Okay, "Crazy G" has a 20s or 30s sound, but I can't seem to find out where it came from. I can't say I really did any exhaustive research - I tend to peter-out at about 5 minutes on most of my Google searches, so there may be some information.
Anyway, this is a quick tutorial I took on my iPhone of our own Mr. T. playing a snippet of Crazy G. I think kids would love to play it as it picks up the speed of a runaway train.
Linkin Park/Evanescence – In the End/Bring Me to Life (Tabs)
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I decided to fulfil two requests at once since these two are the same song
in my head. In the End is originally in Eb minor and Bring Me to Life is in
Em. ...
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I remember reading somewhere that someone (Bill Monroe?) said to Earl Scruggs about his 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown': "that's not a song, that's just a chord sequence!".
Same can be said about Crazy G, and I suppose the lack of commercial recordings reflects the doubts about the copyrights to it. The 1939 Kaai ukulele method has a bit called 'the Hula Jazz' that sounds in parts a bit like this (a chromatic 'wiggle' and a downward shift from I to VI), but it's in D and is much less elaborate than this.
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