January 27, 2008

Sunday Music " Black Velvet Band " by the Dubliners



Lets go back in time to when Peggy O'Neill's bar in Bay Ridge was one of the more rocking traditional Irish bars in all of NYC. (*)

They had lots of traditional bands there in the 1980s and 90s, and the one song that was guaranteed to bring down the house -- Irish, Norwegians, and regular Americans-- was " The Black Velvet Band ".

I don't think that the Dubliners ever played there. But they would have felt right at home if they had.

(*) Before the kids messed with a sure fire moneymaking formula by turning it into a quasi disco or whatever they thought they were trying to do.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous1/27/2008 2:54 PM

    What about that song you would bang your wrist on the bar 3 times?

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  2. The Phantom1/27/2008 3:21 PM

    That would be "The Wild Rover"

    If I get two requests, I will play that one today.

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  3. Unknown1/28/2008 2:54 PM

    Can you play "The Wild Rover"

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  4. Anonymous1/29/2008 10:47 AM

    How shocking about Lowen's John Rossi. I read a detailed account of it in the Bay Ridge Rover. What a loss to our little corner of the Ridge.

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  5. Eagle1/29/2008 11:45 AM

    Wasn't Luke Kelly barred from entering the country because he was an avowed Communist?

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  6. The Phantom1/30/2008 12:36 AM

    green

    Wild Rover on deck for next weekend

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