philipchevron wrote:Start as you mean to go on department:
St Patrick's Day in Dublin: recorded live in and around Dublin, Ireland on March 17 (Sonologue SL 106) (USA, 1968)
"You are there as Dublin celebrates" boasts the sleeve. It's an audio-verité documentary LP, (playable in "Stereo or HiFi") recorded throughout St Patrick's Day 1967 and featuring everything from High Mass at the Pro-Cathedral to Hurling at Croke Park. And in there somewhere is the boy Chevron and his colleagues from the O'Connell School Boys Choir, heard in brief but admittedly tuneful excerpts from "Dochas Linn Naomh Padraig", "Hail Glorious St Patrick", "O'Donnell Abu" and "The Bold Fenian Men" accompanied by the thrilling rasp of the No. 1 Irish Army Band. There we are on the back sleeve as well - "School boys singing in praise of St Patrick". Aaaaaahhhhh!
It's a hideous artefect, with all the kitsch shamrock 'n' colleens the art department of Sonologue Records (Ohio) could muster but it is, nevertheless my first appearance on record. I mention it because these days I am more relaxed about kitsch and because today, for the first time in almost 40 years, I received a copy of this album in the mail.
RoddyRuddy wrote:
Seems to be one for sale here on the amazon for $25 US:
https://www.amazon.com/Patricks-Dublin- ... B00E009QCY
And I wonder if this is the UK edition of the same, for which somebody wants €30.00:
https://www.discogs.com/Finnegans-Wake- ... se/7090664
