Makem was a prolific composer/songwriter. His performances were always full of his compositions, many of which became standards in the repertoire. Some, notably "Four Green Fields", became so well known that they were sometimes described as anonymous folk songs. During the fall of the Iron Curtain, Makem often proudly told the story that his song "The Winds Are Singing Freedom" had become a sort of folk anthem among Eastern Europeans seeing a new future opening before them. Makem's best-known songs include "Four Green Fields", "Gentle Annie", "The Rambles of Spring", "The Winds Are Singing Freedom", "The Town of Ballybay", "Winds of the Morning", "Mary Mack", and "Farewell to Carlingford".
Compositions
Tommy Makem
Tommy Makem | Compositions
Makem's best-known songs include "Four Green Fields", "Gentle Annie". Songs include "Four Green Fields", "Gentle Annie", "The Rambles of Spring", "The Winds Are Singing Freedom", etc. "Four Green Fields" "Four Green Fields".
who is the original singer of you're gonna miss me when i'm gone
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Over the years, the original has been recorded by many artists, most notably by Charlie Monroe. Lulu and the Lampshades were the first to use the cup game for percussion when performing the song
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who is this mentioned person?
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He  was an American country and bluegrass music guitarist.
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does he have siblings?
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Yes, Bill Monroe, Bertha, Birch
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what are his single works?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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among the above three brothers; was the first one part of any band?
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Yes,  Blue Grass Boys
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was he also a guitarist?
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No, he was a mandolinist.
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was he into folk music?
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Yes, Monroe's fortunes began to improve during the American folk music revival, associating his style more with traditional folk music than with the country-and-western genre with which it had previously been identified.
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when did this revival touch its highest peak?
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1959
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did any other music genre absorb this genre?
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Yes, Ethnic folk music
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can you name any person or band or anything like that which belonged to this revival period?
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The most successful ethnic performers of the revival were the Greenwich Village folksingers, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
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which song or music did this last person compose?
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Makem had a forceful and charismatic stage presence – the result of years of public performance, a strong personality and a bard's voice. Performances frequently included the following elements:
Tommy Makem | Performance notes
Even though many people mistakenly believe that Makem wrote "Red is the Rose", it is a traditional Irish folk song.
Tommy Makem | Compositions
All songs are traditional and were adapted and arranged by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, except "A Jug of Punch" and The Whistling Gypsy, written by Leo Maguire
A Spontaneous Performance Recording | Track listing
Ethnic folk music from other countries also had a boom during the American folk revival. The most successful ethnic performers of the revival were the Greenwich Village folksingers, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, whom "Billboard Magazine" listed as the eleventh best-selling folk musicians in the United States. The group, which consisted of Paddy Clancy, Tom Clancy, Liam Clancy, and Tommy Makem, predominantly sang English-language, Irish folk songs, as well as an occasional song in Irish Gaelic. Paddy Clancy also started and ran the folk-music label Tradition Records, which produced Odetta's first solo LP and initially brought Carolyn Hester to national prominence.
American folk music revival | Ethnic folk music
Makem was a prolific composer/songwriter. His performances were always full of his compositions, many of which became standards in the repertoire. Some, notably "Four Green Fields", became so well known that they were sometimes described as anonymous folk songs. During the fall of the Iron Curtain, Makem often proudly told the story that his song "The Winds Are Singing Freedom" had become a sort of folk anthem among Eastern Europeans seeing a new future opening before them. Makem's best-known songs include "Four Green Fields", "Gentle Annie", "The Rambles of Spring", "The Winds Are Singing Freedom", "The Town of Ballybay", "Winds of the Morning", "Mary Mack", and "Farewell to Carlingford".
Tommy Makem | Compositions
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were significant figures in the American folk revival of the early 1960s and played important roles in promoting and influencing the early development of the folk boom. In December 1964, "Billboard Magazine" listed the group as the eleventh best-selling folk musicians in the United States based on sales figures for that year. The Clancys' friends, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, and Pete Seeger, also appeared on the list in first, seventh, and ninth positions, respectively. The small folk record company, Tradition Records, that Paddy Clancy ran with the help of his brothers, recorded several significant figures of the folk revival and gave some important musical figures their first start in the recording industry.
The Clancy Brothers | American folk revival
Thomas "Tommy" Makem (4 November 1932 – 1 August 2007) was an internationally celebrated Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He played the long-necked 5-string banjo, tin whistle, low whistle, guitar, bodhrán and bagpipes, and sang in a distinctive baritone. He was sometimes known as "The Bard of Armagh" (taken from a traditional song of the same name) and "The Godfather of Irish Music".
