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It was their second album and was released in 1959 by Tradition Records, a small music label run by one of the Clancy Brothers, Paddy Clancy. A reviewer for the folk and world music magazine, Dirty Linen , later called this the album that "launched the Clancy Brothers to fame in the Americas and helped launch a revival of interest in ...
Thady Quill" (or "Bold Thady Quill") is a popular traditional Irish song. The song was written about a man living in County Cork, depicting him "as a beer-swilling, lady-loving sportsman" when he was actually none of those things. [1] Recordings include The Clancy Brothers on their album Come Fill Your Glass with Us.
The Travelin' McCourys is a bluegrass band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed in 2009.The band is composed of brothers Ronnie McCoury, Rob McCoury, Alan Bartram, Jason Carter, and Cody Kilby, and was formed out of the Del McCoury Band, in which the McCourys, Bartram, and Carter still play.
The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone is a collection of mostly traditional Irish folk songs performed by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. It also includes several songs from other countries, such as the Scottish folk song, "Marie's Wedding". It was their third album for Columbia Records and was released in 1962. It was also their first ...
In Ireland, songs like "Roddy McCorley", "Kevin Barry" and "Brennan on the Moor" were slow, moving songs, but the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem had transformed those songs (some purists in Ireland argued, "commercialized") and made them lively. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were brought over for a sold-out tour of Ireland in late 1963.
"The Holy Ground" is a traditional Irish folk song, performed by The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, The Jolly Rogers, the Poxy Boggards, the Brobdingnagian Bards, Mary Black, Pete Seeger, The Tossers, The Mary Wallopers and Beatnik Turtle, among others.
A backing musician on a few of the tracks is Don McLean, best known for his song "American Pie". In 2000, Vanguard re-released the album on a CD entitled The Best of the Vanguard Years. In addition to including the entirety of the Greatest Hits album, the CD included four previously unreleased tracks from the Clancy Brothers' follow-up album Live!
The 1956 track and rest of the 1959 record also appears on the 2012 double CD, Raise a Glass to the Sounds of...The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem. [2] These albums are also available for digital download. In late 2013 the album was released on CD with the original "O Donnell Aboo" as part of The Clancy Brothers Collection 1956-1962.