Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 20 Mar 07 - 11:52 AM

Last heard, he was "working on producing a CD version"! I haven't met Brian for a while now - but will check when I do.

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Ella Minnow
Date: 13 Dec 07 - 12:02 PM

At last! Reading this brings back many happy memories. I too had a hissy old tape of When I Grow Up which has gone the way of all things (it used to travel about with me..). Can anyone provide a contact or email address to get a copy of this, Drumsnot etc. Even a hissy old tape would do!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Donie Bredin
Date: 23 Jun 08 - 03:16 PM

Could somebody get Brian to put this up on U/tube ?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 04:17 PM

Hi I'm the wife.  Someone just posted me a link to this thread.I cant believe you poor lads have been talking about that wan Chantal for the last 6 years. Must get himself to read this. The CD is still on its way "soon"! Last I heard he was going to work on it this August... Don't hold your breath!

Paula

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,MartinRyan
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 06:57 PM

Hi Paula.

Don't blame me!

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,rugbyman
Date: 15 Jul 08 - 11:41 AM

Can believe I FINALLY found these lyrics. Like every other person here I had an old version on tape and lost iw when moving house.
thanks a million guys for all ye're hard work.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,BrenKen
Date: 15 Jul 08 - 06:29 PM

It seems I'm the only person in the world who still has the tape! It must be worth a fortune, especially since it doesn't look like we're going to see a CD any time soon. Maybe I should auction it on e-bay?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Wiredgoose
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 05:26 PM

I too have a hissy tape, and have gone one better: I've MP3'd it so Chantal et al are on my iPod. I'll be happy to buy a digital quality recording when it emerges, so Paula tell himself to get his skates on.

PS: living in the Alps but have never met the lass herself hereabouts.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke
From: Stín
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 07:21 AM

Hey Wiredgoose, is there any chance you'd throw the MP3 file up on the net somewhere, even if its only a version which we can listen to without downloading, it'd be so great to hear Brian's rendition again. Same as everyone else i lost my copy...but only after i wrote-off the car a few years ago and the tape was in it! Wasn't botherd about the car once i realised...Pleeease!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: MartinRyan
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 08:58 PM

Met Brian at the Feakle festival, this weekend. The CD version is ready to go - apart from the cover/artwork which is being finalised at the moment.

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Seadew
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 08:26 PM

Received of recording of this from a friend, this is brillant. Any news of the announced CD ?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: MartinRyan
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 03:11 AM

CD was published a while back. I'm not sure of availability but will post details when I get them.

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: Bren Ború
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 01:59 PM

Is "Banks of the Rhine" on the CD?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: MartinRyan
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 02:08 PM

Can't find my own copy at the moment! Offhand - I don't think it is. Will confirm when I can.

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Angie
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 01:41 PM

Love this!!! Heard it on the radio and have been hunting it down since. I live in Mayo and would love to meet Brian personnally to discuss me acting one of his pieces. Doe sanyone know would he be up for that? I go to college near where he lives?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,ollie
Date: 23 Mar 09 - 08:50 PM

chantal lives, Brian she owes you loads!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Nov 09 - 03:45 PM

Brian's CD is now available in Custy's Music Shop HERE.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,O'Duin in America
Date: 13 May 10 - 11:48 AM

Thanks for all these threads. I just found my live tape of Brian that's been lost for nigh on 10 years and have enjoyed it immensely. I was workin' on his yodeling bit this morning on the drive in. James

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,kay in Galway
Date: 26 Jun 10 - 06:33 PM

I can't believe I found Chantel. Heard ityears ago in the car and had to stop on the side of the road I was laughing so much. However, I thought there was a verse that said Chantel got pregnant. Probably happened in St. Kevin's bed!! Dying for my husband and kids to hear what Ienjoyed so much. It must be ten years since I heard it. Where can I buy it please???

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,^&*
Date: 27 Jun 10 - 05:33 AM

GUESTkayinGalway

Try HERE. Or - if you actually are in Galway, I think Powells in Shop Street usually have copies.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,seven of two
Date: 15 Jul 10 - 07:42 AM

Had the pleasure of having Brian as a college lecturer and having an exhibition of some of his songs last year.Normally the cd is available in the SU shop in GMIT where he was teaching

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,The Duff
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 05:43 PM

I think its high time the Chantal club was reformed . Another Poet/singer worthy of consideration is Declan o Brien ( he of the Joe Duffy Show ). One of his early tapes was with the Parnassus Arts Group and called World Cup me Arse . Unfortunatly lost the copy i had while abroad . A comedic classic .

