The First Hurrah!

The First Hurrah!
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem chronology
In Person at Carnegie Hall (1963) The First Hurrah! (1964) Recorded Live in Ireland (1965)
Singles from The First Hurrah!
" The Leaving of Liverpool "/"Gallant Forty-Twa"

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Record Mirror	[1]

The First Hurrah! is a collection of

charts and its single, "The Leaving of Liverpool," on the Irish Top 10 charts.

Reception

Billboard chose the album as a "Special Merit Pick." The magazine's review praised the Clancys and Makem's "fun and exuberance" and referred to the record as "another strong sampling of the boys' zesty and humorous approach" to Irish folklore.

Track listing

All songs

traditional

.

Side one

1. "The Leaving of Liverpool" - 2:46
2. "The Mermaid" – 3:00
3. "Rocky Road to Dublin" – 2:28
4. "Johnny Todd" – 2:02
5. "Rosin the Bow" – 2:37
6. "The West's Awake" – 3:22

Side two

1. "Row, Bullies, Row" – 1:39
2. "Gallant Forty-Twa" – 2:29
3. "An Poc Ar Buile (The Mad Goat)" – 2:31
4. "Carrickfergus" – 2:30
5. "
   Bonny Charlie
   " – 3:30
6. "Kelly, the Boy from Killann" – 2:35

Personnel

• Liam Clancy - vocals, guitar
• Pat Clancy
  - vocals, harmonica
• Tom Clancy - vocals
• Tommy Makem - vocals, banjo, tin whistle

The sound of a drum can be heard on the eighth track, but it is not certain who played it. Also, a mandolin is played on the first track, but it is also not certain who played it.

Chart positions

The First Hurrah! spent six weeks on Billboard Magazine's list of the top 150 full-length albums of all genres released in the United States. On 30 May the album reached #91 in the chart, its highest position.^[4][5]

Year	Chart	Position
1964	Billboard Top LPs	91

"The Leaving of Liverpool" from the album stayed on the singles chart in Ireland for a few weeks. It reached #6 on the chart and stayed there for two weeks in late March 1964.^[6][7]

Year	Chart	Position
1964	Irish singles chart	6

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