versions of the standard waltz Over the Waves recorded before sept. 1942 in lots of the south. Local tunes like Ozark Waltz show up.