A Spontaneous Performance Recording

A Spontaneous Performance Recording
Live album by
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
ReleasedAugust 1961
Recorded5 March 1961
GenreIrish folk music
Length30:45
LabelColumbia
CL 1648 (mono)
CS 8448 (stereo)
ProducerBob Morgan
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem chronology
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
(1961) 		A Spontaneous Performance Recording
(1961) 		Hearty and Hellish!
(1962)
Singles from A Spontaneous Performance Recording
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A Spontaneous Performance Recording!: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, sometimes simply called A Spontaneous Performance, is a 1961 collection of traditional Irish folk songs performed by The Clancy Brothers with frequent collaborator Tommy Makem. It was their first album for Columbia Records.[2] The group would continue to record for Columbia for the remainder of the 1960s. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1962 for Best Folk Recording.[3][4][5]

The LP had originally been considered a self-titled album with "A Spontaneous Performance Recording!" merely a description of the record for the cover. It is referred to as The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in the original reviews[6][7][8][9] of the album and for its Grammy Nomination.[10][11] It later became known as A Spontaneous Performance Recording to avoid confusion, because the group already had released a less popular album entitled The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem on the little Tradition Records label that Paddy Clancy ran.

One of the leaders of the American folk music revival, Pete Seeger, played the banjo on the recording. In 2007 on the BBC, influential folk singer and songwriter Christy Moore chose the song, "Brennan on the Moor," from this album as one of his desert island discs. He introduced the song by noting, "The Clancy Brothers changed my life," because through them he discovered a love for Irish folk music.[12]

Reception

A review in Variety praised the album's style as "exciting because it isn't yet overdone." It also lauded the "lively" musical accompaniment of Seeger and Bruce Langhorne and the singing of the live audience on the album. Even though the reviewer noted that the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were only starting to get prominent live gigs at that point, he said already "the group was built along solid pro lines."[13]

The Billboard Magazine review rated the album with four stars and noted its "strong sales potential." After referring to the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem as an "Irish Brothers Four or Kingston Trio," the article praised the group's "delightfully droll manner" and "spirited interpretations" on the recording.[14]

The New York Times lauded the album for its "vigor and drive and charm," but also criticized an apparent speeding up of the recording that "distorts the group's natural sound" and made the singers sound too much like American pop groups.[15]

In a more specialized review of folk albums, D. K. Wilgus argued that this record "demonstrates that general respect for tradition may survive in a stage concert for a major label." He also expressed the opinion that A Spontaneous Performance was at about the same level as the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem's self-titled album on Tradition Records that was released earlier the same year.[16]

Other releases and reissues

In 1961, side one of A Spontaneous Performance Recording was released as an EP, The Moonshiner. Side two was also released in EP format as Tim Finnegan's Wake.[17]

In 2009, Sony Legacy reissued the entire album in mp3 format for download.[18] In 2012 Jasmine Music re-released A Spontaneous Performance as part of the four-album collection on two CDs, Raise a Glass to the Sounds of...The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, which also included the albums, The Rising of the Moon, Come Fill Your Glass with Us, and The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.[19] In addition, selections from the album were released on CD as part of The Clancy Brothers Collection 1956-1962 in late 2013. This compilation also includes the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem's second Columbia record, The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone, as well as the group's earlier Tradition Records albums.[20]

Several songs from this album have appeared on various Clancy Brothers compilation recordings.

Track listing

All songs are traditional and were adapted and arranged by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, except "A Jug of Punch" and The Whistling Gypsy, written by Leo Maguire

Side one
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."The Moonshiner"Tom Clancy2:37
2."The Whistling Gypsy"Tommy Makem3:51
3."My Johnny Lad"Paddy Clancy1:59
4."The Work of the Weavers"Liam Clancy2:23
5."The Old Orange Flute"Tommy Makem3:05
6."Brennan on the Moor"Tommy Makem and Tom Clancy2:32
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Tim Finnegan's Wake" Tommy Makem2:05
2."Port Lairge" Liam Clancy2:37
3."Haul Away Joe" Tom Clancy2:07
4."Young Roddy McCorley" No solos2:32
5."A Jug of Punch"Francis McPeake - arranged by P. KennedyPaddy Clancy3:15
6."Reilly's Daughter" Tommy Makem1:42

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Pop LP's: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem". Billboard Music Week. 73 (31): 28. 7 August 1961.
  2. ^ Morgan, Bob. "A Spontaneous Performance Recording: Album Liner Notes". Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Grammy Awards 1962 (Note: The self-titled album nominated is better known by its subtitle, A Spontaneous Performance)". Awards & Shows. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  4. ^ "A Spontaneous Performance Recording Page". The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Website. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  5. ^ Zhito, Lee (5 May 1962). "Disk Firms Vie for NARAS Honors: RCA Victor Leads List of Grammy Nominations". Billboard Music Week. 74 (18): 4.
  6. ^ Gros (16 August 1961). "Album Reviews: The Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem". Variety. 223 (12): 44.
  7. ^ "Pop LP's: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem". Billboard Music Week. 73 (31): 28. 7 August 1961.
  8. ^ "Folk Trails: Trio Still Popular, If Shook Up". Toronto Daily Star. 16 December 1961. p. 25.
  9. ^ Shelton, Robert (12 August 1962). "Disks: Two Hues". New York Times. pp. X10.
  10. ^ Zhito, Lee (5 May 1962). "Disk Firms Vie for NARAS Honors: RCA Victor Leads List of Grammy Nominations". Billboard Music Week. 74 (18): 4.
  11. ^ "Grammy Awards 1962 (Note: The self-titled album nominated is better known by its subtitle, A Spontaneous Performance)". Awards & Shows. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  12. ^ "Desert Island Discs: Christy Moore". BBC. 17 June 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  13. ^ Gros (16 August 1961). "Album Reviews: The Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem". Variety. 223 (12): 44.
  14. ^ "Pop LP's: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem". Billboard Music Week. 73 (31): 28. 7 August 1961.
  15. ^ Shelton, Robert (12 August 1962). "Disks: Two Hues". New York Times. pp. X10.
  16. ^ Wilgus, D. K. (April–June 1962). "Record Reviews". The Journal of American Folklore. 75 (296): 180.
  17. ^ "Discography: EP Releases". The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  18. ^ "A Spontaneous Performance Recording". Amazon. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  19. ^ "Raise A Glass To The Sounds Of.... Four Original Albums". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  20. ^ "Collection 1956-1962". Amazon. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  21. ^ "A Spontaneous Performance Recording: Album Cover Listing". The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Website. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

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