Track Listing

1. Seven Drunken Nights
2. Galway Races
3. Old Alarm Clock
4. Colonel Fraser And O'Rourke's Reel
5. Rising Of The Moon
6. McCafferty
7. I'm A Rover
8. Weila Waila
9. Travelling People
10. Limerick Rake
11. Zoological Gardens
12. Fairmoye Lasses And Sporting Paddy
13. Black Velvet Band
14. Poor Paddy On The Railway
15. Seven Deadly Sins
16. Net Hauling Song
17. Nancy Whiskey
18. Many Young Men Of Twenty
19. Paddy's Gone To France/Skylark
20. Molly Bawn
21. Dundee Weaver
22. Irish Navvy
23. Tibby Dunbar
24. Inniskillen Dragoons
25. I Wish I Were Back In Liverpool
26. Go To Sea No More
27. Instrumental Medley
28. Darby O'Leary
29. Cork Hornpipe
30. Peggy Gordon
31. Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe
32. Quare Bungle Rye
33. Flop Eared Mule
34. Poor Old Dicey Riley
35. Whiskey On A Sunday
36. Gentleman Soldier
37. Navvy Boots
38. Maids When You're Young Never Wed An Old Man
39. Rattling Roaring Willie
40. Mrs McGrath
41. Carolan Concerto
42. Parting Glass
43. Muirsheen Durkin
44. Nation Once Again
45. Whiskey In The Jar
46. Old Triangle
47. Pub With No Beer
48. Kelly The Boy From Killane
49. Croppy Boy
50. Sullivan's John
51. Come And Join The British Army
52. Shoals Of Herring
53. Mormon Braes
54. Drink It Up Men
55. Maloney Wants A Drink

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27335 in Music
• Released on: 1993-03-22
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .36 pounds

Customer Reviews

The start of the story. An absolute must have.
The Dubliners formed in 1962 and this double cd-set features the first 4 albums that the band recorded for EMI between 1966 and 1969. All in all 56 essential tracks - digitally remastered - that brought Irish folk music to the masses and helped the band to establish themselves as THE Irish band. This is the original line-up - featuring Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly - and the digital sound helps to appreciate the virtuosity of the playing and the charisma of the singing. "Whisky in the jar", "Nancy whiskey", "Roddy McCorley", "Galway races" and "The auld triangle" are only a few of the timeless classics featured here... timeless classics known to most people in their latest versions played by the Pogues, Thin Lizzy, Metallica, Shane MacGowan & the Popes... Well, that's how everything started. An absolute must have.

Drink it up men, it's long after ten!
I had only previously listened to some pogues cds when i decided to seek out the real thing.
I was not disappointed. Well, there is a lot to take in here, with so many tracks but slowly i realised what an amazing set of songs there are on this cd.
Where do i start? Well, apart from the more obvious titles (to the non -fan anyway), there's Peggy Gordon, with a great vocal from Luke Kelly (I think..), there's Drink It Up Men, a tribute to "the black liquidation with the froth on the top", and The Parting Glass is a popular (to say the least) end of the night tune in Ireland, the version here is Ronny Drew typically craggy style.
Open your ears, open a bottle of the Ginger Lady (or Nancy Whiskey!) and enjoy.

The real deal
This is truly the Real Deal for Folk Music. Listen out for the late (and great)Luke Kelly's soaring voice on the amazing Ewan MaColl's "Bonnie Shoals of Herring" and also "I wish I was back in Liverpool". And, unless I am very much mistaken does Luke not lapse into Scouse brogue for part of the song? Invest in this now and crack open a pint bottle of the dark stuff!