The Clancy Brothers, more than any other artists, brought traditional Irish folk music to a wide popular audience

The Clancy Brothers, more than any other artists, brought traditional Irish folk music to a wide popular audience during the late '50s and early '60s, and re-established as a proud cultural movement in their native country as well as becoming major stars in the USA, where the huge community of Irish emigres and their descendants latched on to the music of their roots. Turning to music from acting after emigrating to the USA after WWII, they brought a boldness, panache and professionalism to a style of music which had largely hidden its light for a long time, turning it into an entertainment phenomenon that transcended the folk genre, as they found fame on the Ed Sullivan Show, and became one of the focuses for the massive folk revival of that time. This great value 62-track 2-CD set includes all the tracks from their three LPs for their Tradition label which established their reputation, the songs from their first 'live' album on Columbia which were unique to that release, and the entirety of their lesser known 1962 Columbia album 'The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone'.

Track Listing

• O'Donnell Aboo
• The Croppy Boy
• The Rising of the Moon
• The Foggy Dew
• The Minstrel Boy
• The Wind that Shakes the Barley
• Tipperary Far Away
• Kelly the Boy from Killanne
• Kevin Barry
• Whack Fol the Diddle
• The Men of the West
• Eamonn An Chnuic
• Nell Flaherty's Drake
• Boulavogue
• Whisky You're the Devil
• The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
• The Moonshiner
• Bold Thady Quill
• Rosin the Bow
• Finnigan's Wake
• The Real Old Mountain Dew
• Courting in the Kitchen
• Mick McGuire
• A Jug of Punch
• Johnny McEldoo
• Cruiscin Lan
• Portlairge
• The Parting Glass
• Brennan on the Moor
• The Work of the Weavers
• The Stuttering Lovers

• Paddy Doyle's Boots
• The Maid of Fife-E-O
• The Bard of Armagh
• The Jug of Punch
• Roddy McCorley
• The Barnyards of Delgaty
• The Castle Of Dromore
• The Bold Tenant Farmer
• Ballinderry
• Bungle Rye
• Eileen Aroon
• Johnny I Hardly Knew You
• The Whistling Gypsy
• My Johnny Lad
• The Old Orange Flute
• Haul Away Joe
• Reilly's Daughter
• Bold O'Donahue - Tommy Makem
• I'll Tell My Ma - Tommy Makem
• Wild Mountain Thyme (Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go')
• Rothsea-o
• Marie's Wedding
• Singin' Bird
• Holy Ground
• South Australia
• As I Roved Out
• McPherson's Lament
• The Wild Colonial Boy
• Shoals of Herring - Ewan McColl
• I Know Who Is Sick
• Old Woman From Wexford

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Folk

Language: English

Run Time: 140 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 11/05/13

UPC: 824046309923