Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc.
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Year Recorded |
Track #Tune? |
[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments). |
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1941 | 12#1 | [ITWWW] "If There Weren't Any Women in the World". Lough Gill Quartette: John Cawley (flute), Sarah Hobbs (fiddle), Sonny Brogan (accordion), Bill Harte (accordion). |
~1971 | A.3#2 | [SMcGJB] Sean McGuire and Joe Burke. Two Champions. Sean McGuire (fiddle), Joe Burke (accordion). |
~1971 | 1.4#3 | [NaF 2] Na Filí. Farewell to Connacht. Tomás Ó Canainn (pipes, accordion, vocals), Matt Cranitch (fiddle), Tom Barry (whistle). |
1976 | 8#3 | [BB 2] The Bothy Band. Old Hag You Have Killed Me. Paddy Keenan (pipes, whistle), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle), Kevin Burke (fiddle), Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (vocals, clavinet, harmonium), Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (vocals, guitar), Donal Lunny (vocals, bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán). |
1976 | 8#3 | [BB 5] The Bothy Band. The Best of the Bothy Band. |
~1978 | 6#2 | [ItS] In the Smoke. John Doonan (piccolo). |
~1980 | 10#2 | [JKn 2] James Keane. Roll Away the Reel World. James Keane (accordion). |
~1984 | 13#1 | [FoNote] Peter O'Loughlin, Paddy Canny, Paddy Murphy, Geraldine Cotter. Friends of Note. Peter O'Loughlin (flute), Paddy Canny (fiddle), Paddy Murphy (concertina), Geraldine Cotter (piano). For this tune: Paddy C. (fiddle). |
~1991 | 3#1 | [BT] Baal Tinne. . . . About Time. Noel Rice (flute, whistle), Kevin Rice (bodhrán, percussion), Cathleen Rice (fiddle), Matt Sundstrom (guitar), Paul Cienniwa (piano, keyboards). For this tune: Paul (piano). |
1995 | 1#2 | [KMKerry] Musique et Musiciens d'Irlande (Killorglin and Miltown, Co Kerry). Music and Musicians of Ireland. Musik und Musiker aus Irland. Tim Kearns (fiddle). |
~1996 | 32#2 | [CmA 1] The Coleman Archive Vol. 1: The Living Tradition. Tommy "Clogs" Gallagher (fiddle). |
~1997 | 19#2 | [Shskn 10] Shaskeen. Music for Set Dancing and Listening. Tom Cussen (banjo, mandolin), Benny O'Connor (drums, bodhrán, bongos), Seán Conway (flute, whistle, guitar), Eamonn Cotter (flute), Mike Fahy (guitar), Charlie Harris (accordion), Geraldine Cotter (piano), Carl Hession (piano). |
1999 | 4#2 | [AMacN 1] Andrew Mac Namara. Dawn. Andrew Mac Namara (accordion). |
2002 | 2#1 | [LAC] Tom and Kerry Barrett. Lios A'Cheoil. Traditional Irish Music. Tom Barrett (fiddle), Kerry Barrett (fiddle). |
~2002 | 7#2 | [AcrPond] Across the Pond. Across the Pond. Kevin Griffin (banjo), Roger Burridge (fiddle), Michael Shorrock (bouzouki), Quentin Cooper (mandolin, guitar, bass). |
~2009 | 1#1 | [SMcK] Skip McKinley. Fairy Tales. Skip McKinley (flute). |
~2015 | 8#3 | [RskaHll] Éamonn O'Riordan, Tony O'Connell. Rooska Hill. Éamonn O'Riordan (Eb flute), Tony O'Connell (C#/G# concertina). |