Ruby
Murray
The
Voice Of Ireland
Title: The Voice Of Ireland
Label: Capitol
Catalog Number: T10010
Release Date: Unknown
Format: LP
Track Listing:
| Side One 1. The Green Glens Of Antrim 2. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 3. It's A Great Day For The Irish 4. The Mountains Of Mourne 5. If You're Irish Come Into The Parlor 6. Galway Bay |
Side Two 1. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral 2. Dear Old Donegal 3. How Can You Buy Killarney? 4. Phil The Fluter's Ball 5. Danny Boy 6. Teddy O'Neil |
Album Cover Text
High Fidelity - Recorded in Great Britain - 'Capitol' Of The World - A Series of Outstanding International Recordings
songs by the United Kingdom's Favorite RUBY MURRAY with RAY MARTIN'S music
The most favored songs of the Emerald Isle ... sung easily, effortlessly, by shy Ruby Murray... Ray Martin's Orchestra frames "The Voice of Ireland" in Ruby's first album - Here!
Some call her the "Heartbeat Girl." But Ruby Murray of Belfast today reigns alone as the foremost - and most beloved - Irish singer of popular songs in the world.
Since 1954 Rudy has sold more records in Ireland, Scotland and England than any other artist in the United Kingdom. For seven consecutive months, in 1955-56, she headlined the show at London's vast Palladium, and throughout her engagement Ruby was "doubling" on B.B.C. radio and television programs and - not incidentally - recording this album of favorite Irish tunes.
When she was only 12, Ruby was spotted (in Belfast) by the British television producer Richard Afton, who featured her in London on a "one-shot" appearance which attracted favorable press notices. But the little colleen was, in her own words, "a mite too young to go professional" and she wisely returned to her schooling in Belfast.
Not until 1954 did Ruby pop back again into prominence. She was there on tour with an all-Irish vaudeville troupe when the eagle-eyed Afton encountered her once again. Afton placed her regularly on B.B.C. and while singing on the first telecast of the modest "Quite Contrary" series, a British record producer and bandleader, Ray Martin, watched Ruby's act, listened carefully to her pure, Gaelic soprano and signed her for records a few hours after "Quite Contrary" signed off for the night.
Ruby's success on discs has since become a legend. At one time in 1955 five of her releases were among Great Britain's "Top Twenty" best-sellers. Her first record for Capitol was issued in March, 1956, simultaneously with Ruby's arrival in New York on a vacation trip which took her to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Toronto before returning to London and the hectic career of a nation's favorite singer.
Shy, soft-spoken and quick to deprecate her unique, entirely original vocal style, Ruby Murray has emerged from Belfast as an internationally acclaimed "Voice of Ireland." She doesn't sound like other girl singers. And her choice of songs is different, too.
This collection of Ruby's special personal selections confirms both points. Her mentor, Ray Martin, conducts the orchestra.
Made in U.S.A.
Factories: Scranton, PA., Los Angeles, Calif.
--Cover photo of Irish pub courtesy Irish Tourist Information Bureau
--Ruby Murray photo by Derek Allen
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