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Danny Boy | 
| Artist: John Mcdermott
Label: EMI Import
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 118276
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077775477221
EAN: 0077775477221
ASIN: B00000721R
Release Date: June 19, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Green Fields of France | | • | By Yon Bonnie Banks (Loch Lomond) | | • | Danny Boy | | • | Last Rose of Summer | | • | And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda | | • | Old House | | • | Faded Coat of Blue | | • | Rose of Tralee | | • | Sun Is Burning | | • | Christmas in the Trenches | | • | Minstrel Boy | | • | Auld Lang Syne | | • | Danny Boy [Acappella] |
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Album Details
Scottish-born, Canadian-raised Celtic tenor John Mc Dermott's 1998 release for Angel honors those who fought & died in World War I. Features a blend of traditional Irish numbers and warm ballads, including the title track, 'Christmas in the Trenches', 'Auld Lang Syne', 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' & nine more.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 BRAVO! August 25, 1999
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
This CD is wonderful! I love it more every time I listen to it. The stories in the songs touch the soul and no one can sing them better and convey the emotion than Mr. McDermott. And if you get the chance to see him perform in person , don't miss it---a more glorious voice you will never hear, nor a nicer person will you ever meet.
Rich, moving, and magnificent. March 9, 1999
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
John McDermott's 'Danny Boy' is a very special cd. As with his other recordings, John captures the spirit and the meaning of the music with an infectious passion that stirs the listener very deeply. The people he sings about are very real, their situations believable, their feelings human. He puts the blood and breath back into their lives and washes away time with the fresh tears of his audience. You can't help but feel for the broken souls of Galipoli in 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda', or feel John's abiding love for his deceased father in 'The Old Man'. I have the priveledge of knowing John McDermott. I know him as a caring, down-to-earth individual with a heart as warm as his music. When I hear him sing I know that behind that incredible voice he truly feels the music. He intimately knows both the people in the songs and the throngs that pause to listen.
His music brings tears to my eyes. July 4, 1998
tduguay@together.net (St. Johnsbury, Vermont)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I discovered John McDermott when I visited Halifax five years ago. I purchased DANNY BOY because that was a song that I remembered hearing my brother play on his trumpet when I was growing up. I was moved to tears by the selections on this recording. As a history teacher, I found that such songs as AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA and CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES brought a whole new life to the "forgotten war." I have used both songs during the unit that I teach on The Great War. I also have developed a love for McDermott's songs of Scotland. Listening to him sing, I feel that I must stand someday on the banks of Loch Lomond. I feel a tug toward the home of my MacLeod and MacAskill ancestors. Of course, the lyrics alone would not make these songs effective. I love McDermott's voice. I wish that I were educated in the area of music appreciation so that I could find the right words to describe his voice. It fills the air around me, and it fills my soul. I purchased this recording as a cassette tape and have played it so often that I have worn the tape out and need to replace it. I can't think of a higher recommendation than that! I went to Nova Scotia in search of my roots and found McDermott instead. It was definitely worth the visit.
McDermott can outsing all other Irish tenors put together! July 12, 1999
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
No one can put more feeling into an Irish melody than John McDermott. He's at the top of my list.
As smooth as the finest Scottish blend. April 27, 2000
Joseph Haschka (Glendale, CA USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If one's musical tastes encompass "Irish" tenors, then this offering by John McDermott is positively a "must" (though his land of birth is Scotland, not the Emerald Isle, and he currently resides in Canada).McDermott's renditions of the old standbys ""The Rose of Tralee", "Danny Boy", "By Yon Bonnie Banks (Loch Lomond)", "The Last Rose of Summer" and "Auld Lang Syne" are as smooth as the finest blend of Scottish whiskey, and will surely bring a tear to the eye (especially if under the influence of said liquid). However, the single best reason to buy this CD is the track, "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", a heartrending ballad of a young Aussie soldier who fights, and is horribly maimed, during one of World War I's major fiascoes undertaken by British Empire troops, the Galipolli Campaign. It's a long piece - over 8 minutes - but if you aren't singing along with John after having heard the song a few times, then you've no heart whatsoever.
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