Track lists for Wild Geese (Irish Group)

Subject: Track lists for Wild Geese albums
From: Stewie
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 11:32 PM

Can someone please supply track list for Irish (1980s?)group Wild Geese 'In Full Flight' album and also for the second album by Wild Geese that includes a version of 'Marrowbones'. I have searched the net to no avail.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: Stewie
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 09:25 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 09:47 PM

I had this vision of web sites that allowed you to track wild geese during their migration flights... sigh!

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 01:25 PM

I had this vision of a dirt track tilting gradually while enfuriated Poultry disappear into the sunset

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: Stewie
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 06:38 PM

You will note from my first posting that I had included the word 'albums' in the thread title but it failed to make it to the main page. However, thanks for keeping the thread on foot. You never know - someone with some pertinent info may come along.

Cheers, Stewie.

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: Magic Gillian
Date: 17 Oct 05 - 07:29 AM

do you mean liam and that lot who live in clermont ferrand? that would be weird. the last time i was at his house he said "i've no wine, will whiskey do?) it was only about 10am and i have to say that whiskey did very well. if it's not those wild geese, then ignore me...

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 17 Oct 05 - 05:59 PM

Sorry, I don't have the second album, I have a cassette of the first. I really liked their lead singer.

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 18 Oct 05 - 03:13 PM

Sorry for the earlier thread drift. Your thread just caught my imagination.

Good luck in your quest.

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: bill kennedy
Date: 18 Oct 05 - 03:22 PM

I have both albums at home, will post info later when I can get them.

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: Stewie
Date: 18 Oct 05 - 09:47 PM

Thanks, Bill.

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: bill kennedy
Date: 19 Oct 05 - 08:14 PM

sorry for the delay, Stewie, but I got sidetracked. I have three Wild Geese recordings, all on Joke Records.

JLP201 Wild Geese The Quays of Galway Town

Side A
1. The Otter's Lair & The Pinch of Snuff                               2'49
2. Farewell to Nova Scotia                                                    4'42
3. The Monaghan Jig                                                            3'15
4. The Old Turf Fire & Th Congress Reel                              3'04
    (Johnny Patterson)
5. Roxburgh Castle & Ward's Brae                                        2'38
6. The Quays of Galway Town                                              5'47

Side B
1. The Squire an the Lady/ The Shaskeen Reel/
    The Sack of Grass/
    The Girl Who Broke My Heart                                           4'25
2. Fear & Bean an Ti                                                             3'02
3. I Wish I Was Back In Liverpool                                          4'45
4. Sliabh na mBan                                                                2'52
5. The Beggarman                                                               2'08
6. The Cup of Tea & The Four Hand Reel                              2'37
7. The Bush of Australia

The musicians:
Peadar O hUallaigh - Concert Flute, Tin Whistle, Fife, Vocals
Norman King - Vocals, Bodhran, Spoons, Tambourine
Tony Small - Vocals, Guitar, Bouzouki
Steve Power - Fiddle, Mandola, Bouzouki, Mandolin, Banjo, Vocals

recorded 27,/28,/29, January 1976 at Biton Studios, Frankfurt/Main

JLP 207 Wild Geese flight 2

Side A
The First of May (Trad./Arr. Wild Geese)                           5'20
Galway Bay (Francis A. Fahy/Trad./Arr. Wild Geese)          5'48
Kerry Slide and Sligo Polka (Trad./Arr. Wild Geese)          2'30
Marrowbones (Trad./Arr. Wild Geese)                               3'43

Side B
The Galway Rebel Boys (Tomas O Bairead/Trad. Arr. Wild Geese)    4'15
The Hills of Connemara (Sean McCarthy/ Sean Carthy/ Arr. Wild Geese)   3'10
Jimmy Clay (Patrick Sky/ Patrick Sky/ Tony Small)   4'35
The Foggy Dew (Trad./ Arr. Wild Geese)      5'27

Eoin o Duigneain - Uillean Pipes, Tin Whistle
Mick Ryan - Fiddle, Mandolin
Peadar O hUallaigh - Flute, Tin Whistle, Concertina, Vocals
Norman King - Bodhran, Vocals
Tony Small - Guitar, Vocals

recorded 18, /19, 20, December 1978


JLP215 Wild Geese In Full Flight

Side One
1. Niamh's Capers- A Punch in the Dark
2. Anathea
3. Johanna' Jig - The SIlver Apple
4. I'll Remember You This Way
5. The 71

Side Two
1. Brid og ni Mhaille
2. Fly
3. The Cacodemon - The Return to Miltown-
    Toss the Feathers
4. Fred the Mouse

Gerry O'Connor: Fiddle, Banjo
Peadar O hUallaigh: Flute, Whistle
Manus Lunny: Bouzouki, Guitar, Vocals
Mick Fitzgerald: Guitar, Vocals
Norman King: Bodhran, Vocals
Mairead Ni Mhaonigh guests on vocals and fiddle (side two, tracks 1 and 3)

recorded at Windmill Lane Studio Two Dublin February, 1983


that's all I have, I think, and all they had recorded up till then, don't know if they recorded anything later, hope this helps

Slan

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: Stewie
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 09:48 AM

Bill, thank you very much. I greatly appreciate your taking the trouble to post the track lists. I wasn't aware of the first album. Thank you also for indicating the musicians involved. I knew Norman King for a time in the 70s. He was here in Darwin, Oz, during our big one - Cyclone Tracy on Christmas eve '74. As I recall, he survived the blow pissed in a wardrobe.