Noel

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Mike McElligott
Date: 13 Sep 11 - 10:07 PM

I was chalanged to learn Chantal by an Irish singer name of Tom Brett.
I sang it in a pub in New Jersey whitnessed by Mike the Mechanic. It was a grand night and I think I was the first Yank to become a member of the Chantal Club, a great honor no doube. It was a night I remember with fondness.Mike

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Steve Mack
Date: 19 Aug 13 - 05:17 PM

This got an airing this year at the Derry fleadh in the "secret seisun" at the rugby club by "boys on the blackstuff". The only change I would make to these lyrics would be the way I hear "hamourous" pilgrimage which has so many more meanings....

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Learaí na Láibe
Date: 20 Aug 13 - 05:48 AM

Great to hear it's still being performed.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: MartinRyan
Date: 24 Feb 14 - 04:40 PM

To hear Brain performing his masterpiece (all thirteen minutes of it) on Youtube:

Click here

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Feb 14 - 09:04 AM

Maybe it is time that Club Chantal was reformed.
If anyone is interested, I am sure it could be arranged.
I have the Club Banner.
The Club Motto, "To hell with the silage" is still relevant.
A lot of the 12 Aims and Objectives of the Club have yet to be fulfilled.
The original Club Membership list still exists, broken into five classes of membership.
However, new, younger, more virile members would be needed.
The official Mushroom grower to the Club could be persuaded to come out of retirement.
And I know that Brian himself (The Bard for Life) would love to see it reform.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Mike in New Jersey, USA
Date: 06 Apr 18 - 04:54 PM

I attended a pre wedding party for Tom Brett a great Irish singer in his own right, and met Mike “THE MECHANIC” Pres. and Enforcer of the Chantal Club. After several pints I managed to sing the song in it’s entirety with Mike slightly be,hind my left shoulder, to smack me if I missed a line.The contingency were extant I at “ Going International.” I think I can claim to be the first American to sing the song as witnessed by Mike” THE MECHANIC. It was a fantastic night I’ll never forget. Thanks to Mike THE MECHANIC and Tom Brett.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Apr 18 - 10:07 AM

Hi Mike.
I am the 'Mechanic' in question and I remember that night in the pub in New Jersey. Tom Brett is my brother in law. His brother, Damian. was also there. He was the Club's 'Navigator'
I was standing behind your left shoulder, not to chastise you, but to assist you if needed, which help was not needed.
Can you still sing it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Mike McElligott in New Jersey, It’s
Date: 11 Apr 18 - 10:24 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 11 Apr 18 - 10:29 PM

once more with feeling?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Mike in New Jersey
Date: 13 Apr 18 - 08:46 PM

Apologies. Spelling was never my thing. The song is great however you spelll it. Thanks for writing it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jan 19 - 01:23 PM

Any chance of the club reforming? I'm a young, fit, decrepit 40 year interested in helping with organisation if anyone is interested?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Bas ten Asbroek Netherlands
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 07:37 AM

I met Brian in 1990 - 1992 in Sligo. A kind man and a friendly host and a good singer. His songs are hilarious but also serious: the satire in Drumsnot, When I grow up which is full of "Ireland is great but the world is greater", Chantal, the letter to Tim's mother and many more. It was great being in the Silver Swan and the Trades Club during the sessions at Fleadh Cheoil. That is where I got addicted to Irish singing.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,Bas ten Asbroek Netherlands
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 07:50 AM

Blas Meala: A Sip from the Honey-Pot: A Selection of Gaelic Folksongs with Prose Translations and Verse Equivalents.
This is a booklet by Brian with several Irish songs that he translated in English, meanwhile maintaining the rhythm and the rhyme. I think there also was a tape with the songs both in Irish and in English. It is 35 years ago I bought them from Brian. I am sue they must be somewhere in my home.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chantal du Champignon (Brian O'Rourke)
From: GUEST,JOBM
Date: 12 Apr 22 - 06:10 PM

Brian is being buried tomorrow. What a sad loss. Blas Meala and Pale Rainbow, two books of singable translations of classic songs in the Irish tradition, are masterpieces with analysis of the lyrics and their contexts. There was so much more to this man than just Chantal - but that song alone merits his immortality.