Ruby Murray

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Softly Softly 02:30 Tools
Heartbeat 02:08 Tools
Let Me Go Lover 02:36 Tools
I'll Come When You Call 02:38 Tools
Softly, Softly 02:26 Tools
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 01:58 Tools
Danny Boy 02:21 Tools
Real Love 02:07 Tools
Christmas Time In Ireland 02:53 Tools
Evermore 02:26 Tools
The Very First Christmas of All 03:13 Tools
Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye 02:49 Tools
Happy Days and Lonely Nights 02:43 Tools
You Are My First Love 02:23 Tools
Little White Lies 02:19 Tools
Silent Night 02:28 Tools
Heartbeat - Ruby Murray 1954 02:09 Tools
Galway Bay 03:11 Tools
Softly Softly - Ruby Murray 1955 02:28 Tools
Let me go lover - Ruby Murray 1955 02:34 Tools
When I Grow Too Old to Dream 02:40 Tools
If Anyone Finds This, I Love You 03:00 Tools
Mountains Of Mourne 02:35 Tools
It's a Great Day for the Irish 01:51 Tools
Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye 02:56 Tools
Get Well Soon 02:19 Tools
Let Him Go Let Him Tarry 03:01 Tools
You Are My Sunshine 02:53 Tools
How Can You Buy Killarney 02:20 Tools
Mr Wonderful 02:52 Tools
Love's Old Sweet Song 03:15 Tools
Dear Old Donegal 02:27 Tools
If You're Irish, Come Into The Parlour 01:29 Tools
Ave Maria 02:35 Tools
A Little Bit of Heaven 03:50 Tools
Till We Meet Again 03:07 Tools
Trottin' to the Fair 02:18 Tools
Smile 02:55 Tools
Bambino 02:21 Tools
Cockles And Mussels 03:03 Tools
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms 02:27 Tools
Forty Shades of Green 02:27 Tools
Before We Know It 02:23 Tools
Christmas In Killarney 01:52 Tools
Mr. Wonderful 02:51 Tools
Boy Meets Girl 03:07 Tools
Pennies from Heaven 02:19 Tools
Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You) 02:24 Tools
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - 2005 Remastered Version 02:44 Tools
True Love 02:29 Tools
Button Up Your Overcoat 02:40 Tools
Slowly with Feeling 02:19 Tools
Honestly I Do 02:45 Tools
Passing Strangers 02:17 Tools
Softly, Softly (Digitally Remastered) 02:28 Tools
How Can You Buy Killarney? 02:33 Tools
My Little Corner Of The World 02:17 Tools
How Did He Look 02:24 Tools
If Anyone Finds This I Love You 03:03 Tools
Let Him Go, Let Him Tarry 03:02 Tools
Teddy O'Neil 02:57 Tools
He's A Pal Of Mine 02:44 Tools
Nevertheless 02:24 Tools
Phil The Fluters Ball 02:31 Tools
Have You Ever Been Lonely 03:04 Tools
O'Malley's Tango 02:13 Tools
The Mountains of Mourne 03:05 Tools
Phil the Fluter's Ball 02:29 Tools
Let Me Go, Lover 02:27 Tools
The Green Glens Of Antrim 03:05 Tools
What Could Be More Beautiful 02:19 Tools
Doonaree 03:21 Tools
Peggy O'Neil 01:50 Tools
Have You Ever Been Lonely? 02:59 Tools
At Finnigan's Ball 02:42 Tools
Knock on Any Door 02:07 Tools
If You're Irish Come into the Parlour 02:42 Tools
Isle Of Innisfree 02:42 Tools
Heartbeat (Digitally Remastered) 02:44 Tools
The Little Pine Tree 02:42 Tools
Come Into My Heart 02:41 Tools
It's the Irish in Me 02:38 Tools
Hannigan's Hooley 01:25 Tools
Too-Ra-Loo--Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby) 01:47 Tools
The Stone Outside Dan Murphy's Door 03:15 Tools
The Kellys 02:49 Tools
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral, That's An Irish Lullaby 01:50 Tools
Jimmy Unknown 03:05 Tools
Courtin' In The Kitchen 02:48 Tools
Cockles & Mussels 03:06 Tools
The Old Lammas Fair 01:47 Tools
Goin' Co'tin' 01:50 Tools
With Me Shillelagh Under Me Arm 02:26 Tools
Two Kinds of Tears 02:24 Tools
Now Is The Hour (Haere Ra) 02:44 Tools
Sweetheart Of All My Dreams 02:43 Tools
Passing Stranger 02:18 Tools
MacNamara's Band 01:47 Tools
