Michael William Balfe Claribel Irish Traditional - Come Back to Erin Volume 2 John McCormack (21 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Michael William Balfe, Claribel, Irish Traditional
Come Back to Erin Volume 2 - John McCormack
Genres: Folk, International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Classical

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. Killarney - John McCormack, Balfe, Michael Will
2. Come Back to Erin - John McCormack, Barnard, Charlotte
3. The Minstrel Boy, folk song - John McCormack, Moore, Thomas
4. My Lagan Love - John McCormack, Campbell, Joseph
5. Dear Little Shamrock - John McCormack, Cherry, Andrew
6. Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms (AKA: My Love's On The - John McCormack, Moore, Thomas
7. Mother Machree (from "Barry of Ballymore") - John McCormack, Ball, Ernest R.
8. The Harp That Once, Thro' Tara's Halls (Tune: Old Irish Air: "Gramachree") - John McCormack, Moore, Thomas
9. Where the River Shannon Flows - John McCormack, Russell, James I.
10. Molly Brannigan - John McCormack, Traditional
11. The Foggy, Foggy Dew, folk song - John McCormack, Fox, C. Milligan
12. The Low Back'd Car - John McCormack, Lover, Samuel
13. My Wild Irish Rose (from A Romance of Athlone) - John McCormack, Ball, Ernest R.
14. It's a Long Way to Tipperary - John McCormack, Judge, Jack
15. Ireland, My Sireland [From Eileen] - John McCormack, Blossom, Henry
16. That Tumble Down Shack in Athlone - John McCormack, Carlo, Monte
17. Sweet Peggy O'Neill - John McCormack, Redding, Joseph P.
18. The Barefoot Trail - John McCormack, Phelps, Marion
19. The Next Market Day, folk song - John McCormack, Traditional
20. A Ballynure Ballad, folk song - John McCormack, Traditional
21. Little Town in the Ould County Down - John McCormack, Carlo, Monte

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CD Details

All Artists: Michael William Balfe, Claribel, Irish Traditional, William Shield, Chauncey / Ball, Ernest Olcott, James [1] Russell, English Traditional, Chauncey Olcott, Jack Judge, Victor Herbert, Monte / Sanders, Alma Carlo, Uda Waldrop, Alvin S. Wiggers, Pascoe, Walter B. Rogers, Josef A. Pasternack, Spencer Clay, Edwin Schneider, John McCormack
Title: Come Back to Erin Volume 2 - John McCormack
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 4/20/2004
Genres: Folk, International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Classical
Styles: Celtic, Nostalgia, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 636943274828, 4006408212157, 503450428122

CD Reviews

The young John McCormack.

John Austin | Kangaroo Ground, Australia | 05/26/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Selected for inclusion in this second John McCormack CD issued by Naxos are Irish songs he recorded between the years 1910 and 1921. Don't expect the John McCormack aged 25 in 1910 to have the interpretative skills evident in his later years, but the voice was already compelling in its unique nasal tenor quality, and recording processes of the time captured it well. The songs themselves are less distinguished. They met the demand for ditties that recalled a long lost homeland for a large population of USA immigrants. McCormack made a fortune by meeting this need, so that performing and recording them enabled him to give up the career in opera that he disliked.These Naxos transfers and remasterings make these very old recordings sound better than in any other incarnation I have ever heard while magically eliminating most of the surface hiss that formerly was so intrusive."