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Subject: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Mickey191 Date: 15 Feb 04 - 09:08 PM The Irish Echo Newspaper polled its readers to name their favorite Irish Song.With each song they've included the artist most cited by voters. There were fifty songs cited. The first fifteen: 1 Fairytale of New York The Pogues 2 A Nation Once Again Wolf Tones 3 N-17 Saw Doctors 4 Ordinary Man Christy Moore 5 The Town I Love So Well Paddy Reilly 6 The Dutchman Tommy Makem & Clancy Bros. 7 Danny Boy Irish Tenors 8 Dublin in the Rare Old Times Dubliners 9 Fields of Athenry Paddy Reilly 10 Funky Ceili Black 47 11 Ride On Christy Moore 12 Whiskey in the Jar Thin Lizzy 13 Jug of Punch Tommy Makem & Clancy Bros. 14 Riverdance Theme Bill Whelen 15 Four Greenfields Tommy Makem |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: GUEST Date: 15 Feb 04 - 09:51 PM Nice one. Do you have a link for the others? Tried looking it up but couldn't find it. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Mickey191 Date: 15 Feb 04 - 11:08 PM I tried everything and could not raise the column from the paper. I wish you good luck & tell you it was printed in the Feb. 4-10th issue on the Echo Arts page. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Amos Date: 15 Feb 04 - 11:33 PM Mickey191: Can you find the page again? I have been all over the site and can't find the effin list, but if you know where it is perhaps you could drop the URL into a post here? Thanks! A |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Mickey191 Date: 16 Feb 04 - 12:49 AM Amos, I have the newspaper-didn't get this on the internet. Did every conceivable search with no result. I'm limited because I have webtv which doesn't have the same capabilities as a computer. Also it would help tremendously if I knew what I was doing. I'm sorry. Will try tomorrow when they're open. If that doesn't work-I guess I'll just have to type the rest of it. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Teresa Date: 16 Feb 04 - 02:18 AM The Dutchman as in the Steve Goodman song? Yay, love steve Goodman; thanks to Tommy et al for recording it. ... Teresa |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Teresa Date: 16 Feb 04 - 02:23 AM oops, it appears Steve Goodman didn't write it; sorry! But I loved his rendition, anyhow. :) Teresa |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) Date: 16 Feb 04 - 11:01 AM Teresa, Mike Smith wrote 'The Dutchman'. Peter Hames, an English writer, wrote 'Ordinary Man'. Don't even get me started on bloody 'Danny Boy'... |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Mickey191 Date: 16 Feb 04 - 03:14 PM Sorry -- our web site editor didn't upload the list. Here it is. Best regards, Eileen Murphy Arts Editor Irish Echo Newspaper OK, everyone: we asked you to vote for your all-time favorite Irish song, and the results were overwhelming. Fans of every genre of irish music voted, with plenty of duplicate entries for particular artists. But in the end, it was the songs themselves that counted, no matter who performed them. With each song, we¹ve included the name of the artist most cited by voters So the counting¹s finished, the results are tallied, and we proudly present the Irish Echo Readers¹ Favorite Songs 2004 . . . 1. Fairytale of New York Pogues 2. A Nation Once Again Wolfe Tones 3. N-17 Saw Doctors 4. Ordinary Man Christy Moore 5. The Town I Love So Well Paddy Reilly 6. The Dutchman Makem & Clancy 7. Danny Boy Irish Tenors 8. Dublin in the Rare Old Times Dubliners 9. Fields of Athenry Paddy Reilly 10. Funky Ceili Black 47 11. Ride On Christy Moore 12. Whiskey in the Jar Thin Lizzy 13. Jug of Punch Clancy Bros. & Makem 14. Riverdance Theme Bill Whelan 15. Four Greenfields Tommy Makem 16. Lovely Leitrim Larry Cunningham 17. Galway Bay Dolores Keane 18. Green Fields of France Furey Bros. & D.Arthur 19. Cliffs of Dooneen Christy Moore 20. When You Were Sweet 16 Furey Bros. & D.Arthur 21. With or Without You U2 22. Joe McDonnell Wolfe Tones 23. Streets of New York Wolfe Tones 24. Peggy Gordon Sinead O¹Connor 25. Song for Ireland Mary Black 26. Toss the Feathers The Corrs 27. Red Rose Cafe Furey Bros. & D.Arthur 28. Beautiful Affair Stockton¹s Wing 29. Caledonia Dolores Keane 30. Eleanor McEvoy A Woman¹s Heart 31. Enya Orinoco Flow 32. Clannad Harry¹s Game 33. Marquee in Drumlish Declan Nerney 34. Galway and Mayo Saw Doctors 35. Only Our Rivers Run Free Wolfe Tones 36. Where the Streets Have ... U2 37. The Cobbler Tommy Makem 38. Follow Me Up to Carlow Young Dubliners 39. Past the Point of Rescue Mary Black 40. Knock Song Christy Moore 41. Rock On, Rockall Wolfe Tones 42. I Useta Lover Saw Doctors 43. This Is a Rebel Song Sinead O¹Connor 44. Give Ireland Back to the irish Paul McCartney 45. On Raglan Road Ronnie Drew 46. The Old Triangle Pogues 47. Free the People Dubliners 48. Seven Drunken Nights Dubliners 49. Brennan on the Moor Clancy Bros. & Makem 50. Wild Colonial Boy Clancy Bros. & Makem |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Eugene Judge Date: 16 Feb 04 - 04:05 PM You beat me too it Mickey191 I received the same info from Eileen Murphy! |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Brakn Date: 16 Feb 04 - 04:16 PM 6. The Dutchman Makem & Clancy 7. Danny Boy Irish Tenors 18. Green Fields of France Furey Bros. & D.Arthur 20. When You Were Sweet 16 Furey Bros. & D.Arthur 24. Peggy Gordon Sinead O¹Connor 27. Red Rose Cafe Furey Bros. & D.Arthur 44. Give Ireland Back to the irish Paul McCartney Irish? |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: ard mhacha Date: 17 Feb 04 - 03:00 AM Well, Brakn, they are from Yankeeland. The pollsters from Mongolia would have made better choices. