Annotation:Dan Sullivan's Favorite (2)

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DAN SULLIVAN'S FAVORITE (Rogha Dhónaill Uí Shúilleabháin). AKA and see "Gypsy Hornpipe (7)." Irish, Hornpipe. G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was recorded by County Kerry fiddler Michael Hanafin for Columbia Records in New York in 1927. Hanafin was a member of Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band (hence the title), a Boston based group led by pianist Dan Sullivan (whose fiddling father is mentioned in O'Neill's Irish Minstrels and Musicians). In the late 1940's the tune was recorded and published in Boston by button accordion player Jerry O'Brien (mentor of Boston's Joe Derrane), albeit under the title "Gypsy Hornpipe."

See also a Cape Breton version under the title "Doug MacMaster's." The first strain of "Dan Sullivan's" is cognate with "Fancy (The)," printed in W.B. Laybourn's Köhlers’ Violin Repository Book 1 (1881, p. 67).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ V), 1999; No. 212, p. 103.

Recorded sources: Gael-Linn CEFCD 142, Seán Ryan - "Siúil Uait/Take the Air." Topic 12T366, "Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band-Classic Recordings of Irish Traditional Music in America."

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