Tommy Makem | Introduction
Makem died in Dover, New Hampshire on 1 August 2007, following a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He continued to record and perform until close to the end. Paying tribute to him after his death, Liam Clancy said, "He was my brother in every way." He is buried next to his wife at New Saint Mary Cemetery in Dover.
Tommy Makem | Death
The trio play compositions by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
The Tommy Flanagan Tokyo Recital | Music
The 3,000 seat Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center had sold out for the show within a week. The rowdy audience provided enthusiastic participation on the album, released as "Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Reunion". A reunion tour of Ireland, England, and the United States followed in late 1984 and the fall of 1985. After the tour, Makem and Clancy and the Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell respectively regrouped.
The Clancy Brothers | Reunion
Among the best remembered songs are the up-tempo duet, "Thou Swell", the ballad "My Heart Stood Still", "On a Desert Island with Thee", and "I Feel at Home with You". For the 1943 revival, Rodgers and Hart added several additional songs, including "Can't You Do a Friend a Favor?" and "To Keep My Love Alive", Hart's last song and a hit for star Vivienne Segal.
A Connecticut Yankee (musical) | Songs
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem is a collection of traditional Irish songs performed by The Clancy Brothers with frequent collaborator Tommy Makem. It was their third album and their final one for Tradition Records, the small label that the eldest Clancy brother Paddy Clancy ran. After this, the group recorded exclusively for Columbia Records until 1970. This was the first album for which they used the group name, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Their prior recordings had simply listed their individual names on the cover.
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (album) | Introduction
If their singing was successful, they would continue with it; if not, then they would return to acting. The Clancy brothers and Tommy Makem proved successful as a singing group and in early 1961, they attracted the attention of scouts from "The Ed Sullivan Show".
The Clancy Brothers | Group's formation and Tradition Records
A Spontaneous Performance Recording!: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, sometimes simply called A Spontaneous Performance, is a 1961 collection of traditional Irish folk songs performed by The Clancy Brothers with frequent collaborator Tommy Makem. It was their first album for Columbia Records. The group would continue to record for Columbia for the remainder of the 1960s. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1962 for Best Folk Recording. The LP had originally been considered a self-titled album with "A Spontaneous Performance Recording!" merely a description of the record for the cover. It is referred to as "The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem" in the original reviews of the album and for its Grammy Nomination.
A Spontaneous Performance Recording | Introduction
The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording in 1962." It lost to the Belafonte Folk Singers Around the same time that they recorded "A Spontaneous Performance", the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem cut their final, eponymous album with Tradition Records. By the end of 1962, they released a second album with Columbia, "Hearty and Hellish! A Live Nightclub Performance", and they played an acclaimed concert at Carnegie Hall. Additionally, they were making appearances on major radio and television talk-shows in America.
The Clancy Brothers | Famous sweaters and initial success
This compilation also includes the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem's second Columbia record, "The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone", as well as the group's earlier Tradition Records albums. Several songs from this album have appeared on various Clancy Brothers compilation recordings.
A Spontaneous Performance Recording | Other releases and reissues
Makem made dozens of recordings. Specific examples follow (solo recordings only).
Tommy Makem | Discography
The 1943 revival was revised by Rodgers and Hart. The setting was changed to a more topical war-time setting, and the show art showed a knight and his damsel in a jeep. "Morgan Le Fay" was turned into a "singing sorceress" anti-heroine, and the song "To Keep My Love Alive" was written especially for this revival, for Vivienne Segal to perform.
A Connecticut Yankee (musical) | Plot
Patrick's church choir for 15 years where he sang Gregorian chant and motets. He did not learn to read music but he made it in his "own way". Makem started to work at 14 as a clerk in a garage and later he worked for a while as a barman at Mone's Bar, a local pub, and as a local correspondent for "The Armagh Observer". He emigrated to the United States in 1955, carrying his few possessions and a set of bagpipes (from his time in a pipe band). Arriving in Dover, New Hampshire, Makem worked at Kidder Press, where in 1956 his hand was accidentally crushed by a press.
Tommy Makem | Biography
His last contributions to Broadway were additional songs for "Take a Chance" (1932).
Vincent Youmans | Biography
Townshend said "This is the very last time we'll play "Tommy" on stage", to which Keith Moon promptly cried, "Thank Christ for that!"
Tommy (The Who album) | Live performances
In 1984, Makem and Clancy's manager Maurice Cassidy brought the original foursome together again for a documentary to be followed by a concert at Lincoln Center in New York City. Paddy and Tom Clancy took some time out from the Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell and joined forces with Makem and Clancy. Paddy, Tom, Liam, and Tommy Makem were reunited, and production on the documentary commenced after a 90-minute debut on Ireland's "Late Late Show" on 28 April. The documentary crew followed the group around, travelling to Carrick-on-Suir, Keady, Greenwich Village, a dress rehearsal concert at Tommy Makem's Irish Pavilion on East 57th Street, and finally Lincoln Center for the recorded concert on 20 May 1984.
