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Album Details for The Sligo Champion. The Fiddle Music of County Sligo by Michael Gorman

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Artist NameMichael Gorman
Album TitleThe Sligo Champion. The Fiddle Music of County Sligo
MusiciansMichael Gorman (fiddle, vocals), with Margaret Barry (banjo, vocals), Tom Gannon (fiddle), Bertie Henry (piano), Martin Gorman (vocals, feet), Michael Gorman (flute, fiddle), Gerry Wimsey (whistle), Mick Flynn (flute), Willie Clancy (pipes), Paddy Breen (flageolet), Tommy Maguire (accordion), Patsy Goulding (piano), Jimmy Power (fiddle).
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other information		Topic TSCD 525D, 2001. Double CD of recordings from 1927 through 1972; not all include Michael Gorman. Includes extensive biography by Reg Hall and printed song lyrics.

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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)
1.11 Tune Info
540		 Reel Down the Broom / Leag Uait an Scuab / Lay Aside the Broom / Down the Broom I / Paddy Cronin's / Crosses of Annagh (compare Broomstick #3790, Jim Moore's Fancy #4139, and Follow Me Down to Galway #4336; compare 1st part with 1st part of Crosses of Annagh #421)
2 Tune Info
1581		 Reel Pigeon on the Gate, The / Pigeon on the Gate / Pidgeon on the Gate / A Pigeon on the Gate / An Colúr ar an nGeata / Pigeon on the Pier / The Pigeon on the Pier / Lagan Slashers / The Lagan Slashers / League and Slasher / The Athol Braes / The Scotch Braes / Reidy's Reel / The Drinking Reel / The Drunken Tailor / The Wandering Tinker / Gallagher's Best / The Swallowtail (2nd in set The Chattering Magpie on Ch 6; 3rd in The Taproom Set on CLnn 2) (also in A or G or G Minor; quite a bit of variation in the 2nd part) (compare The Drunken Landlady #549 and compare 1st part with 1st part of Drunken Tailor #551)
1.21 Tune Info
356		 JigSl Coleman's Slip Jig / Coleman's No. 1 / Coleman's Favourite / Michael Coleman's Hop-Jig / Michael Coleman's Hop Jig / The Promenade (also in D or E)
1.31 Tune Info
3666		 Reel Bonnie Ann / Eddie Dunn's Reel / Eddie Dunn's (compare Bag of Spuds #99 and 1st 2 parts of Paddy Kelly's #1511)
1.41 Tune Info
2099		 Mzrka Shoe the Donkey / Shoo the Donkey / Warsoviana /The Varsouviana / The Varsovienne / Varsovienne / Versevanna / The Versevianna / The Versavienna / Father Halpin's Top Coat / Fr. Halpin's Top Coat / [misspelled as:] Fr.Halpin's TopCoat / Gan Ainm (including a unique Northern setting on CA)
1.51 Tune Info
1971		 JigD Trip to Sligo, The / Up Sligo / The Lark in the Morning / Daugherty's (1st in set Tell Her I Am on MC and WW 2; 2nd in set Master Crowley's Favorites on HG)
1.61 Tune Info
3667		 BDnce Jamesy Gannon's Barndances (1st in set on MGm)
2 Tune Info
3668		 BDnce Jamesy Gannon's Barndances (2nd in set on MGm)
1.71 Tune Info
3469		 Reel Achonry Lasses, The / The Aconry Lasses / The Anchonry Lasses / Gearrchailiú Achadh Conaire
2 Tune Info
638		 Reel Five-Mile Chase, The / The Five Mile Chase / The Four-Hand Reel / The Four Hand Reel / Lamb on the Mountain / The Wild Fire Chase / Ballyvaughan / The Ballyvaughan / Corporal Casey / Corporal Casey's Favourite / Miss Gardner / Lady Gardner's Troops / Lady Gardener's Reel / The Yellowhaired Laddie / The Yellow-haired Laddie / Parnell's Reel (also in A)
1.81 Tune Info
1805		 Hpipe Spellan's Fiddle / Gillespie's (also in A Major) (misidentified as An Cora Donn in book MM; misattributed to Michael Gorman on MGm)
2 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)
1.91 Tune Info
3670		 Song Moss o' Ballagh Fair, The
1.101 Tune Info
3671		 March Jamesy Gannon's March / Jamesy Gannon's / Gannon's March
1.111 Tune Info
