Sally Goodin

DESCRIPTION: "Had a piece of pie an' I had a piece of puddin', An' I gave it all away just to see my Sally Goodin." About how much the singer loves Sally, how he courts her -- with perhaps a few sundry comments about food and liquor along the way
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1922 (recording, Eck Robertson)
KEYWORDS: love courting nonballad floatingverses dancetune
FOUND IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES (14 citations):
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 121, "Sally Goodin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph 544, "Sally Goodin" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen-OzarkFolksongs-Abridged, pp. 403-404, "Sally Goodin" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 544A)
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 89, "Sally Goodin" (5 fragments, though "D" and "E" might be other songs)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 89, "Sally Goodin" (3 tunes plus text excerpts)
Fuson-BalladsOfTheKentuckyHighlands, p. 158, "Sallie Goodin" (seventh of 12 single-stanza jigs) (1 short text)
Cambiaire-EastTennesseeWestVirginiaMountainBallads, p. 56, "Sally Gooden" (1 text)
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol1, p. 18, "Sally Goodin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Rosenbaum-FolkVisionsAndVoices, p. 210, "Sally Goodin" (1 short text, 1 tune)
JonesLunsfor, p. 245, "Sally Goodin" (1 tune)
Abernethy-SinginTexas, pp. 71-72, "Sally Goodin" (1 text, 1 tune)
Darling-NewAmericanSongster, p. 255, "Sally Goodin" (1 text)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 33, "Sally Goodin" (1 text)
DT, SALGOODN
Roud #739
RECORDINGS:
Clifford Gross & Muryel Campbell, "Sally Gooden" (Vocalion 03650, 1937)
Fiddlin' John Carson, "Sallie Goodman" (OKeh 40095-A, 1924)
James Crase, "Sally Goodin" (on MMOKCD)
[G. B.] Grayson & [Henry] Whitter, "Sally Gooden" (Gennett 6733/Champion 15501 [as by Norman Gayle], 1928)
Vester Jones, "Sally Goodin" (on GraysonCarroll1)
Kessinger Brothers, "Sally Goodin" (Brunswick 308, c. 1929)
Neil Morris & Charlie Everidge, "Sally Goodin" [instrumental w. dance calls] (on LomaxCD1707)
John D. Mounce et al, "Sally Gooden" (on MusOzarks01)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Sally Goodin" (on NLCR02) (NLCR16)
Pickard Family, "Sally Goodin" (Regal 8810, 1929; probably the same as Dad Pickard's recording, Banner 6434, 1929)
Fiddlin' Powers and Family, "Sally Goodin" (Victor, unissued, 1924)
Riley Puckett, "Sally Goodwin" (Columbia 15102-D, 1926)
Eck Robertson, "Sally Goodin" (Victor 18956, 1922)
Ernest V. Stoneman "Sally Goodwin" (Edison, unissued, 1927) (Edison 52350, 1928) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5529, 1928) (Edison 0000 [development disk], 1928)
Uncle "Am" Stuart, "Sally Gooden" (Vocalion 14841, 1924)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Cripple Creek (I)" (floating lyrics)
NOTES [16 words]: Another piece that endures mostly as a fiddle tune. Given the lyrics, it's not hard to see why. - RBW
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File: LoF121

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