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Mick Moloney
If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews
Genres: International Music, Pop

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. If It Wasn t for the Irish and the Jews
2. Along the Rocky Road to Dublin
3. When McGuinness Gets a Job
4. There s a Typical Tipperary Over Here
5. Mother Malone
6. Twas Only an Irishman s Dream
7. I Didn t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier
8. Sailing Off to the Yankee Land
9. Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
10. Faugh a Ballagh
11. The Old Bog Road
12. Maloney Puts His Name Above the Door
13. When You Come Back and You Will Come Back
14. Are You the O Reilly?

CD Details

All Artists: Mick Moloney
Title: If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Compass Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 9/15/2009
Genres: International Music, Pop
Style: Celtic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 766397452524

Synopsis

Product Description

Musician, singer, anthropologist and musical historian Mick Moloney celebrates the joyous and creative era in American popular song from the early 1890's to the end of vaudeville and the start of the Great Depression on his new release If It Wasn't For the Irish and the Jews. Each of the album's 14 tracks is notable for having been created in a collaboration between Irish and Jewish lyricists and composers.

CD Reviews

Hebraic-Hibernianism at its best

Terence Winch | 12/31/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Mick Moloney, in addition to his many other accomplishments, has become the preeminent curator of a nearly lost world of Irish-American music. His 2006 release (McNally's Row of Flats) brought back to life some of the compositions of the great Ned Harrigan (1844--1911), massively influential and famous in his time, but now almost completely forgotten. It's a great album, as is this new collection of songs that feature brilliant collaborations among various Irish and Jewish artists of the early Tin Pan Alley era. These songs are bursting with wit, vitality, and musical genius, and richly deserve their reinvention by Moloney and an all-star cast of musicians and singers."