S6E08 Smollet Holden, The Hermit of Killarney and Lead Belly

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April 23rd, 2022

1 hr 11 mins 48 secs

Season 6

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Tunes:
Ross McNaughton Playing Freeland Barbour’s tune: Pitlochry Highland Games
Smollet Holden: Baltioura, What Call Have you to me Ned, The Yellow Stockings, The Cruskeen Lawn, Round the World For Sport, The Hermit of Killarney, Big Bow Wow, She is the Girl that can do it, Drimindoo
O’Farrell: Adieu, Adieu Thou Faithless World, The Cruskeen Lawn
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem: Cruiskeen Lawn.
Thomas Crocker: The Hermit of Killarney,
The Weavers: Kisses Sweeter than Wine
Edward Bunting: The Black Cow
David Sear: Drimindown
Lead Belly: If it wasn’t for Dicky

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If you are interested in composing a tune for the Pitlochry Highland Games follow the link here:
https://www.pitlochryhighlandgames.co.uk/
You can scroll down to find the rules and where to submit your entry.

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If you want to watch the Regency House Party it is hosted on youtube in the US, not sure of the availability elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZlGrTbZHg&list=PLA41E10951CB748DD

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Smollet Holden:
Pretty Great Resource for the Publishing going on in Dublin in general:
http://www.dublinmusictrade.ie/
http://dublinmusictrade.ie/node/211

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A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs:

1807ish: Baltioura: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs
From Smollet Holden Volume 1. https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)

1807ish: What Call Have you to me Ned: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs
From Smollet Holden Volume 1. https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)

1807ish: Yellow Stockings: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs
From Smollet Holden Volume 1. https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)

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The Cruskeen Lawn

1969: The Cruiskeen Lawn from The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem: version: https://youtu.be/aOOjMkt88hU

1808: The Cruskeen Lawn: O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion
Volume III:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf

1807ish: The Cruskeen Lawn: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs
From Smollet Holden Volume 1. https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)

Sung Versions from Ottawa Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STLmNrXsks

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1807ish: Round the World For Sport: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs
From Smollet Holden Volume 1. https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Around_the_World_for_Sport_(4)

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Hermit of Killarney

1797: Account of Visiting “Roman’s Island” from George Holmes’ Sketches of some of the southern counties of Ireland, collected during a tour in the autumn, 1797, in a series of letters:
https://archive.org/details/sketchesofsomeof00holm/page/122/mode/2up

1806: Adieu Adieu thou Faithless World From O’Farrell:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779930

1807ish: The Hermit of Killarney: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs
From Smollet Holden Volume 1. https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)

1839: The Hermit of Killarney from Thomas Crofton Crocker’s Popular Songs of Ireland
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.459208/page/n199/mode/2up

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1807ish: Bigg Bow Wow: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs
From Smollet Holden Volume 1. https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)

1807ish: She Is the Girl that Can do it: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs
From Smollet Holden Volume 1. https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)

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Drimindoo

1951: Kisses Sweeter than Wine, by the Weavers:
Information on this track came from Here:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Kisses_Sweeter_than_Wine

1807ish: Drimindoo : from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs
From Smollet Holden Volume 1. https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)

1959: Drimindown (Roud 2712) David Sear: (1959) - David Sear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUNTSsECxnI

1937: If It Wasn’t for Dicky: from Lead Belly: I couldn’t actually find out where this recording originally came from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDx-l6HL8GQ

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