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Thomas "Tommy" Makem (4 November 1932 – 1 August 2007) was an internationally celebrated Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He played the long-necked 5-string banjo, tin whistle, low whistle, guitar, bodhrán and bagpipes, and sang in a distinctive baritone. He was sometimes known as "The Bard of Armagh" (taken from a traditional song of the same name) and "The Godfather of Irish Music".
Makem was born and raised in Keady, County Armagh (the "Hub of the Universe" as Makem always said), in Northern Ireland. His mother, Sarah Makem, was an important source of traditional Irish music, who was visited and recorded by, among others, Diane Guggenheim Hamilton, Jean Ritchie, Peter Kennedy and Sean O'Boyle. His father, Peter Makem, was a fiddler who also played the bass drum in a local pipe band named "Oliver Plunkett", after a Roman Catholic martyr of the reign of Charles II of England. His brother and sister were folk musicians also. Young Tommy Makem, from the age of 8, was member of the St. Patrick's church choir for 15 years where he sang Gregorian chant and motets. He didn't learn to read music but he made it in his "own way".
Tommy Makem in concert, 1973. 01. In That Land I Loved So Well. 02. Come By The Hills. 03. Lord of The Dance. 04. Farewell To Carlingford. 05. The Cobbler. 06. William Bloat. 07. The Leaving of Liverpool. 08. The Liar.
Joining Tommy on stage is Cherish the Ladies and Barley Bree. For a beatiuiful version of "Will you Go Lassie, go
Finally on youtube. Regarded by many to be the best version of the late great Tommy Makem's signature song. This recording was played at the Tommy Makem memorial concerts at the Irish festivals summer 2007, shortly after Tommy died on August 1, 2007. The poem at the beginning is "Requiem for the Croppies." Feb 6, 1983, At the National Concert Hall, video companion to the album of the same name.
This tribute was recorded on April 28th, 1984, right before the reunited Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem embarked on their reunion tours in 1984 and 1985.
29th April 2002 Tommy Makem was once a member of the world famous 'Clancy Brothers,' then went on to even more success as one half of 'Makem & Clancy.' He is credited with having expanded the boundaries of Irish folk culture.
"The Parting Glass" is an Irish and Scottish traditional song, often sung at the end of a gathering of friends. It was allegedly the most popular song sung in both Scotland and Ireland before Robert Burns wrote "Auld Lang Syne". This song has a dual heritage as some of the lyrics were quoted in a letter by a Scottish man who was making his way over to Ireland; around this time there were many Scottish settlers arriving in Ireland and so the song was then combined with both cultures. The Irish song is thoughtful and quiet, though the old Scottish version, "Good Night and Joy Be With You All," is quite lively and uses roughly the same melody, an old type of tune called the Scots Measure. The celebrated Irish folk song collector, Colm O Lochlainn, pointed out that The Parting Glass shares i...
THE BUTCHER BOY In London city where I did dwell A butcher boy, I loved right well He courted me, my life away But now with me, he will not stay I wish, I wish, I wish in vain I wish I was a maid again A maid again I ne'er will be 'Till cherries grow on an apple tree I wish my baby it was born And smiling on its daddy's knee And me poor girl to be dead and gone With the long green grass growing over me She went upstairs to go to bed And calling to her mother said "Give me a chair 'till I sit down And a pen and ink 'till I write down" At every word she dropped a tear And at every line cried "Willie dear - Oh, what a foolish girl was I To be led astray by a butcher boy" He went upstairs and the door he broke He found her hanging from a rope He took his knife and he cut her down And in ...
This is my favorite version of "The Parting Glass," taken from their magical performance at Carnegie Hall. At the very beginning you can hear someone laughing, and they are swiftly hushed as the first few notes of this tear jerker fill the room. I do not own this song and all credit goes to the creators. Enjoy!
Enjoy!! (: A1 Johnson's Motor Car 1:48 A2 The Juice Of The Barley 3:12 A3 O'Driscoll 2:15 A4 Reilly's Daughter 1:39 A5 Patriot Game 3:46 A6 Legion Of The Rearguard 2:55 A7 Oro Se Do Bheatha Bhaile 2:21 B1 A Jug Of Punch 3:03 B2 Galway Bay 1:47 B3 Children's Medley 11:53 B4 The Parting Glass 2:17
Live from 1977. National Stadium in Dublin.