The Clancy Brothers | Reunion
The work is in six continuous parts: Some recordings and some editions divide the last movement into two parts, between the end of the quotation from Jeremiah and the baritone's entrance with the words "O man, greatly beloved, fear not!"
Dona nobis pacem (Vaughan Williams) | Sections
Tradition Records Columbia Records "*the last two albums were issued on now out of print Shanachie CDs" Audio Fidelity Records
Liam Clancy | Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Makem and Clancy was an Irish folk duo popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The group consisted of Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, who had originally achieved fame as a part of the trailblazing folk group The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in the 1960s. Makem and Clancy sang a combination of traditional Irish music, folks songs from a variety of countries, and newly written pieces, including compositions that Tommy Makem himself wrote. One reporter described their music as "more polished and varied than that used by the Clancy Brothers." Although best known for their albums, concerts, and television programs, Makem and Clancy had three top ten singles in Ireland, including the number one hit, "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda." Upon Liam Clancy's death in 2009, Irish broadcaster and writer Shay Healy noted about the group: "America had Elvis, Britain had The Beatles—Ireland had Makem and Clancy."
Makem and Clancy | Introduction
Pullman Gerald "Tommy" Pederson (August 15, 1920, Minnesota – January 16, 1998) was an American trombonist and composer – prolific in jazz, big band, and classical genres. He had performed and recorded with big bands and artists that included Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Nelson Riddle, Doc Severinsen (late 1960s), and Frank Sinatra. He was also a prolific studio musician for movie soundtracks, television and radio shows, and other recordings – sometimes playing as many as six studio sessions a day.
Tommy Pederson | Introduction
The musical had a mixed response from critics, while Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle thought the show was too passive. Anthony DeCurtis, writing in "Rolling Stone", said the orchestra drummer had "the thankless task of having to reproduce Keith Moon's parts". Townshend and Des McAnuff rewrote parts of the musical when it moved from La Jolla to Broadway, to show a darker side for the title character. McAnuff won a Tony Award in 1993 for Best Director, while Wayne Cilento won the award for Best Choreographer. The Broadway run lasted from 1993 to 1995. McAnuff revisited Tommy during the 2013 season of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Tommy (The Who album) | Broadway musical
In Person at Carnegie Hall was the seminal Irish folk group The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem's most successful album. It was recorded in Carnegie Hall on March 17, 1963 at their annual St. Patrick's Day concert. In the documentary, "The Story of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem", Paddy Clancy said that this was the best album the group recorded. The album spent months on the American Top LPs chart and broke the top fifty albums in December 1963, an unprecedented occurrence for an Irish folk music recording at that time. It has never been out of print since its initial release.
In Person at Carnegie Hall | Introduction
Makem was married to Mary Shanahan, a native of Chicago, for 37 years, and had four children – daughter Katie Makem-Boucher, and sons Shane, Conor and Rory. They also had two grandchildren, Molly Dewar née Makem and Robert Boucher. Mary died in 2001. Makem's three sons (who perform as "The Makem Brothers") and nephews Tom and Jimmy Sweeney continue the family folk music tradition.
Tommy Makem | Family
His last recordings were made in 1966, but not released for 11 years. Hope's final concert was at Judson Hall in New York City in 1966. Fellow pianist Horace Tapscott reported that, later, Hope's "hands were all shot up and he couldn't play".
Elmo Hope | Back in New York – 1961–67
After Liam Clancy died in 2009, "The Times of London" noted that this album showed the Clancys and Makem "as assured and consummate performers, with Liam's dramatic style making his the strongest voice of all."
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (album) | Reception
In 1984, after living in Dover, New Hampshire for a number of years, Liam moved to Ireland with his family, purchasing several acres of land and building a maintenance-free solar powered, slate, stone and oak mansion in Helvic, County Waterford, using royalties from his hit song, And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda. After a partial hiatus when they rejoined The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem for several reunion tours in 1984 and 1985, Makem and Clancy resumed their full-time touring schedule and returned to the recording studio in 1986 to produce their final album together, "We've Come a Long Way".
Makem and Clancy | Break-up
In 1956 their younger brother Liam Clancy immigrated to New York, where he teamed up with Tommy Makem, whom he had met while collecting folk songs in Ireland. The two began singing together at Gerde's Folk City, a club in Greenwich Village. Paddy and Tom Clancy sang with them on occasion, usually in informal folk 'sing-songs' in the Village. Around the same time, Paddy founded Tradition Records with folk-song collector and heiress Diane Hamilton, and in 1956 the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem released their first album, "The Rising of the Moon", with only Paddy's harmonica as musical accompaniment.
