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In the 1930s, the Seven Rowe Brothers Band played an up-tempo theme song at dances all over central Texas. Called \"Polk County Two-Step,\" the piece was simply a sped-up version of \"Nelly Gray.\" The Rowe brothers based the tune's B section on the tonic chord, eschewing Hanby's movement to the dominant, with its change of perspective that enhanced the text. For an instrumental, however, the change to dominant wasn't needed, and the Rowes simply moved the A part melody up an octave for their B part. When Wills and family came up with \"Faded Love,\" they kept the Rowes' new chord structure, slowed the tempo, and added their own words. My presentation will include film of Wills' birthplace near Kosse, Texas, and the home where he learned to fiddle, near Turkey. I'll present results from my recent interviews with Johnny Gimble, one of the fiddlers on Wills' 1950 \"Faded Love\" session, with the Rowe brothers' sister Louise, and with Wills biographer Charles Townsend. I'll show film of \"Nelly Gray\" composer Benjamin Hanby's home in Ohio, and the grave of Joe Selby, whose death in the Hanby home inspired Hanby to write \"Darling Nelly Gray.\"\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eBob Wills' iconic \"Faded Love,\" recorded by Wills and his band in 1950 and copyrighted by Wills and his father, was a crafty re-working of Benjamin Hanby's antebellum hit \"Darling Nelly Gray.\" Wills wasn't the first Texan to play with Hanby's legacy, however. In the 1930s, the Seven Rowe Brothers Band played an up-tempo theme song at dances all over central Texas. Called \"Polk County Two-Step,\" the piece was simply a sped-up version of \"Nelly Gray.\" The Rowe brothers based the tune's B section on the tonic chord, eschewing Hanby's movement to the dominant, with its change of perspective that enhanced the text. For an instrumental, however, the change to dominant wasn't needed, and the Rowes simply moved the A part melody up an octave for their B part. When Wills and family came up with \"Faded Love,\" they kept the Rowes' new chord structure, slowed the tempo, and added their own words. My presentation will include film of Wills' birthplace near Kosse, Texas, and the home where he learned to fiddle, near Turkey. I'll present results from my recent interviews with Johnny Gimble, one of the fiddlers on Wills' 1950 \"Faded Love\" session, with the Rowe brothers' sister Louise, and with Wills biographer Charles Townsend. I'll show film of \"Nelly Gray\" composer Benjamin Hanby's home in Ohio, and the grave of Joe Selby, whose death in the Hanby home inspired Hanby to write \"Darling Nelly Gray.\"\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/174/355/small/ARSC_conf_2014_Weed_video_thmb.jpg?1675889072","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48863/file/174355","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 2 - ARSC_conf_2014_Weed_video.mp4"]},"duration":1556.13867,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/174/355/small/ARSC_conf_2014_Weed_video_thmb.jpg?1675889072","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48863/file/174355/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48863/file/174355/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/174/355/original/ARSC_conf_2014_Weed_video.mp4?1675886605","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":1556.13867,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48863/file/174355","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]},{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48863/file/255586","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - ARSC_conf_2014_Weed_audio.mp3"]},"duration":1541.78731,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48863/file/255586/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48863/file/255586/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/255/586/original/ARSC_conf_2014_Weed_audio.mp3?1730665982","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":1541.78731,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1506/collection_resources/48863/file/255586","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}