The Clancy Brothers and Makem have done many versions of this song, but this is my particular favorite. I could not find it on youtube, so here it is! I do not own this song and all rights go to their respective owners. Enjoy!
Released on the album, Irish Drinking Songs, this was previously unreleased material from the "In Person at Carnegie Hall" album/concert.
Paddy Clancy (of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem) sings the folk song, "Mountain Dew," at the Newport Folk Festival in 1959. He is accompanied by Tommy Makem on the tin whistle. Picture: A newspaper picture of Paddy Clancy from 1957. Please sign the petition to Sony/Columbia to release additional Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem recordings: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/clancybrothers/
Tim Finnegan lived on Walken Street a gentle Irishman tho mighty odd he'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweat and to rise in the world he carried a hod but Tim had a sort of a tippling' way with the love of the liquor Tim was born and to help him on his way each day he'd a drop of the crather every morn CHORUS Whack for the hurrra dance your partner round the floor ye trotters shake isn't it the truth I tell you lots of fun at Finegan's wake One day when Tim was rather full his head felt heavy which made him shake he fell off a ladder and broke his skull and they carried him off a corpse to wake they carried him off in a nice clean sheet and laid him out upon the bed with a gallon of porter by his feet and a noggin' of whiskey by his head CHORUS His friends asse...
The story of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in their own words.Two things you should know. First, my wife is a Flynn on her mother's side, The second is that Tommy Makem was a friend. I would often visit him at his bar, Tommy Makem's Irish Pavilian, in NYC. In particular there was one memorable night with Tommy and the actress Carmelle Quinn, on the occasion of her birthday, that we spent singing on the very stage you see here. It was the night they made me an honorary Irishman.They are all gone now and I miss the joy that they would bring..
Enjoy!! (: Side one: Sung By The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem O Donnell Aboo The Croppy Boy The Rising of the Moon The Foggy Dew The Minstrel Boy The Wind That Shakes The Barley Tipperary Far Away Kelly The Boy From Killanne Kevin Barry Whack Fol The Diddle The Men of The West Eamonn an Chniuic Nell Flaherty's Drake Side two: Brennan On The Moor The Work of The Weavers The Stuttering Lovers Paddy Doyle's Boots The Maid of Fife-E-O The Bard of Armagh The Jug of Punch Roddy McCorley The Barnyards of Delgaty The Castle of Dromore The Bold Tenant Farmer Ballinderry Bungle Rye Eileen Aroon Johnny I Hardly Knew You Record two: Side one: Sung By John McCormack Where The River Shannon Flows My Wild Irish Rose Mother O' Mine Annie Laurie Machushla Killarney Mother Machree The Low Back'd Car...
Enjoy!! (: Side one: Windmills Move Along Fadh Mo Buartha Hares On The Mountain The Hills Of Isle Au Haut Side two: The Town Of Rostrevor Bread And Fishes The Sally Gardens Maggie Pickens The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Enjoy!! (: Side one: Isn't It Grand Boys Mountain Dew Whistling Gypsy Rover Finnegan's Wake Carrickfergus Haul Away Joe Wild Rover Side two: Red Haired Mary Jug Of Punch The Leaving Of Liverpool The Wild Colonial Boys Holy Ground Will You Go Lassie Go
Enjoy!! (: Side one: The Day Of The Clipper The Dawning Of The Day Cruisćin Lán Poem: White Swans And Black Grey October Clouds Red Is The Rose Side two: Bower Madden The Cocky Farmer Morning Glory Clear Away In The Morning The Newry Highwayman The Parting Song
Enjoy!! (: Side one: Mountain Tay Whiskey Is The Life Of Man B For Barney Black Cavalry Four Green Fields Home Boys Home Side two: Old Maid In The Garrett Bard Of Armagh D-Day Dodgers I Once Loved A Lass New South Wales
Enjoy!! (: Side One: Paper Of Pins I Know Where I'm Going As I Roved Out The Cobbler Whiskey YOu're The Devil All Around The Loney O Side two: The Moonshiner Me Grandfather Died Shelly Kee Bookey Around To The Butcher Shop One Two Three The Little Beggarman THe Real Old Mountain Dew The Woman From Wexford I'll Tell My Ma
Last television appearances with all the Clancy Brothers together, as well as Tommy Makem in a separate piece, spring 1990. Soon after this was filmed, Tom was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died on November 7, 1990. 5-part PBS, BBC and RTE documentary on Irish music, "Bringing it all Back Home."
