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Oct.
1: None
Oct.
2: On the "Reunion" album, what dubious distinction do the
songs "Carrickfergus" and "The Leaving of Liverpool" have in common?
Oct.
3: Name the song:
"Let me carry
your pail"
Oct.
4: Name the song from this one liner:
"All for Scotland's
king and lord"
Oct.
5: What song says this and what does it refer to: "I've had
twenty-nine!"
Oct.
6: "Peter Kagen and the Wind" was a great story song to see
performed in concert by Makem & Clancy. What was the name of the OTHER
story song that Makem & Clancy sometimes performed?
Oct.
7: Name the song: "Nancy oh my Nancy"
Oct.
8: Poll of the Week:
Many of us have
been fortunate enough to have seen Liam in concert in different incarnations
of groups. This week's question is: What are your most prized moments
during these concerts? A special song? A touching poem? A good joke?
Or something off the cuff from stage. Anything and everything is a
good story. So what's yours?
Oct.
9: Name the song:
"Please God -
there are souls we can save"
Oct.
10: What song mentions Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, "One Day
at a Time" and "Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree"?
Oct.
11: At which theatre did Tom Clancy produce the play "Othello"?
Oct.
12: In addition to yesterday's question, Tom Clancy wears
a pin at one point in the "Story of....." video. What does it say?
Oct.
13: On whaich album did Liam first sing to us about "Dandelion
Wine"?
Oct.
14: Poll of the Week:
Tommy Makem has
recorded a number of versions of "Four Green Fields".
Which one would
you say is your favorite?
Oct.
15: None
Oct.
16: Other Poll of the Week:
Dylan once said
of the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem something like "they were all
very different..." They each have songs that have become their "signatures"
so to speak.
What songs do
you think best define and show the talents of each brother, Tommy
Makem, Robbie O'Connell? Feel free to include Lou Killen, Eddie Dillon,
Donal...and so on if you please.
Oct.
17: None
Oct.
18: None
Oct.
19: Name the song:
"To see them Spanish
girls, I know"
Oct.
20: In what song does a woman have "a daughter as fair as
a fresh sunny meadow"?
Oct.
21: In concerts lately Liam has mentioned one character from
one of his songs as being perhaps his favorite. Who is it?
Oct.
22:
Poll of the week:
Liam has always
been a fine whistler, very clear and accurate, and has done so many
times on recordings and in concerts. Which songs contain your favorite
whistling by Liam?
Oct.
23:Name the song with this line: "The morning sun is in the
valley"
Oct.
24: Here's a multi question:
"It's a simple
song of living sung everywhere"
1) Name the song
2) Name the composer
3) Name 2 other
songs by this composer that Liam has recorded
Oct.
25: Who "stood just four foot two"?
Oct.
26: In what other song is the song "Jug of Punch" mentioned?
Oct.
27: Another 3 parter:
1) On what album's
liner notes are we asked to "kindly refrain from joining in"
2) What song are
we to refrain from joining in on?
3) Who wrote these
liner notes?
Oct.
28: Name the song:
"The sun has
spilled his gold upon the sea"
Oct.
29: Poll of the Week:
Liam has recorded
a number of sea chanties with Tommy and the Clancys. Quite a few of
these were done "a capella" if you will. Which one of these "a capella"
sea songs are your favorites?
Oct.
30: In what song does the singer find himself on Prince Edward
Island?
Oct.
31: What might happen "if he should slight you like you done
him before"?
Answers:
Oct.
1:
None
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Oct.
2: They both appear on "The First
Hurrah" with different lead singers.
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Oct.
3: It's listed on the album as "Nightingale"
on "Save the Land". Lou Killen takes the lead on this recording. Good
work!
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Oct.
4: It's "Bonnie Charlie" from The First Hurrah and
Greatest Hits with Lou Killen.
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Oct.
5:
"My Johnny Lad"
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Oct.
6:
"Children of Michael", a story song performed in the same vein as
"Peter Kagen and the Wind".
"Cast
a boat upon the sea, A silver boat upon the sea, A child will sail
back home to me, To me."
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Oct.
7:
"Clear Away in the Morning" from "Two For the Early Dew".
"Nancy
oh my Nancy,Clear away in the morning, She never played it fancy,
Oh bring her round"
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Oct.
8:
Some answers:
I
was attending a Makem and Clancy concert in Mechanics Hall, Worchester,
Mass. in either '84 or '85. We had waited until the last minute to
get tickets and ended up being in the balcony. There was a long flight
of carpeted stairs to get to our seats. My grandmother had trouble
on walking on carpet and stairs due to a stroke she suffered years
earlier. We decided to take the elevator. When the doors of the elevator
opened we were pleasantly surprised to see Liam and Tommy on it. It
was the best elevator ride I ever had.
I
have particularly enjoyed the Makem & Clancy performances when they
have done story-songs like Peter Kagan etc. They both have the ability
to carry you away to another time and place. Everytime I have seen
them do these pieces it is just outstanding and incomparable.
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Oct.
9:
"Home From The Sea"
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Oct.
10:
It's "The Singer" by Robbie O'Connell on his CD's "Humerous Songs
Live" and "Never Learned To Dance".
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Oct.
11:
The Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich Village. It is the theatre that
Tom sits in front of in the video "Story of..." and mentions that
he produced "Othello" there.
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Oct.
12:
I Love (actually a heart) NY.
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Oct.
13:
"Show Me The Way"- 1972
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Oct.
14:
Some answers:
The
Makem & Clancy Live Recording which included "Requiem For The Croppies"
Any
version that I am in the audience to hear live is my favorite.
The
original recording on "Home Boys Home".
I
really enjoy the version on Live at the National Concert Hall
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Oct.
15:
None
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Oct.
16:
Some answers:
Paddy
: Let No Man Steal Your Thyme ; Rocks of Bawn ; Jug of Punch.
Tom
: Rising of the Moon ; O'Driscoll (The Host of the Air)
Tommy
: Four Green Fields ; The Cobbler ; The Sally Gardens/When I Was One
and Twenty
Liam
: Girl From the North Country ; Blackwater Side ; Patriot Game ; Old
Triangle ; Band Played Waltzing Matilda ; Willie McBride
Robbie
: John O' Dreams ; Kilkelly
Bobby
"Bonny Bunch Of Roses" "Willie Crotty"
Louis Killen "Week Before Easter" "Good Ale", "Haul Em Away"
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Oct.
17:
None
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Oct.
18:
None
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Oct.
19:
It's "Johnny's Gone to Hilo" from the "Sing of the Sea" album. Tommy
Makem sings lead.
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Oct.
20:
"Flowers In The Valley" from the album of the same name.
"There
was a woman, ah but she was a widow Fair as the Flowers in the Valley
With a daughter as fair as a fresh sunny meadow The red and the green
and the yellow"
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Oct.
21:
Margaret from "The Dutchman"
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Oct.
22: Some answers:
"Ten
and Nine" for sure
"Nightingale"
from Live in Ireland
"Peggy
Gordon" from In Concert
"Dandelion
Wine" and "Skye Boat Song" from the days with Lou Killen
"Silent
Night" on the Christmas album
"Peggy
Gordon" from In Concert
"Girl
from the North Country" from Save the Land.
Mountain
Dew from "Reunion"
Whistling
Gypsy (From The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem)
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Oct.
23: "Schoolday's Over" from side 2 of "Show me the
Way" with Lou Killen, sung by Paddy.
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Oct.
24:
1)
Place in the Choir
2)
Bill Staines
3)
River - "Clancy, O'Connell, & Clancy" & Roseville Fair - "We've
Come A Long Way"
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Oct.
25: The captain on "The Good Ship Calibar" from "Sing of
the Sea" with Tommy Makem taking the solo:
"Well
the captain was a strappin' lad and he stood just four foot two, His
eyes was red and his nose was green and his cheeks was a Prussian
blue, He wore a leather medal that he won in the Crimea war, And the
captain's wife was the passenger cook on the good ship Calibar"
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Oct.
26:
It's the "23rd of June" from Hearty and Hellish.
It
being on the twenty third of June As I sat weaving all on my loom,
It being on the twenty third of June As I sat weaving all on my loom,
I heard a thrush singing on yon bush, And the song he sang was "The
Jug of Punch."
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Oct.
27:
1)
In Concert
2)
Blackwater's Side
3)
Liam Clancy himself
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Oct.
28:
"Boys of Killybegs" written and recorded by Tommy Makem.
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Oct.
29: Some Answers:
Santy
Ano, Sammy's Bar, & I Wish I Was Back In Liverpool, John Kanaka
Whiskey
Is The Life Of Man/Santy Ano/Haul Em Away (never recorded but done
in concert with Louis Killen)
The
Rocky Road to Dublin", from 1965's Liam Clancy album
"Whiskey
you're the divil" from "The Lark in the Morning"
"Haul
Away Joe" from Reunion
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Oct.
30:"The Ballad of St. Anne's Reel" from "Makem &
Clancy Collection" CD & "Clancy In Close Up Vol. 1"
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