Various Artists - Wheels Of The World Vol 1 [Early Irish American Music]

A long gone generation of Ireland's finest Celtic Traditional artists, including James Morrison, Packie Dolan and Michael Coleman. Lovingly collected from old 78's, with a very high quality sound considering the sources. A one off chance to hear how these greats performed in their day [1920's and 1930's] which was a golden age for Irish Traditional music.

1 Back in the Garden/The Flowers of the Red Mill [John McKenna]
2 Rakish Paddy/The Wheels of the World [James Morrison]
3 The Rambling Pitchfork [Edward Mullaney, Patrick Stack]
4 Lord McDonald/Ballinasloe Fair [Michael Coleman]
5 The Tap Room/The Moving Bogs [Peter James Conlon,]
6 Donovan's Reel (Morning Star/Lawson's Favorite) [Joe Maguire, Frank Quinn]
7 The Steampacket/The Morning Star/Miss McCleod [Patrick J. Touchey]
8 The Irish Girl/The Blue Breeches [Packie Dolan]
9 Arrah, Come in Out of the Rain, Barney McShane [James J Mullan, The Four Provinces Orchestr
10 Ah Surely/The Steeplechase [Paddy Killoran, Paddy Sweeney]
11 Maid in a Cherry Tree [Edward Mullaney, Patrick Stack]
12 Maggie Pickens/Cameron's Wife [Four Provinces Orchestra]
13 The Jolly Tinker [Michael Carney]
14 Gardiner's Favorite/Streams in the Valley [John McKenna, James Morrison]
15 Sailing Home [Joe Maguire, Frank Quinn]
16 Miss Langford's/The Milestone at the Garden Reels [James Morrison]
17 Tarbolton/The Longford Collector/The Sailor's Bonnet [Michael Coleman]
18 I'm Leaving Tipperary [Pat White]
19 On the Road to the Fair [Flanagan Brothers]
20 The Lady of the House/Ballinasloe Fair [Packie Dolan]
21 Money Musk/Johnny Will You Marry Me/Keel Row [James Morrison Orchestra]
22 The Moving Bogs/Miss Thornton [Flanagan Brothers]
23 Kilkenny for Me/Boys of Ireland [Martin Beirne And His Irish Blackbirds]

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Various Artists - Wheels Of The World Vol 1 [Early Irish American Music]

Packie Dolan - Lark In The Morning

Fiddle player, singer and band leader, Packie Dolan from Ballinamuck, Co.Longford, was one of the outstanding but forgotten figures from the golden age of Irish Traditional music recording in America in the 1920s. We are fortunate that Packie's music survived on 78 records as his life and promising career were tragically cut short by his untimely death in New York in 1932. So enjoy this sole surviving collection of Packie Dolan's majestically played repertoire.

01 - mcfadden's (the ewe reel, mcfadden’s favourite)

02 - the grove hornpipe (the liverpool hornpipe)

03 - mother malone

04 - miss ramsey (stirling castle, lady mary ramsey’s strathspey)

05 - fitzmaurice’s flight (the heather breeze)

06 - (jigs) the fair at drumlish. (saddle the pony, rakes of kildare)

07 - the windy gap (ah! surely)

08 - a drink in the morn

09 - the woman of the house, ballinasloe fair)

10 - the duke of leinster, the ladie’s pantalettes

11 - erin's green shore

12 - the steampacket, the flogging reel

13 - the cavan lasses (the humours of ennistymon, delaney’s drummers)

14 - mullin's fancy

15 - (highland flings) lasses of donnybrook (the keel row, love will you marry me)

16 - the blackhaired lass, the dublin reel

17 - one, two, three

18 - royal charlie (behind the bush in in the garden)

19 - the royal stack of barley, bantry bay

20 - (schottische) the killarney wonder

21 - the first of may hornpipe

22 - the kilkenny reel (the reel of mullinavat)

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Packie Dolan - Lark In The Morning