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Buck-Eyed Rabbits/ Big-Eyed Rabbit (Bumgardner)
See also: Big-Eyed Rabbit Version 2 and Mainer's "Gettin' There Rabbit." This is not the same song or related to "Buck-Eye Rabbit."
Traditional Old-Time, Breakdown- Alabama, Mississippi, western North Carolina.
ARTIST: The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
DATE: Early 1900’s. Recorded by The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters 1926
RECORDING INFO: Recorded by Quitman, Mississippi, fiddler Charles Long in 1939 in the field for the Library of Congress. Carryon Records 005, "The Renegades" (1993). County 401, "The Stripling Brothers." County CO-CD-2711, Kirk Sutphin - "Old Roots and New Branches" (1994). Mountain 310, Tommy Jarrell - "Joke on the Puppy" (1976. Learned brom his father.). Vocalation 5412 (78 RPM), Stripling Brothers (Ala., played in C Major) {1929}. Cockerham, Fred; and Kyle Creed. Clawhammer Banjo, County 701, LP (1965), cut# 15. Davis, Eva; & Samantha Bumgartner. Banjo Pickin' Girl, Rounder 1029, LP (1978), cut# 1. Jarrell, Tommy. Joke on the Puppy, Heritage (Galax) 044, LP (1992), cut# 10. Ledford String Band. Ledford String Band, Rounder 0008, LP (1972), cut# 10. Mainer, Wade. Old Time Banjo Tunes, Old Homestead OHS-90168, LP (1984), cut#A.05. Plank Road String Band. Plank Road String Band, Carryon, LP (1976), cut#B.05. Powell, Dirk. If I Go Ten Thousand Miles, Rounder 0384, CD (1996), cut# 9 (Brown Eyed Rabbit)
OTHER NAMES: Brown Eyed Rabbit; Big-Eyed Rabbit;
SOURCES: The Hill Billies/Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters- Document; Liz Slade (Yorktown, New York) [Kuntz]. Kuntz, Private Collection. Spandaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; pg. 38; Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
NOTES: Buck-Eyed Rabbits is similar to Samantha Bumgarner's "Big-Eyed Rabbit."
Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters recorded this in 1926 with Charlie Bowman on fiddle.
Hill Billies sing to the A part (vocal is sung twice in their version):
Yes, oh Lord! I'm gittin' like that!
Yes, oh Lord! I'm gittin' like that!
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