Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on April 14th 2003 by gian marco.
This tune has been added to 43 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mick O'Connor's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
fef|:d2FB AFED|E/F/G AB ABde|fABA FAde|~f2af efdB|
[D3A3]B ABde|fAAd ~B3F|ABde fabf|1afef dfef:|2afef dcde||
|:fa~a2 bafe|~f3d efdB|ABde ~f3g|~a3f efde|
fa~a2 bafa|afde fdee|defe dBBd|1AFEF [D3A3]a:|2AFEF Dfef:|
Source: Dervish
Trancription: g.m.p.
submitted in response to a request.
# Posted on April 14th 2003 by gian marco
Composed by 'the late' Mick O'Connor, a Paragon of virtue, still seen with his banjo and without a pint at sessions in the leafy suburbs of Southwest London.
# Posted on April 14th 2003 by granama
Version of Mick O'Connor's reel
Mountainy, is this the version of this tune that you play yourself?
Myself, I find it here evolved beyond recognition. It's quite charming and fruity, but I really wouldn't say it bore any relationship to how the man himself would play it. I suppose it's a bit like the process of speciation in nature - when is a species *not* a species?!
Do we have the facility on this site to submit alternative versions under the same name (as opposed to submitting alternative names to the same tune)?
# Posted on January 5th 2005 by triplet
Bally - to answer your second question, yes you can post an abc of your version right here in the comments section.
In answer to your first question - I don't actually play the it. I heard it on the Dervish recording and read the sleeve notes. I don't own the CD myself and have never got round to learning the tune. Also, as far as I remember, I have never heard Mick O'Connor play it, so I can't comment on the similarity or otherwise of this setting to his own version. But it is highly probably that the Dervish lads have put their own spin on it.
# Posted on February 6th 2005 by granama
Source of this tune
This tune wasn't composed by Mick O'Connor. It was recorded by Johnny Connolly and Brian McGrath on the album 'Dreaming up the Tunes' as the 3rd track entitled 'Mick O'Connors Reels' The second tune on this track is composed by Mick, but this is the first tune. I spoke to Mick about it a while back, and I think I remember him saying he got it from, and thought it was composed by one of the Dwyers from Berehaven in West Cork, possibly Mick Dwyer, who played the Whistle in a pub on Fulham Broadway (I think it was the Kings head)..
# Posted on February 6th 2005 by emt
Many Micks
Just doing a check here because I'm about to post another "Mick O'Connor's". What you have to remember is that Mick O'Connor is quite a common name in Ireland. I can think of 3 who are musicians - the banjo-playing Mick who famously recorded with Paddy Carty, the Dublin flute-playing Mick who played with the "Castle Ceili Band", and recorded with Charlie Lennon, and Gerry "Banjo" 's brother who plays the box. Difficult to know which [ if any ] of them are being quoted as sources on CD/LP sleeve notes unless they are specific about it.
# Posted on October 21st 2006 by Kenny
emt, that's very strange what you say, as I've heard Mick playing it a few times, also IN ANSWER to requests for M O'C's reel. Surely he'd have denied it was his, being Mr. Honest himself? I used to know Mick fairly well having played in the same sessions for a number of years in the 80's and 90's. I'm confused now.
Kenny, the Mick in question is indeed the NW London-based banjo-playing Mick.
# Posted on July 17th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad