Brits React to The Black Velvet Band Sung By The Dubliners!

[@jackcarter5101]

The guitarist in the yellow shirt is Ciaran Bourke, another of their founding members. He was known for singing patriotic songs, novelty songs, drinking songs, and for singing in Irish language, his first mother tongue. He sadly suffered an aneurism aged 39 which left him permanently disabled. He died aged 53.

[@BackstreetGents]

Sad story

[@doiminiclynch5208]

Loving all the Dubliners reactions

[@BackstreetGents]

Thanks for the support! It means a lot!

[@shaneoconnell268]

Thanks for the reaction 👍

[@BackstreetGents]

No problem 😊

[@shaneoconnell268]

Another song by the Dubliners that I would like you to react to is called, the rare auld times, it is sung by either Ronnie Drew or Luke Kelly, it’s not as up beat but it is a beautiful song

[@BackstreetGents]

We'll add it to our list. We'll try and react to it when we get a chance.

[@shaneoconnell268]

@@BackstreetGents thanks

[@jackcarter5101]

Van Diemen's Land is the former name of Tasmania, Australia, which was a penal colony. The young woman stole a gold watch and framed the sailor, who was found guilty and sentenced to 7 years in Van Diemen's Land.

[@BackstreetGents]

We can always count on you to fill us in with some interesting info!

[@jackcarter5101]

@@BackstreetGents Glad to be of service

[@TheDylls]

5:18 IMHO, it's enjoyable because it's honest, open comradery

[@macker33]

Its a balld, ballads are songs with a narrative or story.

[@BackstreetGents]

We love a good ballad!

[@gearoid9835]

Good review lads. Can I suggest another Dubliners song for you review please? It's called Red Roses For Me. It was sung by Ronnie Drew. It's slower and more sentimental than the other Dubliners songs that you have reviewed previously, so a slightly different vibe. Thanks.

[@BackstreetGents]

Yeah we'll get that done for you. It'll be nice to see another side to The Dubliners.

[@gearoid9835]

@@BackstreetGents brilliant. Thanks.

[@sean_d]

Great video. BTW That's a young bearded Christy Moore @ 6.13

[@BackstreetGents]

Thanks for the info!

[@jackcarter5101]

I have another Luke Kelly suggestion. 'Raglan Road' is possibly the song he is best known for performing kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJWro2mgmbasiq8 It is a poem of unrequited love, written by Patrick Kavanagh, who personally asked Luke to make it into a song after hearing Luke singing in a pub.

[@BackstreetGents]

Okay, we'll do it!

[@fatboy20104]

Yous two have no clue about how to appreciate this type of music although the fella on the link has more respect for it by a mile. The one main fella definitely on the register or should be / will be one day

[@andrewwigglesworth3030]

"very Irish" "Irish" ... yep, I was waiting for that one 🙂 This song was given to Ewan MacColl in 1951 by a Norfolk singer called Harry Cox. It seems to have been a reasonably well known song for folk singers in East Anglia, though Harry Cox's mention of "Belfast" is an oddity. btw. there was no "Broadway" to go strolling down in Belfast. The early mid-19th century Broadside printings of the song place it in Barking (a "pleasant little town"), in other versions it becomes London. Luke Kelly (the singer in this video) picked up this song from Ewan MacColl. There's no doubt about this, it is precisely the song as sung by Harry Cox, printed by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger in "The singing Island" in 1960. Kelly knew MacColl quite well, and he even took a sabbatical (for a couple of years starting in 1964) from the Dubliners to go back to London to study with MacColl in "The Critics." Luke Kelly sang a lot of English and Scottish songs, and there is a reason for this. He originally came over to England in 1958, initially as a building worker and then doing other odd jobs, but to cut a long story short, he discovered English folk clubs. This is where he really got an interest in folk music, learnt many songs and realised he could make something of a living on the English and Scottish "folk scene." This, alongside of his politics, is how he came to know people like Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Ian Campbell, Bert Lloyd, Lorna Campbell and many others.