Christy Moore - Paddy On The Road 20170 SMCL

	£		820
	$		1,087

Check my other Items for sale - more Folk records available...   Album Information Artist Christy Moore Title Paddy On The Road Label Mercury Cat. number 20170 SMCL Producer Dominic Behan & Harold Shampan Country UK Sleeve Not credited Released 1969 Matrix number Side 1 138169-1Y*1 Side 2 138169-2Y*1 Stamper marks Side 1 420 112 Side 2 420 113 Album Condition Label None Minor Moderate Substantial Grade Spindle Wear Side 1 • Ex Side 2 • Ex Paper Damage Side 1 • Ex+ Side 2 • Ex+ Ink marks Side 1 • Ex+ Side 2 • Ex+ Other info. Cover None Minor Moderate Substantial Grade Ringwear

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Making Paddy On The Road

Christy Moore: -
" I met Dominic Behan in Shepherds Bush in 1968 when we both played a benefit gig. It may have been 19th of November at Hampton Court. We hit it off and he took me under his wing. He said he would help me make an album in sound Techniques Chelsea in 1969. Steve Benbow put a band together. He wrote dots and brought in a bunch of his drinking mates to read the dots. I met them for the first time in the studio. They were all pub jazz players and I was the apprentice Paddy folkie greenhorn. They did their thing and I tried to keep up with them. While I couldn't keep up with their chord shapes I could keep up with their drinking and we all got on well ; there was pain in the music but we were not feeling it. I can still hear it. Dominic wrote four of the songs and also produced. A man called Harold Shampan paid the bills and Mercury put it out briefly. It led to doors being opened in the B.B.C and R.T.E and I did broadcasts on both networks after the release.There are a couple of shams out there burning CD's of this album. But don't be tempted. As soon as I'm set up I'll bang it out to you at a suitable price."

Only 500 copies pressed

"Around ’69 I was becoming desperate to make an album. To be a “Recording Artist” was essential if I was to break into the Premier Division of the folk circuit. I was doing well but there was still a way to go. I auditioned unsuccessfully for ‘Transatlantic’, which was the most desirable folk label of the era featuring the likes of Pentangle, Ralph McTell and Hamish Imlach. Subsequently I recorded my first album ‘Paddy On The Road’ with Dominic Behan in Sound Techniques, Chelsea. I can still savor the feeling of getting that first L.P into my hand. I could not quite believe it. I went to Noel Murphy’s pad in Shepard’s Bush and we listened, me in awe and he being kind and encouraging. 500 were pressed and then it was deleted. "

All records will be sent in professional mailers with two cardboard stiffeners. The lp will be removed from the sleeve to protect it during transit. I will always obtain a certificate of posting for each parcel.

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