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robert kramer

 

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Post  Posted 13 Oct 2020 7:54 am    
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This is a question about Emmons'"Buddy's Boogie."

@ 1:23 the fiddle player, Dale Potter, quotes a song. Does anybody know what song this is? For lack of a better description, it sounds like the cartoon version of a loping mule but surely it comes from a popular song. Thanks very much in advance for any answers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuGfLwfzV8s
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Al Evans


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Post  Posted 13 Oct 2020 8:09 am     Re: Question about Emmons'
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robert kramer wrote:
This is a question about Emmons'"Buddy's Boogie."

@ 1:23 the fiddle player, Dale Potter, quotes a song. Does anybody know what song this is? For lack of a better description, it sounds like the cartoon version of a loping mule but surely it comes from a popular song. Thanks very much in advance for any answers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuGfLwfzV8s


It's about 1:30 into "On The Trail" from Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_7DA1G6tVs

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robert kramer

 

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Post  Posted 13 Oct 2020 8:36 am    
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Man! Al Evans - Thanks very much! and thanks for quick response.
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Bill Cunningham


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Post  Posted 13 Oct 2020 4:47 pm    
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I had never thought about that lick and tied it together with BE in spite of being a big Potter fan. My dad was a fiddler, loved Dale Potter and taught me about him.

BUT, as I just now listened to that track for at least the 100th time, it hit me! How many times have you also heard Buddy play that same lick! He usually threw it in on his solo outro of “Gonna Build A Mountain” as well as other random places. I wonder if he got it from Dale or Dale got it from him. I just always assumed it was something Buddy created!
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Al Evans


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Post  Posted 14 Oct 2020 5:36 am    
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robert kramer wrote:
Man! Al Evans - Thanks very much! and thanks for quick response.


You're welcome! My wife mentions that it's also one of the pieces in Disney's Fantasia, another place you might have heard it before.

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Pete Finney

 

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Post  Posted 14 Oct 2020 7:22 am    
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Quoting that lick from the "Grand Canyon Suite" was very common among the '40s-'50s jazz players that Emmons (and probably Dale Potter) loved; Dizzy Gillespie used it a lot. I personally would guess that's where the Nashville guys picked up the idea of using that phrase in a solo, not that they wouldn't also have been at least a little familiar with the original "On the Trail."
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