Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn

Subject: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: GUEST,Customchuck
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 06:18 PM

I'm in search of the song Mountains O' Morn. I believe the Limelighters and Glen Yarbrough did this. I'd like to know which CD or Lp this is on so I can buy the album.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 06:20 PM

You should have no trouble finding it with a google of

Mountains of Mourne

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 06:25 PM

The song was written by Percy French. There are a whole bunch of web sites dedicated to him, his lif and songs.
Don McLean also recorded it.
Many people think that it is a sloppy sentimental Irish song. If you actually look at the words, it actually has quite a bite underneath the superficial sentimentality.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 06:27 PM

(It was written by William Percy French, btw.)

http://www.folkera.com/fannigans-isle/index.html

http://www.emusic.com/album/10979/10979082.html

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 06:28 PM

Sorry, Geoff. Cross-posted.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 06:32 PM

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:lKT0rmL2GjsJ:www.flipsideweb.com/pages/Easy_Listening/male_vocal/+glenn+yarborough,+mountain

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mount ains o' morn
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 06:54 PM

http://www.contemplator.com/ireland/mourne.html
http://www.contemplator.com/history/pfrench.html">http://www.contemplator.com/history/pfrench.html

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=91990943

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 06:57 PM

Peace - no problem! Cross posting is what proves this site works.
Quack!
GtD.
p.s. I've not checked out my links - random selection...

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: kendall
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 07:12 PM

I also recorded it on Folk Legacy.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 07:20 PM

Actually it's a humorous song, not really sentimental at all. It just gets sung that way for some reason.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: kendall
Date: 20 Jan 07 - 08:19 PM

Yes, it is humorous. The main thought being the lack of sophistication of this country Irish lad.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 12:56 PM

Don't know how you'd get it but there was a lovely version on an E.P. called 'Otilie (spelling) Sings The Irish' with Otilie Patterson and The Chris Barber Jazz Band.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 01:14 PM

If this is the song that begins " Oh Mary this London's wonderous sight, with people there working by day and by night," I believe I first heard it on an early Kingston Trio album. And I think Kendall has really nailed its essence.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 01:50 PM

Bur it's an ironic kind of lack of sophistication, what with his teasing his girl back hiem about the London ladies and all. He appreciates the strangeness of the big city, but isn't that impressed by it.

And the essential truth at the heart of the Irish Troubles is summed up in the line "When we've got all we want, we're as quiet as can be", in the verse about King Edward VII.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 09:36 PM

Thank you John on the sunset coast.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 09:38 PM

I think it's a beautiful song in all its aspects.

Kendall, which record/CD is it on?

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Effsee
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 09:46 PM

Don McLean does a rarhter good version of the song!

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Effsee
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 09:49 PM

*rather*

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 09:55 PM

The KTrio LP is 'SOLD OUT'. There is a CD of this album coupled with 'STRING ALONG' that I bet you can find at Amazon or such place.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Genie
Date: 21 Jan 07 - 11:25 PM

Yes, it's Bob Shane who sang it on the KT album, IIRC.   He only does the 1st, 2nd, and last verses, so it's less political, but the humor's still there.

The tune, BTW, is the same as the one used for Thomas Moore's "Bendemeer's Stream" (or is it "Brendemeer's ... ?" - Damn that dyslexia!). Beautiful melody.

McGrath of Harlow said it well:
"But it's an ironic kind of lack of sophistication, what with his teasing his girl back hiem about the London ladies and all.   He appreciates the strangeness of the big city, but isn't that impressed by it."

Genie

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: kendall
Date: 22 Jan 07 - 08:51 AM

My recording of it was on Folk Legacy "Lights Along The Shore"

I was missing the verse about seeing the king. Wish I could re do it.

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 04:41 AM

I'd agree with Effsee. I think I first heard the song on the Don McLean recording, and I've always liked it.
Click this Amazon Search and see if it leads you to an album with the song.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Need CD or LP with Mountains o' morn
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 05:27 AM

Don McClean appeared on Irish TV ("The Late, Late Show")many years ago and sang his version. The song was well hackneyed by then (Irish people tended to sigh resignedly or head for the loo if someone started to sing it) and his version, with some changes from the original, refreshed it nicely, changing the prism through which we see a well-worn song.

Regards