Dirty Old Town - Luke Kelly & The Dubliners
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- Опубликовано: 14 ноя 2020
- Travastia Club (Finland) - 1976
Although this song was made famous by The Dubliners, it is not a song about Dublin as many people think. It was written by Ewan MacColl about Salford in England. 
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Luke Kelly in full flow is absolutely unparalleled, there (aren’t 😁)enough superlatives in the English language to describe this genius.
There "aren't" enough superlatives* 😅 jk
Good way to put it.
Luke is a legend. Erin go bragh
👍👍
Great words mate 👍
It’s not just his voice, which is powerful yet melodic, it’s his perfect diction. What a song and what a rendition! 😊
I agree , his Ora was electric
John Sheahan: "He took risks in singing and in the manner he phrased songs. He would hold on for that millisecond longer than anyone else would dare to, then catch up on the melody and create a certain tension with the listener. It's like a high jumper going those extra few millimetres and beating the height. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. When it works, it's wonderful. When it fails, you're grateful they took the chance."
Talent
and?
ty for commenting this
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As 5yr6
That's well said.
What do we reckon folks? 2022 and still sounding superb through my speakers!
Yes
Always great singer
@@ClanBez it is 👍👍🌷🌷🌷
@Tony Bryan TB-Drones the tops 👍👍
Yup!
Ireland's greatest ever performer , it's not even close . Rest easy Luke
My former uncle. What a talent. Died too young
They've got a lot tbh, Rory Gallagher is my go to but I absolutely love Luke Kelly
@@woody816Kelly, Gallagher and Lynott the holy trinity of Irish performers
@@elstonngunn4193 Lynott wasn't Irish.
Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy are right up there with Luke.
Luke Kelly has one of the most powerful yet melodious voices ever. Period.
Just learned the rhythm on banjo and I’ll tell for a guy from Middletown Ohio I’m doing pretty good with it!!! RIP LUKE
I live in miamisburg broooo sláinte
Pure Irish music lads
I'm from Hamilton, I didn't realize there were that many of us dibliner fans in this area
Will, what tuning did you play in
There's a Middleton on the outskirts of Manchester
My gosh what a performance. Absolute talent at its finest. " I chop you down, like an old dead tree" What a delivery, you can't teach this. WOW 🙏❤
What a voice.. Rip Luke...
I'm all choked up when I see (or hear) this version of Dirty Old Town. I just love Luke Kelly's fabulous voice and his performances. Warm greetings from Norway!
im a lancs man in me sixties lived in london thir4ty years ,hearing this song,telling me to go home,im weeping
Fucking hell that little higher note at 1:16 is amazing, my favourite rendition of this song now, Luke Kelly is truly a legend
I get goosebumps whenever I hear that note 🎵
A voice that would fit in blues, rock, almost anything that requires passion. Saw the dublin legends last week, amazing, but as always in my mind, what a great thing would be the possibility to listen to Luke now, in a gig . You will be always missed
Seen him, the Dubliners in Bangor Co. Down in the early 70s, went backstage after gig for a few drinks,
happy days.
🍀''they broke the mould''' unique.... the fact MILLIONS come home to these tunes 'a' testimony
Luke Kelly , very very great man , his voice , his talent , his memory, his hair , his expressive face , I love him
Best version of this song by luke this video, please never delete.
Brilliant, brings back memories of my mam and dad RIP always had the Dubliners records on when we were kids. Both me mother and father from county Galway and county Clare
Luke was the most amazing singer ever this one of my favourite songs from The Dubliners
Barney my boy that’s the best banjo I’ve ever herd played rip mate
Isn't it just magical!! You can tell Barney is enjoying himself! Beautiful accompaniment.
I can nothing about Like Kelly that thousands before me haven't already said. One word, legend.
My dad passed away last weekend, he went to school with Ronnie Drew. I’m not sure how well he knew Luke Kelly but he loved him! I know that much , I’m sure they’re all back together now enjoying a few Jars! ❤️☘️🙏☘️❤️
I'm sorry for your loss
My condolences. Hope music helps you heal as best as possible!
My god….that absolute pipes on that guy!! What a unit!!
Ich liebe dieses Lied. Es erinnert mich an meinen Vater und sein Banjo.
