Party Time
The Calin Coburn Collections ©2004
This photo is from a series of pictures taken at a party prior to Bob and P'Nuts Nolan's voyage to Hawaii on the Matsonia in January of 1948. Songbooks on the piano are "Greatest of all Irish Songs[1]", "Bill Hardy’s Songs of the Good Old Days[2]", and "93 All-Time Song Favorites"[3]. If you enjoy Bob Nolan's distinctive voice in solos, click here to select some old favorites.
Original snapshot
[1]Greatest of All Irish Songs: That Tumble-Down Shack In Anthlone Hello Paddy Molly Malone (Cockles And Mussels) You'll Have To Pass Through Ireland Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms The Last Rose Of Summer If I Knock The "L" Out Of Kelly (It Would Still Be Kelly To Me) Down Deep In An Irishman's Heart St. Patricks Day Kathleen Mavourneen Wearing Of The Green Killarney The Minstrel Boy When I Dream Of My Ould Kerry Home Since O'Keefe Is On Relief Throw Him Down, McClosky My Name Is Kally (But I'm Livin' The Life Of Reilly) I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen John James O'Reilly Come Back To Erin The Hark That Once Thro' Tara's Halls Mickey Donohue Tears Of The Shannon Down Went McGinty The hat My Father Wore! The Rose Of Tralee The Dear Ould Dart Garry Owen The Irish Washer Woman Published by Mills Music Inc. Copyright 1942. 64 pages
[2] Bill Hardy's Songs of the Good Old Days, 1948, Published by Robbins Music Corp. 1948. 64 pages
[3] 93 All-Time SONG FAVORITES A folio of the Biggest Song Hits featured by your Favorite Orchestras and Stars of Radio, Stage and Screen - Woods and Music Published by: MILLS MUSIC, Inc. 1942. 64 pages