Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
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Album TitleIrish Dance Music
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Topic TSCD 602, 1995. Reissue of a 1973 Folkways anthology of 78 rpm records made between 1922 and 1948. Ed. and liner notes Reg Hall. Despite his interesting historical notes, Hall's tune identifications seem to be rather unreliable.

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Every Irish tune on this album was identified by carefully comparing this recorded performance with all other tunes in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index—by comparing musically, disregarding tune titles. The track and tune numbers below, furthermore, correspond to what you actually hear on this album. This page is thus more reliable than the original album notes, track titles listed by iTunes/Media Player, or other Web sites, all of which usually suffer from errors.

TrackTuneTune ID#RhythmTitles used for this tune (and other notes)
11 Tune Info
2052
Reel O'Rourke's / O'Rourke's Reel / O'Rorke's Reel / O' Rourke's Wild Irishman / The Wild Irishman / The Sligo Chorus / O'Keefe's (1st in set The Westport Chorus on IDM 1) (also in D)
2 Tune Info
2325
Reel The Westport Chorus (2nd in set on IDM 1)
21 Tune Info
1361
JigD Mug of Brown Ale, The / Jug of Brown Ale / Paddy in London / Delaney's Drummers / Winter Apples / Apples in Winter / The Clare Jig / Ginger's Favourite / The Cooraclare / Spoonful of Treacle / The Butcher's March / The Raffle Jig (for The Siege of Ennis in book MM)
2 Tune Info
251
JigD Butcher's March, The / The Butchers' March / The Butcher's Jig / The Butchers of Bristol / The Lark's March / The Gander at the Pratie Hole / The Bog of Allen / Bogs of Allen / Along with the Girls I'd Like to Be / The Boys of Clones / Bloody Oul' Hag, Is It Tay You Want? / Brendan Begley's Jig (also with parts reversed and with more parts)
31 Tune Info
1445
Hpipe Off to California / The Humours of California / Sweet Flowers of Milltown / The Sweet Flowers of Miltown / Bláthanna Cumhra Bhaile an Mhuilinn / Whiskey Hornpipe / The Whiskey Hornpipe / Fireman's Reel (3rd in set Up the Hill of Down on FBros) (also in A or D, also as schottische) (compare 1st part with 1st part of hornpipe Whiskey You're the Devil! #3691 and 1st part of reel Tom Morrison's #1924)
2 Tune Info
1161
Fling Louden's Bonnie Braes / Loudon's Braes Are Bonnie / Loudens Braes So Bonnie / Louden's Braes Are Bonnie / Bonnie Scotland / Lord Moira / The Bundoran Highland / Indian Polka / The Boys of Knock (2nd in set Thistle and Shamrock on MG) (also in D or G, also as reel or hornpipe) (compare strathspey Lord Moira's Welcome to Scotland and Knocktoran Fair, both included here)
41 Tune Info
536
Reel Dowd's Favorite / Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Reel / Dowd's/ Dowd's Reel / O'Dowd's / Braes of Bushbie (also in A Dorian, also all parts doubled or only 2nd part doubled, also with a 4th part)
2 Tune Info
1830
Reel Star of Munster, The / The Bright Star of Munster / Star Munster / Birds in the Bushes / Kitty's Wishes / The Greenfields of America / The Eight O'Clock Train (2nd in set O'Dowd's Favourite Reel Medley on IDM 1) (also 2nd part singled, also in G Dorian or E Dorian or G Mixolydian)
51 Tune Info
1496
JigD Paddy Clancy's / Paddy Clancy's Jig / Peadar Clancy's / Ah! Surely / The Thrush in the Meadow / Coleman's Favourite / Biddy McGhee / Jackson's / Fond of the Ladies / A Health to the Ladies / An Irishman's Heart to the Ladies / To the Ladies / An Irishman's Love / The Frolicksome Dame / Sweet Biddy Daly / Buttermilk Mary / The Mountain Road / The Mountainy Boy / The Night of the Wedding / Over the Callows / The Móinín Jig / The Queenstown Jig / Pat Beirne's Favourite / O'Mahony's (also in G)
2 Tune Info
1189
JigD Maid on the Green, The / Maid on the Green / The Maids on the Green / Night of the Fun (also with additional part inserted after 1st)
61 Tune Info
148
Reel Tie the Ribbons / Ceangail na Ribíní / The Dublin Lasses / Dublin Lasses / Gearrchailiú Bhaile Átha Cliath / The Maids of Galway / Big Pat's Reel / Murtough Molloy / The Eight and Forty Sisters / Trim the Bonnet / Jimmy the Creelmaker / Jimmy the Creel Maker / Salamanca / The Pigeon House / The Dandy Reel / The Hills of Clady / O'Connell's Trip to Parliament (1st in set McKenna's Reels on FG 3; for The Walls of Limerick in book R) (also doubled) (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of The Eight and Forty Sisters in D&M #9)
2 Tune Info
1491
Reel Over the Moor to Peggy / Trasna an Mhóinteáin go Peige / The Monasteraden Fancy / Monasteraden Fancy / The Monasteryedan Fancy / Over the Moor to Maggie / Come West along the Road / Bog Siar an Bóthar (also parts reversed, also high part doubled, also in A) (compare Come West along the Road #364 and compare 1st part with 1st part of McKenna's #1264)
71 Tune Info
191
Reel Bonnie Kate / Bonny Kate / Cáit Bhóidheach / Cáit Bhreá / Cáitín Ghleoite / The Bonny Lass of Fisherrow / The Bonny Lass of Fishirron / The Boys of Limerick (wide range of settings, including singled or in C Major) (composed by Donald Dow?)
