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Thread #118007   Message #2578583
Posted By: GUEST,Peter Laban
01-Mar-09 - 11:41 AM
Thread Name: Seamus Ennis Appreciation Society
Subject: RE: Seamus Ennis Appreciation Society
I am fond of Football Crazy as well, even if I regard it as a bit of a folly. I realise that Seamus was making a living and would put him singing Football Crazy, the Spinning Wheel, The Kerry Recruit, The Leaving of Liverpool and stuff like that in the repertoire he used to do that, the material popular with the audience he was playing to at the time.

Another feat I saw him perform recently in footage from the film O'Donoghue's Opera with the Dubliners etc was playing the whistle from one corner of his mouth while smoking a fag from the other.

it's on yer tube ofcourse beginning [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=482RwpkuHiY]here[/url] with three more instalments to cover the rest of the film