Sung by Michael McFarlane
Volume III

Description

John McCormack was the most popular singer in the English speaking world in the late teens and twenties. He was the first "classical" singer to reach the general public through his popular and Irish songs. Here is part of the rest of the story- his unrecorded Irish songs. Piano accompaniment by Yi Yan Shao.

Volume III - Track Listing

1. It is Not the Tear (prologue spoken by M. McFarlane - then sung)
( words of the song by T. Moore)
2. The Vale of Avoca (words by C. Jefferys)
3. The Fairies are Dancing (words anon)
4. Moorlough Mary (words by E. Carbery)
5. A Lament (words by A.P. Graves)
6. Dear Dark Head (trans!. by S. Ferguson)
7. The Little Red Lark (words by A.P. Graves)
8. The Fair Hills of Eire 0 (trans!. by C. Hardebeck)
9. The Magpie's Nest (complete/not the fragment) (words anon)
10. The Verdant Braes of Skreen (words anon)
11. How Deep in Love am I (words by H. Boulton)
12. Draherin 0 Machree (Little Brother of my Heart) (trans!. M Hogan)
13. The Darling (words by A.P. Graves)
14. Corrymeela(words by M. O'Neill) from cycle An Irish Idyll)
15. The Song of the Fairy King (words by A.P. Graves)
16. My Love, Oh, She is My Love (trans!. by D. Hyde)
17. The Unspoken Farewell (words by Mrs.Maire Hardebeck)
18. As I Went A - Walking One Morning in Spring (words anon)
19. I'd Roam the World Over with You (words by A.P. Graves)
20. Una Ban (Fair Una) (trans. by C. Hardebeck)
21. Alone, All Alone (words by A.P. Graves)
22. To Eire (words by J.H. Cousins)
23. The Song of the Rose (words by A.P. Graves)
24. The Little Trees (epilogue spoken by Doreen M. McFarlane) (words of the song by G. Johnstone)