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) transcribed Michael Coleman's setting from a privately made 1940 recording reissued by Shanachie (see below) and noted that the tune is related to "Colonel Fraser," one of a family of tunes including "Green Fields of Ireland." The tune was recorded for Columbia as "Mother's Delight" by fiddler James (Jim) Clark (1887-1938) of Drumlish, Co. Longford, in October, 1928. Longford fiddler Paddy Reynolds' name for the tune, as he related to New York musician Don Meade, was "Col. Fraser's Maggot."

Donegal fiddler John Doherty's two-part version (which skips the Clark/Coleman version's first part), was published under the mistaken name "The Cameronian Reel" in The Northern Fiddler, and this version has subequently been recorded as "Mother's Delight" (see notes for that tune).

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.

Recorded sources: Columbia CO 33309-F (78 RPM), James Clark (1928, as "Mother's Delight") - reissued on The Fiddler's Delight, Oldtime Records OTR 107 (CD) under the mistaken title "Dowd's Favorite" (which was recorded on a different Clark side). Shanachie Records 330006 (LP), The Classic Recordings of Michael Coleman, as "Malloy's Favorite" (1979)