Sizemore, Frank

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fiddles Collected by Merlin Mitchell Transcribed by Mary C. Parler Frank Sizemore Sallisaw, Okla. November 25, 1950 Reel 84, Item 2 Ragtime Annie (Fiddle piece) Mr. Sizemore: One time I got a letter from Cane Hill, and they says, Mr. Sizemore, we're going to have a fiddlin' contest up here and we want you to come up and be with us." And I had little enough sense to go, you know, thinkin' I'd meet some o' them fellers up there. And I went. And they had, oh, lots o' fiddlers. Mitchell: When was this, sir? Sizemore: Oh, hit was twenty years ago, And so, when it wound up, I got third money. And that's all I did get. Third money. Feller-by- the-name-of (can't make out the name) beat me out of first money. He played (The old man hums a bar or two, then takes it over with the fiddle. I don't believe the winner at the Cane Hill Fiddlin' Contest played "Ragtime Annie" better than Mr. Sizemore does on this tape. MCP) Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation.

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Ozark Folksong Collection

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