Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on November 27th 2002 by lazyhound.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Also known as Alley Crocker, Ally Croaker, Ally Crocker, Aly Croaker, Aly Crocker, Crocker's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Allie Crocker's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:Addc d2df|edcd efga|fddc d2df|edcB AGFE|
Dddc d2df|edcd efga|fddc d2df|edcd efge:|
|:faa^g ~a3a|ba=gf efg2|Aggf g2gb|agfe def2|
Addd dccc|cBBB BAAA|Aggf ~g3b|agfe d2d2:||
from a New England collection
# Posted on November 27th 2002 by lazyhound
John Kirkpatrick / Sue Harris recording
English melodeon player John Kirkpatrick and hammered dulcimer player Sue Harris have this tune under the name "Crocker's reel" on their recording "Facing the Music" (1980). It also appears on "A short history of John Kirkpatrick" (1994).
The liner notes say: "Crocker's Reel is given as a suggested tune for the dance 'Sackett's harbour' in Douglas Kennedy's Community dances, manual 4 (EFDSS 1954). The tune had previously appeared as 'Alley Crocker' in Kerr's First Collection of Merry Melodies, a curiously undated work with a huge selection of rattling good tunes."
Lovely recording by the way. Kirkpatrick/Harris play a similar version as the one given by Trevor, but without the repeats and with no g# in part 2. Most fascinating a very rare "pitch sliding technique" executed on the melodeon (!): obviously recording tape speed is used for tuning this reel up from initial Cmajor to Dmajor after 2 times through... fun!
# Posted on November 28th 2002 by tradivarium
"New England Fiddler's Repertoire"
by Randy Miller and Jack Perron, first published in 1983.
http://www.randymillerprints.com/fiddletunebooks.htm
Page 135: "Allie Crocker's Reel"
# Posted on March 10th 2006 by ceolachan