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Posted By: Thomas Stern
16-Dec-13 - 02:14 PM
Thread Name: Dominic Behan vinyl Songs of Revolution?
Subject: RE: Dominic Behan vinyl Songs of Revolution?
check the excellent discography by Nick Guida: http://theballadeers.com/db_d01.htm
I see only one recording: The Bells Of Hell/The Captains and the Kings: 1959 - Decca 45-F11147 45
It was also on BRENDAN Behans Spoken Arts album:
Spoken Arts 760 Brendan Behan sings Irish Folksongs and Ballads liner notes: Luce Arthur Klein
Time magazine April 11, 1960 Brendan Behan Sings Irish Folk Songs and Ballads (Spoken Arts). "Sings" is the nonoperative word here; Irish Playwright Behan growls, gurgles and lurches in and out of key like a drunk on a swaying bus ("I usually talk nicer," he concedes, "when I have me teeth"). Nevertheless, he performs with engaging gusto and humor, and with considerably more conviction than most of his folk-styled competition.
Side One On the 18th Day of November The Captains and the Kings I Will Give You a Golden Ball Who Fears to Speak of Easter Week I Am a Happy English La (rendered in a wildly improbable parody of an Oxford accent) Don't Muck About With the Moon When Socrates in Ancient Greece
Side Two A Bonfire on the Border The Bold Fenian Men The zoological Gardens Home on the Range The Old Triangle Says Herself to Meself O in Glendalough Lived an Old Saint