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|f_annotation=DAN SULLIVAN'S FAVORITE [1]. American, Reel (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune, probably Irish in origin, appears in a later publication of Boston music publisher Elias Howe, '''Musician's Omnibus, No. 7''' (1882). Musicologist Paul Wells believes the title is associated with Irish fiddler Dan Sullivan, then resident in Boston <ref><span class="a">PAUL F. WELLS (2010). Elias Howe, William Bradbury Ryan, and Irish Music in Nineteenth-</span><span class="a">Century Boston. '''Journal of the Society for American Music''', 4, p. 417.</span></ref>. Francis O'Neill called "the most famous professional Irish fiddler in the eastern United States...Everybody in Boston and the adjoining towns, and not a few from other parts of this broad land, knew or heard of 'Dan' Sullivan, the great Irish fiddler who departed this life at the end of June, 1912." <ref><span class="a">Capt. Francis O’Neill,</span>'''<span class="a">Irish Minstrels and Musicians, with Numerous Dissertations on Related</span><span class="a">Subjects, 1</span>'''<span class="a">913, p. 370.</span></ref>. Sulllivan was the father of Dan Sullivan who led Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band in the 1920's and 1930's and who recorded prolifically.
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|f_printed_sources=<span>Elias Howe ('''Musician’s Omnibus No. 7)''', Boston, 1882; p. 641.</span>
|f_printed_sources=<span>Elias Howe ('''Musician’s Omnibus No. 7)''', Boston, 1882; p. 641.</span>
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DAN SULLIVAN'S FAVORITE [1]. American, Reel (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune, probably Irish in origin, appears in a later publication of Boston music publisher Elias Howe, Musician's Omnibus, No. 7 (1882). Musicologist Paul Wells believes the title is associated with Irish fiddler Dan Sullivan, then resident in Boston [1]. Francis O'Neill called "the most famous professional Irish fiddler in the eastern United States...Everybody in Boston and the adjoining towns, and not a few from other parts of this broad land, knew or heard of 'Dan' Sullivan, the great Irish fiddler who departed this life at the end of June, 1912." [2]. Sulllivan was the father of Dan Sullivan who led Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band in the 1920's and 1930's and who recorded prolifically.


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Printed sources : - Elias Howe (Musician’s Omnibus No. 7), Boston, 1882; p. 641.






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  1. PAUL F. WELLS (2010). Elias Howe, William Bradbury Ryan, and Irish Music in Nineteenth-Century Boston. Journal of the Society for American Music, 4, p. 417.
  2. Capt. Francis O’Neill,Irish Minstrels and Musicians, with Numerous Dissertations on RelatedSubjects, 1913, p. 370.