The Longford Collector
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Longford Collector", in Gaelic "Bailitheoir Longphoirt", also known as "The Bonny<br> Boy", "Lady Clare Quick Step", "The Longford Beggarwoman" or "The Longford Maid" is an<br> Irish reel in G Major. The parts are played AB (Breathnach, Mulvihill), AAB (Sullivan) or<br> AA'BB' (Harker/Rafferty, Mallinson, Moylan, Tubridy).<br> "The Longford Collector" is the second tune of a famous and much imitated Michael Coleman<br> medley that includes "Tarbolton Reel" and "The Sailor's Bonnet". Barry O'Neill, in his<br> notes for the LP Wheels of the World, states that the title was known to County<br> Sligo/New York City fiddler Michael Coleman as "The Longford Beggarwoman".<br> The story goes that Coleman was playing the tune in a taproom and after he finished<br> someone asked him the name, which he gave as "Longford Beggarwoman". Immediately, a<br> plate sailed across the room and crashed on the wall near his head, followed by an<br> irate woman shouting something to the effect that she was from Longford and they<br> weren't beggars there. Another version has her saying 'there were more beggarwomen in<br> Sligo than ever was in Longford'. Very soon afterward Coleman entered the studio to<br> record his famous Tarboton Set ("Tarbolton Reel", "The Longford Collector" and "The<br> Sailor's Bonnet") at which time he made the name change.<br> It was printed in<br> Breathnach's CRÉ I (1963),<br> Cotter's Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor (1989),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> Lyth's Bowing Styles in Irish Fiddle Playing, vol. 1 (1981),<br> Mallinson's 100 Essential (1995),<br> Moylan's Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra (1994),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986),<br> Sullivan's Session Tunes, vol. 2,<br> Taylor's Through the Half-door (1992) and<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1 (1999).<br> It was recorded by Paddy Keenan on Paddy Keenan (1975),<br> Frank Ferrel & Joe Derrane on Fiddledance (2004),<br> Martin Byrnes,<br> Jean Carignan,<br> Shaskeen on Shaskeen Live,<br> Paddy Cronin on The House in the Glen.<br>
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