Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 14th 2001 by CreadurMawnOrganig.
This tune has been added to 64 tunebooks.
Also known as Manus Lunny's Plower Pop, Mánus Lunny's Terracotta Plower Pop, Manus Lunny's Terracotta Plower Pop, Manus Lunny's Terracotta Plower Pot, Manus Lunny's Terracotta Plowerpot, Manus Lunny’s Plower Pop, Para Handy, The Para Handy Theme, Para Handy's, The Terracotta Plower Pot.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Manus Lunny's Terracotta Plower Pop
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
D3 DEG|B2d BAG|G2g edB|deg b2a|
|age ggg|edB deg|age geB|1 dBA A2B:||2 dBA GFE:||
|DDD A2B|cBA BGE|DDD A2F|GEA GEA|
|DDD A2B|cBA BGE|GGG GEA|1 DDD D3:||2 DED DBc||
I think this is the tune that was being requested in Discussions this week - I apologise if it's the wrong one. I've heard it played slightly differently from this version, but it's not my transcription, so I didn't tamper with it. Somebody, no doubt, has a proper name for it, and perhaps knows who wrote it ...?
# Posted on December 14th 2001 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Para handy tune
the tunes called 'Manus Lunny's Teracotta Plower Pot', and the 'P' isnt a mistake. written by phil cunningham. think maybe the original version is in A, starting on low a on the g string. thats how people play it over here anyway.
# Posted on December 15th 2001 by laura nesbit
Dmaj Setting
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/2219
# Posted on September 13th 2005 by slainte
What kind of an imposter is this?
Check out the original & best Para Handy theme tune to the Vital Spark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa48WOgb3mI
A Hornpipe of course, so much more appropriate for a prog with a maritime theme, don't you think!
Cheers
Dick
# Posted on November 19th 2008 by Ptarmigan
Great tune.!!!
Listen to this tune on Aly Bain & Phil Cunninghams cd "Roads not travelled.!!!!!!!!
Its unreal. XoX
# Posted on August 7th 2010 by iloveaccordions
theme tunes should be written down with tall bars and safely kept behind them.
# Posted on March 27th 2012 by birlibirdie
Para Handy Theme.
Hi..
Phil Cunningham here.
The tune is called "Manus Lunny's terracotta Plower Pop."
I wrote it a long time ago for an album project for Connie Dover.
I then reworked it and used it as the Theme to BBC Scotland's remake of the series. It's written in the key of G.. to facilitate the Irish pipes which I used on the original recording.
# Posted on April 12th 2012 by philbox
Para Handy Theme. P.S.
The version notated here is close.. but not quite! The real version will be available online soon!!
# Posted on April 12th 2012 by philbox
Looking forward to giving that a go. But until then, here's me having a little fun with CMO's transcription, who I've written and let know there's a confirmed name and composer for this... Forgive me for my sins as I take the B-part up and about ~ for CMO ~
X: 2
T: Manus Lunny's terracotta Plower Pop
C: Phil Cunningham
N: But me taking liberties in the meantime, under the influence of espresso
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|: [Gc]/[FB]/[EA] |\
D[CE]D DEG | BGd BAG | GB/c/g edB | deg b2 a |
age ge/f/g | edB deg | age edB | dBA A :|
|: A/B/c |\
df/e/d A2 B | cBA BGe | df/e/d A2 f | ga/g/f gg/f/e |
dd/d/d a2 b | c'ba bge | gc'/b/a ge/d/a | dd/d/d d :|
# Posted on April 12th 2012 by ceolachan
Thanks for the info, Phil - and for the tune.
My apologies for posting a dud setting. I was young and foolish at the time and thought that, since it was a setting I found in an online collection (which I should have credited but didn't - I can't remember where I got it from now) that it must be correct, despite sounding wrong to me. Unfortunately, the sheet music is engraved like an epitaph.
But you might be interested (and tickled, I hope) to know that someone has used a recording of you and Aly Bain, playing a set of tunes including this one, as the soundtrack to a slide show of their holiday snaps, which they have posted on YouTube. I have made a few amendments to the abc text, based on this recording. I hope it is correct now.
# Posted on April 13th 2012 by CreadurMawnOrganig
C.M.O. ~ 'Organic' includes adaptation...
# Posted on April 13th 2012 by ceolachan
The last time I heard this tune was on a boom box providing music for a slew of young Irish step dancers in those heavy OTT costumes with the bold embroidery and bright colours and those springy blond wigs... I have to admit, it has coloured my notion of this tune...
I just can't shake the image and the canned sound of a cheap boom box in a crowded church hall, as they lept around like Zebedde from Magic Roundabout, repeatedly kickin' themselves in the a*s...
# Posted on April 13th 2012 by ceolachan
"Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham: Roads Not Travelled"
I've added their recording of this for you C.M.O. But, in addition, while it's there, here's a YouTube compression of track 1 of that recording, with this tune being the third in the set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueqFgQ_kW_4
# Posted on April 13th 2012 by ceolachan
This tune is just after the pause at 2:00...
# Posted on April 13th 2012 by ceolachan
"Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham: Roads Not Travelled" - - -
The recording is already here ~ because of the track listings it didn't show. I've written Ptarmigan to update the titles so they will link to the entries on site here, then I'll get Jeremy to axe my duplicated entry... For now I'll add his shortened version of the title to the list so that link will at least be made...
Submitted on August 8th 2006 by Ptarmigan.
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2137
# Posted on April 13th 2012 by ceolachan
C: Phil Cunningham -
http://www.philcunningham.com/
# Posted on April 13th 2012 by ceolachan