Paddy Clancy | Greenwich Village and Tradition Records
The conductors were Michel Tabachnik and John Burdekin.
Robinson Crusoé | Revivals
All songs are traditional and were adapted and arranged by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, except where noted.
Isn't It Grand Boys | Track listing
He was a central figure during the 1960s folk revival on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1976, as part of the duo Makem and Clancy, he had a number one hit in Ireland with the anti-war song "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" (written by Scots-Australian Eric Bogle). Upon his death "The Irish Times" said his legacy was secured.
Liam Clancy | Introduction
He wrote that the play's "wayward" characters were "not without parallels among the lotus-eating youth of the post-Woodstock years – a comparison that Messrs. Shapiro, Guare and MacDermot made canny use of. They also scaled down Shakespeare's passages of poetic pain for an approach that emphasized an easygoing, multicultural exuberance over wistful poetry and nonsense over sensibility... [But] MacDermot's songs... lack the variety of his score for "Hair"... And the lyricism Mr. Guare is known for as a playwright is rarely in evidence in his clunky work here as a lyricist".
Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical) | Revivals
Reconstructions of historical dances and new compositions continue. Interpreters and composers of the 20th century include Douglas and Helen Kennedy, Pat Shaw, Tom Cook, Ken Sheffield, Charles Bolton, Michael Barraclough, Colin Hume, Gary Roodman, and Andrew Shaw.
Country dance | Revival
After moving to Greenwich Village in 1951, both Paddy and Tom Clancy devoted themselves primarily to careers in the theater. In addition to appearing in various Off-Broadway productions and television shows, they produced and starred in plays at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village and at a playhouse in Martha's Vineyard. Their productions included an 18-week run of Seán O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars". After losing money on some unsuccessful plays, the brothers began singing concerts of folk songs after their evening acting jobs were over. They soon dubbed these concerts "Midnight Specials" and the "Swapping Song Fair." Paddy and Tom were often joined by other prominent folk singers of the day, including Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Jean Ritchie.
Paddy Clancy | Greenwich Village and Tradition Records
The works of the early New England composers were rediscovered in the 1950s, with compositions such as William Schuman's use of Bill's tune "Chester" in his "New England Triptych" (1956), which he later expanded into the "Chester Overture".
Yankee tunesmiths | Rediscovery
The album was recorded on September 30 and October 2, 1978, at SNS Productions, New York City. It was produced by Helen Merrill, who also sang on "Last Night When We Were Young". The compositions are by Harold Arlen and co-writers.
Tommy Flanagan Plays the Music of Harold Arlen | Recording and music
Makem left in 1969, the first of many changes in the group's membership. The most notable subsequent member to join was the fourth Clancy brother, Bobby. The group continued in various formations until Paddy Clancy's death in 1998. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem significantly influenced the young Bob Dylan and other emerging artists, including Christy Moore and Paul Brady. The group was famous for its often lively arrangements of old Irish ballads, rebel and drinking songs, sea shanties, and other traditional music.
The Clancy Brothers | Introduction
According to Ben Brantley, "By the time it hit Broadway it was a desperately stitched patchwork that ran for 33 performances before exiting into oblivion. It was, Ira Gershwin later wrote, 'a headache from start to finish'." The critics unanimously condemned it. In 1982, a producer discovered a number of the musical's manuscripts in the Warner Brothers warehouse in Secaucus, New Jersey. The score was pieced together and performed at the Library of Congress in concert in 1987. Elektra Records released a studio cast album featuring John Cullum and William Katt in 1993.
Pardon My English | Production history
Note: The footnotes will take you to lyrics but not necessarily to The Makem Brothers' recordings of these songs, many of which are traditional.
The Makem Brothers | Discography
Cabaret singer and Gershwin historian Michael Feinstein served as the musical consultant for the project. An extensive review of the show's creation can be found in his book "Nice Work If You Can Get It" in a chapter entitled "My One and Only Tommy Tune Fling." He noted in "The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs" "I kept trying to steer them away from what I perceived to be a mauling of George and Ira's work... Finally the show's orchestrator told me ...to get out of town. Eventually Ira threw up his hands and said 'Let them do their worst'.
My One and Only (musical) | Productions
He received many awards and honours, including three honorary doctorates: one from the University of New Hampshire in 1998, one from the University of Limerick in 2001, and one from the University of Ulster in 2007; as well as the World Folk Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. With the Clancy Brothers he was listed among the top 100 Irish-Americans of the 20th century in 1999. A bridge over the Cocheco River on Washington Street in Makem's long-time home of Dover, New Hampshire, was named the Tommy and Mary Makem Memorial Bridge in 2010. In 2015 a new Tommy Makem Arts Centre was opened in his home town of Keady.