2 Tune Info
1855
Reel Swallow's Tail Reel, The / The Swallow's Tail / Swallows Tail / Swallowtail Reel / Swallow Tail / The Swallowtail Coat / The Steeple Chase / The Steeplechase / Take Your Hand Away / The Family Estate / The Girl with the Handsome Face / Joshua Grey / McKenna's / Miss Wright's / Mollie's Bonnet / Molloy's Nightcap / The Pride of the Ball / The Queen's Wedding / The Village Reel (for dance The Sixteen Hand Reel in book MM) (also singled, also as hornpipe The Pigeon's Tail in book R) (compare #1265)
3 Tune Info
775
Reel Green Fields of America, The / Greenfields of America / Garranta Glasa Mheiriceá / Cuibhrinn Ghlasa Mheiriceá / Molly Brallaghan / Molly Brallighan / Molly Brannigan / Mollie Brannigan / Charming Molly Brannigan / Charming Molly Brannagan / Molly Brannigan / Charming Mollie Brallaghan / Charming Molly Brallaghan / Purty Molly Brallaghan / Judy Brannagan / Judy Brallaghan / Johnny, When You Die, Will You Will Me the Fiddle? / Whiskey before Breakfast (also in A) (compare Old Mother Flanagan in FF, jig #774, and as air #3291)
81 Tune Info
1445
Hpipe Off to California / The Humours of California / Sweet Flowers of Milltown / The Sweet Flowers of Miltown / Bláthanna Cumhra Bhaile an Mhuilinn / Whiskey Hornpipe / The Whiskey Hornpipe / Fireman's Reel (3rd in set Up the Hill of Down on FBros) (also in A or D, also as schottische) (compare 1st part with 1st part of hornpipe Whiskey You're the Devil! #3691 and 1st part of reel Tom Morrison's #1924)
2 Tune Info
561
Hpipe Dunphy's Hornpipe / Cornphíopa Uí Dhonnchaidh / Miss Dunphy's Hornpipe / Dunphy's / Dumphy's / Dumphy's Hornpipe / Cornphíopa Uí Mhurcú
91 Tune Info
551
Reel Drunken Tailor, The / The Drinking Reel (compare 1st part with 1st part of Pigeon on the Gate #1581)
2 Tune Info
1883
Reel Teetotaller, The / The Teetotallers Reel / The Teetotaller's Reel / Teetotaler's Reel / Teetotalers / The Teetotaler / The Teetotaler's Fancy / The Teetotaller's Fancy / Teetotal / Temperance Reel / The Temperance Reel / The Temperance / O'Connell's Welcome to Clare / The Bowl of Coffee (1st in set The Half Crown Song on FBros; 1st part only on JKm; 3rd in set The Teetotaler on TCB 4) (also in D)
101 Tune Info
2080
Reel Within a Mile of Dublin / A Mile from Dublin / I bhFoisceacht Míle do Bhaile Átha Cliath / The Road to Dublin / The Maid of Ballinatra / Maid of Ballintra / An Giobarach / The Meadow in Bloom / Meadow in Bloom / Through the Fields / The Club Reel / The Kerry Lasses / Sarah's Reel / You're a Long Time A Courting / You're a Long Time a-Courting
111 Tune Info
677
JigD Frieze Breeches, The / The Frieze Britches / Frieze Breetches / Brístí Bréide / The Friar's Breeches / I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her / I Buried My Wife / On St. Patrick's Day I Was Gay / On St Patrick's Day I was Gay / Gallagher's / Gallagher's Jig / The Trumlo / Cunla (2nd in set Cúnla on Plx 4) (wide range of settings) (compare 2-part setting I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her #3436)
2 Tune Info
387
JigD Cook in the Kitchen, The / Cook in the Kitchen (mislabeled as Paidin O'Rafferty on MvC 2) (also in D) (compare Strop the Razor #1846)
3 Tune Info
1090
SgJig Lannigan's Ball / Lanigans Ball / At the Side of the Road / When I Was a Young Man (also in B, also for long dance Bridge of Athlone)
121 Tune Info
1732
Reel Scotch Mary / Scots Mary / Máire Albanach / Irish Molly / Knocknagow / The Knocknagow / Knocknagow Reel / Máire na Sop / Mary O'Wisp / Ríl Bhaile na Finne / The Fintown Reel / My Love Is Far Away (also doubled, also in Mixolydian, also with 3rd part by John Doherty; with Doherty's 3rd part as 1st part on Nms 2) (compare as highland #3162; compare Tom Keane's #4433, Eddie Duffy's Favourite #3567 and compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Grand Canal #759)
