Thanks to Jim McKinney, David Firestine, and John Beland for identifying "Dusty
Roads" as "My Love Is [/She's] but a Lassie-O [/Lassie Yet]," also known by
many other names (see
https://tunearch.org/wiki/My_Love_is_but_a_Lassie_Yet_(1)
) including "Too Young to Marry," and not to be confused, by the way, with
"Take Me Back to Tulsa," also also known as "Too Young to Marry."
Regarding "Rubber Dolly"/"Back Up And Push," the annotations at
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Rubber_Dolly_(1)
mention the song lyrics
My mama told me, If I'd be goody
That she would buy me, a rubber dolly
...
one version of which can be heard, for example, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPquvsacG5M
Looking at the musical score on
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Rubber_Dolly_(1)
I believe the words "told" and "me" in the song correspond the first two notes
of the first full measure: a quarter-note for "told" and a quarter note tied to
an eighth note for "me", both on C-sharp, or scale degree 3 (mi) in the key of
A major. In the music for "Back Up and Push" at
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Back_Up_and_Push_(1)
(notated as 2/2 instead of 4/4 and in the key of G instead of A), I believe the
corresponding notes are a half note on D (sol in G major) and a half note tied
to a quarter note on A (re). So those notes are rhythmically the same in (the
cited transcription of) "Rubber Dolly" as in (the cited transcription of) "Back
Up and Push, but melodically different: "mi mi" in RD vs. "sol re" in BUAP).
Listening to the rendition of "Rubber Dolly" at
https://www.ceder.net/recorddb/viewsingle.php?RecordId=9791&SqlId=249698
that I cited in my earlier message, I think that in the place where I've just
described transcriptions on tunearch as having two long notes, the banjo player
(Jack Hawes) on the record plays seven notes:
told (ti-ka) me (ti-ka) ee
And yet I can still detect (albeit with a little stretching) a resemblance
between that recording and some recordings I've found of "Back Up and Push."
But it does set me wondering just how much two musical performances can differ
from each other rhythmically and/or melodically and still be regarded as
renditions of the "same" tune.
As I write this, I'm reminded of an occasion about 15 years ago when I was
sitting in a dining area with one of my aunts and she asked if I knew what tune
was playing on the P.A. system. I said I thought it was "Tea for Two" but she
said it sounded nothing like "Tea for Two". Years later (unfortunately when my
aunt was no longer living), I happened to hear this on the radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLDHCDz7S2g
and the mystery was solved when the DJ announced the title.
--Jim
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