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The Arkansas Traveler (song)
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"The Arkansas Traveler" is a mid-19th century folk song popularized by American singer and guitarist Mose Case. It is based on the composition of the same name by Sandford C. Faulkner. The score was first published by W. C. Peters in 1847 under the name "The Arkansas Traveller and Rackinsac Waltz".[1]
It was Arkansas' state song from 1949 to 1963, and the state historic song since 1987. The official lyrics were written by a committee in 1947 in preparation for its naming as the official state song. The other official Arkansas state songs are "Arkansas" (state anthem), "Arkansas (You Run Deep In Me)," and "Oh, Arkansas."[2]
The 1922 version by native-Arkansan "Eck" Robertson was among the first fifty recordings named to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.[1]
Background
The song is traditionally known to have had several versions of lyrics, which are much older than Arkansas' copyrighted state historic song.[3]
Other versions
The Turn of the Tune. Traveller Playing the "Arkansas Traveller," lithograph by Currier and Ives, 1870
State historic song
Composed by the Arkansas State Song Selection Committee in 1947.
Peter Pan version
Albert Bigelow Paine's 1st version
from The Arkansaw Bear: A Tale of Fanciful Adventure. The second version is the original version. The first version is the version taught to Northern school Children.
Albert Bigelow Paine's 2nd version
Traditional children's version
I'm bringin' home a baby bumblebee Won't my mommy be so proud of me I'm bringin' home a baby bumblebee—Ow! He stung me!
I'm bringin' home my baby dinosaur Won't my mommy kick him out the door? I'm bringin' home my baby dinosaur-Ouch! He kicked me!
I'm bringin' home my baby hippopotamus Won't my mommy fuss, and fuss, and fuss?
I'm bringin' home my baby hippopotamus-Ouch! He swallowed me!
Uses in film
"The Arkansas Traveler" was frequently featured in animated cartoons in the 1930s and 1940s, most prolifically by Carl Stalling in music he composed for the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes series. It usually was played, sloppily, when a yokel, hillbilly, or "country bumpkin" character would appear on screen. A slow version of the "Bringing home a baby bumble-bee" version is sung by Beaky Buzzard in the short The Bashful Buzzard.
The popularity and joyfulness of "The Arkansas Traveler" was attested to in the 1932 Academy Award-winning Laurel and Hardy short, The Music Box. In this film, the boys labored to haul a player piano up a long flight of stairs and into a house through a bedroom window. Near the conclusion of their adventure, as they are starting to clean up their mess surrounding the newly installed piano, Stan and Ollie play a roll of "Patriotic Melodies". They dance with much grace and amusement to "The Arkansas Traveler", followed briefly by "Dixie". Marvin Hatley, who composed Laurel and Hardy's "Cuckoo" theme song, was the pianist for this sequence; the player piano was not real.
Vaudeville
"The Arkansas Traveler" was a popular comedy sketch on the vaudeville circuit. It revolved around the encounter of a (usually lost) traveling city person with a local, wise-cracking fiddle player. Various jokes at the expense of the "city slicker" were interspersed with instrumental versions of the song. In many versions, the city person is also a fiddle player, and as the sketch progresses, eventually learns the tune and plays along with the country bumpkin. Columbia Recording artist, Dan Hornsby was the first recorded vocalist for this song which is found in his discography listed on Wikipedia.
The contemporary singer Michelle Shocked includes a vaudeville-style version of "Arkansas Traveler" on her 1992 album of the same name. Jerry Garcia and David Grisman also do a version on their 1993 album Not for Kids Only.
In other media
Dan Hornsby's Original Arkansas Traveler Part 1 (with Clayton McMichen, Columbia 15253D) - 1920s version for Columbia Records, and Original Arkansas Traveler Part 2 (with Clayton McMichen, Columbia 15253D)
Charles Ives uses the tune in his theater orchestra piece called "Country Band" March.
Eck Robertson and Henry C. Gilliland's 1922 recording of "Arkansaw Traveler" [sic] (Victor 18956) was selected for the 2002 National Recording Registry.
The song is the centerpiece of The Legend of the Arkansas Traveler, a short "Concert Paraphrase on an Old American Fiddle Tune" for orchestra composed by Harl McDonald in 1939.
Children's entertainer Raffi used the melody of "The Arkansas Traveler" for the song "Peanut Butter Sandwich," which appears on his album Singable Songs for the Very Young.
The "Baby Bumblebee" version was sung on two episodes of Barney & Friends, and one video from its predecessor, Barney and the Backyard Gang.
Pete Seeger recorded the vaudeville version of "Arkansas Traveler" for his 1954 album "Frontier Ballads"
The Jukebox Band perform their version of this song in a Shining Time Station episode, Win, Lose or Draw.
Rockstar Inc. 2018 release Red Dead Redemption 2 The saloon piano players often play The Arkansas Traveller in the lineup of Western piano music among others.
The instrumental version is heard in the dance scene in the 12th episode of Call of the Wild.
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman perform a version on their 1993 album Not For Kids Only.
The instrumental versions are used as the cultural theme songs for the United States in the video game series Civilization.
See also
- List of U.S. state songs
References
- ^ a b Worthen, William B. (July 17, 2018). "Arkansas Traveler". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Little Rock, Arkansas. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- ^ Arkansas Code. Volume 1A. The State of Arkansas. 1987. pp. 52–53. ISBN978-1-5221-4781-7 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Ware, David (June 5, 2021). "Official State Songs". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Little Rock, Arkansas. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
Further reading
- Knox, Thomas W. (1894). "Chapter XXIV: A Rapid Pursuit—"The Arkansas Traveler"—Game Chickens and Cocking Mains". The Lost Army. New York: The Merriam Company. pp. 157–163. OCLC 1048799575. OL 6551679M – via Internet Archive.
External links
- Works by or about Arkansas Traveler at Internet Archive
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