Tommy Makem | Awards and honours
1s) in the 1980s: Joan Jett with "Crimson and Clover", Tiffany with "I Think We're Alone Now", and Billy Idol with "Mony Mony". In October 2008 James and the three surviving members of the original Shondells (Pete Lucia died in 1987) reunited in a New Jersey studio to record again, after 37 years. The group recorded an album, "I Love Christmas".
Tommy James | Solo
He also composed the original music for the recording.
Yale Strom | Plays
Until then, "My One and Only" is a smart and happy, if less than electrifying, spin down memory lane. Yet even at its most innocuous, this show receives a considerable boost from its Gershwin songs: the entire score, stitched together by a pastiche period book, derives from the Broadway trove created by the composer and his brother, Ira, a half-century ago." Broadway wags dubbed the show "My Nine and Only," partly because of Tommy Tune's association with both this musical and "Nine," and partly because of the number of people who contributed to the writing, choreography and direction.
My One and Only (musical) | Critical response
In 1964, almost one third of all the albums sold in Ireland were Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem records. The 1960s continued to be a successful decade with the release of approximately two albums per year, all of which sold millions of copies. In 1963 they made a prestigious televised appearance in front of President John F. Kennedy. Makem rewrote an old song, "We Want No Irish Here", expressly for the occasion.
The Clancy Brothers | International stardom
A two-week revival at New York City Center ran in June 1965, directed by Gus Schirmer, Jr. and starring Bert Parks as Harold Hill. Doro Merande and Sandy Duncan played, respectively, Eulalie and Zaneeta Shinn. A three-week revival, directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd, ran in June 1980, also at the New York City Center. The cast included Dick Van Dyke as Hill, Meg Bussert as Marian, Christian Slater as Winthrop, Carol Arthur as Mrs. Paroo, and Iggie Wolfington (who played Marcellus in the 1957 production) as Mayor Shinn. In 1987, a Chinese translation of the musical was staged at Beijing's Central Opera Theater.
The Music Man | Subsequent productions
The website "Tommy Dorsey A Songwriter's Friend" says, "the orchestra had over 200 top twenty recordings including the No. 1 hits 'The Music Goes Round and Round' (1935), 'Alone' (1936) 'You' (1936), 'Marie' (1937), 'Satan Takes a Holiday' (1937), 'The Big Apple' (1937), 'Once in a While' (1937), 'The Dipsy Doodle' (1937), 'Music, Maestro, Please' (1938), 'Our Love' (1939), 'Indian Summer' (1939), 'All the Things You Are' (1939), 'I'll Never Smile Again' (1940), 'Dolores' (1941), 'There are Such Things' (1942), 'In the Blue of the Evening' (1943)."
Tommy Dorsey | Number-one hits
"In the Blue of Evening" was added as a bonus track to the 1993 reissue, and is not available on the 1998 Entertainer of the Century remastered reissue.
I Remember Tommy | Track listing
In March 1956, Tommy Makem was unemployed. He had recently moved to Dover, New Hampshire, where many of his family members had emigrated to work in the local cotton mills. He had found a job there making printing presses but had an accident when a two-ton steel press that he was guiding with his hand broke from its chain. The falling press tore the tendons from the bone in three of the fingers of his left hand. His hand in a sling, and knowing the Clancy brothers in New York, he decided that he would like to make a record with them.
The Clancy Brothers | Group's formation and Tradition Records
Drummer Henri Harrison (who had played on the initial studio session for "Winchester Cathedral", and was a fixture of the band thereafter) led a revived version of the New Vaudeville Band in the 1970s and 80s. Ian Carfrae acted as arranger and de facto musical director; Geoff Stephens had no involvement with this iteration of the band, and no other previous members were involved. Many of the band's recordings now consisted of re-arranging then-contemporary hits (e.g. ABBA's "Thank You For The Music", Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road") into a distinctively 1920s style. This revived version of the group recorded four albums and several singles, though none of them charted.
The New Vaudeville Band | Revival (1970s/80s)
typical of TV shows of that era. The group disbanded in 1953. Three recordings they made on October 27, 1949 with Buddy Greco and the Benny Goodman orchestra are available on a cd recording "Benny Goodman: 1949-1951". The songs are "Brother Bill", "Spin a Record" and "You're Always There".
