If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews

by Mick Moloney

Overview

Musician, singer, anthropologist and musical historian Mick Moloney celebrates the joyous and creative era in American popular song from the early 1890's to the end of vaudeville and the start of the Great Depression on his new release If It Wasn't For the Irish and the Jews. Each of the album's 14 tracks is notable for having been created in a collaboration between Irish and Jewish lyricists and composers. From the Label

Product Details

Release Date:	09/15/2009
Label:	Compass Records
UPC:	0766397452524
catalogNumber:	4525
Rank:	95509

Tracks

1. If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews
2. Along the Rocky Road to Dublin
3. When McGuinness Gets a Job
4. There's a Typical Tipperary Over Here
5. Mother Malone
6. 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream
7. I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
8. Sailing off to the Yankee Land
9. Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly
10. Faugh a Ballagh
11. The Old Bog Road
12. Maloney Puts His Name Above the Door
13. When You Come Back and You Will Come Back
14. Are You the O'Reilly

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Mick Moloney   Primary Artist,Guitar,Mandolin,Vocals,Tenor Banjo
Billy McComiskey   Button Accordion
Dana   Fiddle,Viola
Vince Giordano   Tuba
Daniel Block   Flute
John Doyle   Bouzouki,Guitar,Mandola,Vocal Harmony
Jon-Erik Kellso   Trumpet
Mark Lopeman   Clarinet
Joanie Madden   Flute,tin whistle,Vocal Harmony
John Roberts & Tony Barrand   Vocal Harmony
Robert Garcia   Drums
John Roberts   Vocal Harmony
Jim Fryer   Trombone
Athena   Fiddle
Egil Rostad   Cello
Peter Yarin   Piano
Gerry   Vocal Harmony
Brendan   Piano
Susan   Vocal Harmony

Technical Credits

Frank Harte   Composer
Mick Moloney   Producer,Engineer
Peter Hammill   Composer
George M. Cohan   Composer
Glenn Barratt   Engineer
John Doyle   Producer
Dubin   Composer
Bertie Grant   Composer
John O'Brien   Composer
Jim O'Neal   Composer
Will Schillinger   Producer,Engineer
Pete Hamill   Composer
Ed Rose   Composer
Joe Young   Composer,Lyricist
William Jerome   Composer
Abner Silver   Composer
Will Letters   Composer
Teresa Brayton   Composer
Alfred Bryan   Composer,Lyricist
Pat Rooney   Composer
Jean Schwartz   Composer
Dave Schonauer   Engineer
Chris Allen   Engineer
Niall O'Leary   Step Dancing
Alex Garber   Composer,Lyricist
Dave Schoeneur   Engineer
Joe Young   Lyricist
Chris Allen   Engineer
Piantadosi   Composer
Will Letters   Composer
Peter McNulty   Composer
Pat Rooney   Composer
Jack Conroy   Composer
C.W. Murphy   Composer
Alex Garber   Composer,Lyricist
Abe Oleman   Composer
Bert Grant   Composer
Jim O'neill   Composer