Anyone into folk during the 70s? It was a thing back then.
Stuff like:
Two Magicians Steeleye Span
About this time I was listening to Fairport Convention. Dad walked in the room and asked 'who's that?', I told him, and he told me the track I'd been listening to was a medley, and the bit playing now was O'Carolan's Concerto.
From then on, O'Carolan's became my dad's signature piece when I went to watch him play in pubs. On a good day, he'd blow the roof off, and I'm not bragging, well actually I bloody am bragging, there was one occasion on an open mike folk nite where dad played and five other fiddlers scrubbed their names off the board.
I never got a recording of it (mum binned his reel-to-reel tapes when he died). This is someone else:
Taking girlfriends to see dad play was a determining factor to see if there was any future in our relationship. One girl, when asked what she thought of the night, said 'not much' ...
When I later took my beloved, dad played the roof off as per, making 'Irish eyes' at her all night, and she smiled all night at my dad. I bought the drinks. She, the family agreed, was a keeper.
Curiously, Fairport Convention is named after a house (Fairport) where Ashley Hutchens, one of the band's founders, lived. His mum was a doctor, and she was my beloved's family GP. There's a track on another album (What We Did On Our Holidays) dedicated to her dad.
Small world