Guth & Tuairim, Bealtaine 1979

'Well after nine months or so in the charts 'One· D_~y At A Time~ has faded into the lower regio~s_,: and it seems that singer Gloria must be. seeking' new recording material. 1It' s reported· that the singer has recor.ded several other·Gospel songs, but as yet no final choice on a follow up single. The Navan born songstress will soon be 'hosting her .pwn· series on RTE, and included in her guest li."st is Garaldine Branagan. No doubt Release Records will issue Gloria's long awaited new single to coincide with her 1;elevision- show. The Eurovisibn Song Contest winners 'Milk and Honey' ·were indeed very disappointed that their song 1 Hallalujah' did not enjoy the important number one slot in the British 'charts. The song iSsued by Polydor Records enjoyed chart success throughout Europe, and soon the three guy and one gal group will be pr&~Se)lted with a collection of Silver and Gold Discs for top sales. We add our congratuiations to our own Cathal Dunne, as his self compos~d song : ' · 'Happy Man' made the important number one spot in the Swiss charts. Cathal appeared on Swiss T~V. with actress ·· spphia Loren, and it sure helped record sales. Despite what the critics wrote, Big Tom and the Travellers have cele_brated\ their fourth year on the ballroom circuit. ·After a. number of changes the Travellera seem to have made · an impact in their own right. In th~ recent. Irish Mus~c Scene popular! ty poll Tom was 'voted top voc~list, . Travellers t~p·band and his album 'I Would Like To See You .Again' top album, by readers to this London basea monthl1 publication. It seems _he is still the king. JUchael Crawford star of BBC T.V. • s , 'Some Mothers Do Have Them' which is also screened by RTE, has rejected a five million dollar contract to record an American version of this series for ABC T.V. thePe. lUchael is al.so the star of the new ITV hit comedy show 'Chalk and Cheese' • · From Honday to Friday Radio na Gaeltachta present their mi~-day broadcasts, but come Saturday and Sunday, when most listeners could sit back and f-ppreciate such mid-day broadcasts, no such prograrrunes are_to be heard., One wonders what is the point of a radio service which has su~h an out dated broadcasting forrnat. Its high time the beloved so called heads of .this ·station paid a little more attention to their listeners, and lets have the much promised extended broadcasting hours, especially at week-ends. TEL.! GRE~N FIZLD3 OF F::tANCE HQW do you ' do, young willie McBride, Do ye mind if I sit nere down by your grave side And rest for a while 1 neath the warm summer sun. I 1 vt:t bei:m walking all day 1;111d I'm nearly done. : I see by your gravestone you were only ninetee~ when you ~oined t~e great fallen in 1916. I hope you died well and I hope you died clean. Or young Willie l'JlcBride . wasn•t slow and obscelile. Chorus Did he beat the drum slowly? Did he play the fife lowly? Did they sound -the death-march as they lowered you down? And did· the band play the last post and chorus / D~d the pipes play the l<'lowers of the Forest? Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind? In some faithful. heart is your memory enshrined? Although you died back in 1916, in that faithful heart are you forever nineteen. Or are you a stranger · Wi thoui even a name · Enclosed and forever behind a glass frame. In an old p:t'lotograph, torn, battered and stained. And faded to yellow in a brown leathoar .frame. Chorus The sun.now it shines on the green fields of France Ther_e 1 s a warm summer breeze, it makes the red poppies dance. And look ho\or the sun shines from under the clouds. There's no gas, there's no barbed-wire, there's no gunfiring now. But here in this graveyard, that's still no man's land rhe countless ••hi te crosses stand mute in the sand., · To man's blind indifference to his fellowman - To a \-thole ~eneration that was butchered and damned. Chorus folk well at last an alternative to RTE radio. On Thursday 31st of Hay RTE Radio 2, hits ~he air T~ rud1 inteacht speisial ta ag ba.int la broagcasting from 7 a •.m. till 1 a..m. daily. -· hamhr!'in bhrbnach. B' fheidir so E_;cuireann Boss of the new service is Billy \Jall, who will siad gne de' r. tsaol direach as ar . gcomhair be _introducing listeners to at least 15 new D.J.•~o so musclaionn siad i~ni eigir. ionainn RTE Radio 2 will be a mu·sic ~tation along the faoi 'n chine daonna~ Amhran mar seo is ea lines of both BBC Radio l and 2. With a stiff ;9 "The Green Fields of lt'rance" leis na fine of £10,000 or two years in jail or. indeed F'urey 'lrothers agus :Javy Artl:mr · both. The Government expect to silence the (Ceirnini Dolphin). Nuair a smaoinlonn -&u twentyplus pirate radio stations broadcasting in ,go deachai[.::h se .so dti -Jimh. 5 s 1 na 11 chart·s" various parts of Ireland. .is rHdir feiceail an duil ad. a;:; an ~obal lann. With the decline of value for the Irish pound, I and the J?Ostal dispute, promoters are not keen Ba e 3!rjc Bo,sul as an Astrail a scrU.iobh an to book ~nternational acts. The postal dispute :t-amhran. A:r ndoigh bhi aithne ai-r sa· t1r has hit concerts by a number ·of major artists who iseo roimhe seo mar gurbh e a scriobh an ceann rec-ently. v_isited Dublin. Many sea,ts were unsoldr.·gal. anta sin eile, "The Band Played 'waltzing and .with a 5p in each pound value loss things atilda". Baineann an bheirt a.cu leis an were not on the bright side. . chead chot;adh domhanda. 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