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'''LAST NIGHT'S FUN [4]''' (Súgradh na h- | |f_annotation='''LAST NIGHT'S FUN [4]''' ("Súgradh na h-oíche aréir", "Scléip na hOíche Aréir," or "Scléip Aréir (An)"). AKA - "[[Joe Cooley's No. 1]]." Irish, Reel (cut time). D Mixolydian (Breathnach): D Major (Harker/Rafferty, Miller, Prior, Taylor). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach, Harker/Rafferty): AA'B (Sullivan): AA'BB' (Miller). The tune was popularized by the great Irish accordion player Joe Cooley (1924-1973), who spent a good portion of his adult life in America. It is still associated with him. '''Last Night's Fun''' is also the name of a book by Belfast flute player and writer Ciaran Carson in which he praises Cooley's 1975 Gael-Linn release (produced by Tony MacMahon) and sketches one of Cooley's last performances at Lahiff's bar in the village of Peterswell, 1973, just before he died of lung cancer. A closely related reel is the popular "[[Boys of Ballysadare (2) (The)]]" (AKA "[[Dublin Lasses (1)]]"), as is "[[Cliffs of Glencolumbkille]]." Compare also with Rev. Luke Donnellan's "[[Night of the Fun (4)]]." | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Joe Cooley (Ireland) [Breathnach]; Jimmy Power [Sullivan]; set dance music recorded live at Na Píobairí Uilleann, mid-1980's [Taylor]; accordion and flute player Joe Burke [Bulmer & Sharpley]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Breathnach ('''Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. III'''), 1985; No. 193, p. 86. Bulmer & Sharpley ('''Music from Ireland, vol. 3'''), 1976; No. 27. Harker ('''300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty'''), 2005; No. 42, p. 13. Miller ('''Fiddler's Throne'''), 2004; No. 191, p. 121. Moylan ('''Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra'''), 1994; No. 169. Prior ('''Fionn Seisiún 3'''), 2007; p. 4. Sullivan ('''Session Tunes, vol. 3'''); No. 58, p. 24. Taylor ('''Crossroads Dance'''), 1992; No. 20, p. 16. Taylor ('''Music for the Sets: Yellow Book'''), 1995; p. 20. '''Treoir''', vol. 39, No. 4, 2007; p. 30. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Gael-Linn Records CEF 044, Joe Cooley - "Cooley" (1975). Larraga Records MOR 1302, Mike & Mary Rafferty - "Speed 78" (2004). Shaskeen - "My Love is in America." Noel Hill - "The Irish Concertina" (1988). Paddy Glackin & Paddy Keenan - "Doublin'" (1978). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t2206.html]<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l03.htm#Lasnifu2]<br> | |||
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/1104/]<br> | |||
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Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index []<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources []<br> | |||
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [ | |||
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LAST NIGHT'S FUN [4] ("Súgradh na h-oíche aréir", "Scléip na hOíche Aréir," or "Scléip Aréir (An)"). AKA - "Joe Cooley's No. 1." Irish, Reel (cut time). D Mixolydian (Breathnach): D Major (Harker/Rafferty, Miller, Prior, Taylor). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach, Harker/Rafferty): AA'B (Sullivan): AA'BB' (Miller). The tune was popularized by the great Irish accordion player Joe Cooley (1924-1973), who spent a good portion of his adult life in America. It is still associated with him. Last Night's Fun is also the name of a book by Belfast flute player and writer Ciaran Carson in which he praises Cooley's 1975 Gael-Linn release (produced by Tony MacMahon) and sketches one of Cooley's last performances at Lahiff's bar in the village of Peterswell, 1973, just before he died of lung cancer. A closely related reel is the popular "Boys of Ballysadare (2) (The)" (AKA "Dublin Lasses (1)"), as is "Cliffs of Glencolumbkille." Compare also with Rev. Luke Donnellan's "Night of the Fun (4)."
