Clancy Brothers Collection 1956-62 CD

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 it's 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".

1. O'Donnell Aboo 2. The Croppy Boy 3. The Rising of the Moon 4. The Foggy Dew 5. The Minstrel Boy 6. The Wind That Shakes the Barley 7. Tipperary Far Away 8. Kelly the Boy from Killanne 9. Kevin Barry 10. Whack Fol the Diddle 11. The Men of the West 12. Eamonn An Chnuic 13. Nell Flaherty's Drake 14. Boulavogue 15. Whisky You're the Devil 16. The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe 17. The Moonshiner 18. Bold Thady Quill 19. Rosin the Bow 20. Finnigan's Wake 21. The Real Old Mountain Dew 22. Courting in the Kitchen 23. Mick McGuire 24. A Jug of Punch 25. Johnny McEldoo 26. Cruiscin Lan 27. Portlairge 28. The Parting Glass 29. Brennan on the Moor 30. The Work of the Weavers 31. The Stuttering Lovers 32. Paddy Doyle's Boots 33. The Maid of Fife-E-O 34. The Bard of Armagh 35. The Jug of Punch 36. Roddy McCorley 37. The Barnyards of Delgaty 38. The Castle of Dromore 39. The Bold Tenant Farmer 40. Ballinderry 41. Bungle Rye 42. Eileen Aroon 43. Johnny I Hardly Knew You 44. The Whistling Gypsy 45. My Johnny Lad 46. The Old Orange Flute 47. Haul Away Joe 48. Reilly's Daughter 49. Bold O'Donahue - Tommy Makem 50. I'll Tell My Ma - Tommy Makem 51. Wild Mountain Thyme (Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?) 52. Rothsea-O 53. Marie's Wedding 54. Singin' Bird 55. Holy Ground 56. South Australia 57. As I Roved Out 58. McPherson's Lament 59. The Wild Colonial Boy 60. Shoals of Herring - Ewan McColl 61. I Know Who Is Sick 62. Old Woman from Wexford