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''A Spontaneous Performance Recording!: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem'', sometimes simply called ''A Spontaneous Performance'', is a 1961 collection of traditional Irish folk songs performed by The Clancy Brothers with frequent collaborator Tommy Makem. It was their first album for Columbia Records. The group would continue to record for Columbia for the remainder of the 1960s. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1962 for Best Folk Recording.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1962-214.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://clancybrothersandtommymakem.com/cbtm_d13_spontaneous.htm )〕 The LP had originally been considered a self-titled album with "A Spontaneous Performance Recording!" merely a description of the record for the cover. It is referred to as ''The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem'' in the original reviews of the album and for its Grammy Nomination.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1962-214.html )〕 It later became known as ''A Spontaneous Performance Recording'' to avoid confusion, because the group already had released a less popular album entitled ''The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem'' on the little Tradition Records label that Paddy Clancy ran. One of the leaders of the American folk music revival, Pete Seeger, played the banjo on the recording. In 2007 on the BBC, influential folk singer and songwriter Christy Moore chose the song, "Brennan on the Moor," from this album as one of his desert island discs. He introduced the song by noting, "The Clancy Brothers changed my life," because through them he discovered a love for Irish folk music. ==Reception== A review in ''Variety'' praised the album's style as "exciting because it isn't yet overdone." It also lauded the "lively" musical accompaniment of Seeger and Bruce Langhorne and the singing of the live audience on the album. Even though the reviewer noted that the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were only starting to get prominent live gigs at that point, he said already "the group was built along solid pro lines." The ''Billboard Magazine'' review rated the album with four stars and noted its "strong sales potential." After referring to the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem as an "Irish Brothers Four or Kingston Trio," the article praised the group's "delightfully droll manner" and "spirited interpretations" on the recording. ''The New York Times'' lauded the album for its "vigor and drive and charm," but also criticized an apparent speeding up of the recording that "distorts the group's natural sound" and made the singers sound too much like American pop groups. In a more specialized review of folk albums, D. K. Wilgus argued that this record "demonstrates that general respect for tradition may survive in a stage concert for a major label." He also expressed the opinion that ''A Spontaneous Performance'' was at about the same level as the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem's self-titled album on Tradition Records that was released earlier the same year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Spontaneous Performance Recording」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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