Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 30 Apr 23 - 05:23 AM

I assume this is Dick Miles, I didn't know that till Steve Shaw mentioned you recently, but I'm not too surprised.
You speak rather like a tory politician answering questions which have not been asked a la Micky McConnell's song starting

'I'm very glad you asked me that.....'    - well I didn't!

   You did book me twice at your festival in Ballydehob, and and I thank you for that, and it was good to meet some old local pals there, but I realised then why I'd left 24 years ago now & am much happier in Scotland thanks -- I didn't accept further invitations.

   I don't give a monkeys' what goes on in Ballydehob and my view of the music is very different to yours, so can we just leave it at that please?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 30 Apr 23 - 02:18 AM

JIM BAINBRIDGE.I have provided a lot of fun, organising a festival for 10 yeats and even booking you twice.
This weekend there is a very succesful jazz festival in Ballydehob.
I was one of the people that stated it over 15 years ago and given people a lot of fun.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 11:06 AM

Well try to not frown at the shenanigans going on all around you. Mind you, if they knew it was you they'd sit stock still, expressionless, I suppose. Poor old Dingle Regatta!

By the way, I think I'll sign myself in as "GUEST guest guest guest guest" from now on... just to avoid confusion, you understand...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 10:19 AM

I am all in favour of having fun whilst playing music, my idea of fun is trying to play the tune well, so please allow me to do that without having to clown around.
each to their own

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 10:06 AM

ha ha, the manuscripts on that forum are renowned as inaccurate, yes of course you are right, why not turn tunes and music into teapots and nudism as clowning exhibition
a bit like the poor wild rover a perfectly good song turned in to up your kilt, go ahead

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 09:17 AM

I've been known to have a whole bunch of fun on occasion doing that, as it happens. Not recently, sadly, as I'd only do my back in if I tried.

Interestingly, Dick, I've just been looking at the entry in the tune section of TheSession for Dingle Regatta. The first entry was made by Jeremy 21 years ago. In lots of other entries, the tune's parts are mixed and matched in all sorts of ways, some two, some three, different parts to the bog standard three-parter, even some different parts in two-part versions. Quite a few allusions to the demented leprechaun shenanigans which so offend you, plenty of mentions of fun, but guess what: not a single criticism from anyone, not a single mention of anyone disrespecting the music. Guess you're on your own!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Lang Johnnie More
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 09:11 AM

O'Riada and co :
https://youtu.be/0Jvqs97ZssY

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 08:53 AM

no, it's all very shocking- we cannot have people actually having fun while listening to music- heaven forbid- and the correct count of diddles in the Dingle tune is of course essential.
On the subject of slides, 'God Save the King' works beautifully as a slide- might raise a laugh among us republicans just now...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 08:49 AM

Why not do "I am a little teapot song" to The Dingle Regatta. with teapot actions, and take your clothes off, whilst jumping up and down, it has to be fun.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 07:57 AM

Jackie Daly plays a two part version of The Dingle Regatta,which works as a slide, the people who prefer to try and play the tune well are not party poopers, they are people who have respect for the music.
Fun is subjective, jumping up and down and acting like a clown is not my idea of fun.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 06:05 AM

Hello Dick. Well we always take what we do seriously and we know how to play for dancing. But if we're in the pub having fun we are not going to be sitting there all po-faced worrying about dancers who aren't there. I learned a lot of the tunes I play from Jackie Daly and I love him. I can assure you that he doesn't always stick to dancing speeds, etc., when he's not playing for dancers.

And you may look like that demented leprechaun when you're jumping up and down but the leprechaun that looks anything like my shape or size has yet to be born, you ould party pooper you.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 05:10 AM

All depends why you are playing the music, if you are trying to play the music as well as you can and for dancing the 3 part version is rubbish for dancing as a slide.
Steve Shaw, if you were in the company of Jackie Daly,I doubt if you would play the 3 part clown version.
When I am lucky enough to be in that situation I try to listen to how an expert player interprets the music,I do not jump up and down like an ageing, demented, decrepit, leprechaun.
For me it is about listening and learning, not acting the goat.
If I want to see clowns I go to a circus.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 04:49 AM

If it fails as a three-part dancing tune, just drop the C part. As a three-part fun pub tune it's always worked for us. Rules? What rules!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 12:15 AM

Was the original two part version written by Tom Billy Murphy of Ballydesmond?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 29 Apr 23 - 12:11 AM

There is a great version of the Dingle Regatta on Seamus Creagh’s album Came the Dawn. There are only two parts, the usual first part you mentioned and a different second part, no third part.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 28 Apr 23 - 11:43 PM

The Slide Dingle Regatta was made famous by O’ Riada & The Chieftians It was a mix up from two other tunes
   As a slide the three part version does not work well, which brings up the question, is the purpose of the music for dancing,if it fails as a slide dance tune, is it a good tune?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Apr 23 - 05:15 PM

I don't agree. I think it works really well as a three-part tune. And Sean wasn't a bad old boy, was he?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 28 Apr 23 - 04:51 PM

The 3 part version is a naff concoction by Sean o Riada,
In sliabh luchra it is a 2 part slide with a different second part.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 25 Sep 17 - 04:51 PM

Kiss the Blarney - Arthur Marshall has got a few words to go with it. Here are a few of them

hammer \ boat \ Seamus \ nails \ hammering \wind in the sails \ water coming in through a hole in the bottom \ wetter \ married a sailor \ never goes to sea anymore \ whisky \ women \ Dingle Regatta

https://youtu.be/jQ0Wq5kH1Ow 

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 01:32 PM

I think that's the tune that "Irish Rebel Theater" used to sing to, lines about Suffering Irish, suffering Irish, suffering Irish Catholics (repeat)
They bow, they pray, they go to mass three times a day ....

really! anyone remember that? If you know Jim Olwell or Bill Ochs they might corroborate?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Auldtimer
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 12:53 PM

Dingle Regatta ... Was one of the favorite tunes played by John Doonan and Dave Bullmer.
The very same Mudcat No.1 musical personality. And he used to sing a bit in the middle a well.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: G-Force
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 12:16 PM

As it's got a range of an octave and a sixth, it wouldn't be the easiest of tunes to sing.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 11:40 AM

Forget it.
Looks like I'll have to write some meself!
M.E.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 09:48 AM

Ah Gerry, my dancing days are long gone, I once saw a really great dance troup during the Halifax Festival a few years ago, Asian men, absolutely stunning.

Dave

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 09:45 AM

Can they dance in Halifax Dave???

Gerry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 09:41 AM

It's a dance tune, they typically don't have lyrics, it's for dancing to.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 09:41 AM

Hi Greg The First Di-dy on the second is wrong it should actually be diddly

sez Gerry with a BG

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 09:39 AM

I know the tune is overplayed, but I wonder if at some point there might have been words. It seems like such a straightforward tune that it could be sung. M.E.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 09:08 AM

Am I alone in wishing people played this a little less, almost every session seems to have a version of it at some point. I know its a good tune it's just that I've heard it far to often.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 08:28 AM

Likewise. I've never heard of any lyrics to this tune. However, when the Liverpool Ceili Band played it they used to jump out of their seats and lilt in chorus. "Hi ho, diddley do..........."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: greg stephens
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 08:08 AM

never heard a song version but I'll make a start
Diddly dumdy diddly dumdy
Di-dy di-dy diddlydum
Now carry on in the same vein

Subject: Lyr Req: Dingle Regatta
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 07:30 AM

Is there a setting of Dingle Regatta with lyrics?
Please send lyrics if poss. Thank you.
M.E.