Lark in the Morning - Folk Songs and Dances from the Irish Countryside (Collected By Diane Hamilton)

The Lark in the Morning is an album by Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem. It has the distinction of being the second album-length recording of Irish music to be recorded in Ireland, after the Ireland volume of the Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music. It was recorded by Diane Hamilton and Catherine Wright on portable equipment, between August and December 1955. It was issued on Tradition Records in 1956 as TLP 1004. At the time Liam Clancy, the youngest member of the Clancy Brothers, had not yet joined with his brothers to form the group that would be known as The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, which incorporated itself in 1960. He traveled back to the USA with Diane Hamilton in 1956. Tracks 5, 9, 13, 17 and 21 are sung in Irish, itself a rarity at the time. Tracks 3, 8, 16 and 20 are instrumentals. Paddy Tunney's version of "The Lowlands of Holland" is the one that was later used by Steeleye Span. Most of the artists went on to be recorded by later collectors. Running time: 48 mins 40secs. The liner notes for the 1996 Rykodisc reissue are by Liam Clancy. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lar...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)