Annotation:Malloy's Favorite

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MALLOY'S FAVORITE (Rogha Uí Mhaolmhuaidh). AKA and see "Mulloy's Reel," "Molloy's Favourite (2)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. Breathnach (1985) notes the tune is related to "Colonel Fraser," one of a family of tunes including "Green Fields of Ireland." See also Donegal fiddler John Doherty's "Cameronian Reel (3) (The)" ("Old Cameronian (The)") and "Mother's Delight," all related tunes ("The Cameronian" consists of the third and second parts of "Malloy's Favorite"). A version was recorded as"Mother's Delight" by fiddler James (Jim) Clark (1887-1938) of Drumlish, Co. Longford, in October, 1928, in New York (Columbia CO 33309F). Clark recorded it again as "Dowd's Favourite" in 1935 for the Regal-Zonophone label (IZ 637). That name is usually associated with another tune (Dowd's Favorite) but perhaps points to Sligo fiddler John O'Dowd as the source of the setting. Longford fiddler Paddy Reynolds' name for the tune, as related to New York musician Don Meade, was "Col. Fraser's Maggot."

Source for notated version: fiddler Michael Coleman (1891-1945, County Sligo, Ireland/New York) [Breathnach].

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ III), 1985; No. 148, p. 69. Feldman & O'Doherty (Northern Fiddler), 1979; p. 167.

Recorded sources: Columbia CO 33309-F (78 RPM), James Clark (1928, as "Mother's Delight"). Shanachie Records, "The Classic Recordings of Michael Coleman" (1992)