Always loved the Dubliners, to think they most of them are no longer with us. Absolutely great performers. No one can sing a like!!
Raw passion….beautifully sung!
That's banjo is something else.. Barney take a bow son
I met my love by the gasworks wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Clouds are drifting across the moon
Cats are prowling on their beat
Spring's a girl from the streets at night
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
I heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on the smoky wind
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
I'm going to make a good sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
I'll chop you down like an old dead tree, that's what they say
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
I met my love by the gasworks wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
I think it's "gasworks clock"
Original lyrics were “Gas works croft” and “Smell the spring on the Salford wind”, the latter supposedly changed by MacColl at the request of Salford council, the former presumably as “croft” was too local a word
@@PD_54 your comments regarding the words of the song your spot on,I was born in Salford in the 50s,one school I attended later on in met a history teacher who was in to the flok scene in Manchester and he knew ewan macoll etc and that tune left my thoughts,and like I said spot on with its original words,
@@stephenburns7061 there were a lot of crofts in Salford after war weren’t there. There was definitely A gasworks wall. And gasworks until the last couple of years. More heritage gone.
Aye, i was born in Hope, Jan 1954
Luke Kelly, R.I.P! Great music! The Dubliners were quite unique.
What a sound you could listen to him day and night just love that music brings back a lot of old memories ancestors living in Ireland 🍀🥃🍻👍
I live in Salford. Born and bred. It certainly rings home true
I'm from Wembley, lived in Salford for 4 years. Loved it, best place ever.
@@rosspurchase9022 I from Kenton Librar, nest to Wealdstone. No issue, I just proud to have hailed from there.
25vyears on , I bet its something different.
Chopper bikes , and cow horn handle bars . Shewpss factory ...the old railway and collecting slow, worms ...happy days
Salford born a bred
Barney's solid banjo compliments Lukies granite voice perfectly...there were not many trad groups that gelled in the way the Dubs did.
Such passion in his singing
I like the way he gets the audience involved !!! He just belts out with so much heart !!! I wish I had the honor to hear him in person!!! Such electricity!!+
Ahh what can I say but memories of a great life growing up with great music, unfortunately nowadays when listen to it people wanna talk over it, this music isn’t background music it’s meant for people to shut up and listen!
listening to luke and the dubliners brings back great memories of me and my dad and the family growing up singing together love ya dad and family 💚
Fabulous and joyously melodious. LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SING
Fantastic song from a Wigan lad great the Dubliners
What a unique and powerful voice.
Listening to Luke Kelly 's voice is always a great pleasure. An unpararalleled voice and talent. Luke sang the people's life, social and political issues like no one else has ever sung. He had and still has his own way of singinng.❤🇮🇪👍☘👏👏👏
Bless our old Luke Kelly...xxx
Just shared this with my WhatsApp group
Its the finest version I've ever heard
Luke was a complete one off !
Sparks my genetic memory takes me back to my homeland ❤
So gentle..."We've heard you shouting enough, now let's hear you sing. You'll do that fellows? I know you will".
Makes me feel like a lad again, like when me Pop used to play with me gently, and make me laugh and smile and grin like I never did at school, or at home by meself, or with me friends.
Absolutely Brilliant VOICE
Lord watch over this blessed man's soul.
Remember listening to this with my dad who passed away recently.. so many fond memories x
It;s people like the Dubliners that make Irish people glad that they are Irish and the rest of the world who are not wish that they were.💚💚🤍🤍🧡🧡
By singing an English song, in the English language.
Really
I'm not even Irish but they make me glad to be irish
No bother to the Dubliners to sing an English song. Luke Kelly knocked about the English folk scene, before joining the Dubliners. There are some great English folk songs. Another great English folk song that is associated with the Dubliners is The Wild Rover.
@@thetrickster1365might shock you to hear but England are Ireland are neighbors
His voice is like butter!!! It has a certain smoothness to it, and his timing is a gift.
Wonderful music. I grew up, like many others, listening to The Dubliners. Utterly superb.
Luke’s voice went right to my soul
I named my first son after Luke. What a hero and sadly missed..
Absolute masterpiece.
Incredible.
i used to love this and still do
Extraordinary Song sung by an extraordinary singer, the late Luke Kelly
A musical hymn ... the mother of all songs.😎👍❤
I love the Irish!