The Heathertones | Introduction
Ravel completed three songs for baritone and orchestra intended for the film; they were published as "Don Quichotte à Dulcinée". The manuscript orchestral score is in Ravel's hand, but Lucien Garban and Manuel Rosenthal helped in transcription. Ravel composed no more after this. The exact nature of his illness is unknown. Experts have ruled out the possibility of a tumour, and have variously suggested frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Though no longer able to write music or perform, Ravel remained physically and socially active until his last months. Henson notes that Ravel preserved most or all his auditory imagery and could still hear music in his head.
Maurice Ravel | Last years
The arrangement was by Jerry Gray and Bill Finegan.
At Last | Glenn Miller renditions
Pete Seeger played the banjo on their Grammy-nominated 1961 album, "A Spontaneous Performance Recording", and Bob Dylan later cited the group as a major influence on him. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem also sparked a folk-music boom in Ireland in the mid-1960s, illustrating the world-wide effects of the American folk-music revival. Books such as the popular best seller, the "Fireside Book of Folk Songs" (1947), which contributed to the folk song revival, featured some material in languages other than English, including German, Spanish, Italian, French, Yiddish, and Russian. The repertoires of Theodore Bikel, Marais and Miranda, and Martha Schlamme also included Hebrew and Jewish material, as well as Afrikaans.
American folk music revival | Ethnic folk music
Important revivalists include Mike Seeger and Pete Seeger, who brought the music to New York City as early as the 1940s. The New Lost City Ramblers in particular took the revival across the country and often featured older musicians in their show. The band was originally Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley. When Tom left the band, he was replaced by Tracy Schwarz. New Lost City Ramblers sparked new interest in old-timey music.
Old-time music | Revival
Its only Broadway revival after that was from March 14 to April 13, 1912 at the George M. Cohan Theatre, where it ran for 36 performances with a different cast. The piece is remembered for several songs, such as its title song, "Forty-five Minutes from Broadway", originally sung by Moore, and for tunes about its leading lady character, "Mary Is a Grand Old Name" and "So Long Mary", both sung in the original production by Templeton, which were performed in recreations of the original stage play within the 1942 film "Yankee Doodle Dandy".
Forty-five Minutes from Broadway | Introduction
Four Green Fields is a 1967 folk song by Irish musician Tommy Makem, described in "The New York Times" as a "hallowed Irish leave-us-alone-with-our-beauty ballad." Of Makem's many compositions, it has become the most familiar, and is part of the common repertoire of Irish folk musicians.
Four Green Fields | Introduction
Also in 2009 he was asked to revive three of his works from the 1980s: "What We’re Made Of" (1980), "DEAD" (1981), and "THEM" (1986). All three revivals were completed and performed in 2010. The re-imagined THEM has since toured to four cities in Europe and to Los Angeles. His most recent piece, "13 Love Songs: dot dot dot", a collaboration with Emily Wexler premiered in January 2014 at the American Realness Festival in New York and toured to the American Dance Festival in North Carolina.
Ishmael Houston-Jones | Recent
A recording of the 1943 revival was released on June 29, 1944, by Decca.
A Connecticut Yankee (musical) | Recordings
No more than a month after closing at the WorkShop Theater, the production was revived in New Jersey for one weekend only featuring some members of the original cast, replications of most set pieces, costumes, and lighting, and new musical direction / arrangements by Joseph Baker.
Rumpelstiltskin (musical) | New Jersey
In 1919, a critic for "The New York Times" commended the collective singing talent of the cast: not only did a male quartet provide harmony, the beautiful girls who had no other obligation than to be beautiful proved to have beautiful voices as well. The following season, another newspaper critic extended high praise to the show’s choreography. A year after that, however, a critic decried the show’s over-reliance on dance. For nearly a decade, popular composers of the day, including Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers, contributed tunes; but to the perpetual disappointment of the backers, the revue never seemed to produce any notable hits.
Greenwich Village Follies | Music and dance
Attendance began to decline in December 1959, though it continued to draw at above the 70% of capacity level which a Broadway play then needed to meet expenses. With the summer approaching, generally a bad time for attendance, it was decided to close the show, and the last Broadway performance was given on May 7, 1960.
Flower Drum Song | Original Broadway production
By the 1920s, Botsford had largely stopped composing, and mostly made his living through organizing vaudeville performances. He produced a handful of musical shows for stage and radio. His last known public performance was at the Algonquin Hotel in 1934. After a long career involving many kinds of music, Botsford died in New York on February 1, 1949.
George Botsford | Later life and death
(The future name of the group, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, was added to later re-issues of the album.) Professor of Folklore Kenneth Goldstein, who periodically worked for Tradition Records, called the album "sparkling." Stressing that the singers were real Irishmen, he asserted that "a finer bunch of voices never raised a glass and a song together."
Come Fill Your Glass with Us | Reception
The music and lyrics for the 1930 version were written by many, including Marc Blitzstein, Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin, and Johnny Mercer.
