Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Also known as Jim Keefe's, Jim Keeffe's, Jim Keeffe's #1, Jim Keeffe's No. 1, Jim Keeffe's No.1, Jim O'Keefe's, Jimmy Doyle's #3, Jimmy Doyle's No. 3, Jimmy Doyle's No.3, Polca Séamus Ó Caoimh, Polca Sheamais Ui Chaoimh, Séamus Ó Caoimh, Sheamais Ui Chaoimh.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Jimmy Doyle's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|: c | dA/d/ e/f/e/d/ | cA AB/c/ | dA/d/ ef | ga/g/ fe |
d2 ed | cA Aa | f/g/a ge | d2 d :|
|: e | f>=f ^fd | g>f ge | f>=f ^fa | ge c/B/A/e/ |
f2 fd | g2 g/f/e | f/g/a ge | d2- d :|
"Jimmy Doyle's" / "Jim Keeffe's" ~ etc... & 'gan ainm' ~ and in D, G & A & probably C too
I've given it in D Major, how I've mostly known it, from various sources, and fully in D Mixolydian, another way I've come across it, but it is also often notated sometimes along the lines of the following transcription, simplified ~
X: 3
T: Jimmy Doyle's
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: Dmaj
|: dc/d/ ed | =cA A2 | dc/d/ ef | g2 fe |
d2 e/f/e/d/ | =cA A2 | f/g/a ge | d2 d2 :|
|: f>e fd | g>f ge | f>e fa | ge =ce |
f2 f/e/d/f/ | g>f ge | fa ge | d2 d2 :|
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
D, G & A & probably C too
I did do a search for it, in several keys and at least half a dozen ways with bars from both the A & B parts and didn't find it on site. A friend had sent me a query on this one. I'll add other takes in other keys later, and a list of various sources for other transcriptions of this tune, which I would put with the well the list of known polka, and its repetition in collections would support that...
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
"Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra: Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border"
Edited by Terry Moylan
The Lilliput Press, Dublin, 1994
ISBN: 1-874675-42-2
Page 143, tune #249: "Jimmy Doyle's" (3)
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
"Music of Ireland: Where's the Crack"
Edited by David J. Taylor
Dave Mallinson Publications, 1997
ISBN: 1-899512-27-6
Page 26: "Jim O'Keeffe's Polka No. 1"
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
Correction to the previous ~ no O' ~ just "Jim Keeffe's Polka No. 1"
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
"Mally Presents 100 Irish Polkas"
Edited by Dave Mallinson
Dave Mallinson Publications, 1997
ISBN: 1-899512-21-7
Page 9, Tune #20: "Jim Keeffe's No. 1"
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
"110 Ireland's Best Polkas & Slides"
Waltons Publishing, Dublin, 1999
ISBN: 1-85720-086-1
Page 11, tune #22: "Jim Keeffe's (1)"
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
Major & Mixolydian & ~
The Johnny O'Leary transcription is fully in D Major, every c is sharp...
The next three transcriptions in printed collections start with a key signature of D Major and give the c as natural (=) in the A-part, bars 2 & 6, and in the B-part bar 4, see the transcription given here in the first comment above...
Another way of showing one other option for bars 1 & 5 of the B-part is transcribed so ~ | f>=f ^fd |
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
"Martin Mulvihill's Polka" ~ airport's transcription
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2586/comments
I found a version called Jim Keeffe's which matches none of the Jim Keefe's on this site. sigh.
X:1
T:Martin Mulvihill's Polka
R:polka
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:D
|: A |\
dc/d/ ed | cA A2 | dc/d/ ef | g2 fe |
dc/d/ ed | cA Ae | f/g/a ec | d2 d :|
|: e |\
f>e fd | g>f ge | f>e fa | ge ce |
f>e fd | g>f ge | f/g/a ec | d2 d :|
# Posted on August 30th 2008 by airport
http://www.thesession.org/members/display/34928
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
"Gan Ainm" ~ 1970s ~ an early ABC transcription
The following was found amongst my notes but only with a slew of other polkas and not information given as to the source.
X: 5
T: gan ainm
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: polka
K: DMaj
|: A |\
d>d ed | cA AA | d>d ef | ga/g/ fe |
d>d ed | cA Aa | f/g/a ge | d3 :|
|: e |\
f>f fd | g>g ge | f>e fa | ge ce |
f>f fd | g>g ge | f/g/a ge | d3 :|
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
"Séamus Ó Caoimh"
Thanks, appreciated ~ I'd forgotten to add that to the titles list...
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
Because it makes more sense I've gone for ~
| f>=f ^fd | ~ rather than my previous daftness of ~ | f>^e fd | ~ etc...
It isn't the first time I've gone with an ^e or ^b to reduce accidentals...
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by ceolachan
Not sure which I prefer...
but, I like the E sharps in the Major version; less so in the Mix rendering. The Cs are very prominent here, so the tune comes out quite differently (to my ears) in the different modes.
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by muspc
P.S.:
There's nothing wrong with E and B sharps, in my opinion as they show the movement of the melody in the sheet music.
# Posted on August 31st 2008 by muspc
True, I live in constant question of what I do or don't do...
It seems Jeremy has axed the D Mix version that was given as a second take in the original transcription...
# Posted on September 1st 2008 by ceolachan
Link...
Here's a link to 'Jimmy Doyle's' / 'Jim Keefe's No. 1', the third in a set of polkas as played by Beanda and following Denis Doody's and The Ballydesmond #2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmE_HM3AUZw&feature=related
And a discussion thread trying to find its identity:
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/19004
# Posted on September 29th 2008 by mrkelahan