Annotation:Destruction of Rockaway (The)

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 DESTRUCTION OF ROCKAWAY, THE. Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed (as a reel) by New Jersey accordion player Luke O'Malley, "for all the good times I had in Rockaway Beach playing music with Joe Flynn and Vince O'Connor, and at a later date accompanying Ruth Morrissey and the late Peter McNulty."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Black (Music's the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 291, p. 156. O'Malley (Luke O'Malley's Collection of Irish Music, vol. 1), 1976; No. 29, p. 15.  Recorded sources:

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