A Tear and a Smile

Infobox Album | Name = A Tear and a Smile
Type = Album
Artist = Tír na nÓg


Released = Startdate|1972|4|7 (UK)
Startdate|1972 (US)
Genre = Folk
Length = 38:03 (UK release)
Label = Chrysalis
Producer = Tony Cox
Bill Leader
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3cfrxql5ldje link]
Last album = "Tír na nÓg"
(1971)
This album = "A Tear and a Smile"
(1972)
Next album = "Strong in the Sun"
(1973)
Misc = Singles
Name = A Tear and a Smile
Type = studio
single 1 = The Lady I Love
single 1 date = 1972
single 2 = Bluebottle Stew
single 2 date = 1972

"A Tear and a Smile" is the second album by Irish band Tír na nÓg. It was released on April 7, 1972 by Chrysalis Records and was the first Tír na nÓg album to be released in the United States. The tracklist is different between the US and the UK releases. Because of this, two editions of the album exist but there was no reissue of the American version.
On this last one, "Daisy Lady" and "Dante" are taken directly from the first album "Tír na nÓg". The song "Looking Up" was already on the previous album but Leo O'Kelly was not very satisfied by the first version: him and Sonny Condell decided to record a new one, produced by Tony Cox, for "A Tear and a Smile". The Lady I Love which was released as a single in Europe, appears on the US version of the album too. This four songs replace "Down Day", "Bluebottle Stew", "Hemisphere", and "Goodbye My Love".

Track listing

UK release

ide One

#"Come And See The Show" (Sonny Condell) – 3:17
#"Down Day" (Condell) – 5:50
#"When I Came Down" (Leo O'Kelly) – 4:33
#"The Same Thing Happening" (O'Kelly) – 4:47
#"Bluebottle Stew" (Condell) – 2:19

ide Two

#"So Freely" (O'Kelly) – 3:33
#"Hemisphere" (Condell) – 2:15
#"Lady Ocean" (O'Kelly) – 4:33
#"Goodbye My Love" (O'Kelly) – 4:20
#"Two White Horses" (Condell) – 2:36

US release

ide One

#"Come And See The Show" (Condell) – 3:17
#"Daisy Lady" (O'Kelly) – 2:21
#"When I Came Down" (O'Kelly) – 4:33
#"The Same Thing Happening" (O'Kelly) – 4:47
#"Looking Up" (O'Kelly)

ide Two

#"The Lady I Love" (Condell)
#"So Freely" (O'Kelly) – 3:33
#"Two White Horses" (Condell) – 2:36
#"Lady Ocean" (O'Kelly) – 4:33
#"Dante" (Condell) – 2:56

Personnel

*Sonny Condell - vocals, guitar, clavinette, percussion
*Leo O'Kelly - vocals, guitar
*Larry Steele - bass
*Barry De Souza - drums
*Paul Tregurtha - engineering
*Nick Harrison - arranger
*Tony Cox - production
*Bill Leader - production

Release history

References