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SPANISH LADY POLKA. AKA "Spanish Ladies Polka." AKA and see: "As I Went up to Dublin City, "Doran's Ass," "Finnegan's Wake," "French Musician (The)," "Paddy Doyle's Ass," "Siege of Ennis," "Thady Regan." Irish, Polka (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title comes from a song that was set to the tune. The tune was recorded in Sept., 1928, in New York (released in 1929) for Columbia records by Leitrim flute player John McKenna (1880-1947), and Sligo fiddler James Morrison (as "Thady Regan," paired with "Trippin' on the Mountain").

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Mary O’Hara [Miller & Perron].

Printed sources : - Black (Music’s the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 233, p. 125. Mallinson (100 Irish Polkas), 1997; No. 97, p. 38. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, vol. 3), 1977; No. 62. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; p. 135. Tubridy (Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1), 1999; p. 9.

Recorded sources : - Columbia 33342-F (78 RPM), John McKenna & James Morrison (Fretless 119, Rodney & Randy Miller - "Castles in the Air" (1975). John McKenna Society MCKSOC002, John McKenna - "The Music and Life of John McKenna. 'The Buck from the Mountain'" (2014). Tradition TLP 1024, Mary O'Hara – “Songs of Ireland” (1958).

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Hear Morrison & McKenna's 1929 recording at ITMA [3]

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-|f_annotation='''SPANISH LADY POLKA.''' AKA "Spanish Ladies Polka." AKA and see: "[[As I Went up to Dublin City]], "[[Doran's Ass]]," "[[Finnigan's Wake]]," "[[French Musician (The)]]," "[[Paddy Doyle's Ass]]," "[[Siege of Ennis]]," "[[Thady Regan]]." Irish, Polka (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title comes from a song that was set to the tune. The tune was recorded in Sept., 1928, in New York (released in 1929) for Columbia records by Leitrim flute player John McKenna (1880-1947), and Sligo fiddler James Morrison (as "Thady Regan," paired with "[[Trippin' on the Mountain]]").
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