2 Tune Info
768
Reel Green Groves of Erin, The / Garráin Ghlasa na hÉireann / The Groves of Erin / Groves of Erin / Erin's Groves / The Green Groves / Na Garráin Ghlasa / Down the Groves / The Green Fields of Erin / Green Fields of Erin / The Gay Fellow's Favourite / The Gayfellow's Favourite / The Good Fluter / The Castlecomer Lasses / Castlecomer Lasses / The Queenstown Lasses / The Heather Breeze / Miss Shaw's Reel / Mary in the Mall / Kelly's Fancy / Miss Stewart of Grantully / The Low Highland / Padaí Bhillí na Rópaí's Highland (2nd tune in set The Real Blackthorn Stick on MC) (also singled, also in A Mixolydian)
131 Tune Info
98
Polka Babes in the Woods / Babes in the Wood / Dan O'Leary's (4th in set The Cuas Polkas on Beg 1)
2 Tune Info
1707
Polka Rose Tree, The / The Rose Tree in Full Bearing / Little Mary Cullinan / Moirin ni Chuileannain / Maureen from Giberland / Maureen from Gibberland / Cups and Saucers / I'd Mourn the Hopes that Leave Me / Forgive the Muse that Slumbered / Phelim O'Neill / Moore's Favorite / The Irish Lilt / The Gimlet / The Old Lea Rigg / Bhíosa Lá bPort Láirge (for dance The Waves of Tory in book A; for dance Walls of Limerick in book MM) (also as single reel and as song; also in A)
141 Tune Info
1179
Fling Maggie Pickens (1st in set The Pride of Ulster on WW 1) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Tom Billy's #3777)
2 Tune Info
271
Fling Cameron's Wife / The Kerryman's Fling (2nd in set The Pride of Ulster on WW 1)
151 Tune Info
207
Hpipe Boys of Bluehill, The / Boys of Bluehill / Boys of Blue Hill / Buachaillí an Chnoic Ghoirm / Beaux of Oak Hill / Beaux of Oakhill / Lads of North Tyne (compare Jimmy Keane composition Bluehill on Boh 4, included here; compare old-time tune Keep the Ark A' Movin included here)
2 Tune Info
1825
Hpipe Stack of Wheat, The / Stack of Wheat / Stack o' Wheat / The Little Stack of Wheat / An Staicín Cruithneachta (3rd in set Stack of Barley Set on CLnn 2, where 2nd part is furthermore used as an intro) (also in A)
161 Tune Info
1824
BDnce Stack of Oats
2 Tune Info
917
BDnce James Gannon's / Jamesy Gannon's / Gannon's / James Cannon's Barndance / The Chaffpool Post / Shannon Waves / Michael Coleman's (1st in set Jamesy Gannon's on NNC)
171 Tune Info
1059
JigD Kitty's Rambles / Kitty's Ramble / Kitty's Rambles to Youghal / The Rambles of Kitty / Rambles of Kitty / The Heart of my Kitty for Me / The Heart of my Kitty Still Warms to Me / The Heart of My Kitty / Dan the Cobbler / The Ladies' Triumph / The Ladies Triumph / Young Ettie Lee / I'm a Man in Myself Like Oliver's Bull / Linehan's Rambles / Murray's Maggot / Strap the Razor / An Chailleach is a Ceag ar a Gualainn (1st in set The Frost Is All Over on MC) (also with 3 or 4 parts) (very similar to The Cobbler #349)
2 Tune Info
1274
JigD Merry Old Woman, The / Merry Old Woman / The Merry Old Woman Jig / The Mouse in the Cupboard / Repeal of the Union / The Walls of Enniscorthy / Ballaí Lios Chearbhaill / The Walls of Liscarroll / The Rakes of Newcastle West / Wollop the Potlid / Duignan's Odd Jig
3 Tune Info
710
JigD Geese in the Bog, The / Na Seanghéanna sa Phortach / Geese in the Bog / The Old Geese in the Bog / The Old Geese on the Bog / The Goose in the Bog / The Humours of Ballinifad / The Humors of Ballinifad / Bryan O'Lynn / Bryan O Lynn / Ken Fahey's (also in B, also with extra 1st part by Liz Carroll on LC 2) (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Banks of Lough Gowna #117)
