IMBD is very good about crediting people who didn't get screen credit. like when someone else does the singing for someone. I pride myself on my ear for voices and I don't think that is Sean Connery singing in the movie. Does any one know for certain?
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Yes, that was Mr, Connery's voice. He even admitted it in one of the featurettes that came with the DVD. He was actually fairly good. Makes me wonder why he did not get more singing roles.
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This is probably too much to hope for, but there isn't a soundtrack of the movie out there with that song on it, is there? And since I'm pretty sure the answer is no, does anyone know if that is a traditional Irish song (so maybe I can find a recording of it somewhere else) or if it was a song written specifically for the movie? --Thanks
shareGo to JanetMunro.com
At the top there is a Music Header and the song is listed under that.
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The two songs in the film ("The Wishing Song"and "Pretty Irish Girl") were written by Oliver Wallace (music) and Lawrence Edward Watkin (words.) Wallace also wrote the music for Dumbo, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mister Toad and many, many other Disney cartoons, nature films and movies throughout the 40s and 50s.
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I was looking for "Pretty Irish Girl" on Rhapsody and found that the song is on "The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song" (Box Set, Sound Track). Originally released by Disney in 1992. I couldn't tell who sings it on the album.
share"The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song" (Box Set, Sound Track) i have this it comes with like 4 cds and Pretty Irish Girl is one of them.
shareI know this answer is eight years on from the question, but what the hey!!
There's wasn't a soundtrack album as such for 'Darby O'Gill', but there was a record that re-told the story like a radio play, complete with music (including the songs) and sound effects. Arthur Shields (brother of Barry Fitzgerald) and J. Pat O'Malley played Darby and King Brian respectively. The back of the album sleeve had a series of stills from the movie that illustrated the story as told in the recording, which was slightly different from the movie, probably due to time limits.
BTW, I still have my copy, and still listen to it occasionally (on an actual three-speed turntable!).
Yeah he sang in Dr. No as well.
'You don't mind if I kill all of you?'
'What? Kill me if you can!'
'It'll hurt.'
i am not sure if he is singing but my dad (he know a bit about accents, he's welsh) thinks that it might be him. some of the words are not pronounced the way that a scotsman (sean connery) would pronouce a word in a faked irish brogue.
shareConnery's singing is good. If it isn't that great, at least we can all agree that it's better than Marlon Brando's singing in Guys And Dolls.
Sean Connery, do what is right... star in Indiana Jones 4!
I don't know where I heard it exactly, bit I did hear that it is Mr. Connery singing on the soundtrack to that song. I saw that movie a really long time ago when I was a little girl, and the sound of him singing - the tune and everything - is the only thing that I remember about that movie. I would like to get it on DVD... any idea where I can get it?
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Does anyone know where i can find the lyrics to the Pretty Irish Girl song...the music is sort of unclear...and i have searched the internet and turned up with nothing. Thanks all.
shareIt's Connery. The "Music of Disney" includes the first verse of the song, but not from the soundtrack. Apparently it's Connery's audition: He's accompanied only by a piano, so you get the feeling as if he were singing it in a parlor or a pub (though he's undoubtedly on a recording stage).
The lyrics, including a third verse that doesn't appear in the movie, came from a collection of Disney music and lyrics that I last saw years ago. I used to sing my daughter to sleep with it, so I know it by heart:
PRETTY IRISH GIRL (Lawrence Edward Watkin/Oliver Wallace)
(Connery)(*for some reason, "pretty" becomes "darling" in this refrain)
Have you ever seen the seagulls
A-flying o'er the heather,
Or the crimson sails on Galway Bay
The fisherman unfurl?
O, the earth is filled with beauty
And it's gathered all together
In the form and face
And dainty grace
Of a pretty Irish girl.
O, she is my dear, my darling one,
Her eyes so sparkling, full of fun,
No other, no other,
Can match the likes of her.
She is my dear, my darling one,
My smiling and beguiling one.
I love the ground she walks upon,
My darling* Irish girl.
(Munro)(**she hums the first two lines)
Have you ever seen the morning
In Kerry or Kilarney,**
When the dew is on the hayrick,
And every drop a pearl,
When the geese are full of blarney,
And the thrush is singing Gaelic,
And standing in the doorway
Is a pretty Irish girl?
O, she is my dear, my darling one,
Her eyes so sparkling, full of fun,
No other, no other,
Can match the likes of her.
She is my dear, my darling one,
My smiling and beguiling one.
I love the ground she walks upon,
My pretty Irish girl.
(third verse, not used in movie:)
When I'm parted from my darling,
My sighs would fill a schooner,
And when I can't be with her, sure,
My tears would turn a mill.
Since she cannot be unkind
To any helpless creature,
I'm sure that she will marry me,
My pretty Irish girl.
O, she is my dear, my darling one,
Her eyes so sparkling, full of fun,
No other, no other,
Can match the likes of her.
She is my dear, my darling one,
My smiling and beguiling one.
I love the ground she walks upon,
My pretty Irish girl.
(Albert Sharpe, as Darby, joins in a reprise of the refrain at the end of the picture, and earlier he sings "The Wishing Song" with Jimmy O'Dea (King Brian). I'm pretty sure this is the only film in which Sharpe ever sang; he was also the non-singing star of the Irish-themed Broadway musical, "Finian's Rainbow".)
I recently went to Ireland for a weekend break with some friends,we stayed at the Darby O' Gills guesthouse and it was full of posters for this film,none of us had ever heard of it so we thought that the posters were just mock ups for the guesthouse,when we got back my friend checked it out on the internet and lo and behold there it was,anyway to answer your question,YES it is available on dvd at E-BAY.
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Oh, Sean could carry a tune.
"Underneath the mango tree, me honey and me..." :-)
..he started in the chorus of South Pacific and has a good voice. He sings in Dr. No and The man Who Would Be King as well
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Well, according to Wikipedia, it is not his voice. Second paragraph from the end of the "production notes" section. I thought for the longest time it was him singing as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darby_O%27Gill_and_the_Little_People#Prod uction_notes
Connery had to learn to sing for his first stage roll in the London chorus of "South Pacific." Big, powerfully built men were needed for the sailors and all the "chorus boys" in London were small and effeminate. The producers went around the London gyms recruiting bodybuilders, (Connery was amateur Mr Scotland one year) then taught them how to sing and act.
shareThere was a brother and sister going to the same university as me on student visas from Ireland. When I mentioned this film the girl got mad about it, she had seen the movie and said that Connery didn't sound anything close to Irish.
She told me when I was playing around and faking it my obviously American Irish just as close as his obvious Scots accent which was probably deemed similar enough for the Yank audience who couldn't tell Australian from Liverpool.
they were either too lazy to hire a real Irishman to play the part or Connery was available an came cheap - it was his first leading role after all