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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1973 | 7#1 | [WC 3] Willie Clancy. The Pipering of Willie Clancy. Volume 2. Willie Clancy (pipes, whistle). For this tune: (pipes). |
1973 | 1.29#1 | [WC 4] Willie Clancy. The Gold Ring. Willie Clancy (pipes, whistle). For this tune: (B pipes). |
~1975 | 14#1 | [PCt] Paddy Carty. Traditional Irish Music. Paddy Carty (flute). For this tune: Mick O'Connor (banjo). |
1976 | 8#1 | [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). For this tune: 1st time Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (clavinet). |
1976 | 8#1 | [BB 5] The Bothy Band. The Best of the Bothy Band. |
~1976 | 4#3 | [Ch 6] The Chieftains. 6. Bonaparte's Retreat. Paddy Moloney [misspelled as:] Maloney (pipes, whistle, bodhrán), Seán Potts (whistle, bodhrán), Martin Fay (fiddle), Michael Tubridy (flute, concertina, whistle), Derek Bell (harp, oboe, tiompán), Seán Keane (fiddle). |
~1976 | 9#1 | [SotC] Armagh Pipers Club. Armagh Pipers' Club [Song of the Chanter]. Disc 10 of Celtic Souls. Irish Celtic Ballads & Traditional Music. Paul Davis (concertina, flutes, harmonica), Eithne Vallelly (fiddle), Pat Daly (harp), Brian Vallelly (pipes, whistle, flute), Niall Vallelly (bodhran). For this tune: Brian Vallely (pipes). |
~1998 | 6#1 | [LN 2] Laurence Nugent. Two for Two. Laurence Nugent (flute, whistle). For this tune: (Eb flute). |
~1998 | 1.12#1 | [WFO 1] Wooden Flute Obsession. Laurence Nugent (Eb flute). |
~2011 | 9#1 | [FlgMem] Andrew Mac Namara, Orla Harrington, Jim Higgins. Flagstone Memories. Orla Harrington (fiddle), Andrew Mac Namara (accordion), Jim Higgins (piano, percussion). |
~2013 | 12#1 | [DPower 3] David Power. The Eighteen Moloney. David Power (B pipes). |
~2015 | 9#1 | [RBPOL 3] Ronan Browne and Peter O'Loughlin. The Legacy. Ronan Browne (pipes, flute), Peter O'Loughlin (fiddle, flute). For this tune: with Tierna Browne (fiddle). |
~2016 | 10#2 | [MulcFam4] Mick, Louise & Michelle Mulcahy. The Reel Note. Mick Mulcahy (accordion, melodeon, concertina), Louise Mulcahy (flute, pipes), Michelle Mulcahy (concertina, fiddle, harp, piano). |