New Mexico Folk Music & Dance Society's
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Albuquerque Megaband

 

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Megaband's Partial Tune List & Samples
(click titles for mp3 snippets; see bottom of page for ABC music)

A Tunes

C Tunes

D Tunes

G Tunes

Waltzes

Abe's Retreat

Altamont

Angeline the Baker

Big Footed Man in the Sandy Lot

Amelia's Waltz - D

Angus Campbell

Billy in the Lowground

Avalon Quickstep

Big Scioty

Oceans of Diamonds - D

Big John McNeil

Chinese Breakdown

Buck Mountain

Billy in the Low Land

Ook Pik Waltz - G

Boys, The Buzzards Are Flying

Katydid

Calico Corn

Blackberry Blossom

Larry's Waltz - G

Bull at the Wagon (3-part)

Pike's Peak

Cowboy's Dream

Blackberry Jam (jig)

New Land Waltz - Dm

Bussy's Reel (D. Margolin)

Shootin' Creek

Dubuque

Bright Girl (J. Mullany)

Rocking the Babies to Sleep - D

Dance, Boatman, Dance

Stone's Rag

Durang's Hornpipe

California Cotillion *** l

Spokane Waltz - G

Dinah

Texas Gals

Dusty Miller

Chattanooga

Tourne, Tourne, Bebe Creole - D

Doggie on the Carpet

Fiddler's Reel

Colored Aristocracy

Valse de Escoba - D

Dry and Dusty

Folding Down the Sheets

Cowpies & Coffee (D. Margolin)

Dudes & Nudes (D. Margolin)

E Tunes

Grand Picnic

Crockett's Honeymoon

Hassle the Caller (H. Bradley)*

Belled Cow

Grasshopper Sittin' on a Sweet Potato Vine

Cuffy

Ice House

Email Reel (D. Margolin)

Green Willis

Daddy Didn't Sleep All Night

Jenny on the Railroad

Dancing Bear ll   (PDF here)

Hawks & Eagles

Ebenezer

John Sharp's Tune

Frustration Reel (D. Margolin)

Illinois Rickett's Hornpipe

Flying Home to Shelley (Paul Gitlitz) Z

K & D Contra

Jaybird

Flowers of Edinburgh

Little Billy Wilson

F Tunes

Johnny, Johnny, Don't Get Drunk

Going Across the Sea

Jigs

Mason's Apron

Ross's Reel

Julianne Johnson

Hobb Dye (crooked)

Blackberry Jam - G

Old Kentucky Whiskey

Kitty McGee (jig)

Hollow Poplar

Joys of My Life - G

One Pretty Penny (D. Margolin)

Lafayette

Joys of My Life (jig)

Kitty McGee - D

Pretty Little Shoes

Liberty

Jimmy in the Swamp

Maggie Brown's Favorite - G

Rick's Andromeda Reel (D. Margolin)

Lizard Candy (D. Margolin)

John Brown's March

Maggie Brown's - G (chords)

Shady Grove

Martha Campbell

Lady of the Lake

St. Lawrence Jig - D

Shenandoah Falls

New Toyota

Last Chance

Washington Square - A

Sweet Nell (J. Mullany & R. Pine)**

Oklahoma Rooster

Levi Jackson Rag

Cape Breton Jig Set:
Nicole Fakoory's / Gabrielle's / Boston Life / Moll in the Wad / Spin 'n' Glow
(the first 3 are the ones we're learning)

-See notice below i

Sheet music in PDF:
Nicole Fakoory's/Gabrielle's

Boston Life
-
And in ABC format

Three Thin Dimes

Old Man, Old Woman

Levi Jackson Rose ***

Tom & Jerry

Quince Dillon's High D

Maggie Brown's Favorite (jig)

Under the Beige Tent (Henry Reed tune with unknown name)

Ragtime Annie

Maggie Brown's Favorite (chords)

Waterbound

Robinson County

Meriweather

Ways of the World (3-part)

Rose Tree

Piney Woods Gal

Sally in the Turnip Patch

Red Fox

 

Am Tunes

Sally Smacked Me with a Flounder (Steve Mason)[

Round the Horn

 

28th of January

Shuckin' the Brush

Sandy River Belle

 

Bonaparte Crossing the Rockies

Shuffle About (Straight version)

Sandy River Belle (orchestral version)

 

Cold Frosty Morning

Spotted Pony

Swinging on a Gate

 

Ducks on the Pond

Spring in the Valley

Temperance Reel

 

Falls of Richmond

Step Around Johnny

Three Forks of the Sandy

 

Grumbling & Growling

Valley Forge

Waldorf Reel

 

Kitchen Girl

Waiting for Nancy

Waynesboro

Specialty Tunes

Sandy Boys

West Fork Gals

You Married My Daughter, And Yet You Didn't Edelweiss  (recording is in Bb)

Whiskey Before Breakfast

  Sheet music in PDF:

Yellow Barber (w/Ragtime Annie)

  Edelweiss (1st page in Bb)

A mix Tunes

Yellow Cat

  Edelweiss (1st page in D)

June Apple

  Edelweiss (1st page in G)

Kerry Shuffle (R. Pine)**

Dm Tunes

  Edelweiss (Bb - Doc's sheet w/ whole tune)

Balance in A (Bruce Thomson '09)

   

 

Farewell Marian (waltz in D minor)

  Sheet Music in PDF

   


Most of these tunes were recorded in 2003 by Linda Vik, and massaged into mp3s by Peter Esherick.


*On Hank Bradley's album entitled "Hassle the Caller"

**Hear these tunes on the album "Sweet Nell"

*** thanks to Judy M. for recording.

l played by Yigal Zan & Michael Muldawer

ll played by Rodney Miller on the "Airplang" album

i From Buddy MacMaster, "Cape Breton Tradition," Rounder Records 7052

[ played by a bunch of folks at Carp Camp, Walnut Valley Festival, Winfield KS

Z by Airdance on the "Flying Home" album

 

 

 

 

Looking for ABC notation? An archive of Bruce Thomson's "Tune of the Month" selections from past newsletters in ABC format is available -- click here.
 
Here's a vintage tunelist in PDF for your collection.