Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on May 13th 2002 by Caoimghgin.
This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.
Also known as 69th Street, The Galway Belle, The Galway Rogue, Tom McVicar's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Sixty Ninth Street
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Edor
E>F GA |Be B2|A>F DF|AF DF|
E>F GA |Be B2|A>F DF|E2 E2|
E>F GA |Be B2|A>F DF|AF DF|
E>F GA |Be B2|A>F DF|E2 E2|
ee B2|ee B2|A>F DF|AF DF|
ee B2|ee B2|A>F DF|E2 E2|
ee B2|ee B2|A>F DF|AF DF|
E>F GA |Be B2|A>F DF|E2 E2|
One of two kerry polkas
Found this tune on a CD titled 'Jig Don't Jog' by an 'artist' named Cahal Dunne. It's a perfectly horrible album and must be purchased so that it's horror can be believed. However, there was a set of polkas done by some very competent fiddlers that I found very charming. This one is the first of the set titled nondescriptively 'Two Kerry Polkas'.
# Posted on May 13th 2002 by Caoimghgin
Oh My God
You weren't whistlin dixie when you said that was awful, it's the music for a fitness tape
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302907462/inktomi-videoasin-20/102-6421122-2745750
There's a picture of an unfortunate fellow on the cover that looks like a cross between James Galway & Slim Goodbody.
Thanks Caoimghgin, you've just replaced that guy's face with falling in all of my future nightmares!
# Posted on May 16th 2002 by Mad Baloney
I heard about that guy - he was on tv the other day - it isnt a joke - he is serious - its a fitness video and they do all these stupid exersice routines outside places like the blarney castle etc......very, very scary indeed!
# Posted on May 17th 2002 by bb Cruella de vil
Aerobics to Irish tunes...sounds like a recipe for disaster. Imagine jogging in place while quaffing massive amounts of Guiness and chain smoking....
Yeah, the photo on the video cover hard to look at. Are we sure Monty Python hasn't come back from the dead? Like the village idiot skits and Ministry of Funny Walks rolled into one.
# Posted on May 17th 2002 by Will CPT
Sounds really stupid indeed, but I just tried out this tune on my whistle. The tune itself is not bad at all.
# Posted on June 17th 2002 by The Whistler
I know this one!
I'm pretty sure its called Sixty Ninth Street. I have it on a CD called Lifescapes Celtic Fiddle.
# Posted on December 22nd 2003 by Ryan
I learned this Polka from Patty Furlong a few years ago in the Catskills. She identified it as Gan Ainm, but also said she thought it might be called Gallagher's Frolics or the Galway Belle. Since I already knew a jig called Gallagher's Frolics, I have called it Galway Belle ever since. Someone also said it might be associated with Harry McGowan. I play this in a set with Maggie in the Woods and Egan's Polka. This one plays a lot easier if you use the outer row of your B/C accordion for those high Es.
# Posted on March 24th 2005 by AlBrown
Think Ryan has it right -- Sixty Ninth Street composed, as far as I know, by fiddler Eugene O'Donnell who moved back home to Derry after many years in Philadelphia.
# Posted on March 25th 2005 by LongNote
Polka Set
Around Philadelphia, many musicians play this between Egan's and Sean Ryan's
# Posted on August 11th 2008 by Trice