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Below are some of the Songs written produced and Recorded By Brendan. Click on title for Song information and lyrics
Step Together
Making it Big in America
The Loving Kind
La-Ta-Tee-Da
 Cry for Unity
Life of the Party
Bonfires
When Your Alone
Good Health
Gallant Band
Green with Blue
Here Comes the Night  
I Want to Come Back
Voices in the Wind
Resident Alien
Another Day Will Begin
 Ireland Forever
Showband Man
Song for Da
How Far We've Come
Ireland's Sons
My Irish Dream
The Emerald Isle
For the Good Times
High Kings (Inst)
Cry for Unity (Inst)

 

 


 
 
 



Brendan cut his teeth as a teenage musician during the heyday of the Irish Showband scene and it wouldn't be long before he joined their ranks. Starting out locally, he first played the pubs of Limerick and the surrounding countryside with other young hopefuls
Within a few years, Brendan was bitten by the traveling bug  and headed off to London, where he joined the Donnie Walsh Orchestra. The band was the resident group at The Oranmore, a popular Irish Club in the London suburb of Balham.
 
While in London Brendan was offered a spot with The Express Showband from Dublin  playing a program which consisted of material from groups such as the American Drifters, the best of the Top 20 pop charts, throwing in some Herb Alpert and Dixieland jazz for good measure.
 
Once again Brendan returned home to Limerick where he joined forces with former band mate, Billy Brosnan, with whom he had originally played in The Ambassador 7. They formed a four piece called Wee Four , which played around Limerick and the surrounding countryside, but as a four piece didn't really play the showband circuit

 Later Brendan joined the Parkway Orchestra the resident band at the Parkway Motel in Limerick.
The Parkway started to book larger and larger acts, and eventually attracted stars like Roger Whitaker, Rolf Harris, Val Doonican, Lonnie Donegan, and The Bachelors. Recounts Paddy, "it is a tribute to the talent of the Parkway Orchestra that many of these acts came without any musical director or their own backing.

 Brendan got the urge to hit the road" again and in the late 70's he teamed up with Tommy Drennan and his All Star band until he finally left Ireland for the United States in 1986. 


Band Photos Include

Ambassador 7 Showband Limerick

Wee Four Limerick

Ohio Showband Tuam Co Galway

The Express Showband Dublin

The Parkway Orchestra Limerick

Other Bands I worked with.

The Billy Conway Band

Tommy Drennan All stars

Donie Walsh Orchestra

 

 

Some of the Irish bands Brendan worked with before coming to the US.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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