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Love Is Pleasing – The Dubliners, Luke Kelly; The Mason's Apron; The Holy Ground; The Nightingale – The Dubliners, Luke Kelly; Medley: The Donegal Reel/The Longford Collector; Finnegans Wake; Disc: 2. Within A Mile Of Dublin; Peggy Lettermore; My Love Is In America; I'll Tell My Ma; The High Reel; Medley: Sunshine Hornpipe/Mountain Road ...
The Dubliners, initially known as "The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group", formed in 1962 and made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin. The change of name came about because of Ronnie Drew 's unhappiness with it, together with the fact that Luke Kelly was reading Dubliners by James Joyce at the time. [ 8 ]
The song concerns an incident during the Border Campaign launched by the Irish Republican Army during the 1950s. It was written by Dominic Behan, younger brother of playwright Brendan Behan, to the tune of an earlier folksong, "One Morning in May" (recorded by Jo Stafford and Burl Ives as "The Nightingale"). [3]
The narrator sees a beautiful young woman walking with a soldier, often a grenadier. They walk on together to the side of a stream, and sit down to hear the nightingale sing. The grenadier puts his arm around the young woman's waist and takes a fiddle out of his knapsack. He plays the young woman a tune, and she remarks on the nightingale's song:
The show features the group playing live to video and audio performances featuring former members Ciarán Bourke, Luke Kelly, and Ronnie Drew, as well as performances from The Dubliners' then current lineup. This is the last Dubliners' release featuring Barney McKenna, as he died in 2012. This also means that it is the last album to feature a ...
Maxine Nightingale (born 2 November 1952) [1] is a British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for singing hits in the 1970s, with the million seller " Right Back Where We Started From " (1975, UK #8 & 1976, U.S. #2), "Love Hit Me" (1977), and " Lead Me On " (1979).
Recorded by The Dubliners and Frank Harte. "McAlpine's Fusiliers" – song of the gangs of London navvies, written by Dominic Behan, made famous by The Dubliners. [1] "Molly Malone" – anthem of Dublin (dates from the 19th century). [54] "Paddy on the Railway" – a compilation of verses of Irish work songs sung in England and the USA. [1]
The discography of The Dubliners, an Irish folk band with record sales in excess of 30 million. Their discography consists of nineteen studio albums , twenty-four compilation albums , twenty-three singles and a number of other appearances.