A. Lullaby of Broadway - Slug, my Stepdad plays all the instruments and I sing.
B. Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen - Yours Truly singing, with my stepdad playing guitar, bass & drum machine.
C. Regret - My buddy Fuggy wrote this, and plays all the instruments. I just sing (I think I had 20 minutes to learn this song). Recorded in his TV room after watching Dr. Who.
Here are some MP3's of your truly singing some depressing Irish ballads. The first 3 were recorded on my Stepdad's computer in his house, with his fancy equipment about 3 or 4 years ago. The last few were recorded by Sleazy D at his Money Shot Records studio in West Boylston, MA somewhere around 2001. So basically I got one take to do each song, and yeah, they kind of suck.
1. Ciomair an ni mi - This was supposed to be a set of puirt a beul, but somehow, it ended up being just one short song.
2. Lowlands of Holland - a nice, sad, Irish ballad.
3. Green Grasses Grow Bonnie - This one isn't *too* sad by Irish ballad standards. That is, nobody dies, emigrates, or goes off to war. Ignore the part I screw up in the beginning.
4. Mar Airne Dubh - I learned this Irish version of "Black is the Colour of my True Love's Hair" from Deirdre O'Brien Vaughan in Newmarket, Co. Clare.
5. P is for Paddy - Like every good Irish song, it follows a sad story, and then sticks a random verse at the end about birds.
6. Bonnie Blue-Eyed Lassie - A nice ballad about a dude who loves a poor girl.
7. Puirt-a-Beul - Tha Bainn'aig a Caoreach Uile/Nighean Ruadh Bhan/Nead na Lochan - 3 Scottish "mouth music" songs: Thà Bainn' aig na caorich uile ("All the sheep have milk"), Nighean Ruaidh Ban (Red Haired Woman's Daughter), & Nead na Lochan (The Duck's Nest in the Rushes). Legend has it that when England took over Scotland, they banned the bagpipes, so Scottish people sang these songs for dancing.