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'Please request my request!'

Sean's request to listeners to ask for Joe Dolan's "Danny Boy" provokes a rival request for his "Tar and Cement".

"I have this longing," Sean says, "to hear Joe Dolan singing Danny Boy. Would anyone like to hear it? If you ring in to ask for it then I can make it into a request and that will be my reason for playing it... I can't just play it for myself."

"What about Tar and Cement?" Cathal in Omagh says. "Give the people the choice! That's also sung by Joe Dolan."

"Well, OK," Sean says. "I've got Tar and Cement here. I wanted to hear Danny Boy... but if people want Tar and Cement I'll play it."

Then Rose in Wexford sets the cat among the pigeons. "Sean, I have a huge favour to ask. Don't play Joe Dolan singing Danny Boy. I hate him singing that song."

Bill Brown asks for Danny Boy.

Lawrence the Painter: "If you had asked could you play Tar and Cement today they would have said, 'No, you can't play Tar and Cement'. You can't please everybody! Play Danny Boy! It was my granny's party piece."

Joan in Ballyrobert, "Danny Boy, that's a request from me!"

"Please, please, please play Danny Boy," says Marjorie from Lisburn.

Sean plays it. "They'll all be leaving their houses in Wexford."

With music from Joe Dolan, Hal Ketchum, The Andrews Sisters, The Everly Brothers, John Prine, and more.

56 minutes

Last on

Wed 12 May 2021 15:04

Music Played

  • Hal Ketchum

    Small Town Saturday Night

  • The Andrews Sisters

    Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

  • The Everly Brothers

    Ebony Eyes

  • John Prine

    Aimless Love

  • The Four Seasons

    Sherry

  • Neil Diamond

    Cherry Cherry

  • Dwight Yoakam

    Cattle Call

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    A Place In The Sun

  • Wilson Pickett

    In The Midnight Hour

  • Billie Jo Spears

    Blanket On The Ground

  • John Conlee

    Rose Coloured Glasses

  • Joe Dolan

    Danny Boy

  • Tom Jones

    A Boy From Nowhere

Broadcast

  • Wed 12 May 2021 15:04