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A Pair of Brown Eyes. " A Pair of Brown Eyes " is a single by The Pogues, released on 18 March 1985. [1] The single was their first to make the UK Top 100, peaking at Number 72. [2] It featured on the band's second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, and was composed by Pogues front man Shane MacGowan. Its melody is loosely based on that of “ Wild ...
Rum Sodomy & the Lash is the second studio album by the London-based, Irish folk punk band the Pogues, released on 5 August 1985. [ 2] The album reached number 13 on the UK charts. The track "A Pair of Brown Eyes", based on an older Irish tune, reached number 72 on the UK singles chart. "The Old Main Drag" later appeared on the soundtrack to ...
Brown Eyes (song) " Brown Eyes " is a song by Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 double LP Tusk. It was one of six songs from the album composed and sung by Christine McVie. The song includes uncredited playing from founding member Peter Green . "Brown Eyes" was performed on the Mirage Tour and the Shake the Cage Tour. [ 2][ 3]
I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day. " I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day " ( Roud 975) is a traditional Scottish or Irish music hall song [ 1] written from the point of view of a rich landowner telling the story of his day while buying drinks at a public house. According to Archie Fisher, the song is "an Irish narrative ballad that has been ...
Fairytale of New York. " Fairytale of New York " is a song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and recorded by their London-based band the Pogues, featuring English singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals. The song is an Irish folk -style ballad and was written as a duet, with the Pogues' singer MacGowan taking the role of the male ...
The album closes with a cover of Shane Macgowan's "Pair of Brown Eyes", originally performed by MacGowan's band The Pogues. The song "I Shook His Hand" was originally performed live in a harder-rocking version with the Plimsouls. A promo-only release from the album included a fully acoustic version of "I Shook His Hand."
Alton Delmore. " Beautiful Brown Eyes " is a country song written by Alton Delmore, originally inspired by his oldest daughter. One of the best known versions of the song was originally arranged by Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & Alton Delmore of The Delmore Brothers in 1951. An award was presented to Alton Delmore for "Beautiful Brown Eyes" in 1951.
Various. The Pogues chronology. Pogue Mahone. (1996) The Very Best of the Pogues. (2001) Streams of Whiskey: Live in Leysin, Switzerland 1991. (2002) The Very Best of the Pogues is a greatest hits album by The Pogues, released in April 2001.