"was listed at No.208 on the 2004 Rolling Stone magazine's feature, The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Them (band) Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard ""Gloria"" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career. The original five member band consisted of Morrison, Alan Henderson, Ronnie Milling, Billy Harrison and Eric Wrixon. The group was marketed in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Them scored two UK hits in 1965 with ""Baby, Please Don't Go"" (UK #10) and ""Here Comes the Night"" (UK #2;"
"Van Morrison Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer. His professional career began as a teenager in the late 1950s playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Van Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic ""Gloria"". His solo career began under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single ""Brown"
"with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting at its September Honors & Awards ceremony. Footnotes Bibliography Van Morrison Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer. His professional career began as a teenager in the late 1950s playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Van Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic ""Gloria"". His solo career began"
"The Freshmen (band) The Freshmen were among the most popular Irish showbands of the 1960s and 1970s. They specialised in recreating the complex vocal harmonies of international acts such as The Beach Boys and The 5th Dimension. They had nine top 20 hit singles in Ireland, including a reworking of The Rivingtons' song ""Papa Oom Mow Mow"", featuring the deep voice of lead singer, Derek Dean. The Freshmen were formed in 1962 in Larne, Co. Antrim in Northern Ireland. The initial line-up changed over the nearly two decades of the band's existence as members came and went. Apart from Derek"
"their lives at risk. He was replaced by Johnny Brown, who in turn was replaced by Dave Monks until Stephen Travers eventually became the band's permanent bass player. In late 1974, the Miami Showband's song ""Clap Your Hands and Stomp Your Feet"" (featuring O'Toole on lead vocals) reached number eight in the Irish charts. The 1975 line-up comprised four Catholics and two Protestants. They were: lead vocalist and keyboard player Fran O'Toole (28, Catholic), guitarist Anthony ""Tony"" Geraghty (24, Catholic) from Dublin, trumpeter Brian McCoy (32, Protestant) from Caledon, County Tyrone, saxophonist Des McAlea (aka ""Des Lee""), 24, a Catholic"
"toured with a line-up including himself (vocals and keyboards), Billy McCoy (guitars), Luca Nardi (bass) and Tom Wagener (drums). The band also recorded a studio album and were planning a live concert DVD. Wrixon died on 13 July 2015 in Italy at the age of 68. Eric Wrixon Eric Wrixon (29 June 1947 – 13 July 2015) was a musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a founding member of Them and Thin Lizzy. He came up with the band name ""Them"" (from the 1954 sci-fi film ""Them!""), but as he was a minor his parents declined to sign a recording"
"Eric Wrixon Eric Wrixon (29 June 1947 – 13 July 2015) was a musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a founding member of Them and Thin Lizzy. He came up with the band name ""Them"" (from the 1954 sci-fi film ""Them!""), but as he was a minor his parents declined to sign a recording contract on his behalf and he was replaced in July 1964 prior to recording with the band. By August 1965, he had completed his studies and very briefly returned to Them. Wrixon was next a member of Belfast R&B group The People and probably played on"
"In 1954 Joe and two of his friends, Sean Lucey and Theo Cahill formed a dance band which they called The Dixielanders. This was later to be shortened to The Dixies and in the 1960s became one of the best known showbands in Ireland. During the 1960s a number of other musicians joined the band and some left but the most significant was the arrival of vocalist Brendan O'Brien in the late 1960s. In 1968 the band had their greatest success when their version of Leapy Lees ""Little Arrows"" shot to No.1 in the Irish singles chart. During the late"
"and Them. Once the singer asked a fellow if the English pronunciation of the songs was right. The chap had no problem with that. Over the years, many changes in the band's lineup has occurred, but Legierse and Van Hamersveld have been at the core of the band. At the celebrationparty of George becoming 50 years old Hans had arranged a drummer, which George didn't recognise until he spoke some words. As a surprise it was actually the first drumsplayer Dick Visser himself! In 2006 Susan Langeveld joined the band for a short time. That was a chance to add"
