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Collection (The Rankin Family Album)
''Collection'' is the first greatest hits album by Canadian folk music group The Rankin Family. It was released by EMI in 1996. The album peaked at number 1 on the ''RPM'' Country Albums chart. Track listing #" Roving Gypsy Boy Remix" (Jimmy Rankin) – 4:05 #" Borders and Time" (J. Rankin) – 3:23 #"Down by the Sally Gardens" (Traditional, William Butler Yeats) – 5:15 #"Christy Campbell Medley" (Traditional) – 4:37 #" Orangedale Whistle" (J. Rankin) – 3:25 #" Rise Again" (Leon Dubinsky) – 3:47 #"You Feel the Same Way Too" (J. Rankin) – 4:50 #"Grey Dusk of Eve (Portobello)" (David Field, Rankin Family, Traditional) – 3:07 #" North Country" (J. Rankin) – 3:35 #"Fail Il" (Traditional) – 2:37 #" Gillis Mountain" (Raylene Rankin) – 3:04 #"Fare Thee Well Love ''Fare Thee Well Love'' is the second studio album by Canadian folk music group The Rankin Family. The album was originally self-released by the siblings in 1990. It was re-issued by Capitol Records in 1992 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rankin Family
The Rankin Family (originally known as The Rankins) are a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada, SOCAN Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards and two RPM (magazine), Big Country Music Awards. Career Background The Rankins come from a family of 12 siblings, all of whom would entertain the neighbours musically every third weekend as part of a cèilidh. The first Rankin Family band formed in the 1970s when siblings Geraldine, Genevieve, David, John Morris, and Raylene Rankin began performing at local weddings and dances in Cape Breton. As the older siblings went away to college and university, the younger siblings Jimmy, Cookie and Heather took their places.Canadian Post, ''The Cape Breton Post'', "Rankins Tour Postponed as Family Grieves", pg A2, January 13, 2007 1989 - 1999 Jimmy, John Morris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount and was educated in Dublin and London and spent childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, lasting roughly from his student days at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Compilation Albums
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Fare Thee Well Love (song)
"Fare Thee Well Love" is a song recorded by Canadian music group The Rankin Family The Rankin Family (originally known as The Rankins) are a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four Society of Composers, Author .... It was released in 1992 as the second single from their second studio album, ''Fare Thee Well Love''. It peaked in the top 10 on the ''RPM (magazine), RPM'' Country Tracks and Adult Contemporary Tracks charts, and won the Juno Award for Single of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1994. Chart performance Year-end charts References {{authority control 1990 songs 1992 singles The Rankin Family songs Capitol Records singles Songs written by Jimmy Rankin Juno Award for Single of the Year singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
