Key signature: Ddorian
Submitted on September 1st 2008 by banjobabe.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as Paddy Hayes', Rooney's Favourite.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Paddy Hayes
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ddor
|:dcA GEA|DED DCA,|C2 G, CDE|GcA GAc|
dcA GEA|DED DCA,|CDE GcA|GED D3:|
|:DFA dfe|d^cd AFD|CEG c2d|edc AGE|
DFA dfe|d^cd AB=c| dcA GEA|1 DED D2A,:|2 DED D3||
John Carty taught this jig to the banjo class at Swannanoa this year. This is the basic setting. There is a lot you can do with this tune.
# Posted on September 1st 2008 by banjobabe
I really like this tune and have been trying to learn it on concertina since you posted it last night. Did Carty give any background about it? I looked up Paddy Hayes and found that he's an accordion player (B/C) from Co. Wexford, but couldn't find any reference to this tune. Do you know if it's as old as it sounds? I've been playing it with c naturals throughout and prefer it that way. I wonder whether the c#s are there for fingering convenience on the box.
# Posted on September 2nd 2008 by GaryAMartin
Paddy Hayes
Paddy Hayes - if it's the same musician - appears on one of the Comhaltas USA Tour LPs from the 1980s. He plays concertina too, and I'd heard somewhere that he plays it upside-down.
[ That's the concertina - not him ].
# Posted on September 2nd 2008 by Kenny
Track 12
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/3066
# Posted on September 2nd 2008 by Kenny
Rooney's Favourite
This is the tune titled "Rooney's Favourite" on Angelina Carberry and Martin Quinn's duet album. According to the notes of the recording, they learnt the tune from Brian Rooney and Paddy Hayes' duet playing on the radio.
# Posted on September 3rd 2008 by slainte
C: Paddy Hayes
Sorry, forgot to add, this is one of Paddy Hayes' compositions and named after Brian Rooney.
# Posted on September 3rd 2008 by slainte
Thanks, Slainte. They play a d(3ddd instead of d^cd in the B part.
And they pair it with Mike Cooney's Fancy, a Paddy O'Brien tune that they've incorrectly attributed to Paddy Fahey. That was my favorite tune all summer, so maybe I'll have to put them together, too. I had been thinking of putting it with the most recently posted C Major Fahey jig, but that's not working for me yet on the concertina.
# Posted on September 3rd 2008 by GaryAMartin
John taught us the version I posted. He also gave us several variations...at which he is a master of producing. Angelina was also at Swannanoa and she played another variation...I think using an F# instead of an F natural in one place, but I'm not sure.
It's a great tune...and like I said...you can do a lot with it.
# Posted on September 6th 2008 by banjobabe
C natural
In the 4th line 2nd measure, the first C is sharp, the last one is natural. I made the changes. I hope the sheet music will be corrected too. Sorry about that.
# Posted on September 6th 2008 by banjobabe