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Chris Templeton


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Post  Posted 4 Feb 2024 2:45 pm    
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Nic Neufeld


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Post  Posted 4 Feb 2024 4:49 pm    
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I have scans (somewhere) of Jerry's handwritten tablature for this song. Jerry had some very unique notation markings as I recall, takes some interpretation.

These videos have been available for a while so I assume most of us might have seen them...but JB playing the same song on a tricone on public tv:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudiAFnbYg0
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David Matzenik


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Post  Posted 5 Feb 2024 12:55 pm    
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The correct song title is Waikiki Chickadee. "My Little Chickadee" was a 1940 movie starring W C Fields and Mae West.
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Chris Templeton


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Post  Posted 5 Feb 2024 2:52 pm    
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Thanks, David. Changed
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Nic Neufeld


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Post  Posted 5 Feb 2024 6:24 pm    
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Growing up we had a Betamax tape of that movie! WC Fields was great (It's a Gift was my favorite).

I too was confused since the JB video also named it My Little Chickadee...part of the confusion may stem from that being the final words or hook of the song.
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David Matzenik


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Post  Posted 6 Feb 2024 12:51 pm    
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I would not be surprised if it turned out that the movie title inspired the song.
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Joe A. Roberts


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Post  Posted 6 Feb 2024 1:07 pm    
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Like that old, pretty standard “Gone With the Wind”, I always assumed it was related to the 1939 movie adaptation.
So I was surprised to find out it actually came out before the movie and was just capitalizing on the book title, being otherwise totally unrelated Laughing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOMtKmlycjo&pp=ygUhZ29uZSB3aXRoIHRoZSB3aW5kIGNvbm5pZSBmcmFuY2lz
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