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Post by the Scribe on Dec 26, 2020 3:03:38 GMT
Mickey Newbury - Danny Boy (Live)
Mickey Newbury - Danny Boy (Live)
Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.
And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.
And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me that you love me
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 26, 2020 3:07:52 GMT
This song was a hit for Mickey back in 1971-72. I could listen to him sing all day long. Elvis recorded it later.
~ AMERICAN TRILOGY ~ & ~ DANNY BOY~ Written and sung by Mickey Newbury
"An American Trilogy" is a song arranged by country songwriter Mickey Newbury and made popular by Elvis Presley, who began including the song as part of his regular concert routine in the 1970s, thereby making the song a showstopper. It is a medley of three 19th century songs—"Dixie", a blackface minstrel song that became the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy since the Civil War; "All My Trials", originally a Bahamian lullaby, but closely related to African American spirituals, and well-known through folk music revivalists; and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", the marching song of the Union Army during the Civil War.
Newbury's first recorded the song on his 1971 album Frisco Mabel Joy, and the song featured prominently on his first concert album Live At Montezuma Hall released in 1973.
Presley began performing the song in concert in 1972—a February recording was released by RCA as a single. He performed it in the 1972 documentary, Elvis on Tour, and in his 1973 international satellite telecast "Elvis—Aloha from Hawaii". The song is referenced and partially sung in the Manic Street Preachers' "Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier" from the Everything Must Go album.
The original Mickey Newbury version reached #26 in 1972, and #9 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart. Later in 1972, Elvis Presley's version reached #66, and peaked at #31 on the Easy Listening chart. In 2002, the song was covered by Heavy Metal band Manowar, appearing as the sixth track on their album Warriors of the World. It was also featured on country singer Billy "Crash" Craddock's live album Live -N- Kickin' in 2009. Alwyn Humphreys' arrangement for male choirs is very popular, and features on albums by Cardiff Arms Park Male Choir and Morriston Orpheus Choir.
The Elvis Presley version has been used as the closing number during the Stone Mountain Lasershow in Stone Mountain, Georgia since its inception in the mid-1980s. The song plays during an animation showing Confederate General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War riding through a field containing numerous casualties; he ultimately breaks his sabre in half, with the two halves re-uniting to form the north and south United States as a whole.
Over 465 versions of "An American Trilogy" have been recorded by different artists.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 27, 2020 9:43:56 GMT
LIVE AT THE HERMITAGE
Mickey Newbury : An American Trilogy
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Mickey Newbury is a songwriter most famous for a song he arranged, but did not write. One night in Los Angeles, at a time of national distress over war and race issues in the U.S.A., Newbury spontaneously combined a southern anthem (written by a northerner, D.D. Emmett), a northern anthem (written by a southerner, William Steffe), and a third song that was originally a Jamaican slave song (All My Sorrows). In the audience that night were many celebrities, Odetta, Kristofferson and Streisand among them. The trio of songs brought tears to Odetta's eyes. It came to be called An American Trilogy, and would be adopted by Elvis Presley as the centerpiece of his later concerts. This clip is an extra from LIVE AT THE HERMITAGE, the new Mickey Newbury DVD, and features Marie Rhines on violin. The clip is uploaded with the permission of the Newbury family, and the DVD is available in the cd store at www.mickeynewbury.com
Mickey Newbury Websites:
www.mickeynewbury.com
www.myspace.com/mickeynewbury
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