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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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