It Takes An Irish Heart
  To Sing An Irish Song

 

 


It Takes An Irish Heart To Sing An Irish Song (Australian)
Image source:
National Library of Australia,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an10027396-s1-e
Winner 2720
Jumbo A70
Rex 8189
Listen to a clip of
Florrie Forde’s
1933 reprise of
her great 1914 hit.

 

 

Fred Godfrey & H. Worton David — London: Bert Feldman; Melbourne: Stanley Mullen, 1914.

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One of Fred Godfrey’s biggest hits, and a marvellous tune it is, too, though the lyrics grate on the modern ear with their reference to “darkies shuffling along.”

 

Recordings

Florrie Forde (Zonophone 1348, 1914)

——— (Rex 8189, 1933)

Stanley Kirkby (Jumbo A70, 1914; Scala 651, 1915)

Stanley Read (The Winner 2720, 1914)

Will Thompson (Clarion 912, 1915) [cylinder]

Terence O’Connor (Starr Gennett 4598, 1920)