''Happy to Meet – Sorry to Part'' is the debut album by Irish folk

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Horslips Horslips are an Irish Celtic rock band that compose, arrange and perform songs frequently inspired by traditional Irish airs, jigs and Reel (dance), reels. The group are regarded as 'founding fathers of Celtic rock' for their fusion of tradit ...

. It was first released in

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in December 1972 as their début album, on their own Oats label (Oats MOO 3). Before this, they had released the same year three singles: ''Johnny's Wedding/Flower amang Them All'' and ''Green Gravel/Fairy King'' in Ireland and ''The High Reel/Furniture'' overseas. ''Happy to Meet – Sorry to Part'' was also released the following year in the

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, on the ATCO label (ATCO SD 7030). In 1973 It was also released in the

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. The track ''The High Reel'' is included in the US release but is missing from the original Irish release. The album has been re-released multiple times; with only some releases including ''The High Reel'' .Discogs The original Irish and US vinyl releases feature a gatefold cover, the first side of which is die-cut to reproduce the lattice work of an English concertina. An eight-page octagonal booklet is bound into the gatefold. The Irish and US releases use different front and rear photographs for the booklet, and a slightly different template for the die-cutting. Later vinyl releases, including an ATCO release later in 1973, have conventional album sleeves with a photograph of the concertina. The album gives little information about sources. The labels on the original Irish and US releases state ''All compositions by Horslips'', and on other releases each track is credited to the band. However, apart from ''Hall Of Mirrors'', ''An Bratach Bán'' (The White Flag), ''Bím Istigh Ag Ól'' (I’m Inside Drinking) and ''Furniture'', each track uses the traditional tune of the same name.''Ace And Deuce'' uses the tune ''Ace and Deuce of Piping''; ''Scalloway Ripoff'' uses part of the tune of ''Scalloway Lasses''. This is widely considered to be the first

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album ever recorded. With this, Horslips took the lead in Irish music of the time and created an original mixture from traditional Irish tunes and rock music. The album's name itself is that of an Irish

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Track listing

#"Happy to Meet" ''(instrumental)'' – 0:48 #"Hall of Mirrors" – 5:29 #"The Clergy's Lamentation" ''(instrumental)'' – 4:39 #"An Bratach Bán" – 2:04 #"The Shamrock Shore" – 4:34 #"Flower Amang Them All" ''(instrumental)'' – 2:04 #"Bím Istigh Ag Ól" – 3:43 #"Furniture" – 5:13 #"Ace and Deuce" ''(instrumental)'' – 3:35 #"Dance to Yer Daddy" – 4:37 #"The High Reel" ''(instrumental)'' – 2:43 #"Scalloway Ripoff" ''(instrumental)'' – 1:54 #"The Musical Priest" ''(instrumental)'' – 4:33 #"Sorry to Part" ''(instrumental)'' – 1:32

Personnel

;Horslips * Jim Lockhart -

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* Johnny Fean -

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* Charles O'Connor -

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, vocals * Eamon Carr -

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References

External links

Horslips official site - find out how the album was recorded in an old haunted manor.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Happy To Meet - Sorry To Part Horslips albums 1972 debut albums