The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem In Person at Carnegie Hall: The Complete 1963 Concert

NEW YORK - LANDMARK ST. PATRICK’S DAY CONCERT RECORDING RESTORED TO FULL-LENGTH
ORIGINAL TWO-HOUR PROGRAM ON TWO CDs - WITH 29 CLASSIC MUSIC TRACKS PLUS
DIALOGUES AND INTRODUCTIONS

- Available at both physical and digital retail outlets starting March 3,
2009, through Columbia/Legacy

- Three additional Clancy Brothers live recordings from the early 1960s
available via digital retail on March 3rd:

- The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem In Person at Carnegie Hall 11/3/62;
Hearty & Hellish; A Spontaneous Performance Recording

In the merry coming of springtime, 1963, with John Fitzgerald Kennedy –
our nation’s first and only Irish Catholic president — enjoying his time in
the White House, the rise to fame of the Clancy Brothers (Liam, Paddy and
Tom) and Tommy Makem was a wonder to behold on the American musical
landscape. Their recognition as the premier exponents of authentic Irish song
on these Colonial shores - ballads, sea chanteys, folk songs, drinking tunes,
and traditional fare from near and far, and most of all the songs of
rebellion that have stoked the fires of resistance for four centuries - made
the Clancys the most visible sons of Ireland this side of the auld sod.

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The group’s ascendance to a new pinnacle of popularity and respectability
was affirmed at Carnegie Hall in New York City on St. Patrick’s Day 1963. The
sold-out, overflowing, nearly two-hour concert was recorded by Columbia
Records and issued six months later, almost to the day, as a drastically
resequenced 38-minute, 11-track LP (whose last tracks dated curiously from a
late-1962 concert). Brevity notwithstanding, the record has never been
out-of-print in the Columbia catalog for four and a half decades. “If you
only own one Irish album,” it’s been said, “make it this one.” A landmark, to
be sure, but as Princeton University’s Sean Wilentz writes, “the larger work
of art was lost.”

Segue to We Shall Overcome, Pete Seeger’s equally monumental two-hour
Carnegie Hall concert of 1963. Also issued as a resequenced single LP on
Columbia at the time, it was restored to its full-length glory as an
award-winning double-CD back in 1989. In that same tradition, THE CLANCY
BROTHERS AND TOMMY MAKEM IN PERSON AT CARNEGIE HALL: THE COMPLETE 1963
CONCERT finally restores the night in its entirety on two CDs, complete with
between-song dialogues and introductions, and a bounty of 29 musical tracks.
Among these are two medleys (including the 13-minute “Children’s Medley”) and
the two 1962 concert tracks.

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