Music:

Tommy Drennan - 'Thru The Years' click on for lo-quality mp3 audio clips
2005

"THRU THE YEARS" is available in all good record stores throughout the country through RMG/Chart

this new CD is now available online

€17.50 incl. shipping worldwide

1 - I Pretend 2 - Today 3 - Ageing Lady 4 - If Dreams Came True 5 - You Light Up My Life 6 - I Can't Live My Life Without You 7 - The Promise and The Dream 8 - Connemara Cradle Song 9 - Little Boy Lost 10 - Day is Done 11 - Boolavogue 12 - Come Home Rolling Stone 13 - Peggy Gordon 14 - O Holy Night

A new CD comprising of some of my favourite recordings from the previous 40 or more years, digitally restored & re-mastered

 

Tommy Drennan and The Top League - Love and the Country
EMI Green Label - 1974

side 1: 1 - Love and the Country 2 - Melinda 3 - Lonely Without Love 4 - Summer Sun 5 - Baby Jane 6 - Forever More side 2: 1 - Broken Promises 2 - Growing Up 3 - December Song 4 - Love of My Life 5 - Coming Home 6 - Beautiful Peace

This album was recorded in 1973 and at that time we were known as 'The Top League'. This is an all-original recording, written by my good friend and songwriter Dennis Allen. The song 'Melinda' is written for his daughter of the same name

 

Tommy Drennan and the Monarchs - 50 Years After
Ember Records - 1966

side 1: 1 - Fornocht Do Connac Thú 2 - A Nation Once Again 3 - The Foggy Dew 4 - Ballad of James Connolly 5 - Step Together 6 - Óro Sé do Bheatha Abhaile side 2: 1 - A Battle Hymn 2 - Three Coloured Ribbon 3 - Jackets Green 4 - Mise Éire 5 - The Dying Rebel 6 - Old Ireland Free Once More 7 - Soldier's Song (Irish National Anthem)

In 1966 we recorded this album to commemorate the 1916 Rising. The content is fairly martial and Mrs. Kathleen Connolly, wife of Jim Connolly who was leader of The Monarchs Showband at the time, was a native Irish (Gaelic) speaker and she recites the well-known Irish poem 'Mise Éire'

 

Tommy Drennan and The Monarchs - The Finest of the Irish
Decca Records (USA) - 1967

side 1: 1 - Boolavogue 2 - Bless This House 3 - The Holy Ground 4 - Connemara Cradle Song 5 - Kevin Barry 6 - The Patriot Game 7 - I Can't Get You Out Of My Heart side 2: 1 - A Nation Once Again 2 - My Prayer 3 - Molly 4 - I Really Don't Want To Know 5 - Before This Day Ends 6 - The Swallow

This album was released for the American market in 1967. The cover photograph was taken outside the world-famous Bunratty Castle in Co Clare, near Limerick

 

Tommy Drennan and The Monarchs - Share My World
EMI (Talisman) - 1970

side 1: 1 - Little Boy Lost 2 - Maureen 3 - I'll Share My World With You 4 - Ann 5 - The Old Bog Road 6 - Where Were You (when I needed you) side 2: 1 - Love Is A Beautiful Song 2 - Peggy Gordon 3 - Lonely Road 4 - Rising Of The Moon 5 - Come Home Rollin' Stone 6 - Day Is Done

This album was released in 1970 and was a compilation of singles released between 1967 and 1970