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"Ida Red" is an American traditional song of unknown origins. It is chiefly identified by variations of the chorus: :''Ida Red, Ida Red, I'm a plumb fool 'bout Ida Red.'' Verses are unrelated, rather humorous, and free form, changing from performance to performance. ''Ida Red's'' identity is unknown, but is feminine in most uses. The earliest recording is a one by Fiddlin' Powers & Family (Victor 19434, 1924), which includes vocals. There is also an early well-known instrumental by Dykes Magic City Trio, (Brunswick 125, 1927).〔Laird, ''Brunswick Records'', pp 439-440.〕 ''Ida Red'', the personage, appears in a number of other songs only distantly related to the song "Ida Red". One, by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers whose "Shootin' Creek" (Columbia 15286-D, 1928), a version of "Cripple Creek", contains verses from "Ida Red", i.e.: :''Ida Red, she's a darned ol' fool,'' :''Tried to put a saddle on a hump-back mule.'' Alan Lomax includes another in his collection of "Negro Bad Men" songs titled "Ida Red".〔 Other than the title, this song is in no way related to the folk song. This song is of a criminal feeling sorry for himself. In every verse he wails to his woman: :''Oh, weep! Oh, my Ida!'' There are also several songs that share the same tune but unrelated subject matter. These include "Down The Road" and "Over The Road I'm Bound to Go". ==Western swing== In the 1930s Bob Wills took the old tune and set it to a 2/4 dance beat to be played by his Western swing dance band, the Texas Playboys. His 1938 recording (Vocalion 05079) became a hit. The song, as originally recorded by Wills, borrowed lyrics from an 1878 popular song written by Frederick W. Root ("Sunday Night"). The Wills version opens with: :''Light's in the parlor, fire's in the grate,'' :''Clock on the mantle says it's a'gettin' late,'' :''Curtains on the window, snowy white,'' :''The parlor's pleasant on Sunday night.'' "Sunday Night" opens with: :''The light is in the parlor, A fire is in the grate;'' :''The clock upon the mantle Ticks out "it's getting late"'' :''The curtains at the windows Are made of snowy white,'' :''The parlor is a pleasant place To sit on Sunday night, To sit on Sunday, Sunday night.''〔Root, "Sunday Night".〕 Wills and his Texas Playboys performed this arrangement of "Ida Red" in two of his movies; Go West, Young Lady'' (1941) and ''Blazing the Western Trail'' (1945). It has been revived by the award-winning Western Swing band The Hot Club of Cowtown and features on four of their albums: ''Swingin' Stampede'' (1998), ''Continental Stomp'' (2003; live version), ''Four Dead Batteries'' (film soundtrack, 2005), and ''Best Of The Hot Club of Cowtown'' (2008). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ida Red」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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