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Molly Rankin’s reel
There are 18 recordings of this tune.
This tune has been recorded together with
- An Drochaid Chliùiteach (a few times),
- Dinkey’s (a few times),
- In And Out The Harbour (a few times),
- Saint Anne’s (a few times) and
- Sleepy Maggie (a few times).
Molly Rankin’s has been added to 16 tune sets.
Molly Rankin’s has been added to 112 tunebooks.
Four comments
Molly Rankin’s
I really like this one and I love the style in which John Morris played it.
Played by the composer John Morris in the Limehill set on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znqZhiTqt-8
The tune is the fourth in the set and appears at 2:51
John Morris Rankin made and named this tune to honour his daughter Molly Rankin.
She was only 12 when John (40) tragically died in a car accident. This tune was played in his funeral:
http://www.therankinfamily.com/newsstories.php?RFCMSID=6
Molly Rankin’s
Brilliant tune by a brilliant fiddler. Thanks for the clip.
Re: Molly Rankin’s
shanachie informs me he has spotted a similarity between this tune and The red-haired lass (aka ‘Dipping the sheep’)
Indeed both tunes have part 1 in common, albeit Molly Rankin is in D whereas The red-haired lass/Dipping the sheep (https://thesession.org/tunes/1716) is in G or A.