CRACK WAS NINETY IN THE ISLE OF MAN, THE
Created on 19/12/2020Latest update on 30/08/2023
Artist: Barney Rushe
Author: Barney Rushe
Label: Maps/Imro
Year: 1960s
See also: Nancy Spain. On his only record (cd Born Again Strangers - 1999). The 'craic' is the fun in Irish company and 90 being the maximum speed allowed, the craic was ninety means the most fun you can get.
Covers:
- 1978:
Christy Moore [learned it first-handed from Barney Rushe on channel island Jersey; Barney's tape rested for more than ten years in his drawer before he finally recorded Nancy Spain and this one himself, two of his biggest personal hits]
- 1996:
- 1996:
- 1998:
