Uncle Dave Macon - Topic, May 25, 2021
Rock About My Sarah Jane · Uncle Dave Macon
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This YouTube sound file incorrectly attributes this song to the Black American Delta Blues musician and songwriter Charley Patton (born April 1891 (probable) – April
28, 1934). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Patton
Here's a statement about (White American singer/musician) Uncle Dave Macon and the song "Rockabout My SaroJame": "According to the Country Music Hall of Fame, Uncle Dave said he had learned the song from black stevedores on the Cumberland River in the l880s." https://www.lizlyle.lofgrens.org/RmOlSngs/RTOS-RockSaroJane.html "Remembering The Old Songs: ROCK ABOUT MY SARO JANE" by Lyle Lofgren (Originally published: Inside Bluegrass, May, 2010)
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series
This post post showcases YouTube examples of the United States old time music song "Rockabout My SaroJame" vy Uncle Dave Macon, by The Kingston Trio, and by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs.
"Rockabout My SaroJane" is categorized as an Old Time Music song and a Bluegrass music song. My position is that Black Americans should reclaim our role in the creation of and contribution toward both of these American music genres.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/11/reclaiming-black-influences-on-united.html _ for Part I of this series. That post provides two article excerpts about the Old Time music song "Rockabout My SaroJane" (also given as "My Saro Jane" and similar titles.)
The content of this post is presented for historical, folkloric, educational, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to the original composers and singers of this song. Thanks to the singers/musicians and collectors who have kept this song alive. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.
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This post is part of an on-going pancocojams series about Black Americans reclaiming our influence on the United States' Old Time Music genre.
As of November 18, 2024, there are no YouTube examples by Black from the United States or elsewhere of the song "Rockabout My SaroJane".
The Uncle Dave Macon song file has a photo of a
Blackband composed on men and women musicians (perhaps this photograph was
selected as a tribute to this song’s source population.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/03/black-influences-minstrel-influences-on.html for the 2020 pancocojams post entitled "Black Influences & Minstrel Influences On The Songs That Old Time Music Performer Uncle Dave Macon Sung & Played".
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SHOWCASE EXAMPLE #2 - Rockabout My Saro Jane By The Kingston Trio
CompVid101, Sep 10, 2010
The original Kingston Trio of Dave Guard, Bob Shane and Nick
Reynolds perform Dr. Lou Gottlieb's arrangement of a song that Uncle Dave Macon
heard from black stevedores on the Mississippi River in 1887. Gottlieb, who
went on to fame and fortune as the founder of his own pop folk group, The
Limeliters, was a stand-up comic and sometime musician in San Francisco in the
late 1950s when he heard and befriended the members of the then-unknown
Kingston group. He contributed several other arrangements to the goup's
repertoire.
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SHOWCASE EXAMPLE #3 - My Saro Jane , Flatt & Scruggs , 1964
Wicker Bill, Nov 10, 2022
Written by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Released January
1964 as a single, it reached #40.
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"Written" here may mean changes or additions to the lyrics and/or the tune since this song was sung and played prior to Lester Flatt and Earl Sruggs.
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This concludes Part II of this two part pancocojams series.
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