mwriley - Posted - 06/25/2009:  13:14:24

At the faculty concert at the Midwest Banjo Camp earlier this month, Alan Munde played a really cool tune called "Kill the Shanghai Rooster" or possibly "Who Killed the Shanghai Rooster?". It is a great tune that I have never heard before. Alan said he learned it from Don Stover. Does anyone know of a recording or tab of this tune. Has anyone even heard of it?

Mike R

Don Borchelt - Posted - 06/25/2009:  13:41:26

Kill the Shanghai Rooster is a tune Don Stover and Tex Logan used to play, I heard them do it a couple of times, back in the early 70s. I think the two of them made it up.



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Edited by - Don Borchelt on 06/25/2009 13:42:00

trapdoor2 - Posted - 06/25/2009:  13:48:10

From the "Folk Music Index":

Kill the Shanghai Rooster

Seeger, Mike. Second Annual Farewell Reunion, Mercury SRMI-685, LP (1973), trk# 16 (edit: Don Stover is on this album)

I wonder if this is related to "Don't Bet On The Shanghai" by Stephen Foster...ca 1840's?

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Edited by - trapdoor2 on 06/25/2009 13:50:37