5391513565465

50 Songs 50 Years

Margo

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: CACD0302

Release Date:  07 April 2014

Label:  Crashed Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5391513565465

Genres:  Easy Listening  Irish Folk  

  • Description

    Margo is the leading lady of country and folk music in Ireland. Often referred to as "Ireland's Country Queen", Margo has comfortably crossed the lines between country, folk, showband, ballad and rebel for five decades. Born Margaret Catherine O'Donnell in 1951, Margo was raised in Kincasslagh, County Donegal. In 1964 she joined The Keynotes showband and toured Ireland following her father's premature death. Margo was still only 13 at the time. Her first single in 1968 Bonny Irish Boy was a huge hit and many others followed. Although official sales figures from the period are unreliable, it is often said that Margo sold substantially more records than The Beatles in Ireland around that time. Duets with Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, George Jones and other international country stars have been highlights of Margo's enduring career. She has also collaborated and made great friends closer to home with many of Ireland's favourite singers including Philomena Begley, Big Tom, Larry Cunningham, Maura O'Connell and of course her younger brother Daniel O'Donnell. Margo's 50 Songs 50 Years is a snapshot of a long and successful career where Margo selects her favourite studio recordings especially for her many fans and friends.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Born in Ireland
      • 2. Poverty
      • 3. Little Town on the Shannon
      • 4. The Man from the Glen
      • 5. Little White House
      • 6. Ireland On My Mind
      • 7. Shanagolden
      • 8. An Irish Harvest Day
      • 9. Packie Bonner
      • 10. To My Children I'm Irish
      • 11. Isle of the Welcomes
      • 12. I'll Forgive and I'll Try to Forget
      • 13. Dear Old Galway Town
      • 14. Dear John
      • 15. Any Town in Ireland Would Be Home
      • 16. Lady of Knock
      • 17. Lovely Kincasslagh

      Disc 2

      • 1. The Green Fields of Ireland
      • 2. Heaven Around Galway Bay
      • 3. The Isle of Innisfree
      • 4. Lovely Erin's Shore
      • 5. Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
      • 6. How Far Is Heaven
      • 7. Home to Achill Island
      • 8. Consider the Children
      • 9. Back Home to Donegal
      • 10. Rented Room
      • 11. Philadelphia Lawyer
      • 12. Sweethearts In Heaven
      • 13. A Bunch of Thyme
      • 14. It's a Little More Like Heaven
      • 15. Infamous Angel
      • 16. Walking Tall in Donegal

      Disc 3

      • 1. Learning to Say Goodbye
      • 2. Violet and a Rose
      • 3. Darling Days
      • 4. If I Could See the World (Through the Eyes of a Child)
      • 5. Home Is Where the Heart Is
      • 6. Paper Mansions
      • 7. Your Forevers Don't Last Very Long
      • 8. These Are the Colours
      • 9. Blue are the Violets
      • 10. A Teardrop On a Rose
      • 11. Signed, Sealed and Delivered
      • 12. Wishful Thinking
      • 13. Make Somebody's Day
      • 14. We Have Tried
      • 15. I Would Like to See You Again
      • 16. So Afraid of Losing You Again
      • 17. Friends