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The band started out playing traditional Irish folk music, but quickly changed their sound, leaving the folk music behind, and turned to mainstream easy-listening songs and ballads. In 1981, The Fureys released their most successful single "When You Were Sweet Sixteen", which became a worldwide hit, reaching No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart, [4 ...
The Fureys is an Irish male folk band from Ireland. [ 1 ] The Fureys has the albums When You Were Sweet Sixteen (1982) AUS #18, Steal Away (1983) AUS #45 and The First Leaves of Autumn (1986) AUS #85 all chart in Australia.
Finbar and Eddie Furey is the 1968 debut album of the Irish folk music duo the Fureys. It includes such classics as "Curragh of Kildare", "Come by the Hills", ...
Known for playing the banjo, mandolin and guitar, [2] he was originally a solo artist before joining with the Furey Brothers in 1978. [3] Touring and performing as The Fureys and Davey Arthur, the group had several number one singles in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s, [4] and a top 20 hit in the UK singles chart in 1981.
"From Clare to Here" is a ballad about Irish emigration written by Ralph McTell. It has also been recorded by The Furey Brothers & Davey Arthur on the 1977 album Emigrant; by Nanci Griffith and Pete Cummins on the 1993 album Other Voices, Other Rooms; as a b-side by Duke Special on the 2006 single Last Night I Nearly Died; and by Ben Glover on his 2016 album The Emigrant.
A Russian version of the song was recorded in 1998 by Oleg Nesterov, a lead singer of Megapolis, and later performed in duet with Masha Makarova (of the rock band Masha i Medvedi) in a music video. Irish folk band The Fureys recorded it for their albums Twenty One Years On (1999) and The Times They Are a Changing (2014)
Brendan Phelan (born 1946) is an Irish songwriter from Dublin.His best-known song is probably "Dublin in My Tears", recorded by the Barleycorn, The Fureys, Patsy Watchorn, the Dublin City Ramblers, Mick Galvin, the Jolly Beggarmen and others.
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