Tony Murphy was a friend of Pete McGovern (In my Liverpool Home) and sang at Pete's folk club The Washhouse, I believe in "Old Scotty Road".
I knew them both in the late '60's. In fact they both appeared at my Farewell to Liverpool midnight concert in 1968 at the Everyman Theatre.
The same night as the Spinners had their 10th anniversary concert at the Liverpool Phil!(a few hundred yards away!). I had called at the Phil earlier and in the Green Room invited Tony Davis+ Spinners to my late night charity concert!!They didn't come - neither did Christy Moore
whose first English folk club tour I had arranged, before he started singing with The Planxty band.
The Dubliners made "The Orange and the Green" a number 1 hit in the late '70's.
Tony was a very basic "down to earth scouser" - very friendly and loved writing his songs etc.
Bert Bignell, now in Maidstone, Kent.