Green Linnet Records was an American independent record label that specialized in Celtic music. Founded by Lisa Null and Patrick Sky as Innisfree Records in 1973, the label was initially based in Null's house in New Canaan, Connecticut. In 1975, the label became Innisfree/Green Linnet and Wendy Newton joined Null and Sky as operating officer. In 1976, Newton took over control of the now Green Linnet label and moved it to Danbury, Connecticut in 1985. Newton became sole owner in 1978. Newton's love of Irish music had been sparked during a visit to Ireland where she heard traditional music for the first time in a small pub in County Clare.
My version of one of the great traditional Napoleonic ballads.It appeared on broadside sheets in the early 19th century - I've included one from my collection in the video,printed by Harkness of Preston - but the song probably originated in Ireland.
published: 08 Apr 2012
Green Linnet
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Green Linnet · Frank Harte · Donal Lunny
My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte
℗ 2001 Hummingbird Records
Released on: 2009-03-06
Music Publisher: IMRO/MCPS/DLM/Perfect Songs
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published: 25 Feb 2015
The Green Linnet
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The Green Linnet · Maggie Boyle
Won't You Come Away
℗ WildGoose
Released on: 2016-12-29
Music Publisher: Copyright Control
Composer, Lyricist: Traditional
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published: 15 Aug 2022
Dick Gaughan - The Green Linnet
Dick Gaughan's classic solo album, No More Forever released 1972. This LP features traditional Scottish ballads; his later works were mostly political in flavour.
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published: 25 Nov 2016
Micho Russell | Green Linnet | TG4 Dé Domh 29 05 2016
Micho Russell ag damhsa & ag casadh an fheadóg stáin.
Tony MacMahon & Barney McKenna.
Micho Russell dancing and playing the tin whistle.
published: 26 May 2016
171 The Green Linnet
Continuing our songs about Napoleon Bonaparte:
This is an Irish broadside ballad about Napoleon, published not long after Waterloo, when the Irish were unequivocally in support of Napoleon.
Dick Gaughan sang this on his 1972 LP No More Forever
Curiosity has led a young native of Erin
For to view the lone banks of the Rhine
Where an empress he saw and the robe that she was wearing
All over with diamonds did shine
No goddess in splendour was ever yet seen
To equal this fair maid so mild and serene
In soft murmurs she cried, “Oh, my linnet so green
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?”
The cold frosty Alps you did freely pass over
Which nature had placed in your way
At Marengo, Beltona all around you did hover
All Paris rejoiced the next day
It grieved me the hardships you did undergo
T...
published: 19 Jun 2022
The Green Linnet
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The Green Linnet · O.J. Abbott
Irish and British Songs from the Ottawa Valley
℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1961 Folkways Records
Released on: 1961-01-01
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published: 07 Feb 2017
Don't Touch The Green Linnet Jig
Jig played by Steph Geremia (Jig also called "Tommy People's Jig")
@stephgeremiamusic
published: 26 Sep 2023
The Green Linnet Gypsy jazz jam Session
published: 02 Sep 2019
The Green Linnet
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The Green Linnet · Gráinne Clarke
Songs of Rogues and Honest Men
℗ 1980 IML Irish Music Licensing Ltd.
Released on: 2014-07-11
Music Publisher: Outlet Music
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My version of one of the great traditional Napoleonic ballads.It appeared on broadside sheets in the early 19th century - I've included one from my collection i...
My version of one of the great traditional Napoleonic ballads.It appeared on broadside sheets in the early 19th century - I've included one from my collection in the video,printed by Harkness of Preston - but the song probably originated in Ireland.
My version of one of the great traditional Napoleonic ballads.It appeared on broadside sheets in the early 19th century - I've included one from my collection in the video,printed by Harkness of Preston - but the song probably originated in Ireland.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Green Linnet · Frank Harte · Donal Lunny
My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte
℗ 2001 Hummingbird Records
Released on...
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Green Linnet · Frank Harte · Donal Lunny
My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte
℗ 2001 Hummingbird Records
Released on: 2009-03-06
Music Publisher: IMRO/MCPS/DLM/Perfect Songs
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Green Linnet · Frank Harte · Donal Lunny
My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte
℗ 2001 Hummingbird Records
Released on: 2009-03-06
Music Publisher: IMRO/MCPS/DLM/Perfect Songs
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Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDS
The Green Linnet · Maggie Boyle
Won't You Come Away
℗ WildGoose
Released on: 2016-12-29
Music Publisher: Copyright Control
...
Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDS
The Green Linnet · Maggie Boyle
Won't You Come Away
℗ WildGoose
Released on: 2016-12-29
Music Publisher: Copyright Control
Composer, Lyricist: Traditional
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDS
The Green Linnet · Maggie Boyle
Won't You Come Away
℗ WildGoose
Released on: 2016-12-29
Music Publisher: Copyright Control
Composer, Lyricist: Traditional
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Dick Gaughan's classic solo album, No More Forever released 1972. This LP features traditional Scottish ballads; his later works were mostly political in flavou...
Dick Gaughan's classic solo album, No More Forever released 1972. This LP features traditional Scottish ballads; his later works were mostly political in flavour.
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Dick Gaughan's classic solo album, No More Forever released 1972. This LP features traditional Scottish ballads; his later works were mostly political in flavour.
-Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
Continuing our songs about Napoleon Bonaparte:
This is an Irish broadside ballad about Napoleon, published not long after Waterloo, when the Irish were unequivo...
Continuing our songs about Napoleon Bonaparte:
This is an Irish broadside ballad about Napoleon, published not long after Waterloo, when the Irish were unequivocally in support of Napoleon.
Dick Gaughan sang this on his 1972 LP No More Forever
Curiosity has led a young native of Erin
For to view the lone banks of the Rhine
Where an empress he saw and the robe that she was wearing
All over with diamonds did shine
No goddess in splendour was ever yet seen
To equal this fair maid so mild and serene
In soft murmurs she cried, “Oh, my linnet so green
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?”
The cold frosty Alps you did freely pass over
Which nature had placed in your way
At Marengo, Beltona all around you did hover
All Paris rejoiced the next day
It grieved me the hardships you did undergo
The mountains you travelled all covered with snow
But the balance of power your courage laid low
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?
The crowned heads of Europe they were in great splendour
And they swore they would have you submit
But the goddess of freedom soon had them to surrender
And they lowered their standards to your will
Old Frederik's colours to France he did bring
His offspring found shelter under your wing
That year at Vienna you so sweetly did sing
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?
What numbers of men there were eager to slay you
Their malice you viewed with a smile
Their gold through all Europe was found to betray you
And they joined with the Mamelukes on the Nile
Like ravenous vultures their vile passions did burn
The orphans they slew and caused the widows to mourn
But my linnet he is gone and he never will return
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?
I have roamed through the deserts of wild Abyssinia
And could yet find no cure for my pain
I will go and enquire at the isle of Saint Helena
But soft whispers murmur, “'tis vain”
Come tell me ye critics, come tell me in time
What nations I must roam my green linnet to find
Was he slain at Waterloo in France or on the Rhine?
No—he's dead on St Helena's bleak shore.
Continuing our songs about Napoleon Bonaparte:
This is an Irish broadside ballad about Napoleon, published not long after Waterloo, when the Irish were unequivocally in support of Napoleon.
Dick Gaughan sang this on his 1972 LP No More Forever
Curiosity has led a young native of Erin
For to view the lone banks of the Rhine
Where an empress he saw and the robe that she was wearing
All over with diamonds did shine
No goddess in splendour was ever yet seen
To equal this fair maid so mild and serene
In soft murmurs she cried, “Oh, my linnet so green
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?”
The cold frosty Alps you did freely pass over
Which nature had placed in your way
At Marengo, Beltona all around you did hover
All Paris rejoiced the next day
It grieved me the hardships you did undergo
The mountains you travelled all covered with snow
But the balance of power your courage laid low
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?
The crowned heads of Europe they were in great splendour
And they swore they would have you submit
But the goddess of freedom soon had them to surrender
And they lowered their standards to your will
Old Frederik's colours to France he did bring
His offspring found shelter under your wing
That year at Vienna you so sweetly did sing
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?
What numbers of men there were eager to slay you
Their malice you viewed with a smile
Their gold through all Europe was found to betray you
And they joined with the Mamelukes on the Nile
Like ravenous vultures their vile passions did burn
The orphans they slew and caused the widows to mourn
But my linnet he is gone and he never will return
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?
I have roamed through the deserts of wild Abyssinia
And could yet find no cure for my pain
I will go and enquire at the isle of Saint Helena
But soft whispers murmur, “'tis vain”
Come tell me ye critics, come tell me in time
What nations I must roam my green linnet to find
Was he slain at Waterloo in France or on the Rhine?
No—he's dead on St Helena's bleak shore.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
The Green Linnet · O.J. Abbott
Irish and British Songs from the Ottawa Valley
℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Reco...
