Hey, you know what’s weird? When a bit of Googling brings you to a music blog post, complete with MP3 of a song off a long-out-of-print album, about a relative of yours. Behold, here’s one about my grandmother, Mary Carton, whose album with her brother (a.k.a. my great-uncle!) Mickey Little Bits Of Ireland came out way before I was born. The breakup song “I’ll Forgive And I’ll Try To Forget” is featured in the post, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that the album also has her version of the old Irish staple “The Moonshiner,” the words to which I have known by heart since I was, oh, about three or so. [Homoerratic Radio Show, maybe sorta NSFW-ish logo?]
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As easy as it is to fucking hate the internet, stuff like this goes a long way towards redemption.
Ha, which is basically your tag, only wordier.
I’d like to see more use of the “Hi Mom” tag.
Up to this very moment I viewed the internet as nothing more than a highly efficient delivery portal for nekkid lady pictures.
What a fun discovery…
BTW any lawyers in the house, I have always wondered what it would take to reissue this record, not that I have the masters or know whether or not they even exist or anything.
@Maura Johnston: step one is generally what label did it come out on originally. and who currently owns said label.
@iantenna: it was on decca. in um the early 50s i think?
This is incredibly cool, Maura!
Now you just need someone to YouTube their Ed Sullivan appearances….
@Maura Johnston: so that’s your old friends at universal music group, unless there’s something weird about the contract and the rights reverted back to the artist, which is very unlikely. so now you get to cold call universal special markets, get a foot in the door, see if their team of morons approves your request to license the title, pay some advance, guarantee you’ll sell some ridiculous number of copies (probably 3k minimum), beg them for a master for which they’ll probably charge some outrageous sum if they even still have it for something this obscure (or master it from vinyl), remake the art from a tattered old vinyl copy, press it, promote it, sell it, make millions. good luck.
It’s wonderful discovering this. Growing up in St. John’s Nfld. this music was played regularly on the radio and I got to know a all the songs and I still love to sing them. It sure would be great to see the re-runs of the Ed Sullivan performances. “If I Were A Black Bird” sung by Mary Carton is my favorite. Thanks, Ron Jones.