NOTES / COMMENTS ON TUNES IN FOLDER 62
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X:62005
1: One source calls this tune "Ostenelli's", but doesn't explain why. 
"Austin Healey's" is probably closer to the actual name. 
2: There are a couple of "Ostinellis" on the interweb but neither seems 
to have much to do with dance music. In any event it's a nice tune!

X:62030
"Composed by Nenagh, County Tipperary, button accordion player Paddy O'Brien 
(1922-1991), in honor of renowned County Galway D/D# box player Joe Cooley, a 
contemporary who also helped to popularize the tune. There are several variants 
of the second part of the tune in modern usage, but regardless it remains a 
popular session tune." (< Fiddler's Companion) Second part heard most often 
today is the one played by Noel Hill and Tony Linnane on their 1970's recording.
(Note: the G version is O'Brien's original one [without "Joe" in the title]. 

X:62017
%This and "Harvest Home" are the two 'Hornpipes Supreme' in 
%ITM, usually among the first tunes anyone learns to play. 
%O'Neill got the original version of this and several other 
%tunes from a fiddler named West, who unfortunately did not 
%remain long in the Chicago area (for reasons the Chief - 
%ever the soul of discretion - only hints at). In any case 
%Mr. West disappeared from the Windy City and evidently was 
%never heard of again. But he left behind some great tunes.

X:62025
This is my name for a "jig gan ainm". Coagh [KOH-ah] is a town 
in Co. Tyrone where my great-grandmother Annie was christened 
(she was born across the border in Derry, but her family's 
church was in Tyrone!)

X:62044
Some sources refer to this as "Leitrim Thrush" but this tune bears no 
resemblance to the "Leitrim Thrush" in O'Neill's ONMI (which in Ador 
starts < A3B cAGB|AcAG EFGc >). Confusion seems to have started with a 
mis-labelled Flanagan Bros. recording but details are too long to go 
into here.

X:62052
This is actually Paddy Canny and P.J.Hayes' version of a Seán Ryan 
composition (one of the most "alternately named" tunes in ITM!) For 
whatever reason this tune is most commonly known as "Lafferty's" 
(or "Laverty's), maybe after piano player Bridie Lafferty. . .?

X:62062
Authorship of this tune has been a source of controversy (or maybe 
just "animated discussion") over the years. Some say that it was 
composed by Cooley himself, but the current consensus seems to be 
that the actual composer was Cooley's fellow Galway box player Joe 
Mills, who called it "Luttrell's Pass". However the tune was evidently 
never recorded by that name, and because Cooley liked it and played 
it so much, his name became attached to it.

X:62065
John Kimmel (1866-1942) - Born Brooklyn NY of German parentage; one 
of the first recorded Irish accordion players (actually 10-key melodeon). 
Kimmel was a great influence on PJ Conlon and eventually on Joe Derrane.

X:62117
This tune was composed by Mayo-born John McGrath, a well-respected 
instrumentalist and dance teacher in the NY area for many years. He 
died in 1955. This appears to be his only composition but although 
other tunes have been attributed to himre's no clear evidence for 
any of them.

X:62077
Generally considered a composition of Paddy Killoran. Mount Kisco is a 
town in Westchester County north of New York City; the "maid" is rumored 
to have been a waitress in one of Killoran's favorite watering holes!

X:62083
A version of a tune Andy McGann called "Private Ass and Cart" (and recorded by that name by Kathleen Collins - see my Tune Vault folder). It's one of the "Doon Reel" family. Like Joan Coyne, Mary was one of John McGrath's fiddle students; the late Dan Collins (also a student of McGrath's and always a reliable source of information on musicians of the 50's and 60's) had no further details about her. (I believe she appears in a group picture on the cover of the Shanachie Paddy Killoran LP.)

X:62092
Not identical to the key-of-G "Munster Buttermilk", especially in the first 
part. But it doesn't sound like the key-of-D "Munster Buttermilk" (= "Behind 
the Haystack") either!

X:62099
One source calls this "Paddy Corley's", "Corley" most likely a misspelling for "Kelly". Kelly, who was a Galway fiddler and co-founder of the legendary Aughrim Slopes Ceili Band of the 1930's, composed other tunes known only by his name, so I took the liberty of renaming this one after his home village near Aughrim.

X:62101
Paddy was a Galway fiddler, member of the Aughrim Slopes Ceili Band, 
who composed (but evidently never named) numerous fine tunes. See  
note to 62099 above.

X:62102
Seán Ryan also composed a hornpipe for Paddy, but this is a different tune (although it has some similarities). It's hard to tell if the eponymous person is the one who composed it or one that somebody else composed it for (or neither, but just played it a lot - cf. "Joe Cooley's Reel")!

X:62108
This tune is better known as "Joe Burke's", presumably after its best-known performer. However Galway/NY fiddler Pete Kelly said that in fact he had composed this tune (without a name unfortunately) for a student ceili band called "The Shannonaires" in the 1950s. (It is also attributed to Lad O'Beirne.)

X:62111
This has Larry Redican's name on it but I don't know if he composed it 
or not. It always reminded me of "The Spey in Spate". The D, A, and G sharps 
are mainly for box players but don't let that stop you from trying them if you 
play another instrument. (The A-B-A setting is my idea; "fine" would look 
like < CDEC D4 >)

X:62121
1: This is a simplified arrangement of a Scots tune. The original is loaded 
with ornamentations impossible to play for anybody less nimble-fingered 
than the late Joe Derrane!
2: The A-B-A setting is my idea.

X:62134
Patrick (Sonny) Brogan (1907-1965) was a Dublin accordion player from the 1930s to the 1960s, and was one of Ireland's most popular traditional musicians. (< Wikipedia) This tune is played in both keys but Am seems currently the more popular.

X:62131
1: There's a version of this as "Spellan the Fiddler" (key G/D) in ONMI1850
Key A/E seems to be some kind of exotic box setting of zero interest to 96.2 
pct of trad musicians (who aren't exotic boxplayers).
2: The little flourish at the end of the second part is cute but <E2B2E2>
will work fine.

X:62132
This tune ends on the 4th scale degree (D in key of A), which I would normally re-arrange so it ended on the tonic A. However this tune is well-known enough that I didn't bother. (You could try something like < edcB A4 > on the last playthrough if you're interested.)