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Thread #151927 Message #3728838
Posted By: GUEST
07-Aug-15 - 06:44 PM
Thread Name: What's an 'Irish tenor' (as in singer)?
Subject: RE: What's an 'Irish tenor' (as in singer)?
Quote from 'Puckoon' (Spike Milligan:
His voice was raised in that high nasal Irish tenor, known and hated the world over.
'Ohhhhbhhhhhhhbhh IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Once knew a judy in Dubleen Town
Her eyes were blue and her hair was brown,
One night on the grass I got her down
And I'
The rest of the words were lost to view as he turned a bend in the road.
Btw Father Sidney McEwen was an Irish teno, well that's what I was told in the national school.Having listened to the this clip I tend to agree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gv0S3M-mR8