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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~1946 | 2#1 | [ICTM] Ireland. Irlande. Aggie White (fiddle). |
~1955 | 24#1 | [TnRadio] Tuning the Radio. Aggie Whyte (fiddle), Eddie Moloney (flute). |
~1962 | 14#2 | [BG 2] Bobby Gardiner. Memories of Clare. Bobby Gardiner (accordion). |
~1963 | 1#1 | [SaaS] Peadar Ó Lochlainn and Aggie Whyte. Seancheol ar an Seannós. Peadar Ó Lochlainn (flute), Aggie Whyte (fiddle). |
~1976 | 1#5 | [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). |
~1979 | 8#2 | [Plx 5] Planxty. After the Break. Christy Moore (vocals, guitar, harmonium, bodhrán), Donal Lunny (blarge, guitar), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandolin, mandola, hurdy gurdy, bouzouki), Liam O'Flynn (pipes, whistle), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle). |
~1979 | 1.9#1 | [AWhyte] Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte. Aggie Whyte (fiddle). |
~1984 | 11#2 | [Crsl] Séamus McGuire, Manus McGuire, Dáithí Sproule. Carousel. Séamus McGuire (fiddle, viola), Manus McGuire (fiddle), Dáithí Sproule (guitars, vocals). |
~1984 | 10#2 | [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). |
1985 | 5#2 | [Kn] Noel Hill and Tony MacMahon. In Knocknagree. Noel Hill (concertina), Tony MacMahon (accordion). For this tune: Noel Hill (concertina). |
~1989 | 16#1 | [PMrphy] Paddy Murphy. In Good Hands. Field Recordings from a Pioneer of the Irish Concertina. Paddy Murphy (concertina). |
1991 | 1#5 | [Ch AIE] The Chieftains. An Irish Evening. Live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast. Martin Fay (fiddle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán, vocals), Matt Molloy (flute), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Derek Bell (harp, tiompán, keyboards). |
~1992 | 3#2 | [PMcG 1] Paul McGrattan. The Frost Is All Over. Paul McGrattan (flute, whistle). |
~1995 | 16#1 | [MMR 1] Mike and Mary Rafferty. The Dangerous Reel. Mike Rafferty (flute, whistle, pipes), Mary Rafferty (accordion, flute, whistle). |
2000 | 13#2 | [CTL 8] Cherish the Ladies. The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone. Joanie Madden (whistle, flute, vocals), Mary Coogan (guitar, banjo, mandolin), Donna Long (piano, keyboards, vocals), Mary Rafferty (accordion, concertina, whistle), Deirdre Connolly (vocals, whistle, flute), Liz Knowles (fiddle). For this tune: 1st 3 times Brendan Mulvhill (fiddle), Billy McComiskey (accordion). |
2003 | 5#1 | [Mona] Live at Mona's. Patrick Ourceau (fiddle), Brian Holleran (flute). |
~2004 | 6#2 | [TCllns 1] Tim Collins. Dancing on Silver. Tim Collins (concertina). For this tune: (Bb/F concertina), with Brian McNamara (C pipes). |
~2005 | 3#3 | [CDrny 4] Chris Droney. Down from Bell Harbour. Chris Droney (concertina). |
2009 | 14#2 | [RoClare] Riches of Clare. Pádraig Rynne, Noel O'Donoghue, Brian Mooney, Liam Murphy. |
~2012 | 9#3 | [MORDOM] Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh and Danny O' Mahony. As It Happened. Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh (concertina), Danny O' Mahony (accordion). |
~2015 | 8#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). |