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The Piping Of Patsy Touhey

By Patsy Touhey

  1. Drowsy Maggie
    Scotch Mary
    The Flogging
  2. The Sword In Hand
  3. The Kildare Fancy
  4. The Humours Of Glin
    The Maid Behind The Bar
  5. Brian The Brave
  6. Fasten The Leg In Her
  7. The Morning Star
  8. The Irish Washerwoman
  9. The Shaskeen
  10. Garryowen
  11. Poll Ha’penny
    The Swallow’s Tail
  12. The Maid On The Green
    Jackson’s
    A Drink Of Water
  13. Halligan’s Fancy
  14. Killarney (Balfe)
  15. Jackson’s Morning Brush
  16. Gusty’s Frolics
  17. Colonel Fraser
  18. The Rakes Of Clonmel
    Toss The Feathers
  19. The Munster Gimlet
  20. The Humours Of Ennistymon
  21. The Harvest Home
  22. The Steampacket
    The Morning Star
    Miss McLeod
  23. The Three Little Drummers
    The Ivy Leaf
  24. Tell Her I Am
  25. The Fermoy Lasses
  26. Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
  27. The Maiden That Dare Not Tell
  28. The Humours of Whiskey
  29. The Boyne Hunt
  30. The Geese in the Bog
  31. The Honeymoon
  32. The Beauty Spot
  33. The Boys of the Lough
  34. My Former Wife
  35. The Miners of Wicklow
  36. Bonny Kate

Six comments

This album accompanies a book by the same name written by Pat Mitchell and Jackie Small detailing the life and music of Patsy Touhey.

"A Drink Of Water" is usually called Give Us A Drink of Water. Halligan’s Fancy is Touhey’s title for the Fisherman’s Lilt. Munster Gimlet is Will You Come Down to Limerick.
The greatest piper of his day, Touhey died in 1923.

A handful of tunes on this compilation (and the extended 36 track version available through NPU) are very good with some mighty fine piping, but the tracks that are remastered from his old home recorded wax cylinders are all but inaudiable. And I’m not one to be picky about such things, but some of them are really terrible.

The piping is as good as ever, but the quality of the recordings really aren’t worth the money, even keeping in mind that they are pieces of piping history.

can someone tell me or give me a link to where i can find this recording please!!!!!!!!!

"The Piping of Patsy Touhey" - Na Píobairí Uilleann, 1986 - Cassette 001

"The historic recordings of the legendary Irish-American piper Patsy Touhey comprise one of the greatest riches of Irish traditional music. This cassette presents a new remastering of a selection of the best of these recordings and accompanies "The Piping of Patsy Touhey", a full account of his life and music, by Pat Mitchell and Jackie Small."

SIDE 1

_1. ) Reels: Drowsy Maggie / Scotch Mary / The Flogging

_2. ) Reel: The Sword In Hand

_3. ) Hornpipe: The Kildare Fancy

_4. ) Jig/Reel: The Humours Of Glin / The Maid Behind The Bar

_5. ) Air: Brian The Brave

_6. ) Jig: Fasten The Leg In Her

_7. ) Reel: The Morning Star (1)

_8. ) Jig: The Irish Washerwoman (1)

_9. ) Reel: The Shaskeen

10. ) March: Garryowen

11. ) Set Dance/Reel: Poll Ha’penny / The Swallow’s Tail

SIDE 2

_1. ) Jigs: The Maid On The Green / Jackson’s / A Drink Of Water

_2. ) Reel: Halligan’s Fancy

_3. ) Air: Killarney (Balfe)

_4. ) Jig: Jackson’s Morning Brush

_5. ) Slip Jig: Gusty’s Frolics

_6. ) Reel: Colonel Fraser

_7. ) Jig/Reel: The Rakes Of Clonmel / Toss The Feathers

_8. ) Slip Jig: The Munster Gimlet (2)

_9. ) Jig: The Humours Of Ennistymon

10. ) Hornpipe: Harvest Home

11. ) Reels: The Steampacket / The Morning Star (2) / Miss McLeod