1795		 Mzrka Sonny's Mazurka / [misspelled as:] Sonnys Mazura / Sonny Brogan's Mazurka / Sonny Brogans / Garret Barry's Mazurka / The Polka-Mazurka
1.121 Tune Info
3672		 Reel Laurel Tree, The (compare 1st part with 1st part of Paddy Taylor's #1530 and with 1st part of Jolly Seven #2671; compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Laurel Tree #1108)
2 Tune Info
833		 Reel High Reel, The / An Ríl Ard / High Reel / The High Reel No. 1 / Duffy the Dancer / The Gauger (3rd in set The Ritz on KCB 6)
1.131 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)
1.141 Tune Info
613		 Reel Farrell O'Gara / Farrell O'Gara's / Farrell O Gara's / Farrell O' Gara / Farrell Ó Gara / Farral O'Gara / Farrel O'Gara / Faral O'Gara / Fearaíl Ó Gára / Fearghal Ó Gadhra / Fearghal O' Gadhra / Fearghal O'Gara / Fergal O'Gara / Feargal O'Gara / Farral Gara / Farrell Gara / The Falcarragh Reel / Turas go Trá Lí / The Trip to Tralee / Mist on the Mountain
2 Tune Info
51		 Reel Ah Surely / Ah Surely! / Ah, Surely / Ah, Surely... / Aye Surely / Cinnte Le Dia / The Windy Gap / Bearna na Gaoithe / Killabeg's House / Killybegs House / Killaghbeg House / Rose in the Garden / The Rose in the Garden / Up Cloontia / The Boys of the 25 / The Boys of Twenty-Five / The Bonfire (1st in Crosses of Annagh Set on Dnu 1)
1.151 Tune Info
437		 BDnce Curlew Hills, The / Curlew Hills Polka / McDermott's / McDermott's Barndance / The Glenbeigh / The Glenbeigh Hornpipe / Morrison's Polka / A Donegal Barndance / Chaffpool Post / Bielbie's
2 Tune Info
3673		 BDnce Jamesy Gannon's / Gannon's
1.161 Tune Info
3674		 Waltz Jamesy Gannon's Waltz / Gannon's Waltz
1.171 Tune Info
802		 JigD Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part / Sorry to Part / Jemmie the Gom / The Wake Jig / My Love in the Morning / Winston at the Glenville Hall (fairly wide range of variations within these sources; more distant is You'll Go a Hunting No More / You'll Go a-Hunting No More included here in book R; also compare Happy To Meet, Sorry to Part #4883, especially their 1st parts)
1.181 Tune Info
1766		 Reel Ships Are Sailing, The / Ships Are Sailing / Ships A Sailing / Ships A-Sailing / The Ships A Sailing / Longa faoí Sheol / Take Her out and Air Her / The Boy in the Boat / The White-Haired Lass (also singled) (compare Jackson's Reel #915)
2 Tune Info
818		 Reel Heather Breeze, The / The Heathery Breeze / Leoithne an Fhraoigh / Feochán an Fhraoich / The Heathery Braes / The Heathery Braes of Ballyhealey / The Heather Braes of Ballyhealy / The Heather Bloom / Coppers and Brass / Coppers & Brass / Coppers of Brass / Limerick Lasses / The Limerick Lasses / Lady's Pantaloons / The Ladies' Pantaloons / Ladies Pantaloons / The Humours of Appletown / The Dublin Lasses / The Green Fields of Erin / McNamara's Reel / McNamara's / Fitzmaurice's Flight (3rd in set Gerry's Set on Dnu 5) (also doubled; also with a 3rd part; also in D) (compare setting in E Dorian #3378 and compare Crossing the Fields)
1.201 Tune Info
1884		 JigD Tell Her I Am / Abair Léi go bhFuilim / Abair Leí go bhFuil / Tart ar an Ól / Tart ar an Ol / Pléaráca an Rosa / The Humours of Ross (mislabeled as Trip to Sligo on WW 2; 2nd in set Áille's Arabesque on Trpsw) (wide range of settings, including without 3rd part or without 1st part)
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
1.211 Tune Info
1676		 Hpipe Rights of Man, The / Rights of Man (also in B Dorian) (composed by James Hill)
1.221 Tune Info
391		 Reel Cooley's Reel / Joe Cooley's Reel / Joe Cooley's / Cooleys / Luttrell's Pass / The Tulla Reel / Ríl na Tulaí (for 7th figure of Taille Mhara Jig Set on MISD 7) (also in D Minor; also with a 3rd part on MGm, where this tune is presented as a Michael Gorman composition named Put the Cake in the Dresser) (composed by Joe Mills?)
