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Bio:
Mike Murphy was and is a media celebrity in Ireland. He worked for RTE for many years on both radio and TV.
He's been a DJ, a chat show host, the presenter of varuous light entertainment shows, a quiz master, had
his own comedy sketch show which famously took the mickey out of various local celebrities as well as members
of the general puboic. He was enormously popular by the end of the 1970s and into the 80s. As journalist John
Waters put it, what did for Mike Murphy was Art.
Mike Murphy made a number of recordings which fall squarely in the pop/easy listening category.
Lineup:
Dick Keating - piano, organ
Martin Walsh - bass
John Curran - bass
Ian McGarry - drums
Alfie Barry - percussion
Johnny Tate - trombones
Notes:
Recorded/Mastered by Fred Meijer and Bill Somerville-Large at Eamonn Andrews Studio.
Arranged by Dick Keating.
Produced by Dermot O'Brien
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