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
The Green Linnet · O.J. Abbott
Irish and British Songs from the Ottawa Valley
℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1961 Folkways Records
Released on: 1961-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
The Green Linnet · O.J. Abbott
Irish and British Songs from the Ottawa Valley
℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1961 Folkways Records
Released on: 1961-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
The Green Linnet · Gráinne Clarke
Songs of Rogues and Honest Men
℗ 1980 IML Irish Music Licensing Ltd.
Releas...
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
The Green Linnet · Gráinne Clarke
Songs of Rogues and Honest Men
℗ 1980 IML Irish Music Licensing Ltd.
Released on: 2014-07-11
Music Publisher: Outlet Music
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
The Green Linnet · Gráinne Clarke
Songs of Rogues and Honest Men
℗ 1980 IML Irish Music Licensing Ltd.
Released on: 2014-07-11
Music Publisher: Outlet Music
Auto-generated by YouTube.
My version of one of the great traditional Napoleonic ballads.It appeared on broadside sheets in the early 19th century - I've included one from my collection in the video,printed by Harkness of Preston - but the song probably originated in Ireland.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Green Linnet · Frank Harte · Donal Lunny
My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte
℗ 2001 Hummingbird Records
Released on: 2009-03-06
Music Publisher: IMRO/MCPS/DLM/Perfect Songs
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDS
The Green Linnet · Maggie Boyle
Won't You Come Away
℗ WildGoose
Released on: 2016-12-29
Music Publisher: Copyright Control
Composer, Lyricist: Traditional
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Dick Gaughan's classic solo album, No More Forever released 1972. This LP features traditional Scottish ballads; his later works were mostly political in flavour.
-Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
Continuing our songs about Napoleon Bonaparte:
This is an Irish broadside ballad about Napoleon, published not long after Waterloo, when the Irish were unequivocally in support of Napoleon.
Dick Gaughan sang this on his 1972 LP No More Forever
Curiosity has led a young native of Erin
For to view the lone banks of the Rhine
Where an empress he saw and the robe that she was wearing
All over with diamonds did shine
No goddess in splendour was ever yet seen
To equal this fair maid so mild and serene
In soft murmurs she cried, “Oh, my linnet so green
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?”
The cold frosty Alps you did freely pass over
Which nature had placed in your way
At Marengo, Beltona all around you did hover
All Paris rejoiced the next day
It grieved me the hardships you did undergo
The mountains you travelled all covered with snow
But the balance of power your courage laid low
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?
The crowned heads of Europe they were in great splendour
And they swore they would have you submit
But the goddess of freedom soon had them to surrender
And they lowered their standards to your will
Old Frederik's colours to France he did bring
His offspring found shelter under your wing
That year at Vienna you so sweetly did sing
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?
What numbers of men there were eager to slay you
Their malice you viewed with a smile
Their gold through all Europe was found to betray you
And they joined with the Mamelukes on the Nile
Like ravenous vultures their vile passions did burn
The orphans they slew and caused the widows to mourn
But my linnet he is gone and he never will return
Sweet Boney, will I ne'er see you more?
I have roamed through the deserts of wild Abyssinia
And could yet find no cure for my pain
I will go and enquire at the isle of Saint Helena
But soft whispers murmur, “'tis vain”
Come tell me ye critics, come tell me in time
What nations I must roam my green linnet to find
Was he slain at Waterloo in France or on the Rhine?
No—he's dead on St Helena's bleak shore.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
The Green Linnet · O.J. Abbott
Irish and British Songs from the Ottawa Valley
℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1961 Folkways Records
Released on: 1961-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
The Green Linnet · Gráinne Clarke
Songs of Rogues and Honest Men
℗ 1980 IML Irish Music Licensing Ltd.
Released on: 2014-07-11
Music Publisher: Outlet Music
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Green Linnet Records was an American independent record label that specialized in Celtic music. Founded by Lisa Null and Patrick Sky as Innisfree Records in 1973, the label was initially based in Null's house in New Canaan, Connecticut. In 1975, the label became Innisfree/Green Linnet and Wendy Newton joined Null and Sky as operating officer. In 1976, Newton took over control of the now Green Linnet label and moved it to Danbury, Connecticut in 1985. Newton became sole owner in 1978. Newton's love of Irish music had been sparked during a visit to Ireland where she heard traditional music for the first time in a small pub in County Clare.
He has won a trio of Grammys and sold nearly 29 million records ... And he became an executive for MercuryRecords and Green Linnet Records, which focused on traditional Irish music.