Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please....

Subject: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
From:
Date: 19 Nov 98 - 07:58 AM

I am looking for a list of the top 10 irish wedding songs. All except "the" "Irish Wedding Song" itself. Cant wait to see the list! Conrad

Subject: RE: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
From:
Date: 19 Nov 98 - 02:13 PM

The notorious Conrad Bladey has now struck Mudcat! This always means trouble. He has been banned from at least one newsgroup list that I know of. If we don't reply we may survive.

Subject: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
From:
Date: 19 Nov 98 - 03:14 PM

I am looking for a list of the top 10 irish wedding songs. All except "the" "Irish Wedding Song" itself. Cant wait to see the list! Conrad

Subject: RE: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
From:
Date: 19 Nov 98 - 03:20 PM

That was a positive comment.....thanks! Just remember that I simply asked for a few song/dance music titles. Yes you may include dance music as well as songs and airs!

I would like to know what you would consider to be the top ten titles of Irish Wedding Music.

If that threatens you perhaps you should seek help!

And not only that but I have been here before! A very helpful place generally....with of course the exception of that last response.....

I am just interested in titles and have no interest in discussing them so perhaps you can stop being threatened now!

Conrad Bladey

Subject: RE: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
From: alison
Date: 19 Nov 98 - 06:23 PM

Hi conrad,

We've had several threads on this one..... not necessarily limiting it to 10. but if you do a search for Celtic Wedding, Irish Wedding, Irish wedding Mass... type of thing (they have been refreshed again in the last few weeks) it should give you an idea.

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
From: Irish / Celtic Wedding Songs The Grand Compilation
Date: 21 Nov 98 - 07:10 PM

Greetings and thanks! I boiled down the submissions and this is the result- quite a mixture. I would add that Sean O' Riada wrote a few Gaelic Masses and his son Peadar has at least one Cd. out with some other good tunes as well. Conrad

I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say, (tune: Star of County Down)
Be Thou My Vision,
Danny Boy and various lyrics to the tune of Danny Boy
The Celtic Alleluia (not very traditionally Celtic-Oregon Catholic Press)
Celtic Mass, (Oregon Catholic Press)
Anything written by Fr. Liam Lawton, especially a CD called Sacred Story.
The Spinning Wheel Song
The Rose of Tralee
The Darlin' Girl From Clare
The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
I Know My Love (by his way of walkin')
The Sally Gardens
Raglan Road
Old Maid in the Garret
Easy and Slow
Let Him Go, Let him Tarry
My Singing Bird
The Limerick Rake
My Bonny Boy is Young But He's Growing
Maids When You're Young (never wed an old man)
The Old Woman From Wexford.
My Lovely Rose of Clare
The Wild Rover
Mary From Dungloe
Carraickfergus
The German Clockwinder
Bunch of Thyme
Go Lassie Go
If I Was A Blackbird
On the Banks of the Roses
Spancilhill
She Moved Through The Fair
The Lark in the Clear Air
The Mountains of Mourne
McBreens Heffer
Red Haired Mary
The Zoological Gardens
I Courted Biddy Magee
The Queen of Connemara (in a cot in Connemara there's a wife and wee one praying)

I had Be Thou my vision.
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
She moved through the fair
Give me your hand (Tamhair dom do lamb),
Carrickfergus,
....any slow Irish airs.
Aifreann Baile Nua (The Newtown Mass O’Brien)
Donal Agus Morag
Dark Inniseoghan

Subject: RE: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
From: alison
Date: 21 Nov 98 - 07:57 PM

Hi,

Thanks for that.... mysterious helpful person.

"I heard the voice of Jesus say", goes beautifully to the tune of "Mary from Dungloe"too.

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
From: Helen
Date: 23 Nov 98 - 06:22 AM

It's a bit scary, thinking of some of these songs at weddings.

"Oh, please, don't let me die an old maid in the garret"

"Let him go, let him tarry, let him sink or let him swim; He don't care for me, and I'm sure I don't for him He can go and find another, and I hope she'll bring him joy For I'm goin' to marry a far nicer boy"

Maids When You're Young (never wed an old man)

and even that saddest of songs, Carrickfergus.

I'm surprised that Don't Get Married Girls wasn't included.

Actually, when I think about it a bit more, these songs probably suit modern day weddings far better than the sugary-sweet romantic fantasies often served up in wedding songs. Romantic life is a lot more complicated in the post-sexual-revolutionary age. ;->

Helen

Subject: RE: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
From: Bert
Date: 23 Nov 98 - 04:22 PM

I don't think a list of Irish wedding songs is complete without "Begorrah"

Bert.

Subject: RE: Top 10 Irish Wedding Songs please......
From: Helen
Date: 16 Aug 99 - 11:52 PM

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