[78-L] Danny Boy - a Christmas tune? Really?

[Rjholtin]

Does this song have ANY relation to Christmas in any way??

Closest I can come is it is somewhat related to war and this was issued for the first time as the back of Home for Xmas during WW 2 in 1943.  That's the only connection I see or hear.   

Looks like Decca had only seven Christmas tunes by Crosby at that point in time and this was just filler, but it would seem they could have found something more appropriate or record another, instrumental, anything but this!  

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On Dec 22, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Philip Carli <Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu> wrote:

"Danny Boy" is a lyric by Fred Weatherly that he applied to an old Irish melody his sister alerted him to, sometime in the 1890s, I think.  It's more a lament than a Christmas lyric; der Bingle didn't thinkle it out too much.  I say it's not suitable to carolling, as much as I like it on its own.  PC
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Subject: [78-L] Danny Boy - a Christmas tune?  Really?

The first Crosby Christmas album on Decca A 403 coupled the initial issue of I'll Be Home For Christmas with Danny Boy (18570).

This has always struck me as odd.  If ol' Dan is a Christmas tune, my education is lacking something.  Anybody know what the story is here or should I start programming Danny Boy with our neighborhood caroling group?

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