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|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. D Mixolydian (Breathnach): D Major (Harker/Rafferty, Miller, 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]]." | |||
---- | |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 ('''CRÉ 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. 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> | |||
'''LAST NIGHT'S FUN [4]''' ("Súgradh na h- | |||
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> | 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> | Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/1104/]<br> | ||
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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. D Mixolydian (Breathnach): D Major (Harker/Rafferty, Miller, 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."