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Best Of Sounds Promising

LP - RTE Records - RTE 70 - IRL - 1983 Distributed by WEA Comparable to the Non Stop Pop LPs, but focussing on new songwriters. Sounds Promising was an RTE Radio One Series presented by Shay Healy (who became an expert on songwriting once he won eurovision). side one> Errol Walsh - My Daddy Mary Downes - By Your Side Paul Hayes - Live on Venus X-L-R Liam Merriman - Echoes Mandy Murphy - Windy Weather Jeunes Francais - I Think I'm In Love John Spillane & Noel Shine - My Love side two: Adrian Mannering - Lovers The Coasters - Shortchange Maura Flannery - Achill John Costello - If She Was Just Left Alone Jargon - Man On The Stage Alone Michele O'Connor - Fun TO See Fantasy Errol Walsh - One More Time Again From the sleeve notes: Errol Walsh is a songwriter from Derry. Mary Downes is from Balbriggan and has busked on Grafton St in Dublin. Paul Hayes is an avant garde composer from Dun Laoghaire. Liam Merriman from Waterford. Mandy Murphy from Cork, occasionally played with the Jimmy McCarthy Band. Jeunes Francais - Dublin northside pop band John Spillane & Noel Shine from Cork. Adrian Mannering from Dublin. The Coasters from Ballina. Maura Flannery is from Bunclody but Dublin based, where she sings jazz and blues. John Costello is from Boyle. Jargon are a foursome from Sligo/Leitrim/Roscommon featuring chief songwriter Charlie McGettigan. Michele O'Connor is an actress and singersongwriter from Dublin.


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