Hearty and Hellish! explained

Hearty and Hellish!
Type:	live
Artist:	The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
Cover:	The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Hearty and Hellish LP.jpg
Released:	12 February 1962
Recorded:	10–18 November 1961 Chicago, Illinois
Genre:	Irish folk music
Length:	38:23
Label:	Columbia
Producer:	Bob Morgan
Prev Title:	A Spontaneous Performance Recording
Prev Year:	1961
Next Title:	The Boys Won't Leave the Girls Alone
Next Year:	1962

Hearty and Hellish! is a live album of traditional Irish folk songs performed by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, recorded live at the Gate of Horn in Chicago. It was their second album for Columbia Records. In a January 1963 article, Time magazine selected Hearty and Hellish! as one of the top 10 albums of 1962.^{[1] [2]}

Shanachie Records released the album on CD in 1993.^[3] It was reissued in 2009 in mp3 only format.^[4]

Reception

Robert Shelton, writing in The New York Times, favorably compared album to the group's Grammy-nominated first Columbia record, A Spontaneous Performance Recording. He considered Hearty and Hellish! to be "much more representative of these gifted performers", and he especially praised the number, "The 23rd of June", from the album.^[5]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Irish Rover"
2. "The Barnyards of Delgaty"
3. "October Winds" (a.k.a. "The Castle of Dromore")
4. "Courtin' in the Kitchen"
5. "The Jolly Tinker"
6. "Jug of This"
7. "Johnny McEldoo"
8. "Whiskey, You're the Devil"

Side two

1. "Mountain Dew"
2. "When I Was Single"
3. "The 23rd of June"
4. "The Rising of the Moon"
5. "God Bless England"
6. "Mr. Moses Ri-tooral-i-ay"
7. "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye"

Personnel

• Paddy Clancy - vocals, harmonica
• Tom Clancy - vocals
• Liam Clancy - vocals, guitar
• Tommy Makem - vocals, tin whistle
• Bruce Langhorne - guitar
• Frank Hamilton - banjo
• Herb Brown - bass^[6]

Notes and References

1. Time Listings: Jan. 4, 1963: The Year's Ten Best. . January 4, 1963.
2. Web site: Concert Program - circa 1965. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. 4 June 2014.
3. Web site: Discography: Columbia Reissues. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. 20 June 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140204044407/http://clancybrothersandtommymakem.com/col01_01_col.htm. 4 February 2014. dead.
4. Web site: Hearty & Hellish. Amazon.
5. News: Shelton. Robert. Disks: Two Hues. . August 12, 1962. X10.
6. Web site: Hearty and Hellish: At the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. 5 June 2014. 29 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150929235855/http://clancybrothersandtommymakem.com/cbtm_d14_hellish_hearty.htm. dead.