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'''KITTY'S GONE A-MILKING'''. AKA - "Kitty Goes a-Milking." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Malley, Tubridy): AAB (Harker/Rafferty, Stanford/Petrie): AABB (Mulvihill): AABB' (Mitchell). The tune was included in a three-tune medley famously recorded on a 78 RPM disk by County Meath fiddler Frank O'Higgins, featured on early Irish radio broadcasts. | '''KITTY'S GONE A-MILKING'''. AKA - "Kitty Goes a-Milking." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Malley, Tubridy): AAB (Harker/Rafferty, Stanford/Petrie): AABB (Mulvihill): AABB' (Mitchell). There is a remarkable absence of alternate names for such a popular session tune. The tune was included in a three-tune medley famously recorded on a 78 RPM disk by County Meath fiddler Frank O'Higgins, featured on early Irish radio broadcasts. | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Claddagh 4CC 39, "The Pipering of Willie Clancy vol. 2" (1983). Philo 1051, Boys of the Lough - "Good Friends, Good Music" (1977). "The Chieftains #1." Shanachie 79093, Paddy Glackin & Robbie Hannan - "The Whirlwind" (1995).).</font> | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Claddagh 4CC 39, "The Pipering of Willie Clancy vol. 2" (1983). Philo 1051, Boys of the Lough - "Good Friends, Good Music" (1977). "The Chieftains #1." Shanachie 79093, Paddy Glackin & Robbie Hannan - "The Whirlwind" (1995).). Frank O'Higgins (1938)</font> | ||
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See also listings at:<br> | |||
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/1054/]<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/k03.htm#Kitgoam]<br> | |||
Hear various artists' recordings at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=kitty%27s+gone+a+milking]<br> | |||
Hear Paddy Canny & Peter Loughlin play the tune at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=kitty%27s+gone+a+milking#/tracks/5188]<br> | |||
Hear fiddler Frank O'Higgins' 1938 recording at the Comhaltas Archive [http://comhaltasarchive.ie/search?tab=tracks&q=kitty%27s+gone+a+milking#/tracks/13995]<br> | |||
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KITTY'S GONE A-MILKING. AKA - "Kitty Goes a-Milking." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Malley, Tubridy): AAB (Harker/Rafferty, Stanford/Petrie): AABB (Mulvihill): AABB' (Mitchell). There is a remarkable absence of alternate names for such a popular session tune. The tune was included in a three-tune medley famously recorded on a 78 RPM disk by County Meath fiddler Frank O'Higgins, featured on early Irish radio broadcasts.
Sources for notated versions: piper Willie Clancy (1918-1973, Miltown Malbay, west Clare) [Mitchell]; Frank McCollam (Ballycastle, County Antrim) [Mulvihill]; Frank O'Higgins [Bulmer & Sharpley]; from a recording of Paddy Canney and P.J. Hayes [O'Malley].
Printed sources: Bulmer & Sharpley (Music from Ireland), 1974, vol. 1, No. 25. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 2, p. 1. Mitchell (Dance Music of Willie Clancy), 1976; No. 31, p. 45. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 99, p. 26. O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 46, p. 23. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 444, p. 112. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, Book Two), 1999; p. 26.
Recorded sources: Claddagh 4CC 39, "The Pipering of Willie Clancy vol. 2" (1983). Philo 1051, Boys of the Lough - "Good Friends, Good Music" (1977). "The Chieftains #1." Shanachie 79093, Paddy Glackin & Robbie Hannan - "The Whirlwind" (1995).). Frank O'Higgins (1938)
See also listings at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Hear various artists' recordings at the Comhaltas Archive [3]
Hear Paddy Canny & Peter Loughlin play the tune at the Comhaltas Archive [4]
Hear fiddler Frank O'Higgins' 1938 recording at the Comhaltas Archive [5]
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