The Collection (Tommy Fleming album)
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The Collection is a compilation album
released in 2003
by Irish
singer Tommy Fleming
. This two disc collection features some of his favourite and most popular songs of the first ten years in his career. Disc two is a limited edition live CD.
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
released in 2003
2003 in music
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by Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
singer Tommy Fleming
Tommy Fleming
Tommy Fleming is an Irish singer and philanthropist. He rose to fame in the early 1990s after he was asked to tour the US with Phil Coulter. He soon established himself as a solo artist, he found his greatest success singing traditional Irish music with his forceful and dynamic bel canto tenor...
. This two disc collection features some of his favourite and most popular songs of the first ten years in his career. Disc two is a limited edition live CD.
Disc 1
- Sand & Water - 4:19
- The Contender - 4:10
- Silence Is King - 4:02
- Fare Thee Well Love - 4:16
- The Best Is Yet To Come - 2:12
- The Leaving Of Liverpool - 4:00
- The Isle of InisfreeIsle of InnisfreeThe Isle of Innisfree is a song composed by Dick Farrelly , born Richard Farrelly, who wrote both the music and lyrics. Dick got the inspiration for "Isle of Innisfree", the song for which he is best remembered, while on a bus journey from his native Kells, County Meath to Dublin...
- 4:36 - Wait Till The Clouds Roll By - 4:48
- The Rose & The Briar - 3:27
- Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce Hi - 4:20
- As I Leave Behind Neidin - 2:52
- The Auld Triangle - 4:36
- The Mountains Of Pomeroy - 5:31
- In The Gloaming - 3:02
- Raglan Road - 4:22
- Hard Times - 4:01
Disc 2
- Through A Child's Eyes - 5:05
- The Bantry Girl's Lament - 4:13
- Danny Boy - 6:26
- Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda) - 4:23
- Follow On - 3:56
- Only Our Rivers Run Free - 6:11
- Green Grow The Rushes - 4:02
- The Water Is Wide - 4:34
- Love Is All Around - 4:29
- Galway Bay - 4:02