181 Tune Info
835
Reel Satin Slipper, The / The High Road to Galway
2 Tune Info
245
Reel Bunch of Keys, The / Paddy on the Turnpike / The Turnpike / The Groves Reel / The Fairy Hunters / Walsh's Favourite / The Galway Rambler / Paddy Finlay's Favourite (2nd tune in set The Sailor on the Rock on MC) (compare Flowers of Limerick #648 which is very close, but 2-part; compare The Mills Are Grinding #2378; compare with 1st, 3rd, and 4th parts of The Groves Hornpipe #780)
3 Tune Info
1719
Reel Salamanca, The / The Salamanca Reel / Wild Salamanca / The Wild Salamanca / Salamango / Salamander / The Salamander / The Tartan Plaid / The Maigue's Tide / The Coronation Reel / The Coronation
191 Tune Info
282
JigD Carraroe Jig, The / Carraroe / Port na Ceathrú Rua / The Portrowe / The Lark on the Strand (2nd in set Queen of the Fair Selection on CrssCl; 3rd in set The Ravine on KCB 6) (compare Blue Bonnets' Jig / Blue Bonnets over the Border #182 and The Scotchman over the Border / Scotsman over the Border #1733) (composed by Tommy Whelan)
2 Tune Info
1644
JigD Rambling Pitchfork, The / Rambling Pitchfork / The Fisherman's Widow / Roland's Return / The Friendly Neighbour / Baxter's Big (for 2nd figure of Taille Mhara Jig Set on MISD 7; 1st in set The Ravine on KCB 6) (also in D Minor) (as single jig: Lambert's Jig)
201 Tune Info
1454
Reel Old Bush, The / An tSean-Sceach / The Old Bush Reel / The Bush Reel / Captain Rock / The Long Hills of Mourne / Cnoic Fhada Mhughdhorna / Five Leaf Clover (compare Captain Rock #278)
211 Tune Info
632
Reel First House in Connaught, The / The First House in Connacht / The First House of Connaught
2 Tune Info
766
Reel Green Gates, The / The Green Gate / Na Geataí Glasuaine / Geataí na Faiche / Na Geataí Glasa / The Women's Rock (for Sixteen Hand Reel in book MM) (also in D)
221 Tune Info
1294
JigD Millpond, The / The Mill Pond / The Lough Gill / The Cashel Jig / Paddy Cartys
2 Tune Info
1321
JigD Mist on the Meadow, The / Mist on the Meadows / An Ceo ar an mBán / The Moving Bogs of Powellsboro (2nd in set The Belburry Hills on ESL 1, which in turn is mislabeled as Miss McClouds Reels / Rolling the Rye Grass)
231 Tune Info
89
Reel Ash Plant, The / The Ashplant / The Ash-Plant / The Ash Plant No. 1 / An Maide Fuinnseoige / Planda na Fuirseoige (appears within song Keeper of the Game on MSHtn 1) (also singled, also in F# Minor) (compare Rogha Thomáis Uí Dhubhda / Tom Dowd's Favorite and Morning Dew #2512)
2 Tune Info
1273
Reel Merry Harriers, The / Merry Harrier's Reel / Na Fiairí Feá (3rd in set The Hillsbrook Reels on MMcG 3) (compare reversed parts to Piper on Horseback #1587)
3 Tune Info
285
Reel Cashmere Shawl, The / An Seál Caismíre / The Hut in the Bog / An Bothán sa bPortach / Hunt in the Bog / On the Road to Lurgan (also in B or E, also with additional part inserted in the middle)
241 Tune Info
712
Reel George White's Favourite / George White's Favorite / George White's Fancy / George Whyte's Favourite / George Whyte's Fancy / Rogha Sheoirse de Faoite / George White's / The Lass of Carrowcastle / Lasses of Carracastle / Carracastle Lasses / Sweeney's Reel (also in E or F)
2 Tune Info
1197
Reel Maid of Mount Kisco, The / Maid of Mount Kisco / Gearrchaile Shliabh Cisco / Bruinneall Mount Cisco / Maid of Mt Kisko / The Maid of Mount Cisco / Maid of Mount Cisco / The Maid of Mountcisco / The Maid of Montcisco / The Maids of Mount Cisco / Maids of Mount Cisco (3rd in set Eanáir on Lu 7) (also in E) (composed by Paddy Killoran?)
3 Tune Info
1822
Reel St. Ruth's Bush / Saint Ruth's Bush / Jude's Bush / Joe Bane's (compare Old Wheels of the World #3267) (composed by Paddy Kelly)