1.231 Tune Info
3675		 SgJig Untitled Tune in Six-Eight
1.241 Tune Info
1015		 Fling Keel Row, The / Lady Handwick's Reel (1st in set The Lasses of Donnibrook on WW 2) (also in A or D, also doubled)
1.251 Tune Info
3676		 Polka Untitled Polka
1.261 Tune Info
358		 Reel College Groves / The College Grove / Garrán an Choláiste / Doirí an Choláiste / The Cottage Groves / The New Demesne / The New Domain / Miss Corbett / Miss Corbett's / Miss Corbett's Reel / The Green Jacket / The Milestone / The Millstone / Millstone / Ríl an Chabháin / The Cavan Reel / The Connacht Reel / The Connacht / The Old Locks and Quays of Galway / Old locks and quays of Galway / An Cailín Fionn / Whiskey in the Jar / Whiskey in the Jug (1st in set Drag Her Round the Road on Drv 4) (various settings of various lengths, but usually 4 distinct parts) (compare distantly Colonel Fraser #360)
1.271 Tune Info
752		 Reel Maid I Ne'er Forgot, The / The Maid I Never Forgot / Gorman's / The Stone Ditch
1.281 Tune Info
1026		 Hpipe Kildare Fancy, The / The Kildare Hornpipe / Rogha Chill Dara / Dundee / The Union Hornpipe
1.291 Tune Info
1310		 Reel Miss McLeod / Miss Mc Leod / Miss McLeod's / Miss MacLeod's / Miss McLeod's Reel / Miss McCleod's Reel / Miss McCloud's Reel / Miss McCloud's / Mrs. McLeod / Mrs. MacLeod's Reel / Mrs. McCloud's Reel / Mrs McLeod's Reel / Mrs McLeod's / Misses McLoud's Reel / Miss Macleod of Raasay / Mrs McLeod of Rasay / Ríl Iníon Mhic Leod / Iníon Mhic Leóid / Ríl Mhic Leoid / McLeod's Reel / Macleod's Reel / The Other McCleods / Hop High Ladies / Hop Light Ladies / Hop Up Ladies / The Enterprising Boxer / Did You Ever See the Devil, Uncle Joe? / May Day (2nd in set Jig Selection on MR 2; 1st in set Miss McClouds Reels on ESL 1, which in turn is mislabeled there as The Belburry Hills) (also in A or D or F, also with parts reversed in American music) (compare #2693)
2 Tune Info
557		 Reel Duke of Leinster, The / Diúc Laighean / The Leinster Reel / The Dandy Reel (3rd in set No. 6 the Coombe on Ch 7) (also singled; also in F; 1st part varies widely)
2.11 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)
2.21 Tune Info
3025		 JigD Magpie in the Tree, The / Guiry's Favorite / Gurney's Fancy / Brian O'Lynn / Brian O'Lynn's / Bryan O'Lynn / The Cockled Old Man / John Mahony's / The Ducks in the Oats / Another Jig (2nd in set TTS1 "Splice Jigs" on Sld 1) (also in G, also in B, also with parts reversed) (compare Bryan O'Lynn #238)
2.31 Tune Info
164		 SetD Blackbird, The / An Lon Dubh / An Londubh (3rd in set The Blackbird on JnKlly) (compare as hornpipe #2274, as air #165, song, and reel #162) (composed by Kiely aka Keily (set dance version only))
2.41 Tune Info
3677		 Waltz Veleta, The
2.51 Tune Info
312		 Hpipe Chief O'Neill's Favorite / Chief O'Neill's Favourite / Chief O Neill's Favorite / O'Neill's Favorite / Chief O'Neil's Favourite / Chief O'Neill's Fancy / Chief O'Neill's No. 1 / ONiell's / Flowers of Ardigne / The Flowers of Adrigole (2nd in set Rights of Man Selection on CrssCl)
2.61 Tune Info
1350		 Reel Mountain Road, The (3rd in set The Worlds End on Drv 4; follows The Devils of Dublin on track 7 of MtRd) (also with up to 6 parts, also with parts doubled, also in F) (composed by Michael Gorman)
2.71 Tune Info
1350		 Reel Mountain Road, The (3rd in set The Worlds End on Drv 4; follows The Devils of Dublin on track 7 of MtRd) (also with up to 6 parts, also with parts doubled, also in F) (composed by Michael Gorman)
2 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?)
