Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on September 7th 2006 by fiddlinviolinin.
This tune has been added to 20 tunebooks.
Also known as North Cregg, The North Cregg, Race Classic, The Race Classic, Ray's Classic, Roy's Session.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tina Lech's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Amaj
A2 AE | FA E2 | FB BA/2B/2 | cB cB |
A2 AE | FA E2 | FB BA/2B/2 |1 cA GB :|2 cA Af ||
e>f ec | Af fe | Bf Bf | g2 gf |
cg cg | a2 af | ec BA/2B/2 |1 cA Af :|2 cA GB |]
Anyone know the name to this mystery tune?
I recently got this tune from Tina Lech [Boston fiddle, ex-student of Jimmy Devine and one Hell of a fiddler!] and I think she said she learned it from a friend and that's about all she knew about it.
Hmm.. This polka's kick ass. I absolutely love it.
Cheers,
Armand
# Posted on September 7th 2006 by fiddlinviolinin
The Race Classic
# Posted on September 7th 2006 by Phantom Button
Ahhhhhhh!
Thank you! Awesome tune! Would yo uhappen to know anything about this tune? It's so odd but I love it XD
Cheers,
Armand
# Posted on September 8th 2006 by fiddlinviolinin
Here's what it says in the liner notes on the 'Mi.da:za' recording by the Cork band,"North Cregg."
"The Race Classic is another tune we got from Derek Hickey from Adare, County Limerick. We originally presumed that it was another Sliabh Luachra polka (albeit a strange one), but on a visit to the Shetland Islands we were informed it was actually a Shetland reel which was written by the great Willie Hunter."
# Posted on September 8th 2006 by Phantom Button
This tune can also be found on that excellent CD by Verena Commins And Julie Langan called "Fonnchaoi". (pronounced, 'funky') ...or at least that's how Verena told me it's pronounced.
# Posted on September 8th 2006 by Phantom Button
just heard a version on the radio, didn't catch who was playing, but they did it in G
# Posted on September 8th 2006 by Dont
those of us polka-ers in the know have come to indiscriminately describe this as the best polka ever. it also goes well with Britches Full of Stitches, constituting the best polka set over, and both are insanely fun and easy, making them the best beginner's tunes ever.
too bad not enough people know about irish polkas : (
--DtM
# Posted on October 26th 2006 by Dan the Man
The Race Classic
I have come across this tune as "Ray's Classic" (Perth Strathspey and Reel Society) and also "Roy's Session" (BBC Radio Scotland, November 2003, with Willie Hunter credited as composer).
# Posted on January 5th 2007 by nigelg
I've always understood that this Shetland reel was named Ray's Classic by Willie Hunter Jnr to commemorate a friend's car.
Isn't the folk process weird and wonderful?
# Posted on June 30th 2007 by daveball
The Race Classic/Ray's Classic
If this was originally a reel by Willie Hunter does the original tune have a different transcription and if so could someone post it? I would be interested to see how it changed. Thanks.
# Posted on June 30th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Listen to this polka on the Web
Armand has submitted a video on 'you tube' nicely playing this piece along with 'the britches...' You can all find it there. Thank you and good luck with your neighbors, Armand!
# Posted on July 25th 2007 by demian
Phew! Nearly submitted this un by accident!
Just found it in time before I submitted this ABC as a new tune:
X: 1
T: North Cregg
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Amaj
| A2 A>E FAFE | FB BA/B/ cB B2 | A2 A>E FAFE | AA BA/B/ cA A2 :||
||: AeAe f2 f2 | BfBf g2 g2 | cgcg a2 g>f | ec BA/B/ cA A2 :||
got that from a sheet of music Dave Swarbrick gave me when I asked what the last tune of a polka set Swarb's Lazarus played at a gig was!
Stonking tune!
# Posted on March 16th 2008 by D.J.F.