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Amos Date: 17 Feb 04 - 08:55 AM THey missed some beauts, I will say!! Surely the Rising of the Moon or The Foggy Dew or the Jackets Green, or even Kevin Barry or Finnegan's Wake deserve to be included, not to mention that grand old Tin Pan Alley Irish tune about the lass from Tralee, or even Sweet Vale of Avoca. And what about Black Velvet Ba-a-a-and, then? (end whine) Chacun a son mauvais gout as the old Irish saying goes...Thanks, Micky! A. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Rapparee Date: 17 Feb 04 - 09:28 AM No "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling?" No "McNamaree's Band?" No "Torra Lorra Lorra?" No Dennis Day? No Bing Crosby? Alack and alas, what are the American Irish coming to? Mayor Daley would weep real tears, and Mayor Curley would as well. Ah, sure and begorrah, but they've lost their culture, sure! Good. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: GUEST Date: 17 Feb 04 - 09:42 AM What a bloody awful list(for the most part) Where is Van Morrison, The Chieftans...so many more... |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Dave Hanson Date: 17 Feb 04 - 10:05 AM Green Fields Of France? Surely not, Red Rose Cafe? very odd. eric |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: GUEST,Martin Ryan Date: 17 Feb 04 - 10:15 AM Wonder what the age profile of Irish Echo readers is? Regards |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: ard mhacha Date: 17 Feb 04 - 11:27 AM Martin`s hitting the nail on the head. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: GUEST Date: 17 Feb 04 - 03:28 PM How disappointing. But glaringly obvious it wasn't a poll of Irish voters. I dislike the term plastic paddy, but I think we have just found out their idea of Irish songs. Very sad. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Mickey191 Date: 17 Feb 04 - 07:46 PM I agree with all the commentaries. An informal list if you're up for it. I know it's been done before. here goes: Raglan Road-Boolavogue-Patriot Game Salley Gardens-Bunclody-Skibereen and Ar Eirinu Nt Neosainn Ce Hi. The last Is one of the most beautiful songs ever, sung by Liam Clancy, about a lovely girl-"She was the Sunday In every week." Now compare that line-to "You're a whore, you're a slut." As in number 1 in this poll(which, by the way has lovely melody.) Slainte |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: ard mhacha Date: 18 Feb 04 - 03:24 AM Mickey, Well summarised. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Lighter Date: 18 Feb 04 - 07:29 AM Interesting that only about 12% of the list is trad. But a similar list of "Favorite American [or English] Songs" would no doubt show far skimpier results. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 22 Oct 04 - 12:11 PM |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: breezy Date: 22 Oct 04 - 12:16 PM isnt Caledonia a Dougie Maclean comp? |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: PoppaGator Date: 22 Oct 04 - 12:59 PM I didn't realize this was an Irish-American poll (rather than one conducted in Ireland) until halfway through the messages. Whaere is the Irish Echo located -- New York? I'd say the absense of old favorites like "Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "McNamara's Band," etc., is evidence of *some* progress toward musical sophitication on the part of the Irish-American public. Inclusion of the Scottish anthem "Caledonia" could indicate either ignorance or an admirable sense of pan-Celtic solidarity -- perhaps a bit of both. |
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Subject: RE: Results of Irish Music Poll From: Nerd Date: 22 Oct 04 - 09:45 PM Actually, Mickey, you could at least have got the words right. (Whore is never spoken in Fairytale of New York) They are: It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang a song The Rare Old Mountain Dew I turned my face away And dreamed about you Got on a lucky one Came in eighteen to one I've got a feeling This year's for me and you So happy Christmas I love you baby I can see a better time When all our dreams come true They've got cars big as bars They've got rivers of gold But the wind goes right through you It's no place for the old When you first took my hand On a cold Christmas Eve You promised me Broadway was waiting for me You were handsome You were pretty Queen of New York City When the band finished playing They howled out for more Sinatra was swinging, All the drunks they were singing We kissed on a corner Then danced through the night The boys of the NYPD choir Were singing "Galway Bay" And the bells were ringing out For Christmas day You're a bum You're a punk You're an old slut on junk Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed You scumbag, you maggot You cheap lousy faggot Happy Christmas your arse I pray God it's our last I could have been someone Well so could anyone You took my dreams from me When I first found you I kept them with me babe I put them with my own Can't make it all alone I've built my dreams around you |
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