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Does not conform to the historic pattern of music for the standard quadrilles. This music is suitable for a group of dancers who enjoy doing the two-step.

Commonly calleo "Kelly Waltz." Authority for the title, "Keller's Waltz," is Uncle Joe Morrow. He claimed he knew Keller, who for a time was a fiddler for a traveling medicine wagon. According to Me. Morrow, Keller was in debt to a saloon in Mangum, Oklahoma, and oaercd to compose a waltz and play it for the customers to settle the bill. The saloonkeeper agreed, and this is purportedly the waltz Keller composed.

This is a designation for identification purposes. A brother of Joe Johnson (see note to #153) would play the fiddle during occasional visits to Joe's home. Both claimed they jointly composed most of this waltz, which was lacking a satisfactory ending to the second part. I worked out the ending shown here.

My recording of this waltz was among a large part of my collection that was stolen out of storage in Missouri in 1966. Recorded in the 1950S by Bob Walters

Played by a performer at the Texas Fiddlers Convention at Athens, Texas, in 1950. A reporter from the Fort Worth Star Telegram told me in 1965 that the annual Fiddlers Convention at Athens had long since been disbanded. Apparently there were increasing troubles with people who follow large gatherings