The Garrick Gaieties | Subsequent productions
During its original 1927 pre-Broadway tryouts, the political satire closed in Philadelphia, fulfilling original librettist's George S. Kaufman's definition of satire as "what closes on Saturday night." The original is heavily influenced by Gilbert and Sullivan. The Gershwins revised the story with Ryskind for the 1930 Broadway run; they also removed the song "The Man I Love", now a Gershwin standard, from the show. They added a dozen new songs and rewrote the lyrics or even changed the melodies of many of the 1927 songs. The new score is less Gilbert-and-Sullivan and more swing-influenced. Directed by Alexander Leftwich and choreographed by George Hale, the revised production opened on Broadway at the Times Square Theatre on January 14, 1930 and closed on June 28, 1930 after a moderately successful run of 191 performances.
Strike Up the Band (musical) | Production
John Entwistle – brass overdubs Pete Townshend – all other instruments
Tommy (soundtrack) | "Prologue - 1945"
Original cast member Barry Leef recorded "Last Song" and "Three-Minute Hero" from the musical for Festival Records in 1976, released as a single. Demo recordings of two songs were included in the compilation "The Songs of Don Henderson", released posthumously in 2009.
Hero (musical) | Recordings
With his arm in a sling, he left Dover for New York to pursue an acting career.
Tommy Makem | Biography
The songs were adapted and arranged by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
Ain't It Grand Boys | Track listing
Stephen Oremus, musical director for the tribute concerts, faced the task of resurrecting Mort Lindsey's original arrangements written for a 36-piece orchestra. Although it is no longer common to have orchestras so large (Oremus acknowledged that even "Wicked" on Broadway only had 22 pieces), Wainwright and Oremus insisted the full 36-piece ensemble should be utilized to create "as exact a replica as [they could] muster". Some of the arrangements had to be reconstructed, since the music was not available, and most of the songs had to be transposed, since Wainwright was performing them in a different key.
Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall | Orchestrations
Vincent Millie Youmans (September 27, 1898 – April 5, 1946) was an American Broadway composer and producer. A leading Broadway composer of his day, Youmans collaborated with virtually all the greatest lyricists on Broadway: Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Howard Dietz, Clifford Grey, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Edward Heyman, Harold Adamson, Buddy DeSylva and Gus Kahn. Youmans' early songs are remarkable for their economy of melodic material: two-, three- or four-note phrases are constantly repeated and varied by subtle harmonic or rhythmic changes. In later years, however, apparently influenced by Jerome Kern, he turned to longer musical sentences and more free-flowing melodic lines.
Vincent Youmans | Introduction
Kern's "Three Sisters" (1934), was his last West End show, with a libretto by Hammerstein. The musical, depicting horse-racing, the circus, and class distinctions, was a failure, running for only two months. Its song "I Won't Dance" was used in the film "Roberta". Some British critics objected to American writers essaying a British story; James Agate, doyen of London theatre critics of the day, dismissed it as "American inanity," though both Kern and Hammerstein were strong and knowledgeable Anglophiles. Kern's last Broadway show (other than revivals) was "Very Warm for May" (1939), another show-biz story and another disappointment, although the score included the Kern and Hammerstein classic "All The Things You Are".
Jerome Kern | First films and later shows
The 1961 and later reissues of the album include the group name, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, on the front cover. The original 1956 and 1959 versions of the album had simply listed their individual names.
The Rising of the Moon (album) | Personnel (1959 edition)
All songs are written and composed by Pete Townshend, except where noted. (For narrative, see "Tommy" (1975 film).)
Tommy (soundtrack) | Track listing
A musical with the same name played in New York at the Winter Garden Theatre running for 254 performances from February to October 1919 and was suspended for a month during the Actor's Equity strike. This show had songs with music by Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz, and a book and lyrics by Harold R. Atteridge. Additional music was by Maurice Abrahams, Fred E. Alhert and Earl Carroll, with lyrics by Earl Carroll, Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young. The cast for this version included Sam Ash, Gordon Dooley, Flore Revalles, Charles "Chic" Sale and Esther Walker.
Monte Cristo Jr. | 1919 Broadway musical
Isn't It Grand Boys is a 1966 studio album by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. It was the Irish folk group's seventh album for Columbia Records and their tenth album over all. Tommy Makem wrote the liner notes. The album reached #22 on the UK Albums Chart on 16 April 1966. It remained on the chart for five weeks.
Isn't It Grand Boys | Introduction
"Merrily We Roll Along", "Peg", "Goblin Market", "A Stephen Sondheim Collection", "Songs Of New York", Richard Rodgers' last musical "I Remember Mama", "Good News!", "Lady Be Good", "The Busby Berkeley Album". "You Can't Put Ketchup On The Moon", "Sing Before Breakfast", "The Road To Ruin", "Lovemusik".
