Galloping Hogan jig

B: “Walton’s Irish Dance Music: Including Original Tunes by J.M. Crofts A.D.C.M., Part Three”
Dublin, date? - no dates given but the paper has aged to a dark tan… 😉

Page 4: “Galloping Hogan” / “Dancing Tailor” / “O’Carolan’s Fancy”
All three listed as compositions by Joseph M. Crofts

Joseph Crofts tunes on site:

“Dancing Tailor”
# Added by Jerry O’Donnell - November 30th, 2011
https://thesession.org/tunes/11611

“O’Carolan’s Fancy”
# Added by ceolachan - March 3rd, 2010
https://thesession.org/tunes/10316

“Rosemary Lane”
# Added by cos - March 13th 2004
https://thesession.org/tunes/2651

Thanks for adding this - I’ve been wondering how it went, ever since you posted that Crofts put it at the start of a set of his own tunes. Not, perhaps, as distinctive as the other three compositions you’ve listed.

Apologies for the neglect. I had intended on posting it and then got distracted, including by trying to find out more about Crofts and hoping to find a date for these very oversized collections of his.

Now, if only someone would eloquently tell the story of ‘Galloping Hogan’, or O’Hogan. 😀

Wikipedia to the rescue:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloping_Hogan

See also the story at the Ancient Order of Hibernians: http://www.aoh.com/2015/08/02/the-galloping-hogan/ .

One of the things I enjoy here is the chance to learn about Irish history, traditions, and legends through the music.

I downloaded the ABC and played the midi and decided I would work with it. So I searched for any recordings of the tune that I could play in order to get a better feel for the tune. There are a few recordings of a tune called “Galloping O’Hogan” but only snippets are available to listen to and they don’t sound like this one. I found a few ABC files (for example here at http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=tunearch.org/wiki/Galloping_O%27Hogan.no-ext/0001 ), but they look more like the snippets and not like this tune.

Does anyone have a link to a recording of this tune?

Thanks,

I found the following regarding the Joseph M. Crofts, referred to above as composer of this tune. The site is here: ttp://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=104741. The page is a thread about songs by Cecil Sheridan. Search for ‘Crofts’ on the page and you’ll find a discussion that includes the following:
quote
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs by Cecil Sheridan
From: GUEST,
Date: 19 Sep 13 - 11:56 AM

Walton’s publications are unreliable as regards song authorship, and include many songs that should be listed as “Trad. Arrangement”. The name under many songs in there songbooks refers to the singer, Delia Murphy being a typical example. Joseph Crofts had a music shop in North Frederick Street when Walton’s set up business there. He was a singer and composer and had some work published,and Walton’s continued to publish his collection, but again, many of the songs should have been listed as Trad. Arr. J. Crofts. Many of the songs listed above were definitely not written by Crofts. The problem is trying to establish which he did write, if any.
end quote

I also found references to indicate that Crofts was born in 1886 and that his Walton’s publications were from the late 1940’s to the early 1950’s.

Maybe I’ll find more on Galloping Hogan tomorrow. But I’m quitting for the day. Good night all nearby and good morning to all in Ireland.

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=104741

https://thesession.org/tunes/15728
# Added by ceolachan - December 25th, 2016