3 Tune Info
926		 Reel Jenny's Chickens / Jennie's Chickens / Sicíní Shinéad / Sicíní Shinéid / Jock and Jill / Sleepy Maggie (also in E or A)
2.81 Tune Info
298		 March Chanter's Tune, The / The Chanter's Song
2.91 Tune Info
3678		 JigD Jolly Old Man, The / Brisk Irish Lad / Brisk Young Lad / There Came a Young Man / Bung Your Eye
2.101 Tune Info
622		 Reel Fermoy Lasses, The / The Fermoy Lassies / Girrseachaí Fhearmuí / The Wexford Reel / The Humours of Mackin / The Connacht Ranger / Connacht Ranger (also singled)
2 Tune Info
1409		 Reel New-Mown Meadows, The / The New Mown Meadows / New Mown Meadows / New-Mown Meadow / New Mown Meadow / The Newly Mown Meadow / An Móinéar Nuabhainte / An Móinear / The Meadow / The Silver Tip / The Silver Spear / The Holly Bush / My Love Is on the Ocean / Joe Mháire Mhicilín (also reversed parts, also in E or D Mixolydian) (compare Silver Spear #1770)
2.111 Tune Info
1043		 SetD King of the Fairies, The / Bonny Charlie / King William of Orange
2.121 Tune Info
3679		 Reel Burnt Cabbage, The (compare 1st part with 1st part of Reel of Bogie #1662)
2.131 Tune Info
3680		 Song Banks of the Silvery Tide, The
2.141 Tune Info
1005		 JigD Old Man Dillon / Jug of Brown Ale / The Mug of Brown Ale / A Mug of Brown Ale / One Bottle More (also in Mixolydian)
2 Tune Info
160		 JigD Black Rogue, The / An Rógaire Dubh / Rógaire Dubh / An Rogaire Dubh / Rogaire Dubh / Paddy McNicholas' / Paddy McNicolas' / Paddy's Own (1st in set Ballykeale Manor on KCB 6) (also in D Mixolydian or A Mixolydian; a somewhat different E Minor or F# Minor setting is included here, titled The Black Rogue / The Black Joke / This Life Is All Checkered / Life Is All Chequered / The Bunch of Green Rushes / The Little Bunch of Rushes / Michael Mulloy / Michael Malloy / Johnny McGill / Shane Glas / Shaun glas / Sublime Was the Warning / Shandrum boggoon / The Bark Is on the Swelling Shore / Come under My Plaiddie / God Bless the Grey Mountain / Humours of Donnybrook / Inishown / The Irish Lass / The Irish Lady / Nature and Melody / O! Pleasant Was the Moon / Tis a Bit of a Thing / Tom Linton) (compare slip jig Johnny Loves Molly #4499)
2.151 Tune Info
1254		 Reel McFadden's / McFadden's Favorite / McFadden's Favourite (also in A)
2.161 Tune Info
1843		 JigD Strayaway Child, The / Stray-away Child / The Strayaway Child Jig / An Leanbh ar Seachrán (composed by Michael Gorman or Margaret Barry)
2 Tune Info
1971		 JigD Trip to Sligo, The / Up Sligo / The Lark in the Morning / Daugherty's (1st in set Tell Her I Am on MC and WW 2; 2nd in set Master Crowley's Favorites on HG)
2.171 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
2.181 Tune Info
1974		 Air Trip We Took over the Mountain, The / The Trip over the Mountain / The Trip o'er the Mountain / Will You Come with Me over the Mountain / Over the Mountain / The Dark Woman of the Glen (also as waltz)
2.191 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)
