The Fureys Sing Chaplin

The Fureys Sing Chaplin 

By Paul McCann

After all the years the Furey brothers spent together , on the road touring and singing their songs and bringing their gift of friendship and laughter around the world , it wrote its own story with many chapters of happy memories. 

This  very talented family of four folk musicians had years  of being on the road .   Many people in the music scene attribute the Fureys for making folk music rise to its popularity and leave a legacy for the world to share  .

It is people like this who have kept the flag flying and made Irish people around the world feel proud and invited other cultures into the Irish way of seeing things .



Being from gypsy heritage the Fureys have never minded travelling . The lifestyle that goes with being a travelling musician is not an easy one , but if it where not for people like the Fureys the world would a much poorer place be .

They have brought happiness to people all around the world and connected their understanding of songs and music across a wide plain of consciousness of what it is to be Irish . 

When passing from this life into the next the very talented button key accordion player Paul Furey must have looked back and thought it was all  well worth the effort .

God only knows how many late nights and endless roads he had to travel . God only knows the lonliness he must have felt while he was touring with the band . God only knows how many times he wished for a break from the road , and yet the show went on . Paul Furey on the most recent album that gives tribute to the songwriting skills of Charlie Chaplin delivers the vocals on a track entitled Weeping Willows . In this translation of one of Charlie Chaplins numbers Paul brings Charlie Chaplins account of the King In New York alive again . This was the last thing Paul Furey ever did .

What a great legacy he has left the world .

The late Paul Furey has a very special place on this album along with the genius of Charlie Chaplin .

Some of the other tracks on the album The Fureys Sing Chaplin are Eternally from the 1952 production of Limelight and Smile from Modern Times in 1936 . Spring Song from A King In New York and This Is My Song from the 1966 production of A Countess Fron Hong Kong . These songs are performed by the oldesty of the family Eddie Furey .

George Furey sings Beautiful Wonderful Eyes from the 1951 production of City Lights and from the 1925 Gold Rush SingA Song.

His rendition of You Are The Song from Gentleman Tramp is very deep and emotional . 

This album indeed is a great tribute to the genius of the one and only Charlie Chaplin and the talent of The Furey Brothers . The voice of Charlie Chaplin is also heard on this alum on the tracks

Nonsense Song, Its Love, Life Of A Sardine Dictator Speech and Monsieur Verdoux .

Charlie was one of those extra-ordinary people who could have walked into a recording studio and while other people were focused on sound levels wee Charlie would have been catching a bee in a bottle .

On the screen he could have walked into a set ,and begun to unscrew a light bulb and begin to eat it in front of a rolling camera . 

He had that instant thing only Charlie Chaplin could see . 

I’m told that his daughter Josephine has spared no expense 

on the production of her Fathers tribute album Chaplin Sings and the Fureys sing Chaplin as only they alone could . 

This is an album that brings Vaudaville back again . 

This is an album that has the hallmark of a fine and rare gift .

This is an album people are only now starting to hear about . 

Its also been great to hear Paul Furey sing and leave us 

A song for his last farewell .

Weeping Willows was the evening of his last farewell . 

He didn’t want leave it too late and so with those final words .

Bye For Now .