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Amended songs

Drumsnot, Brian O’Rourke’s satire on the tourist industry: original verses can be heard on his album When I Grow Up

Con Ó Drisceoil's the Miltown Cockroach, original verses are in his book and CD THE SPOONS MURDER AND OTHER MYSTERIES (http://celticgrooves.homestead.com/CG_Book_ODrisceoil_Spoons.html)

Ó Drisceoil, Con
The Spoons Murder CD and book information
http://www.cic.ie/product.asp?idproduct=1065&variables=

http://celticgrooves.homestead.com/CG_Book_ODrisceoil_Spoons.html
Contents of the CD:
1. Bob's Song
2. The Milltown Cockroach
3. The Spoons Murder
4. Ben Hur
5. The Irish Piper
6. King Lear
7. Sink or Swim
8. The Two-Row Cake
9. The Pool Song
10. The Miltown Fourteen
11. The Kerry of Animals
12. A Hymn to St. Finbarr

CON O'DRISCEOIL: THE SPOONS MURDER AND OTHER MYSTERIES

Corkman Con O'Drisceoil is a skilled accordion player and singer, as well as a great songwriter who has penned hilarious songs written in the style of traditional ones. Several years ago, O'Drisceoil recorded some of them on a CD made with Hammy Hamilton and Seamus Creagh, called "It's No Secret." For those of us who then heard songs like "The Spoons Murder" and "King Lear," life has not been the same since. The latter starts:

You scholars of English, one question I'll ask;
To answer you won't find a difficult task;
Of Shakespeare's great heroes, which one would you pick
To award him first prize for being totally thick?
Othello you know was a gullible dupe,
And Hamlet's delaying landed him in the soup;
But the stupidest asshole in all of Shakespeare
Is that old king of England, the man they call Lear.

This book-and-CD combination provides the background information and complete side-splitting lyrics for these and 10 other songs which O'Drisceoil recorded on the included CD, singing mostly unaccompanied. With approapriately zany illustrations. There's even CD inserts than can be cut out of the last few pages. What a great idea!

Hardback, 82pp., disc.

Rating: ****

Price: $34.99

Contents:
1. Hornpipes: Mick Doyle's Favourite / Dinny O'Brien's
2. Song: The Sea Apprentice
3. Polkas: Din Tarrant's / West Kerry
4. Air: Lament for Oliver Goldsmith
5. Song: The Spoons Murder
6. Jigs: An Cliabh Mona / Jimmy Doyle's Favourite
7. Song: In Praise of the City of Mullingar
8. Reels: The Cocktail / Mary McMahon's
9. Song: King Lear
10. Barndances: The Dances at Kinvara / The Hills of Tara
11. Song: Erin's Green Shore
12. Slides: Nicholas McAuliffe's / Barrack Hill
13. Song: The Plains of Drishane
14. Jigs: A Night at the Fair / The Haunted House
15. Reels: Paddy Taylor's / The Earl's Chair

HMMY HAMILTON, SEAMUS CREAGH, CON O'DRISCEOIL: IT'S NO SECRET
Hammy Hamilton: flute, vocals
Seamus Creagh: fiddle, vocals
Con O'Drisceoil: accordion, vocals, piano
Pat Ahern: guitar

Straightforward traditional music performed on flute, fiddle, accordion by these well-known players in various combinations, with occasional guitar or piano accompaniment, and of songs old and new sung
unaccompanied--Hamilton, known mostly as a flute player and maker, is a terrific singer. There are some lovely tunes here, played at a generally moderate pace, but O'Drisceoil's songs, particularly his "King Lear," may well steal the show.

Rating: *** 1/2

Price: $26.99
Contents:
1. Hornpipes: Mick Doyle's Favourite / Dinny O'Brien's
2. Song: The Sea Apprentice
3. Polkas: Din Tarrant's / West Kerry
4. Air: Lament for Oliver Goldsmith
5. Song: The Spoons Murder
6. Jigs: An Cliabh Mona / Jimmy Doyle's Favourite
7. Song: In Praise of the City of Mullingar
8. Reels: The Cocktail / Mary McMahon's
9. Song: King Lear
10. Barndances: The Dances at Kinvara / The Hills of Tara
11. Song: Erin's Green Shore
12. Slides: Nicholas McAuliffe's / Barrack Hill
13. Song: The Plains of Drishane
14. Jigs: A Night at the Fair / The Haunted House
15. Reels: Paddy Taylor's / The Earl's Chair

 

Song Airs

Adam Mcnaughtan - Oor Hamlet, The Glasgow Courtship
(April 2000) 33 tracks: The Jeely Piece Song * School Songs * Dance Noo Laddie * They're Pullin' Doon the Building Next Tae * Mammie Songs * Old Annie Brown * Jail Songs * Ludgin' Wi' Big Aggie * A Wee Drappie O't * The Glasgow That I Used To Know * Music Hall Fragments * The Transportation Ballad * Football Songs * The Derry and Cumberland Boys * Bonny Wee Country Lass * Street Songs * Haddie in the Pan * Now That You're Gone * The Glasgow That I Used To Know * Rap Tap Tap (The Coming of the Wee Malkies/Chinese Songs/Lament For A Lost Dinner Ticket/The Teacher's Rant) * Airn John * The West End Perk Serenade * Nursing Fathers * The Haill Week O' the Fair * The Glasgow Sunday School * The Yellow On the Broom * The Glasgow Courtship * Robin Tamson's Smiddy * Fitba' Crazy * Blood Upon the Grass * The Lion and The Glove * We Will Not Have A Motorway * Oor Hamlet

This is a double CD re-release of the earlier cassette recordings The Glasgow That I Used to Know and Words, Words, Words.
Singer/songwriter Adam McNaughtan, a product of the Scottish Folk Revival of the '60's, has been writing, collecting and singing songs for three decades and has become one of Glasgow's best-loved characters.

Many of his own songs have stood the test of time and entered the repertoire of singers from Scotland and beyond, including such classics as Where is The Glasgow That I Used To Know, The Jeely Piece Song, They're Pullin' Doon The Buildin' Next Tae Oors and The Transportation Ballad, which date back to the '60s.

Adam's more recent compositions include The Yellow on The Broom, Blood Upon The Grass, the hilarious The Lion and The Glove and of course Oor Hamlet, his reduced version of the Shakespeare play.

Adam Mcnaughtan CDs
http://www.musicscotland.com/acatalog/MusicScotland_Adam_McNaughtan_52.html?gclid=CNHNxO7VwZQCFQEq1AodbXxiFw

Adam McNaughtan's air for Hamlet can be heard on
http://www.musicscotland.com/acatalog/MusicScotland_Adam_McNaughtan___The_Words_That_I_Used_To_Know_1452.html