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20 Sep 99 - 02:42 PM (#115834) Subject: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: selby What are YOUR 3 top session tune or songs out their in MUDCAT LAND mine at the moment are still Soldiers Joy, Harvest Home & Jimmy Allen I have deleted lots of tunes as now I have pined myself down I can not choose, such is life. Keith |
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20 Sep 99 - 02:46 PM (#115837) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: bill\sables All hornpipes Wonder, Showman and Golden Eagle Cheers Bill |
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20 Sep 99 - 02:52 PM (#115839) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: selby I had the Wonder, Boys of Blue Hill & The Gloucester but I mentioned 3 and I had to make harsh decisions also CONSTANT BILLY was there as well Keith |
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20 Sep 99 - 06:10 PM (#115920) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Lady McMoo This is a hard one..so many to choose from!Over here in the surreal land of Belgium I would plump for The ships are sailing The High Reel My love is in America (Could have chosen many others but I like those and they're popular here) mcmoo |
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20 Sep 99 - 08:37 PM (#115983) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Jon Freeman My list varies but these are always some of my favourites: The Silver Spire, The Moving Cloud and The Golden Eagle. There was a thread in umf recently that mentioned the Acrobat and I have subsequntly heard I have on a Tom McConville/ Pauline Cato CD which is a "must learn" tune to me and Sunday night I heard somebody playing President Garfield which has become another one I have to learn. I saw the Swedish Jig mentioned in another thread in Mudcat and Soldiers Joy in another... How can I have just 3? Jon |
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21 Sep 99 - 08:41 PM (#116277) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Cap't Bob Angelina Baker has survived over the years. Chief O'Neal's Favorite and The Gypse Rover would be my other two choices. Cap't Bob |
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21 Sep 99 - 10:01 PM (#116292) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: j0_77 Loud, fast and into the rain hehe - top 3 anythings tunes: - Soldier's Joy, O'Keefe's slide/s(they vary a lot), Swallow Tail J. songs: Good Ole Mountain Dew, Spancilhill, Cotton Eyed Joe.
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21 Sep 99 - 10:05 PM (#116294) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Jeri Banish Misfortune (Varnish Me Foreskin) - I've known this tune for a long time, and I never seem to get tired of it. Morrison's Jig and The Butterfly get played a lot, but I am starting to get tired of them. Only three - sheesh! We do loads of others. It's rare anyone can get folks to learn something new, but the most recent hit is Showman's Fancy. (I think it's the same as Bill's Showman, with a whole bunch of triplets in the second part.) |
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22 Sep 99 - 12:28 AM (#116326) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Alice It is hard to narrow it down to three, but at our session the crowd likes to hear Drowsy Maggie, Musical Priest, and The Mouth of the Tobique. |
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22 Sep 99 - 12:44 AM (#116327) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Stewie Rolling Home, Barrett's Privateers, Jenny Lind |
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22 Sep 99 - 12:59 AM (#116332) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: unclenort varnish me foreskin... *LOL*...*LOL* thats gotta be one of the funniest things iv'e read in ages. OK, back to serius stuff. if i can only pick three; blackberry blossom(around here black harry possum) ginsing sulliven lily of the west |
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22 Sep 99 - 10:08 PM (#116674) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: j0_77 oh you mean the tunes I play the most - not the ones I hear the most, awe that's dufferent. Farewell to anywhere (in Eminor of course) a rant on fiddle - hours later I fall over on the floor passed out. or My version of (lemme see the hardest sob tune I can imagine)no instead Coleman's version of the Orange Blossom Special- I know he did not play this but heck I can fake the style - and The 29 and 3/4 part long dance that they never wrote down - The Last Tune - |
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22 Sep 99 - 10:38 PM (#116686) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: harpgirl ...can any of you lead me to GIF's of mouth of the tobique, wonder, showman, golden eagle,ginseng sullivan and showman's fancy...harpgirl |
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22 Sep 99 - 10:48 PM (#116688) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Jon Freeman Harpgirl, try searching at http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html I don't know whether these are there but it is worth a try. Jon PS What are your 3 favourites? |
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22 Sep 99 - 11:19 PM (#116694) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: harpgirl Jon...I was hoping someone else would look; I am soooo lazy....Innisher, Jig of Slurs, Morrison's...(current favorites to play)...to sing: Local Flowers, Wings of a Dove, Gray Funnel Line...the disappearing harp |
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23 Sep 99 - 12:18 AM (#116712) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Alice harpgirl, I searched the net for Mouth of the Tobique quite awhile ago (come to think of it, maybe 2 years now) and finally got the music as a photocopy from the Fiddler's Fakebook. Les had seen my query on Mudcat and sent me the copy. Our session group plays our own version that has evolved over time. |
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23 Sep 99 - 12:21 AM (#116714) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Alice harpgirl, I just checked, and the tune finder (link above) does have Mouth of the Tobique now. |
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23 Sep 99 - 11:18 AM (#116854) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: ..thanks Alice. I guess I might have to lift a finger to go to Trillian...it's just that the mental stress of my work often makes me physically lazy!! I didn't realize it was in the fakebook either and I look at that thing every week! Trillian is a great resource!harp |
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23 Sep 99 - 07:34 PM (#117062) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Malcolm Douglas At the moment, "The Kid on the Mountain", "Michael Turner's Waltz", and "Iron Legs". |
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06 May 00 - 09:51 AM (#224002) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Alice Marion, here's another thread on the topic. Alice |
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06 May 00 - 02:14 PM (#224062) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: folk1234 Varies over time, but now it is: Gypsy Rover, Isle Au Haut Lullaby, and Blue Mountain |
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06 May 00 - 08:11 PM (#224165) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Willie-O I don't get to sessions very often these days, but currently in heavy rotation on my fiddle are:
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07 May 00 - 09:47 AM (#224299) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: GUEST,Frankie Whiskey 'fore Breakfast (song and inst.)/St. Annes Reel The Jolly Beggar (song)/ Redhaired Boy Tatter Jack Walsh (fingerstyle) Unclenort, if you're still out there can you (or anyone) post the first line of the first verse of Ginseng Sullivan? I can't make out all of what either Blake or Tony Rice say there. Thanks, Frankie |
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07 May 00 - 02:10 PM (#224359) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Peter Kasin Bravo, McMoo, for putting in My Love is in America What a great tune! My other top choices are: Bunker Hill (reel), and The Heathery Cruach, also a reel. They have an excitement and lift that really make sessions take off. |
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07 May 00 - 03:49 PM (#224387) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: GUEST,Sam Pirt Hi My favorite tunes are 1 - Mouth of the tobique 2 - Brenda Stubberts (Jerry Holland) 3 - Calliape House (Dave Richardson) Cheers, Sam |
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07 May 00 - 10:48 PM (#224503) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: GUEST,Frankie Happy to report that Ginseng Sullivan is in the database. F |
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08 May 00 - 03:09 AM (#224554) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Margaret\W I'd have to go for Hesleyside Reel, Hexham Races, and a hornpipe - either Steamboat or Redesdale or even better, one of Joe Hutton's 'traditional hornpipes' in G that he didn't have a name for! (No way would I want them all in the same set, though...) Margaret |
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08 May 00 - 08:48 PM (#224941) Subject: RE: Top 3 Session Tunes/Songs From: Petr For me it changes all the time, but currently Ed Reaveys Hunters House has to be one of my all time favourite reels. There a Kerry polka I think its called Knockaboule that always brings down the house. Finally Gravel Walks, we often finish up with that one. |