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	The Grand Spy - Reel - Martin Beirne Irish bagpipes solo, with Alex Brown, piano, Columbia 33558-F, also released in England. The great Sligo fiddler Michael Coleman recorded this setting of this reel in 1944, on a disc for radio broadcast. Another setting, more suited to the fiddle, is now played, under the strange corrupted title "Graf Spee" - a WWI German battleship. The title here itself is a corruption of the original "Sir Arthur Grant's Strathspey." Beirne also recorded with his "Irish Blackbirds Orchestra," and made a furthe... Keywords: Irish; Celtic; Bagpipe; Uilleann; Folk; Oldtime; 78rpm Downloads: 443 Average rating: (1 review)
	The Beauty Spot, The Sunny Banks - Michael Coleman and Michael Walsh Fiddle and flute, Arthur P Kenna - piano, New Republic 2333. Two old reels played at a relaxed pace. The Beauty Spot was a popular tune with pipers, and one of Coleman's major influences was the pipes, most prominently being influenced in his youth by travelling piper Johnny Gorman, and in NYC by Michael Anderson. Unfortunately no recordings exist of either musician. Coleman takes a solo for the first time through the Sunny Banks, a nice feature. Keywords: Irish; Celtic; Folk; Oldtime; 78rpm; Fiddle; Flute Downloads: 623 Average rating: (1 review)
	The Lark on the Strand, The Primrose Vale - Michael Coleman and Michael Walsh Fiddle and flute, Arthur P Kenna - piano, New Republic 2333. Two lively jigs from these Sligo musicians. As on the reels on the flipside of this recording, Coleman takes a solo for the first time through the Primrose Vale, a device which was common on duet recordings by his fellow Sligoman James Morrison. Keywords: Irish; Celtic; Folk; Oldtime; 78rpm; Fiddle; Flute Downloads: 619 Average rating: (1 review)
	Prohibition Reel - Michael Coleman and Tom Gannon Irish fiddle duet, Ed Geoghean - piano, New Republic 2330. Gannon was a friend of Coleman's from Sligo who made a pair of 78s in 1927. The first tune is set in the key of G in Ryan's Mammoth Collection under the strange title "The Ladus." Coleman and Gannon play these reels in A, however. The second tune is known as the Contradiction, its title in O'Neill's. Older books have it as Miss Gunning's Delight, and a history of the tune and the Gunning sisters has been written by Andrew Kuntz for Fiddl... Keywords: Irish; Celtic; Folk; Oldtime; 78rpm; Fiddle Downloads: 957 Average rating: (1 review)
	Wandering Minstrel, Fasten the Leg on Her, Coleman's Cross - Michael Coleman Fiddle solo, Micheal (Whitey) Andrews - guitar, Decca 12015. This is the flipside of Coleman's well-know medley of reels, Bonnie Kate/Jenny's Chickens. The Wandering Minstrel has become popular with pipers, through the playing of Seamus Ennis, who wrote that his earliest memory of hearing it was on this record. Fasten the Leg (in) Her was recorded by Patsy Touhey on cylinder. Earlier printed versions of the tune were titled "Fasten the Leggin," suggesting that it was corrupted over time... Keywords: Irish; Celtic; Folk; Oldtime; 78rpm; Fiddle Downloads: 621 Average rating: (1 review)
	Old Man Dillon, Kerrigan's Fancy - Michael Coleman and Paddy Finlay Fiddle and piccolo, Ed Geoghean - piano, Brunswick 68002. Old Man Dillon was better known from James Morrison and PJ Conlon's recording. Tom Kerrigan was a Leitrim piper who emigrated to New York City, where he ran a public house featuring his piping backed up by a piano player, and waiters who could dance a step or sing if called upon. Kerrigan gave lodgings to the Taylor Brothers, pipemakers from Drogheda, who developed the high volume pipes in concert pitch, as distinct from the older, quiete... Keywords: Irish; Celtic; Folk; Oldtime; 78rpm; Fiddle; Flute Downloads: 1,373 Average rating: (2 reviews)