From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed")
(writer: unknown - public domain)
This is an adaptation and certainly a takeoff on the old song “Turkey in the Straw”. Jeff wrote his own lyrics, keeping the original melody intact, with some twists and turns in key changes along the way. According to Wikipedia "Turkey in the Straw" is a well-known American folk song dating from the early 19th century. The song's tune is derived from the ballad "My Grandmother Lived on Yonder Little Green" which was derivative of the Irish ballad "The Old Rose Tree." Originally a tune for fiddle players, it was first popularized in the late 1820s and early 1830s by performers such as George Washington Dixon and Bob Farrell. Another song, "Zip Coon", sung to the same tune, was popularized by Dixon and flourished during the Andrew Jackson administration. This version was first published between 1829 and 1834 in either New York or Baltimore. Both of the above performers claimed to have written the song, and the dispute is not resolved. Also, Ohio songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett is sometimes erroneously credited as the song's author. But (like much Americana music) after all this time, authorship is a mute point since the song has been in the public domain for almost 2 centuries with no hope of any royalty payments to family descendents of the writer, whoever it was.
Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters.
Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.
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