Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem Classic 1963 Concert Restored to Full Length

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Columbia/Legacy has dipped into their vaults and released the complete 1963 Carnegie Hall concert by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

The group had first come to America in 1956 and slowly built their reputation as purveyors of not only traditional Irish music, but also American folk and protest songs. An appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1961 was the breakthrough that brought them to a national audience.

Two years later, on St. Patrick's Day, the group played Carnegie Hall to critical acclaim. The two-hour show was captured on tape but Columbia decided to edit it down to a 38-minute, 11-track LP. Amazingly, the last tracks on the album were not even from the Carnegie Hall show, but rather a show from late-1962.

The Columbia/Legacy release of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in Person at Carnegie Hall: The Complete 1963 Concert restores the whole show to its original glory, including between song dialogue and introductions. To make the package complete, they have also included the two tracks form 1962 that were on the original album, introductory notes by Liam Clancy (the "last man standing" from the original group) and a 3,000-word historic essay by Princeton University's Sean Wilentz.

The full track list for the album is below the cut.

• CD 1
• Intro
• Bold O'Donahue
• Dialogue
• My Johnny Lad
• Dialogue
• Shoals Of Herring
• Haulin' the Bowline
• Dialogue
• Irish Rover
• Dialogue
• Mr. Moses Re - Tooral - I Ay
• Dialogue
• Marie's Wedding
• The Moonshiner
• Dialogue
• Patriot Game
• Kelly, The Boy From Killane
• Johnson's Motor Car
• The West's Awake
• Medley: O'Driscoll (The Host Of The Air); The King Of The Fairies; Eileen Aroon
• Reilly's Daughter
  
• CD 2
• Intro
• Children's Medley: When I Was Young; Shellicky Bookey; Up the Long Ladder; Big Ship Sailing; Ahem! Ahem!; Wallflowers; Mary the Money; Frosty Weather; Man Of Double Deed; The Wren Song; Up the Long Ladder; Some Say the Devil's Dead; The Irish Soldiers; Up the Long Ladder
• Dialogue
• Legion Of the Rearguard
• Dialogue
• Haul Away Joe
• Dialogue
• Bonnie Prince Charlie
• Dialogue
• Galway Bay
• Dialogue
• The Wild Colonial Boy
• The Cobbler
• Dialogue
• The Jolly Tinker
• Dialogue
• A Jug Of Punch
• Dialogue
• Brennan On The Moor
• Dialogue
• The Whistling Gypsy
• Dialogue
• Port Lairge
• The Parting Glass
• The Juice Of The Barley (Recorded November 3, 1962)
• Oro Se Do Bheatha Bhaile (Recorded November 3, 1962.)