Top o' the Morning: His Irish Collection

Top o' the Morning: His Irish Collection

by Bing Crosby
Top o' the Morning: His Irish Collection

Top o' the Morning: His Irish Collection

by Bing Crosby

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Overview

Of the many musical genres Bing Crosby tackled, he probably felt closest to the Irish songs, many of which he must have heard when he was growing up in an Irish-American home. Crosby recorded 25 Irish-themed songs between 1940 and 1952, both traditional and newly written, and they appeared originally on singles, including the gold-selling Top Ten hits "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)," "MacNamara's Band," and "Galway Bay." In the LP era, the songs were gathered onto two albums, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling and Shillelaghs and Shamrocks, the latter becoming a best-seller in 1958. Top o' the Morning: His Irish Collection, a 24-track, 72-plus-minute disc, contains the contents of both those albums, the rarity "Rosaleen," and the original recording of "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral," unissued since the 1944 single. Within the Irish context, there are warm ballads and sprightly marches, and Crosby handles them all with ease. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date: 02/27/1996
Label: Mca
UPC: 0008811140625
Rank: 7652

Tracks

  1. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
  2. MacNamara's Band
  3. Galway Bay
  4. Top o' the Morning
  5. Rosaleen
  6. How Can You Buy Killarney?
  7. It's the Same Old Shillelagh
  8. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)
  9. The Rose of Tralee
  10. Dear Old Donegal
  11. Danny Boy
  12. St. Patrick's Day Parade
  13. I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
  14. The Donovans
  15. Where the River Shannon Flows
  16. Eileen
  17. With My Shillelagh Under My Arm
  18. My Girl's an Irish Girl
  19. That Tumbledown Shack in Athlone
  20. Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan
  21. The Isle of Innisfree
  22. Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?
  23. Did Your Mother Come from Ireland?
  24. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Bing Crosby   Primary Artist,Vocals

Technical Credits

Gerald Morrison   Composer
Frank Driggs   Photography
Shamus O'Connor   Composer
Arthur Colahan   Composer
Dr. Demento   Photography
Victor Herbert   Composer
Fred Grant   Composer
Ernest R. Ball   Composer
James Royce Shannon   Composer
Perry Botkin   Composer
Hy Heath   Composer
Preston Foster   Composer
James Van Heusen   Composer
Mort Fryberg   Composer
Michael Carr   Composer
Monte Carlo   Composer
Al Goodhart   Composer
Alma Sanders   Composer
Paul Elmore   Remastering
Joseph Hamilton Kennedy   Composer
Vartan   Art Direction
John Lange   Composer
Johnny Burke   Composer
Charles Glover   Composer
Richard Farrelly   Composer
Alicia Adelaide Needham   Composer
George L. Geifer   Composer
Freddie Grundland   Composer
Richard Pasco   Composer
Wayne Knight   Photography
Guy Bonham   Composer
Max Liebman   Composer
Mordaunt Spencer   Composer
Ray Wallace   Composer
Sylvia Fine   Composer
Joseph Kennedy   Composer
Gary Graff   Composer
Francis Fahy   Composer
Thomas Westendorf   Composer
Frederick Edward Weatherly   Composer
John J. Stamford   Composer
Steve Graham   Composer
Pat White   Composer
Jimmy Kennedy   Composer
Andy McKaie   Coordination,Compilation Producer
Steve Lasker   Engineer
Geary Chansley   Photography
Bill O'Brien   Composer
Ted Steels   Composer
Red Latham   Composer
Wamp Carlson   Composer
Tot Seymour   Composer
Chauncey Olcott   Composer
Jack Popplewell   Composer
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