This wonderful collection contains some of their best performances – The Clancys were at their best in concert and you can enjoy their witty introductions as well as their songs. No doubt about it – The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem wanted audiences to have a good time.
Their big break came on Sunday, 12th March 1961 when they were booked to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show that had over 50 million viewers. Liam Clancy said, “It not only changed our lives but it changed the lives of the people who made sweaters, as the sale of Arran sweaters jumped by 700% in a month”.
The Carnegie Hall concert included Dominic Behan’s comments on the troubles ‘The Patriot Game’, which inspired Bob Dylan to write ‘With God On Our Side’.
The Live Concert in Ireland includes a tribute to Dominic’s brother Brendan Behan. “I knew him sober and I knew him drunk” said Liam Clancy and his wife said “Oh, you know both of them”.
In this collection there are many rebel songs, sometimes light-hearted, as they joke about the statue of Lord Nelson being blown up in Dublin in 1966. You will also hear The Clancys remembering the uprising of 1916 with words from Irish writers W.B. Yeats and Sean O’Casey.
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were a major concert attraction and their success encouraged other bands, notably The Dubliners.
Paddy Clancy (1922-1998)
Tom Clancy (1924-1990)
Liam Clancy (1935-2009)
Tommy Makem (1932-2007)
These four albums come together for the first time in one collection.
Disk 1
1: Johnson's motor car
2: The juice of the barley
3: O'Driscoll
4: Reilly's daughter
5: The patriot game
6: Legion of the rearguard
7: Oro se do bheatha bhaile
8: A jug of punch
9: Galway bay
10: Children's Medley
11: The parting glass
12: Wild rover
13: Maid of fife
14: Butcher boy
15: Wella wallia
16: Lament for Brendan Behan
17: New finnegan's wake
18: Beggar man
19: Ar fol lol la lo
20: Rocks of bawn
21: Nightingale
22: The curlew's song
23: They're moving father's grave to build a sewer
Disk 2
1: Blackwater's side
2: MacAlpine's fuziliers
3: Winds of morning
4: Cockies of bungaree
5: William bloat
6: Red-haired mary
7: Master mcgrath
8: Mick McgGire
9: Peggy Gordon
10: In this windy old weather
11: March Medley
12: Outlawed raparee
13: Port lairge
14: I'm a free-born man
15: Hi for the beggar man
16: When we were under the king
17: Freedom's sons
18: Green in the green
19: A medley commemorating the 50th anniversary
20: Lord Nelson
Lord Nelson |
