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'''PADDY REYNOLD’S DREAM.''' AKA - "Paddy Reynold's Favorite." Irish, Jig. D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Staten Island, New York, fiddler Reynolds told Bill Black he had not composed the tune, only arranged it. Reynolds was originally from Ballinamuck, County Longford, and immigrated to New York in 1948. He remembered: | '''PADDY REYNOLD’S DREAM.''' AKA - "Paddy Reynold's Favorite." Irish, Jig. D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Staten Island, New York, fiddler Reynolds told Bill Black he had not composed the tune, only arranged it. Reynolds was originally from Ballinamuck, County Longford, and immigrated to New York in 1948. He remembered: | ||
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PADDY REYNOLD’S DREAM. AKA - "Paddy Reynold's Favorite." Irish, Jig. D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Staten Island, New York, fiddler Reynolds told Bill Black he had not composed the tune, only arranged it. Reynolds was originally from Ballinamuck, County Longford, and immigrated to New York in 1948. He remembered:
My first job I ever had in this country playing music was in the caberet…I was walking by, I was only a greenhorn, when I heard Irish music. I walked in, stood at the bar, and I was homesick as hell, and I was almost in tears. And there was the lousiest fiddler I’d ever heard in my life on the stage…She came down…and I turned around and I complimented, I says, “ Nice music. You play nice music. My name is Paddy Reynolds.” “Oh, Paddy Reynolds, Where are you from?” She had a husky voice; she liked her whiskey. And I said, “I’m from Co. Longford.” “I’m from Tipperary myself.” And we got talking and well, she says to me, “Do you play music?” And I said, “A little bit, on the fiddle.” “Do you have it with you?”… and I got out the fiddle and I went up on the stage and I played that night. And that night I was employed for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night, in Brooklyn, in Plunket’s Cabaret. Incidentally, that’s where I met my darling. (excerpted from Rebecca Miller, “Irish Traditional and Popular Music in New York City,” The New York Irish, 1996, ed. by Bayor & Meagher).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Black (Music’s the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 97, p. 50.
Recorded sources: Green Linnet SIF1027, Mick Moloney - “Strings Attached" (1980). Green Linnet SIF1035, Brian Conway & Tony De Marco - "The Apple in Winter" (1981).