Make Me an Island: Best of Joe Dolan

Make Me an Island: Best of Joe Dolan Artist: Joe Dolan
Label: Castle
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 5050749410184
ASIN: B0002XMEDG


Release Date: 2004-10-14

Make Me an Island: Best of Joe Dolan


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Tracks:

  1. Make Me an Island
  2. Danny Boy
  3. You're Such a Good Looking Woman
  4. Here We Go Again
  5. Lady in Blue
  6. Tar and Cement
  7. Teresa
  8. Westmeath Bachelor
  9. I Need You
  10. Sister Mary
  11. Answer to Everything
  12. Pretty Brown Eyes
  13. Sixteen Brothers
  14. I Love You More and More Everyday
  15. Aching Breaking Heart
  16. But I Do
  17. Love of the Common People
  18. House With the Whitewashed Gable
  19. Most Wanted Man in the USA
  20. Sweet Little Rock'n'roller
  21. My Own Peculiar Way
  22. Saturday Night at the Movies
  23. I'll Take the Money and Run
  24. Unchained Melody
  25. I Know It's Over

Album Description

Two CD compilation for Ireland's most successful pop singer, the first to juxtapose Joe's 60s hits, as lead singer of Irish showband The Drifters, alongside his 70s & 80s international solo successes. 48 tracks. Castle Music. 2004.

Album Details

This 2-CD Set Presents the Very Best of Dolan's Long Association with Pye Records,which Ran from 1964 to the Mid-80's. After Opening with his First Mayor Solo Hit, 'make Me an Island', Disc One Runs Through his Earlier Showband Hits with the Drifters, E.g. 'the Answer to Everything', My Own Peliculiar Way', 'aching Breaking Heart', 'pretty Brown Eyes' and 'tar and Cement', Before featuring Early Solo Hits Like 'teresa' and 'it Makes No Difference'. Disc Two Continues with Dolan's Solo Career, Kicking off with 'you're Such a Good Looking Woman' and Including Further Euro-hits Like 'sweet Little Rock'n'roller', the Million-selling 'lady in Blue', 'more and More', and 'it's You, It's You, It's You'.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Irish pop singer with long career.......2005-12-15

Purely judged on longevity, it can be argued that Joe Dolan is the most successful Irish singer ever (not an argument I accept, since Joe is not exactly a household name outside Ireland). Joe had many Irish top ten hits in the sixties, seventies and eighties (including several number ones) and still occasionally made the Irish top ten in the nineties. Outside Ireland, Joe is mainly remembered for one song (Make me an island) that made the top three in Britain and went on to be number one in many European countries. He had three other British hits following that success but may have had more success in Europe. This compilation covers the period from Joe's recording debut in 1964 to 1982.

Joe emerged from the Irish show band scene with a backing group confusing called the Drifters. (Cliff Richard's backing group was also originally called the Drifters but they quickly became the Shadows to avoid confusion with the American Drifters - obviously Joe wasn't bothered about that.) Upon signing for Pye, Joe launched his career with a cover of The answer to everything (Del Shannon). This became the first of Joe's many Irish hits. Like so many British and Irish singers of the time, Joe frequently looked to America for songs to record, many of which you will recognize from the titles. Nevertheless, there are few songs from among his sixties recordings that I'm not familiar with (and which may be original), while Joe turned increasingly to original material as the seventies progressed.

Among the covers, these include Aching breaking heart (a George Jones song not to be confused with Achy breaky heart, the much more recent Billy Ray Cyrus song), Saturday night at the movies (Drifters), Love of the common people (Waylon Jennings), Love me tonight (Tom Jones), Bridge over troubled water (Simon and Garfunkel), Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Something's burning (Kenny Rogers and the First Edition), Danny boy (traditional), Games people play (Joe South), Can't help falling in love (Elvis Presley), My way (the song of French origin that Frank Sinatra made his own after Paul Anka translated it into English), Love grows where my Rosemary goes (Edison Lighthouse), Unchained melody (Al Hibbler), Las Vegas (Tony Christie) and She (Charles Aznavour). Quite a variety, and Joe performs them very well.

Of the other songs, I'll pick out Make me an island, House with the whitewashed gable, Teresa, You're such a good looking woman, Sweet little rock'n'roller, Lady in blue, It's you it's you it's you and I need you. There are plenty of other great songs here too.

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