IRISH DRINKING SONGS 25 Great Irish Party Songs

• Irish Ballads, Irish Party , Irish Sing a long , Irish Folk

Product Description A collection of 25 great Irish songs to have a few drinks to. All Songs performed by the Legendary Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. About the Artist They fought, made up, sang, acted, broke up and formed again. These guys never set out to be singers at all they wanted to be actors. Paddy, Tom, Bobby, Liam and Tommy. And to add to the irony, although they came to characterise Irish music for many people throughout the world, they first found success in the United States and only became well known in Ireland once they had made it on American television. They are The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. They appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show four times between 1961 and 1966 and before their first appearance their mother sent new sweaters that she bought from Babinton s in Carrick. The first performance was for 16 minutes to an audience of over 80 million. This got them a five year contract with Columbia records, who gave them an advance of 100k, which was huge money back then. Compare that to the $100 million advance that Whitney Houston got in 2001. During this time they recorded two albums a year. In 1963, they performed for President John J Kennedy which catapulted their career on again. As Liam said it was like suddenly finding myself in the middle of a really great party, that just went on and on and on . Their music began to extend to Ireland after the Ed Sullivan shows and in 1964 one third of all the albums sold in Ireland are by Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.