Spinne
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Posted: July 14 2006, 17:29 |
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No, the song is called Planxty Fanny Power (Poer) and wrote by irish harper Turlough O'Carolan. If you google a bit you will find that the chain Fanny Planxty Power is basically found in Mike pages. But searching the chain Planxty Fanny Power, you will have a lot of pages about O'Carolan and irish music.
Probably, the first time the song was mentioned in any bootleg it was miswritten and have been repeating this mistake all the time, so in all the Mike Oldfield pages, bootlegs... it's named in the wrong way.
Here are some links:
http://www.contemplator.com/carolan/caroltun.html (includes a midi version)
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/957
Planxty, is a word that O'Carolan used to use in those songs which name was somebody's name (in our song is that Fanny Power). An irish band used this word, planxty, as their name. This band recorded a mix of 2 traditional polkas, Dennis Murphy's Polka and John Ryans' Polka (http://www.slowplayers.org/SCTLS/playlist.html for a midi of both). In the Dublin show in 1980, Mike said that the song that we know as Polka is based on that track of the group Planxty. What a small world, don't you think? 
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