2 Tune Info
691		 Reel Galtee Reel, The / Galtee Reel / The Galty / The Dangerous Reel
2.201 Tune Info
3681		 Song Turfman from Ardee, The
2.211 Tune Info
3682		 Reel Old Thatched House, The / Mulhare's (composed by Martin Mulhaire)
2 Tune Info
2521		 Reel Dinny O'Brien's / Ríl Dinny O'Brien / Dinny O'Brien / Dinny O'Briens / The Last House in Connaught / John Bowe's (2nd in set Dinny O'Brien's Reels on KCB 3) (composed by Paddy O'Brien)
3 Tune Info
604		 Reel Farewell to Connaught / Farewell to Connacht / Slán le Connachta / John Bowe's / John Bowe's No. 2 (also in G)
4 Tune Info
3683		 Reel Reavy's / Reavey's / Reevey's Reel
2.221 Tune Info
1885		 Reel Tempest, The (composed by Bobby Casey)
2 Tune Info
362		 Reel Colonel Rodney / Colonel Rodney's / Col. Rodney's
2.231 Tune Info
234		 Reel Broken Pledge, The (4th in set Captain O Kane on NNC) (also in D Major or D Mixolydian) (compare jig #4281)
2.241 Tune Info
97		 Reel Avonmore, The / The Banks of Avonmore / The Blackwater
2.251 Tune Info
1636		 Reel Rainy Day, The / A Rainy Day / An Lá Báistî (mislabeled as The Merry Blacksmith on SE 4) (wide range of settings are played today) (compare Peter Flanagan's #1572)
2.261 Tune Info
802		 JigD Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part / Sorry to Part / Jemmie the Gom / The Wake Jig / My Love in the Morning / Winston at the Glenville Hall (fairly wide range of variations within these sources; more distant is You'll Go a Hunting No More / You'll Go a-Hunting No More included here in book R; also compare Happy To Meet, Sorry to Part #4883, especially their 1st parts)
2.271 Tune Info
808		 Hpipe Harvest Home, The / Baile an Fhómhair / Harvest Time / Féasta an Tarlaithe / The Harvest-Home Feast / The Cork Hornpipe / The Cincinnati Hornpipe / [misspelled as:] The Cincinatti Hornpipe / Fairy Haunts (also in G) (compare #2407)
2.281 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)
2 Tune Info
206		 Reel Boys of Ballisodare, The / The Boys of Ballysodare / The Boys of Ballysadare / The Boys of Ballisadare / The Boys of Balisodare / The Boys of Ballisdare / The Dublin Lasses / Miss Roddy's / Miss Roden's Reel / Douse the Monkey / Last Night's Work / A Galway Reel (also 1st part doubled or all parts doubled, also in F; also without 3rd part) (compare Dublin Lasses #4069 and compare 1st part with 1st part of Francie Byrne's #5019)
3 Tune Info
1782		 Reel Sligo Maid, The / Sligo Maid / Gearrchaile Shligigh / The Sligo Maid's Lament / Sligo Maid's Lament / The Glendoan Fancy / The Glendowan Reel (1st in set The Ritz on KCB 6; in D Major as Sligo Maid - Connemara Version on JCt 1 and on JCt 4) (also in E) (compare The Glendowan Reel / The Glendown Reel / The Glendoan Fancy included here)
4 Tune Info
1328		 Reel Molloy's Favorite / Molloy's Favourite / Molloy's / Molloy's Reel / Mulloy's Reel / Ríl Uí Mhaolmhuaidh (also doubled) (composed by Paddy Killoran)
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