Love this version sang this song to my late wife 60 years ago [ happy memorys ]
This song as got me over the line a few times lately, Luke Kelly’s vocal is so raw and full of emotion
Buried me nan to this beautiful tune,swore we co hear her knocking the box
Beautiful mate absolutely brilliant
This is one of my top 10 songs of all time. Just perfect.
The intensity in his voice you can tell this man deeply knew the socialist message of the song. Especially that third verse. Rest in Peace to a fucking legend, Luke Kelly.
What socialist message? Any idea what a dock siren in Britain is for? Or what glowing cinders flying from a coal train in the night looks like? I assume those are the bits in the lyrics that set you off about 'socialist messages'. Not everything the man [Ewan McColl] wrote was bathed in political ideologies. That said, Luke Kelly certainly is a fucking legend. A voice like no other.
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@@olrikparlez3152 I'd like to know more about the dock sirens. If you please?
@@olrikparlez3152 these socialist weirdos try to make everything fit their talking point. Wait until they find out many of the Irish that emigrated to the United States fought for the confederacy.
Could be about workers safety. Or the fact that industrial areas voted labor
Petition to knock out the lads who keep wrecking the Luke Kelly statue in Dublin say aye 🖐🏼
The disrespect makes me sick.
@Jim Dandy yes Man! 100%
didnt hear about that , disgusting, jealous of his talent, such a great voice luke kelly, regards from northern ireland
My mother used to drag me around Salford market when I was a nipper. Luke has possibly the finest folk singing voice of all time. I cover this song from time to time.
A classic song from the great folk writer Ewan MacColl
Was he Kirsty's dad?
@@martinrea8548 he sure was
2:23 good GOD that fella could sing
I'm tellin ya he had a rare pair of lungs
I knew I couldn’t be the only one blown away by the way he sang that there
@@gconthemic2502 "Vocal Chords".
have to say between the pogues and this it's a tough choice. both are brilliant, I do love the Irish accent though.
Fab. love the Banjo.
The soundtrack to my youth fab
I'm from Ordsall (Salford)... now live in rural Longford😀
Very effective , and emotional version , really Working Class , musical instruments quite basic but very effective Thank you
Luke Kelly has an amazing voice, with a natural, pleasing, sustain.....
Very cool IMO.
One of Ewan McColl's great songs
Surprisingly this live version is better than the official recording alot more epicness!
I love this song!
Thank you all Man Utd fans today...football for the masses...its our game..Cantona smiles today
UNITED!!!!
I bet Luke was A red...sure he has to be..with that hair.. God bless Luke and UTD
God bless Luke and United
Luke Kelly was by far and away the most talented musician in Ireland when he was alive, maybe even the most talented in all the Celtic Isles
I'd highly recommend looking up George Murphy... currently performing and the only person I've found who can truly pull off Luke Kelly's songs...
Saying "Celtic Isles" is absurd
REST IN BEAUTIFUL PEACE, LUKE KELLY.
Ages Since I heard this!! Love it ❤
How am I 50 and never knew the Pogues were covering this song in their own beautiful way?
Let me say youngster, Im 66 and ever knew the original. But Pogues: good job
Legend sadly he left us so early but his legacy will remain for aye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a voice
One of my favs 💪🇮🇪❤️
Brilliant thanks 😊 👍 🙏 😀 👌 👏
When I hear this great song I think of my hometown Grimsby !!!!
ABSOLUTELY EPIC.
LOVE IT! Love this song
Manchester lad and love the Dubliners and irish music
This voice... so perfect for this song.
I saw and heard them end of the 70ieth twice, Luke was the great...
WHAT A TUNE.....
Wow,God rest you Luke🙏💚💙
Thank you so much
You are very welcome. Thanks for watching.
Einfach wunderbar. Vielen Dank 💐
Luke or Van the Man-best ever Irish popular music singer-take your pick
The harmonies are so lovely I love Emmylou and Mary Black this is the first time I have heard Dolores Keane just pure pure magic xx
RIP Luke
cant just listen to one dubliners performance, its always an hour long marathon once i start.
Dublin City xx❤
Does anybody else, remember when the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Caledonians were rather proud and beautiful peoples...
2024...
Oh my lord what have we done...or more accurately, how complacent did we become to wound ourselves so deeply, culturally and morally.