There is a single reel called Tommy People’s. Whenever I hear it, people are playing it differently. Does anyone know of an available recording where Tommy himself plays this? I’m curious to know what the original version was like. Does it go by other names (to help my search)?
Thx,
djm
Hi djm:
Tommy People’s reel is also known as Jenny Nettle’s Fancy, Jenny’s Fancy & Paul Montague’s.
Tommy Peoples play this tune on his 1998 “The Quiet Glen / An Gleann Ciúin” and 2002 “Waiting for a Call” record (both set #3).
cheers
Liam O’Flynn plays a tune called Tommy Peoples’ on "The Piper’s Call cd. I learned all 4 tunes on that particular track and had forgotten about them until now. Seems like a great time to resurrect them. Thanks!
G-man, thanks, I’ll hunt those down.
BillR, O’Flynn’s Piper’s Call album is a good example. No-one else plays the tune this way, thus my curiousity about the original version.
Thx,
djm
If this is the tune I think you are talking about, Tommy dosn’t even know it. I was doing a gig with him a few months back and asked about it, and he said he knew nothing about a tune with his name. I played it, and he said he had never heard it before. Tommy tends to find more creative names for his tunes!!
Here’s one of the tunes under discussion:
X:1
T:Tommy Peoples’ Reel
R:reel
D:Liam O’Flynn - The Piper’s Call
M:C|
L:1/8
K:G
G2BG cGBG|AD~D2 FGAF|G2BG cGBG|Addc BGGD|!
G2BG cGBG|AD~D2 FGAF|G2BG cGBG|A2dc BGG2||!
g2dg Bgdg|g2dg eaaf|g2dg BgdB|cAdc BGG2:||!
And this may be the other one:
X:2
T:Tommy Peoples’
T:Jenny Nettle’s Fancy
R:reel
Z:id:hn-reel-281
M:C|
L:1/8
K:Bm
~B3c dBAF|~B3c dfec|~B3c dcdB|ABde fdec:||!
dfaf bfaf|dfaf g2fg|afge dcdB|ABde fdec:||
edited to add index and title fields.
As GalegoMan noted, Tommy plays the tune on his CD “Waiting for a Call”. He is accompanied by Sean Og Potts on UPS. Perhaps that is how it got into the piping repertoire. The tune is named “Tommy People’s” on the CD. It is quite possible that Tommy is sick to death of the tune and was just leading you on.
Okay, just so I’m clear on this - Tommy Peoples’/Jenny Nettles is part of the piping repetoire? I’ve got to get out more …
The Tommy Peoples name goes back to the first pre Altan lp. A lot of people learned it off that. I certainly did during the 80s, Sean Og Potts played it at the time as well. It’s also number 166 in Ceol Rinnce na hEirreann vol 2, writte nby Breandan Breathnach from the playing of Tommy Peoples in 1968.
A few years ago at a concert in Doolin Liam Flynn gave it the name Bobby Casey had for it : The Farting Badger.
Could someone pm me “The Piping Repertoire”.
Thanks
David
I like this name best. 
Hi Bill,
I received the following message from “Tune-A-Tron” when trying to convert the tunes you listed:
No image available – there’s probably a error in the ABC source causing the conversion to fail.
WallyS
Wally, have you tried searching for them on this site yet?
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html
So far, I like this site the best. If you are looking for the notation, select a tune you want to find, click find, and when it comes up, select the gif format and it will display the notation.
Tommy Peoples’ Rell and Jenny Nettle’s Fancy added to Concertinanet Tune-o-tron
Chuck
Well, I’ve never used “Tune-a-Tron”, but I suspect that it may not have liked the fact that I pasted the tunes onto the message without an index number (X:1). I see I also omitted the title label (T:) as well. I wasn’t thinking, sorry!
The tunes are here, in ABC, notation, what have you. Give it a go.
Point taken, David