Key signature: Amixolydian
Submitted on January 20th 2004 by Emmaline.
This tune has been added to 38 tunebooks.
Also known as Dan Sullivan's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Swing Band
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Amix
|:A>B cd|ed ea|ge de/d/|cA GE|
A>B cd|ed ea|ge de/d/|cA A2:|
|:a2 ge|dB gb|aA AB/c/|dA GE|
A>B cd|ed ea|ge de/d/|cA A2:|
Origins?
I like this one a lot, it's really modal. I found it on Danu's "The Road Less Traveled". They say that it was written in the 20's in America. By Dan Sullivan? I have no idea.
# Posted on January 20th 2004 by Emmaline
Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Swing Band (polka)
There are several Dan Sullivan tracks on the 4-CD collection "Farewell to Ireland* (Proper Records, Properbox3), a compendium of 80 recordings made in the '20s and '30s by Irish emigrants in the USA. Unfortunately, this polka isn't one of them.
The sleeve notes to "Farewell to Ireland" say this about Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band:
"Pianist and bandleader Dan Sullivan was born in Boston, the son of a fiddler aslso named Dan Sullivan. Sullivan senior was described in O'Neill's book Irish Minstrels And Musicians as "the great Irish fiddler, known to everybody in Boston and the adjoining towns". In 1926 Sullivan Jr. founded Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band with Tipperary fiddler Thomas Ryan and three Kerry musicians Michael Hanafin (fiddle), Dan Murphy (pipes) and Daniel Moroney (pipes and flute). A resourceful character, he managed to have the band recorded within months of its formation. The line-up changed a lot between 1926 and 1934, with only Sullivan and Hanafin present on all recordings. It is a credit to their musicianship that the sound of the band remained constant depsite personnel changes. The band recorded over 100 sides of mostly superb music particularly distinguished by Sullivan's driving and inventive piano which was a breath of fresh air in a genre often marred by inept and/or indifferent, and frequently inappropriate accompaniment." [We all know what Michael Coleman had to put up with on his recordings!]
Trevor
# Posted on January 21st 2004 by lazyhound
Oops
In the third and seventh measures, the second sixteenth notes are supposed to be D's. Write it in if you must.
# Posted on January 21st 2004 by Emmaline
Oh yeah
And the first note of measure 12 is supposed to be a D. I am so not used to ABC notation. We should all be able to write these things with proper notation just like classical musicians, which most of us are not!
# Posted on January 21st 2004 by Emmaline
2nd tune in this live set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0RInGkoMQk&feature=quicklist&playnext=8&playnext_from=QL
# Posted on April 24th 2009 by D.J.F.