Danny Doyle (singer)

Danny Doyle
Genres	Folk
Occupation(s)	Singer
Years active	1960s-1970s

Danny Doyle is an Irish folk singer.

Background

After leaving school at the age of fourteen, Doyle started doing odd jobs, including working as 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 comedian 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

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• "Step it Out Mary/Pretty Saro" (IE #4) December, 1966
• "The Irish Soldier Laddie/Morning Train" (IE #7) April, 1967
• "Step It Our Mary / Sam Hall / Early Morning Rain / Red Haired Mary E.P." May, 1967
• "Whiskey on a Sunday/Reason To Believe" (IE #1) September, 1967
• "The Mucky Kid / Gone Away" (IE #17) March, 1968
• "Johnny / Leaving On A Jet Plane" October, 1968
• "The Long and Winding Road" June, 1970
• "Take Me Home Country Roads" August, 1971
• "The Green Hills of Kerry"
• "A Daisy a Day / Far Away In Australia" (IE #1) May, 1973
• "Thanks for the Memories / Kentucky Moonshine" (IE #2) January, 1974
• "A Very Special Love Song / Morning Bells Will Chime" (IE #11) July, 1974
• "Jesus Is My Kind Of People / Penny Annie" February, 1975
• "Somewhere, Somebody's Waiting" (IE #5) September, 1976
• "The Rare Auld Times" (IE #1) January, 1978
• "Old Dublin Town / Bells of the Morning" 1978
• "The Rare Auld Times / Old Dublin Town" (re-release) (IE #14) 1979

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Albums

• "Expressions of Danny Doyle" 1967
• "Whiskey On A Sunday" 1970
• "Danny Doyle" 1971
• "Grand Ole Irish Opry" 1973
• "Raised on Songs and Stories"
• "The Highwayman" 1982
• "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"

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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
3. http://www.irish-showbands.com/Bands/dannydoyle.htm
4. http://www.irish-showbands.com/Bands/dannydoyle.htm

External links

• Danny Doyle Home Page: