Key signature: Bminor
Submitted on August 15th 2002 by SPeak.
This tune has been added to 82 tunebooks.
Also known as Up Up And Away.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Up In The Air
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Bmin
FBB BAB|c2c AFE|FBB BAB|cBA B2A|
FBB BAB|c2c ABc|def ecA|1 FBB B2A:|2 FBB B2c||
|:d2d ede|fBB BAB|d2d ede|
fBB B2c|dcd ede|1 fdB def|gfe dBA|
FBB B2c:|2 fgf ecA|fgf ecA|FBB B2A||
This is a tune by Kevin Burke. Does anyone know any other tunes by Kevin Burke?
# Posted on August 15th 2002 by SPeak
A direct quote from Da Man himself: "When I overhear people saying, oh, he plays all those Kevin Burke tunes, I've written maybe six tunes, and I rarely play them. I see these on album covers, 'Kevin Burke's tune,' I don't know where that comes from, they're not my tunes! I only play them."
Mr. Burke is a wonderful storyteller and a very funny man.
Zina
# Posted on August 15th 2002 by Zina Lee
Believe it or not, Kevin actually wrote this one.
# Posted on August 31st 2002 by SPeak
Real Kevin Burke Tunes
For starters, he's written 2 other jigs in Bm! One, The Split Rock, is on the Open House album Hoof and Mouth. It's a real Kevin Burke slow and sensual one. The other is called Across the Black River. I'm not sure if he's recorded this one or not - it's a bit livlier by nature.
I first heard him play Up in the Air at a concert in 1981 or 82 - he hadn't got a name for it yet and was joking about having a suggestion box on the way out. Wonder how he came up with the name in the end. Anybody know?
The 3 albums by Open House feature quite a few of his compositions.
# Posted on May 22nd 2005 by kris
By another title, recorded by Johnny Cunningham
If I am not mistaken, I learned this tune in the early '80's by the title "Up up and Away" , as played in agreat medley by Johnny Cunningham...I don't remember if he gave credit to Kevin as the author of the tune. I think it was the first album Johnny made after moving to Pennsylvania...it was engineered with quite a bit of sound effect, but for the life of me I can't remember the title of the album. I still play the medley for dances though.
# Posted on February 11th 2006 by Lowsong
Post script
One of the tunes in the medley Johnny played was "There's Nobody to Blame" If I get the time to figure out the system, I'll write it out in abc format and submit it.
# Posted on February 15th 2006 by Lowsong
From the dim and distant past........
As I remember, Johnny's 1st solo recording was called "Thoughts From Another World". I don't recall this tune [ "Up In The Air" ] being on it, but it is a long time since I listened to it , apart from the brilliant "Linden Rise", which I posted here soon after Johnny died. He had 2 tunes together, both his own compositions called "There's Naebody Tae Blame But Masel'", and "Philip Cunningham's Odd Dance". [ or something very close ]. Both were slowish jigs - almost 6/8 marches. I'll have a hunt through the tapes - I never did get hold of the record - and check it out.
# Posted on February 15th 2006 by Kenny