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Banjo Tune a Day project, day n+1: Nola

I finished my Banjo Tune a Day project in mid-May, after 60 days and 65 tunes - you know the story about banjo players and counting. Still, every now and then a tune crops up that's worth adding, and since I make the rules I'll add them when I want. This may be the best banjo tune ever written, even though it took years before a banjo recording became available. It was written by Felix Arndt, pianist for the great banjo player Fred Van Eps, and named for Arndt's fiance. The good news: Nola married Felix. The bad: He died shortly after, in 1918, in the Spanish Flu pandemic. The tune became a big band semi-standard, the theme song of the Vincent Lopez orchestra and a hit for Lopez in 1922. Les Paul charted with it in 1950, and Van Eps himself recorded it on banjo in 1952, 37 years after Arndt wrote it and very near the end of his own 65-year recording career. Bill Keith recorded a full version of it in 1975 on his Paris sessions, although he had played it for years before and even quoted it in a break for "Footprints In the Snow" on the Muleskinner recording. My version started from the Bill Knopf tab (Banjo Newsletter, April 1977), although I made substantial fingering changes throughout the tune for playability. So, out of one pandemic and into another, here's Nola.