The Clancy Children – So Early In The Morning: Irish Children's Songs Rhymes & Games / Tradition Audio CD 1997 / TCD 1053

UPC 600491105323

This collection of 46 (yes, 46!) Irish children's songs, rhymes and singing games is unique and utterly charming. Collected between 1955 and 1961, mainly from members of the Robert Clancy family of Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, the individual selections are performed by different generations of the same family. Each is presented with such engaging simplicity that listeners will be quickly transported to an Irish kitchen where family members sit around the table singing through the days, weeks and years of their closely interwoven lives. Extensive liner notes supply a cultural context, but the songs-passed from mouth to mouth over the centuries-speak for themselves...as universal and timeless as childhood itself. A 1998 Parents' Choice® Gold Award.

Reviewed by Kristi Beavin, Parents' Choice® 1998 -- From Parents' Choice®

For this album, the Clancy clan has collected songs which they learned from their mums–songs which have been passed down through countless generations of Irish children. Features contributions by the Clancy children and some of the elder Clancys along with Seamus Ennis on Uillean pipes and penny whistle. Recorded in 1962.