"Tom Mulligan, Finbar Furey and Ted Furey (his father), Des O'Connor, John Joe Gannon and John Joe (father and son box players frοm Horseleap, Co Westmeath), Patrick Keane (James Keane's father), Seán Keane (James Keane's brother), and Mick O'Connor. Sonny also frequented John Kelly's shop at the end of Capel Street, Dublin, usually to discuss the intricacies of tunes, as customers came and went. Sonny was one of the original musicians selected by Seán Ó Riada in 1960 to perform music for the play ""The Song of the Anvil"" by Bryan MacMahon, and subsequently became one of the original members"
"1963, as well as songs recorded by Petula Clark and Tom Jones. Elaine Murtagh Elaine Murtagh (born Elaine Patricia Murtagh, 1940, County Cork, Ireland) is an Irish singer, songwriter and a member of The Avons, a pop vocal group popular in the 1950s and early 1960s. Murtagh was a member of The Avons with her sister-in-law, Valerie Murtagh. Towards the end of her singing career she moved into songwriting; the best known of which is Dance On!, a hit record for both The Shadows in 1962 and Kathy Kirby in 1963, which she wrote with Valerie and Ray Adams. She"
"Eire Apparent Eire Apparent were a band from Northern Ireland, noted for launching the careers of Henry McCullough and Ernie Graham, and for having Jimi Hendrix play on, and produce, their only album. The origins of the group stretch back to early '60s Belfast band Tony & The Telstars, which featured lead guitarist Rod Demick (born Roderick Demick, 1947, Prestatyn, Flintshire, North Wales), drummer Davy Lutton (born William David Lutton, 1946, Belfast), lead vocalist and guitarist George O'Hara and bassist Chris Stewart (born Eric Christopher Stewart, 1946, Belfast, Co Antrim). During 1965, Demick departed to join local R'n'B group The"
"Liam Clancy William ""Liam"" Clancy (; 2 September 1935 – 4 December 2009) was an Irish folk singer and actor from Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. He was the youngest and last surviving member of the influential folk group the Clancy Brothers, who are regarded as Ireland's first pop stars. They recorded 55 albums, achieved global sales of millions and appeared in sold-out concerts at such prominent venues as Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. Liam was generally considered to be the group's most powerful vocalist. Bob Dylan regarded him as the greatest ballad singer ever, whilst Gay Byrne described him"
"""Gold Star Award"" on RTÉ's ""Reach For the Stars"" television programme. In early 1973, Billy MacDonald (aka ""Billy Mac"") took over as the group's frontman when the Simon brothers quit the band. The following year, Fran O'Toole became the band's lead vocalist after Mick Roche (Billy Mac's replacement) was sacked. O'Toole was noted for his good looks and popularity with female fans. was described by the Miami Showband's former bass guitarist, Paul Ashford, as having been the ""greatest soul singer"" in Ireland. Ashford had been asked to leave the band in 1973, for complaining that performing in Northern Ireland put"
"Philip Chevron Philip Ryan (17 June 1957 – 8 October 2013), professionally known as Philip Chevron, was an Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist and record producer. He was best known as the lead guitarist for the celtic punk band The Pogues and as the frontman for the 1970s punk rock band The Radiators from Space. Upon his death in 2013, Chevron was regarded as one of the most influential figures in Irish punk music. Chevron grew up in Santry, a suburb of Dublin. Beginning in the late 1970s, he was lead singer and co-founder of the punk rock group The Radiators"
"March 1964 at The County Hall in Monaghan. McCullough left in 1966 and was replaced by Pete Cresswell as lead guitarist from London, who originally had played on a hit record in 1961 by Bobby Angelo and the Tuxedos called ""Babysitting"". McDermott left in early 1968 and was replaced by Mal Kearns on tenor saxophone, vocals (born Malachy Kearns). Barry Scully left in early 1969, and was replaced by Davy Quinn until the band split in April 1969. Gene and The Gents Gene and The Gents were an Irish showband from Enniskillen, who achieved chart success with tracks including ""The"
"Six (band) Six were a short-lived Irish pop group who formed on the television programme ""Irish Popstars"" in 2002. The programme aired on RTÉ One on Sunday nights in the autumn and winter of 2001-02. The band were signed to Simon Cowell under BMG Records UK and managed by Louis Walsh who also appeared as a judge on the show. Their first single, ""There's a Whole Lot of Loving Going On"", is currently the fastest and third-biggest selling single in Irish history. Sinéad Sheppard, Emma O'Driscoll, Kyle Anderson, Sarah Keating, Andy Orr and Liam McKenna were the winners of the"