Ann Morrison | Recordings
This song appears to be the last one Thomas Thompson wrote, and the earliest record of its publication is 1823, seven years after his death.
Jemmy Joneson's Whurry | Introduction
In 2010, The 77's participated in the tribute album "Mister Bolin's Late Night Revival", a compilation of 17 unreleased tracks written by Tommy Bolin.
The 77s | History
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. His theme song was "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You". His technical skill on the trombone gave him renown among other musicians. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely popular and highly successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s. He is best remembered for standards such as "Opus One", "Song of India", "Marie", "On Treasure Island", and his biggest hit single, "I'll Never Smile Again".
Tommy Dorsey | Introduction
Consensus among the "Midnight Voices" was that the shows should be an annual event. Later versions of the show used small theatre or school hall venues, with other professional artists invited to perform as well.
Pete Atkin | Revival
S. Gilbert, William Brough and Gilbert à Beckett. His composers included Frederic Clay, Arthur Sullivan, George Macfarren and Alfred Cellier, as well as himself. Reed retired in 1871 after an injury, and his son Alfred took over the entertainments with his mother.
Thomas German Reed | Introduction
His compositions include compositions for choir and organ.
Thomas Christy | Compositions
All three were now in their mid-30s, with jobs outside the music industry: O'Leary was a schoolteacher, Licari a cashier at a Brooklyn department store, and Sirico a secretary at a brokerage stock cage. The group became a part-time project for the trio, and they performed approximately once a month on the oldies circuit, and at club gigs and private functions in the New York City and New England areas for over twenty years.
Reparata and the Delrons | Reformed, re-releases (1976–1990)
His most famous production there was "Bandstand USA".
Tommy Reynolds (musician) | Introduction
The musical was advertised as featuring the hits of Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman and included many of their songs, although some songs were included that the duo did not write together and some songs, like Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, that were not written by either of them. A double CD compilation album was released in May 2012.
Save The Last Dance For Me (musical) | Music
Those speculating managers included Mr Robertson, Mr H C Sidney, Mrs W Lovegrove & Mr George Villiers, and Mr D M'Intosh. In the autumn of 1879 J Aubrey, then Sole Lessee and Manager, soon after presenting his Christmas pantomime was made bankrupt.
Greenwich Theatre | Continuity and decline
Bobby also sang numbers new to the group, including "Love of the North", "Song for Ireland", and "Anne Boleyn". In America, the Clancy Brothers continued where they had left off the previous year, still packing Carnegie Hall. Reviews cited Robbie as a fresh addition to the group with his original compositions. Over the next several years, Paddy and Tom brought in some new material too. "The Green Fields of France", also known as "Willie McBride", by Eric Bogle had become a hit with a recording by the Clancys' old back-up musicians, the Furey Brothers, in the early 1980s. Soon numerous Irish groups were singing it, including the Clancy Brothers and Makem and Clancy.
The Clancy Brothers | Robbie O'Connell joins
"Moderato con grazia" is the last A section that returns to the themes set in A. After recapitulating the "walking" themes, Gershwin overlays the slow blues theme from section B in the final "Grandioso".
An American in Paris | Composition
The four that remain are:
Joseph Ryelandt | Religious vocal music
After a brief spell working in London for a music publisher, he returned to the United States in 1916. Over the next couple of decades many of his songs were used in the famous Ziegfeld Follies, and were performed by the premier singers of the day, such as Eddie Cantor, Anna Held and Edith Day. The year 1919 saw his greatest Broadway hit, the show "Irene", which contained perhaps his most well-known song, "Alice Blue Gown", as well as "Castle of Dreams," an adaptation of Chopin's Minute Waltz. This same show was made into a film in 1926, then remade in 1940 with Anna Neagle and Ray Milland, and again for the stage in 1973 with Debbie Reynolds.
Harry Tierney | Introduction
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Tommy Rall | Filmography
There is also music by Ed Reavy, Liz Carroll. Charlie Lennon, Larry Redican and Tommy Peoples. One of Flynn's own compositions, "The Mahatma of the Glen", a tribute to the late fiddle player James Byrne, also features. This is a reworking of three of the sections of his earlier piece "Music for the Departed". The album has received considerable critical acclaim.
David Flynn (composer) | Traditional music career
(Stookey allegedly saw the Folksmen and muttered, "Too close, too close.") Eight years later, they returned to UCLA to make a guest appearance at a tribute concert, "The Harry Smith Project", dedicated to the late folk music anthologist Harry Everett Smith.
The Folksmen | Reunions