Annotation:Kitty O'Neill (3)
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KITTY O'NEILL [3]. AKA and see "Old Time Straight Jig," "Away Back," "Snapping Jig." AKA - "Kitty O'Neil." Irish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle) . AABB. The first part of the tune appears in the West Texas "Jack of Diamonds," although also shared with Don Messer's "Away Back," and "Old Time Straight Jig. There are some minor similarities with the Lewis Brothers old-time tune "Bull at the Wagon." As "Kitty O'Neil," the tune first appeared in print in Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels c. 1867 in a group of tunes from the Boston stage fiddler Jimmy Norton, known as "The Boss Jig Player." Paul Wells says "Norton is easily traced in [Boston city] directories from the early 1860's to the early 1890's. Often his business address was the same as [Boston music publisher Elias] Howe's" [1]. The tune may have been named for the Dublin-born singer/actress Kitty O'Neil, who was active on the New York and Boston stage in that period. Much of this tune was later incorporated into the seven-part "Kitty O'Neil's Champion" in Ryan's Mammmoth Collection. The Kitty honored in the name of that tune, however, was another performer, a Buffalo native famed for her "sand jig" dancing (see [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.