Thanks again, Stewie.

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: bill kennedy
Date: 20 Oct 05 - 10:44 AM

flight 2 was recorded in West Germany, sorry for the omission

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,jqu
Date: 03 Mar 07 - 03:02 PM

excuse me for interfering.
it's the first time i found something when entering
"the quays of galway town".
it's one of my favorite songs, but i don't get the words,
no matter, how often i'd been lsitening.
maybe, it's because i'm not english.
can anybody give me a hand.

thanks anyhow

jürgen

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: scouse
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 05:40 AM

Hi Bill and Stewie,Mick Ryan was one of my best "Buddies." I played and drank with him many times while he lived over here in Holland, these last 20 odd years.Really loved the man.. but alas the "Lemonade." got to him eventaually and his playin' suffered for it..He died in his bed 2 years or so back. He's fondly remembered by many many people..Lets raise a glass to "Mick the Fiddler."
As Aye,
Phil Jackson

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,sb
Date: 19 Aug 08 - 02:10 AM

looking for Wild Geese recording of Farewell to Nova Scotia. Any ideas

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,Mike the Highlander
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 04:43 AM

Could someone please list the lyrics for the track from In Full Flight > i'll remember you this way? Manus Lunny wrote it, think I remember most of them but not the last verse.

Thanks very much in advance.

Regard,

Mike

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 06:13 AM

Hi Mike - It was written by Mick Fitzgerald, but the lyrics are not listed on the sleeve. I'll try to get them for you in the next day or so, but it's a busy time of year !!

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,Erich
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 11:59 AM

There is one more:
Early Days (rec. Sep/Oct 1988 at STS Studios Dublin)

track list:

A1 The Streetsinger (Tony Small)
A2 Hatch 34 (Mick Fitzgerald)
A3 The Welcome (Small)
A4 Ginny and the Teepee (Eoin O'Duigneain)
A5 Gort na mona (Percy French, new music by Tony Small)
A6 Down our Alley (Small)
B1 Me and my Outboard (Tommy Feeney)
B2 An Spailpin Fanach (Trad.)
B3 Threshers Well/An Tra ban (Duigneain)
B4 The Countdown (Feeney)
B5 The Hay is in the Haggard (Norman King)
B6 Sally free and easy (C. Tawney)

more later (my wife calls for dinner)

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,Erich
Date: 24 Dec 10 - 06:22 PM

Ok, back again, the group are:

Tony Small: voc, guit
Peadar OhUallaigh: flute, voc
Norman King: bodhran, voc, percussion, guitar on B5
Tommy Feeney: voc, guit
Eoin ODuigneain: pipes, low whistle

guests:
Maire Breathnach: fiddle, viola, keyboards
Robbie Brennan: drums
Garvan Gallagher: bass
Sean Howley: bouzouki
Mandy Murphy: backing vocals
Gerry OConnor: banjo, fiddle
Frank Spiers: jews harp
Bill Whelan: 5string banjo

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,Mike the Highlander
Date: 28 Dec 10 - 07:14 AM

@ Kenny - That would be much appreciated Kenny. Really love the song and the album. Saw the lads live many years ago, but no longer have the album so can't remember all the lyrics.

Mike

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 01 Jan 11 - 07:18 AM

A few words I'm not 100% sure about, Mike - I'll put them in brackets, but here's what I'm hearing :

"There were no goodbyes, goodbyes were for strangers,
You turn and you go, don't look over your shoulder,
Still Dublin was easy, [ though it rained all ] the morning,
I was caught between streets , in a grey pencil drawing,
And I can't find a love song , and I don't want to try,
But the break in the clouds was like the light in your eye,
And you woke up in the morning, and I'll remember you that way"

"It was coming on Christmas, there was [ truth in the song ],
My pockets still empty, another year gone,
Still I think I was smiling, though I sure don't know why,
I was running on empty, I'll be there by and by,
So I gazed at the windows like some people do,
But I didn't see nothing, I was thinking of you,
When you woke up in the morning, and I'll remember you that way".

"I was getting much warmer, I'd been walking a while,
The day it was clearing, and the clouds left the sky,
Took a whole lot of drinking to say it's a lie,
Chase the blues away".

"And the whole world passed me, [ traffic gone wild ],
People going nowhere, running on blind,
And just one night with someone, one yesterday,
And nothing to stop me from feeling this way,
And I can't find a love song, and I don't want to try,
The break in the clouds was like the light in your eye,
And you woke up in the morning,and I'll remember you that way"

Happy New Year !!!

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 07:11 PM

@Kenny, many thanks - much appreciated.

Mike

Subject: RE: Track lists for Wild Geese
From: GUEST,Jane Thomas
Date: 04 Jul 17 - 11:35 AM

The first Wild Geese Album recorded in Germany featured the amazin Steve Power on fiddle and almost anything else with strings. He was a close friend and then he just disappeared . Does anyone out there know what happened to him or where he may be. Thank you .