"Northern Ireland. His mother, Sarah Makem, was an important source of traditional Irish music, who was visited and recorded by, among others, Diane Guggenheim Hamilton, Jean Ritchie, Peter Kennedy and Sean O'Boyle. His father, Peter Makem, was a fiddler who also played the bass drum in a local pipe band named ""Oliver Plunkett"", after a Roman Catholic martyr of the reign of Charles II of England. His brother and sister were folk musicians also. Young Tommy Makem, from the age of 8, was a member of the St. Patrick's church choir for 15 years where he sang Gregorian chant and"
"The Springfields The Springfields were a British pop-folk vocal trio who had success in the early 1960s in the UK, US and Ireland. They included singer Dusty Springfield and her brother, record producer Tom Springfield, along with Tim Feild, who was replaced by Mike Hurst. The trio formed in 1960, when Mary ""Dusty"" O'Brien, who had been a member of all-girl singing trio The Lana Sisters, joined her brother Dion O'Brien and Tim Feild, who had been working as a duo, ""The Kensington Squares"". Dion became Tom Springfield, and Mary became Dusty Springfield. Tom Springfield was a songwriter and arranger"
"them to leave when they started playing music the church viewed as Satanic. Eventually, Patrick's younger brother Josh joined the band. He now serves as the band's lead vocalist and primary songwriter, though started as the band's drummer. The band went through line-up changes, including the addition of Eddie Ortiz as vocalist, and began playing local and regional shows, which garnered the attention of musicians in other Georgia-based Christian rock bands. It was through these meetings that the additions of Mike Jensen (guitar), Matt Davis (guitar), and John Giddens (synthesizer) took place. Ortiz left the group in 2001 but does"
"the revival were the Greenwich Village folksingers, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, whom ""Billboard Magazine"" listed as the eleventh best-selling folk musicians in the United States. The group, which consisted of Paddy Clancy, Tom Clancy, Liam Clancy, and Tommy Makem, predominantly sang English-language, Irish folk songs, as well as an occasional song in Irish Gaelic. Paddy Clancy also started and ran the folk-music label Tradition Records, which produced Odetta's first solo LP and initially brought Carolyn Hester to national prominence. Pete Seeger played the banjo on their Grammy-nominated 1961 album, ""A Spontaneous Performance Recording"", and Bob Dylan later cited"
"wide range of performers, like Gene Pitney, Kenneth McKellar, Louis Armstrong and Mantovani. Solomon also started managing a group, The Bachelors, a trio from Dublin, specialising in close-harmony versions of evergreens. The Bachelors were very successful in the mid-1960s, and scored seventeen British top fifty hits, 8 of which reached the top ten between 1963 and 1967. The Bachelors' success encouraged Solomon to start managing other artists as well. At first mostly Irish and Northern Irish artists, like Them, The Dubliners and David McWilliams, but after a short while he also took others under his wing. One of the greatest"
"The Miami Showband The Miami Showband were an Irish showband in the 1960s and 1970s led by singer Dickie Rock and later by Fran O'Toole. They had seven number one records on the Irish singles chart. Band members Fran O'Toole, Tony Geraghty, and Brian McCoy were killed in the Miami Showband killings in 1975 during The Troubles when returning from a performance in County Down, Northern Ireland. The band was established in Dublin in 1962 by impresario Tom Doherty. He recruited an existing group, the Downbeats Quartet, comprising Joe Tyrell (piano), Tony Bogan (drums), Clem Quinn (guitar), and Martin Phelan"
"with the song ""Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat"". They appeared twice at the Royal Albert Hall and toured with Cliff Richard, Adam Faith, and Morecambe & Wise. The song ""You've Got What it Takes"" became a Top 10 hit in Ireland in 1960. When Dusty Springfield left the Lana Sisters she joined her brother Tom Springfield and another friend to make The Springfields. She went solo in 1963. The Lana Sisters The Lana Sisters were a British vocal group formed by Iris Long in 1958, along with Lynne Abrams. They put an advert in ""The Stage"" for a"
"and television programs, Makem and Clancy had three top ten singles in Ireland, including the number one hit, ""And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda."" Upon Liam Clancy's death in 2009, Irish broadcaster and writer Shay Healy noted about the group: ""America had Elvis, Britain had The Beatles—Ireland had Makem and Clancy."" After initially achieving fame with The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem began a solo career in 1969. After Tommy left, the Clancy Brothers began scaling back their busy touring schedule to the point that, by the mid-70s, they were touring only part of the year. When not touring with his"
