by Gurrier Wed May 31, 2006 10:25 am
Eyeball_Kid wrote:http://www.rte.ie/laweb/smil/t03/t03i_lkelly_hd_tv.smil
Fantastic. I've just been learning this song and reading up alot on the poet Patrick Kavanagh of late actually.
Can this video actually be downloaded at all or just streamed?
Here's a small bit of information about the poem and how Luke Kelly ended up making it famous as a song I found at
http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics ... -road.htmlNotes: This song was recorded and popularized by the great Luke Kelly of the Dubliners in the 1960s. The words, written by Paddy Kavanagh, were set to the traditional air 'Fainne Gael an Lae' (The Dawning of the Day). This poem was first published in 1946 under the name "Dark haired Myriam ran away".
Notes from a post on Digital Tradition:
Both Ewan McVicar and Arthur Johnstone claim it was Luke Kelly who married the tune to the words. Luke's own account seems to contradict this:
[1994:] Luke told the following story in an interview in 1980: 'I was sitting in a pub in Dublin, The Bailey, and as you know in the old days - it's changed a bit now - it was known as a literary pub, an artistic pub. I happened to be sitting there in the same company with Patrick Kavanagh and one or two other poets, and someone asked him to recite a poem, which he did, and then someone asked me to sing a song which I did. Being in the presence of the great man I was very nervous. Then he leaned over to me and said in that sepulchral voice of his - he could hardly get his voice out, he was very old ... it was just the year before he died - and he said 'You should sing my song,' and I said 'What's that, Mr Kavanagh?' and he said 'Raglan Road''. So he gave me permission. I got permission from the man himself.' (Geraghty, Luke Kelly 38f)
There is a recording of Kavanagh himself singing 'Raglan Road' in the RTE Radio archive. Proof enough that he conceived his verses as a song. The line endings 'at the dawning of the day' are also proof of the air he had in mind.
[quote="Eyeball_Kid"]http://www.rte.ie/laweb/smil/t03/t03i_lkelly_hd_tv.smil[/quote]
Fantastic. I've just been learning this song and reading up alot on the poet Patrick Kavanagh of late actually.
Can this video actually be downloaded at all or just streamed?
Here's a small bit of information about the poem and how Luke Kelly ended up making it famous as a song I found at
http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics ... -road.html
[quote]Notes: This song was recorded and popularized by the great Luke Kelly of the Dubliners in the 1960s. The words, written by Paddy Kavanagh, were set to the traditional air 'Fainne Gael an Lae' (The Dawning of the Day). This poem was first published in 1946 under the name "Dark haired Myriam ran away".
Notes from a post on Digital Tradition:
Both Ewan McVicar and Arthur Johnstone claim it was Luke Kelly who married the tune to the words. Luke's own account seems to contradict this:
[1994:] Luke told the following story in an interview in 1980: 'I was sitting in a pub in Dublin, The Bailey, and as you know in the old days - it's changed a bit now - it was known as a literary pub, an artistic pub. I happened to be sitting there in the same company with Patrick Kavanagh and one or two other poets, and someone asked him to recite a poem, which he did, and then someone asked me to sing a song which I did. Being in the presence of the great man I was very nervous. Then he leaned over to me and said in that sepulchral voice of his - he could hardly get his voice out, he was very old ... it was just the year before he died - and he said 'You should sing my song,' and I said 'What's that, Mr Kavanagh?' and he said 'Raglan Road''. So he gave me permission. I got permission from the man himself.' (Geraghty, Luke Kelly 38f)
There is a recording of Kavanagh himself singing 'Raglan Road' in the RTE Radio archive. Proof enough that he conceived his verses as a song. The line endings 'at the dawning of the day' are also proof of the air he had in mind.[/quote]
