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Thread #100454 Message #2014573
Posted By: Don Firth
02-Apr-07 - 02:56 PM
Thread Name: Val Doonican Night
Subject: RE: Val Doonican Night
My only acquaintance with Val Doonican was back in the early Seventies when his TV show was bunged in as a summer replacement for another music show--Perry Como, I think. Most enjoyable. He sang a lot of folk and "folkoid" stuff, and had some interesting guests. Burl Ives swapped a few songs with him. And he had a gal singer on that I enjoyed a lot: Julie Felix. She sang some solos and they did a couple of very nice duets. That was the only time I've ever heard her, or heard of her, except for finding some info about her on the internet.
At the time, anyway, Doonican was doing a lot of Tom Paxton songs.
Don Firth