"rock music in Britain. In the 1960s being part of a 'Showband' was essentially the only way a professional musician in Ireland could make a living. Van Morrison, Henry McCullough and Rory Gallagher started working in Irish showbands, but went on to put Ireland on the rock music map. Van Morrison achieved international success in the 1960s with the beat group Them before launching a very successful solo career that is still going strong in its fourth decade. Rory Gallagher formed the blues rock trio Taste and went on to achieve critical acclaim in his solo career which lasted until"
"of his British contemporaries"". The band released their first album, ""The Angry Young Them"", in June 1965 (UK) and it appeared in the USA on Parrot Records in July. But Them's next single, ""One More Time"", chosen by Phil Solomon, failed – according to Billy Harrison because it never constituted single material. In July 1965, the band added English drummer Terry Noon and Scottish lead guitarist Joe Baldi (born Joseph Baldi, 10 March 1943, in La Spezia, Italy) but they left in September. Their second album, ""Them Again"", was released in January 1966 in the UK and in April 1966"
"The Permanent Cure The Permanent Cure is an Irish folk group. The songs commute between Irish folk, bluegrass, country and roots music. ""The Permanent Cure"" was formed in 1976 on St. Stephen's Green in Dublin, Ireland. The band's members were George Kaye, who was singer/songwriter, was playing on fiddle and on guitar, Dermot O'Connor, who was singer/songwriter, was playing on mandolin and on guitar, Leo Gillespie, who was singer/songwriter, was playing on guitar and blues harp and Pat Gibbs, who was singer, and was playing on clarinet, saxophone, piano and chromatic harmonica. They appeared on prime time in Irish Television"
"Show"" host, Gay Byrne, in a retrospective interview in 1984. ""Billboard Magazine"" reported that the group was outselling Elvis Presley in Ireland, adding that this was ""a most unusual situation"" for folk singers. In 1964, almost one third of all the albums sold in Ireland were Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem records. The 1960s continued to be a successful decade with the release of approximately two albums per year, all of which sold millions of copies. In 1963 they made a prestigious televised appearance in front of President John F. Kennedy. Makem rewrote an old song, ""We Want No Irish"
"of Bob Dylan when they both were going out with two sisters in New York. He performed live for United States President John F. Kennedy. In 1964, thirty percent of all albums sold in Ireland were Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem records. Although better known for their full-length albums, the Clancy Brothers' single, ""The Leaving of Liverpool"" (from the album, ""The First Hurrah!""), which featured Liam in the lead, reached the number six spot on the Irish charts in 1964. Liam played the guitar in almost all the recordings of the Clancy Brothers, and he took lead vocals in many"
"represent Ireland at the contest. Apart from Logan, many other artists were popular with the book-makers, including ""You're A Star"" winner Lucia Evans, host of the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 Ronan Keating, as well as winner of the 1992 contest Linda Martin. However, RTÉ announced in November 2006 that they had selected Irish traditional group Dervish to sing for Ireland at the contest. Dervish consists of Cathy Jordan (vocals and bodhrán), Bob The 2nd, (reck the head) Brian McDonagh (mandola), Tom Morrow (fiddle), Michael Homes (bouzouki), Shane Mitchell (accordion) and Liam Kelly (flute and whistle). Songwriters were told that they"
"as one of the ""most famous four Irishmen in the world"" at the height of the Clancy Brothers' fame. He was a central figure during the 1960s folk revival on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1976, as part of the duo Makem and Clancy, he had a number one hit in Ireland with the anti-war song ""And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda"" (written by Scots-Australian Eric Bogle). Upon his death ""The Irish Times"" said his legacy was secured. He was born at Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland on 2 September 1935. He was Robert Joseph Clancy and Joanna McGrath's ninth"
"much to popularise Irish music in the 1920s and 1930s. After a lull in the 1940s and 1950s, when (except for Céilidh bands) traditional music was at a low ebb, Seán Ó Riada's Ceoltóirí Chualann, The Chieftains, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, The Irish Rovers, The Dubliners, Ryan's Fancy and Sweeney's Men were in large part responsible for a second wave of revitalisation of Irish folk music in the 1960s. Several of these were featured in the 2010 TV movie ""My Music: When Irish Eyes are Smiling"". Sean O'Riada in particular was singled out as a force who did"