Liam Clancy's final interview filmed for Irish documentary - The Yellow Bittern. Here he talks to Paul Byrne for http://www.Movies.ie. In the interview he talks about The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Maken and their huge success worldwide, where they outsold the Beatles and played for JFK. The documentary was released in cinemas in 2009 is directed by Alan Gilsenan. More more on Irish cinema visit http://www.Movies.ie
Tom Clancy, Pat Clancy, Liam Clancy, and Tommy Makem were three brothers and a close friend who left their native Ireland in the mid-'50s and came to the United States. All four had some experience in the theater in Ireland, and came to New York City hoping to find work as actors. However, they were also gifted musicians and strong singers, and they soon began performing traditional folk songs from Ireland in Greenwich Village nightspots. Their fame quickly spread, and the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem brought the music of Ireland to listeners all across America (and around the world), sparking a new interest in folk music in the process. The Story of the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem is a documentary that looks at the remarkable career of this musical foursome, featuring interviews with t...
The Clancy Brothers influence on Bob Dylan. The Clancy Brothers were contemporaries of Bob Dylan, and they became friends as they played the clubs of Greenwich Village in New York in the early 1960s. Howard Sounes in his biography of Dylan describes how Dylan listened to the Clancys singing Irish rebel songs like "Roddy McCorley" which he found fascinating, not only terms of their melodies but also their themes, structures and storytelling techniques. Although the songs were about Irish rebels, they reminded Dylan of American folk heroes. He wanted to write songs on similar themes and with equal depth. Dylan stopped Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem in the street one day in early 1962 and insisted on singing a new song he had written to the tune of "Brennan On The Moor," a song from the eponym...
A feature documentary unveiling the life of the legendary Liam Clancy, the Irish folk singer who with his brothers and Tommy Makem had musical success in Europe and North America. Clancy was also an established actor, on both stage and screen highlighted by his Canadian Emmy Award. The footage includes interviews with Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Bob Dylan, Oscar Brand, Odetta, Josh White Jr. and many others.
RIP Paddy Clancy, 1922 - 1998, oldest of the Clancy Brothers. Aired early 1999 on Ireland's Gaelic station.
Rare collaboration (of sorts) between the Clancy Brothers and the Dubliners. Paddy, Tom, Liam Clancy, Tommy Makem accompany Ronnie Drew, Barney McKenna, John Sheahan, Sean Cannon w/ special guest Paddy Reilly. April 28, 1984, 3 months after Luke Kelly died. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were about to embark on Reunion tours and they started it off with this 90 minute appearance special on Ireland's late Late Show. For more information, check out the first full length biography on the group, "The Clancy Brothers: The Men Behind the Sweaters" at clancybrothersbook.com and amazon.com
Come all ye dry land sail-i-ars and listen to my song
It's only forty verses and I won't detain you's long
It's all about the adventures of this old Lisburn tar
Who sailed as man before the mast on the good ship
Calibar
Now the Calibar was a spanking craft, pitch bottomed
for and aft
Her helm, it stuck out far behind and her wheel was a
great big shaft
With half a gale to fill her sail, she'd do a knot an
hour
She's the fastest craft on the Lagan Canal and she's
only one horse power
Now, the captain was a strapping lad and he stood just
four foot two
His eyes was red and his nose was green and his cheeks
was a prussian blue
He wore a leather medal that he won in the Crimea War
And the captain's wife was the passenger cook on the
good ship Calibar
Now, the captain say to me 'Me lad, look here, me lad'
says he
'Would you's like to be a sail-i-ar and sail the raging
sea?
Would you's like to be a sail-i-ar on foreign seas to
roll
For we're under orders from Portadown with a half a ton
of coal'
It was early next morning, the weather, it being
sublime
When passing under the old Queen's Bridge, we heard the
Albert's chime
When going along the gaswork straits, a very dangerous
part
We ran ahole on a lump of coal that wasn't marked down
on the chart
Then all became cunfuse-i-en and the stormy winds did
blow
The bos'n slipped on an orange peel, fell into the hold
below
'Put on more speed', the captain cried 'for we are
sorely pressed'
But the engineer from the bank replied 'The horse is
doing his best'
Then we all fell into the water and we all let out a
roar
There was a farmer standing there and he threw us the
end of his galloses
And he pulled us all ashore
No more I'll be a sail-i-ar or sail the raging main
And the next time I go to Portadown, I'll go by the