Danny Doyle

For the baseball player, see Danny Doyle (baseball).

Danny Doyle is a solo Irish folk singer.

Background

Reportedly, the songs on which Doyle was raised came from his mother and great-grandmother and from the last of Dublin's street singers and from some of Dublin's contemporary writers, such as poet Patrick Kavanagh and playwright Brendan Behan, who were neighbours.

Kavanagh and Behan were among the first to encourage his singing. Leaving school at fourteen years of age, he started doing odd jobs, including general factotum in Dublin's Pike Theatre, where he began to pick up from the travelling players songs from the Irish countryside.

During the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the top Irish singers, regularly featuring in the Irish charts and scoring three No.1 singles (notably displacing ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me" after just one week at the top).^[1] He has recorded 25 albums, including Emigrant Eyes, a collaboration with his sister Geraldine, a comedienne popular in Australia. He is probably best known for his 1967 Number One hit "Whiskey on a Sunday".

He has appeared in concert throughout the world including Carnegie Hall, New York and the Albert Hall, London.

Although retired from performing, he joined numerous musicians on stage at the end of the 2010 Milwaukee Irish Fest in what is known as the Scattering.

Discography

Selected singles^[2]

• "Step it Out Mary" (IE #4) 1967
• "The Irish Soldier Laddie" (IE #7) 1967
• "Whiskey on a Sunday" (IE #1) 1967
• "The Mucky Kid" (IE #17) 1968
• "The Green Hills of Kerry"
• "A Daisy a Day" (IE #1) 1973
• "Thanks for the Memories" (IE #2) 1974
• "Special Love Song" (IE #11) 1974
• "Somewhere, Somebody's Waiting" (IE #5) 1976
• "The Rare Auld Times" (IE #1) 1978
• "The Rare Auld Times" (re-release) (IE #14) 1979

Albums

• Raised on Songs and Stories
• The Highwayman
• Twenty Years A-Growing
• Collection Vol. 1 (Emerald Encore)
• Collection Vol. 2
• Folkmaster's Ensemble
• Under a Connemara Moon
• Classic Collection
• St. Brendan's Fair Isle
• Emigrant Eyes
• The Wearing of the Green

Books

• The Gold Sun of Freedom (with Terrance Folan)
• Festival Legends, Songs & Stories (John O'Brien Jr.)

References

1. ^ Irish charts - number ones
2. ^ Irish charts - Danny Doyle

External links

• Danny Doyle Home Page: [1]

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