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Genre. Folk. Songwriter (s) Frederic Weatherly (lyrics) in 1910. Recording. Performed by Celtic Aire of the United States Air Force Band. file. help. " Danny Boy " is a song with lyrics written by English lawyer Frederic Weatherly in 1910, and set to the traditional Irish melody of "Londonderry Air" in 1913.
The Irish Rovers. The Irish Rovers is a group of Irish musicians that formed in Toronto, Canada in 1963 [1] and named after the traditional song "The Irish Rover". They are best known for their international television series, contributing to the popularization of Irish Music in North America, and for the songs "The Unicorn", "Drunken Sailor ...
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 ...
Roger Ratajczak, Phillip Rodell, Neil Watts, and Lee Missen, formed themselves as the lineup for the vocal harmony group in 1994. The band were discovered by British producer and songwriter Nicky Graham and later signed by Polydor Records. They performed in the 1996 Great British Song Contest, at the time the UK's precursor to the Eurovision ...
The air is "The Girl I Left Behind". Translated by George Sigerson as "The Roving Worker" [18] "A Nation Once Again" – 19th-century Irish nationalist anthem by Thomas Davis. "Avenging and Bright" – patriotic song by Thomas Moore [19] "Down by the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men)" – song by Peadar Kearney about the 19th-century Fenians.
Spotlight Pick [4] Danny Boy and Other Songs I Love to Sing is the eighth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams. It was released in early 1962 by Columbia Records. This was his first project after leaving Cadence Records, where his albums each had a specific theme. Additionally, it was his first in a series of LPs that covered songs ...
Code Red is the fifth and final studio album by the American hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, released on October 12, 1993, on Jive Records. The album peaked at number sixty-four on the Billboard 200 and number thirty-nine on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [8] On January 14, 1994, the Recording Industry Association of America ...
The " Londonderry Air " is an Irish air (folk tune) that originated in County Londonderry, first recorded in the nineteenth century. The tune is played as the victory sporting anthem of Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games. The song " Danny Boy " written by English lawyer Fred Weatherly uses the tune, with a set of lyrics written in the ...