GALWAY BAY
Created on 20/01/2004Latest update on 30/07/2024
Artist: Michael O'Higgins
Author: Dr. Arthur Colahan
Label: Regal Zonophone
Year: 1947
Irish tenor. The author was born in County Galway and got his medical degree at the local Queen's College, but moved to Leicester, England. Galway Bay was where one of his brothers drowned.
Covers:
- 1948:
Bing Crosby [millionseller]
- 1948:
- 1948:
- 1948:
- 1955:
- 1960:
Bob Davidse [in youth TV series Het Geheim Van Killary Harbour]
- 1963:
Clancy Brothers [parody]
- 1963:
- 1964:
- 1964:
Houston Wells [with Ritchie Blackmore]
- 1965:
- 1973:
- 1994:
Traditional Galway Bay as done by Dolores Keane, is also an exile song but a different one (written by Francis Arthur Fahy).
