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Very nice! Gaelic, right? Do you know the English name of the song and the background? It's beautiful.
Yes, it's Gaelic. The group is Anuna and the lead performer there is the guy who wrote it: Michael McGlynn. "Fionnghuala" is a woman's name. It's been used to name girls for over a thousand years and the name is still used in Ireland today.
8) There is a place where they drink more than the Irish...where they're ruder and dumber than the English...Scotland. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/iunzrwhOK0Q?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe>
OK...I can't cover for this stooge any longer. He's known as the Bad Piper, and he first showed up on Australia's Got Talent... <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/J4I59w3ISzA?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Almost St. Patrick's Day Here's Paddy and the Rats <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lC44X0ixzEU?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0"></iframe> The Rumjacks <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tDTQQWSmo8s?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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Father Ray Kelly, Irish priest, sings "Hallelujah" on Ireland late night TV: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jEHb5-lYYLs" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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The final performance of the Glenn Miller orchestra was for the movie Orchestra Wives in 1942. It was also the final performance of Marion Hutton with the Modernaires. Col. Miller was killed flying over the English Channel to join his military orchestra in December 1944... <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rDnKaHHe0Rw?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0"></iframe>
You there is one good thing that came out of the English occupation of Ireland for a couple hundred years...we were forced to give up Gaelic as our language. Of course being hard headed the Irish still try to maintain some presence of Gaelic in the culture, but when we started to leave Ireland it was much better than we all spoke English, we assimilated faster.
:idea: :idea: We Americans were good for the English language too. Because of us, English became the international language of computers, transportation and money. French is the official international language of diplomacy, but in truth, English is mostly used there too. Another reason for the French to hate us.... :twisted:
Here is Marion Hutton's younger sister. By the end of WWII, she was the most popular actress/singer in the world. More popular than Dorothy Lamour or Dinah Shore. She later fell on hard times and lived in a convent. She's mostly forgotten now, but back then she was special. This is Betty Hutton... <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ClGNm89GZBE?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0"></iframe>
This song goes out to my new granddaughter and great-grandchild who're on the way into this world. My mother used to rock me to sleep singing this song... <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Sr6w_wU3RzQ?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0"></iframe>
The news out of South Bend is so depressing, that I think I'll just play more music. Here's something from February 22, 1958... <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZLV4NGpoy_E?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Jim, that was a dark period in our history as evidenced by one person in the audience. While most everyone was dancing and clapping to the music of one of the most talented musicians of that time, there was one guy with a frown on his face just standing there. I can just imagine the racist thoughts in his head.
:idea: The biggest problem for black artists back then was just getting on the air. Many radio stations in the south refused to play black artists at all and substituted white artists in their place. I remember my cousins from Florida, Nancy and Barbara, coming out here (California) to spend the summer. They were Pat Boone fans and they were under the impression that he was the biggest star in America. My brother and I couldn't believe it. Boone was nobody out here, and when we checked the records that they had brought with them, it was all music written by Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Little Richard. Rock & Roll itself was an invention of white artists like Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley to get "black music" on the air in acceptable ways. Like Jackie Robinson in baseball, popular music played a huge part in finally bringing the Civil War to an end...