Scarlet Ribbons 02:43 Tools
Now Is the Hour 02:45 Tools
Dear Daddy 02:47 Tools
Happy Days & Lonely Nights 02:29 Tools
Make Him Jealous 02:12 Tools
The Humour Is On Me Now 02:53 Tools
A Pretty Irish Girl 02:44 Tools
Miss O'Leary's Irish Fruit Cake 02:47 Tools
delany's donkey 02:58 Tools
The Meeting of the Waters 02:58 Tools
Little One 02:23 Tools
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head 02:58 Tools
The Old Pig-Sty 01:44 Tools
Happy Days, Lonely Nights 02:41 Tools
It Only Hurts For A Little While 03:06 Tools
Dear Old Donegal - 2005 Remastered Version 01:44 Tools
What Could Be More Beautiful? 02:47 Tools
Spring, Spring, Spring 02:24 Tools
I Know I'm Home 02:41 Tools
That Look In My Eye 02:16 Tools
Mick McGilligan's Ball 02:44 Tools
If I Were A Blackbird 02:22 Tools
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder 02:19 Tools
Delaney's Donkey 03:12 Tools
Congratulations 02:44 Tools
Please Hold Me Tightly 02:37 Tools
Goodbye Is The Loneliest Word I Know 00:30 Tools
Mambo Italiano 02:31 Tools
Goodbye, Jimmy, Goodbye 02:52 Tools
Honestly, I Do 02:44 Tools
Heartbeat (Digitally Remastered) 00:30 Tools
Pianissimo 02:30 Tools
Macushla Mine 02:34 Tools
Dear of Donegal 02:27 Tools
Heartbeat (1954) 02:34 Tools
If Anyone Finds This 02:26 Tools
In My Life 02:44 Tools
As Simple As That 02:20 Tools
A Message From Jimmy 03:00 Tools
Ain't That A Grand And Glorious Feeling 02:15 Tools
For Now, For Ever 02:15 Tools
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - 2005 Digital Remaster 02:37 Tools
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms (2005 Digital Remaster) 02:37 Tools
Nora Malone 02:26 Tools
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral 02:15 Tools
Let Me Go Lover (1955) 02:31 Tools
Dear Old Donegal - 2005 Digital Remaster 02:34 Tools
A Voice in The Choir 03:00 Tools
In Love 03:00 Tools
Too-Ra-Loo--Ra-Loo-Ral 01:48 Tools
Ruby Murray/ Real Love 02:15 Tools
You Are My First Lover 02:15 Tools
Christmas time in Killarney 00:30 Tools
When You Wore A Tulip 02:38 Tools
Living For The Day 00:30 Tools
I Will Wait For You (Bonus Track) 02:31 Tools
The Very First Christmas Of All (Planet Xmas Mix) 00:30 Tools
Ways And Means 02:27 Tools
Tammy, Tell Me True 00:30 Tools
Forgive Me My Darling 02:27 Tools
Delany's Donkey (Live) 02:34 Tools
Dear Ol' Donegal 00:30 Tools
Happy Days And Lonley Nights 02:15 Tools
Irish Lullaby 01:49 Tools
You're My First Love 01:49 Tools
Two Rivers 01:49 Tools
Silent Night [Clean] 01:49 Tools
Music Maestro Please 02:38 Tools
If Your Irish, Come Into The Parlour 00:30 Tools
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (2005 Digital Remaster) 02:31 Tools
Who Knows? 02:31 Tools
The Faith of a Child 00:30 Tools
Let Me Go Lover (Ruby Murray) 02:27 Tools
Doonaree (2005 Digital Remaster) 02:27 Tools
Through The Eyes Of A Child 00:30 Tools
Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) 02:30 Tools
Keep Smiling At Trouble 02:30 Tools
If You're Irish, Come Into The Parlor 00:30 Tools
When The Irish Eyes Are Smiling 00:30 Tools
If Your Irish Cone Into The Parlour 00:30 Tools
Teddy O'Neill 00:30 Tools
Phil The Fluters Ball (2005 Digital Remaster) 00:30 Tools
Forever 00:30 Tools
Pretty, Pretty 00:30 Tools
Hurry Home 00:30 Tools
Goodbye Jommy Goodbye 00:30 Tools
The Old Pig-Sty - Remastered 2005 00:30 Tools
Goodby Jimmy Goodbye 00:30 Tools
Good Luck, Good Health, God Bless You 00:30 Tools
Away From You 00:30 Tools
Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone) 00:30 Tools
If Anyone Finds This,I Love you 00:30 Tools
The Last Mile Home 00:30 Tools
Let Him Go Let Him Tarry (Live) 02:30 Tools
If You’re Irish Come Into The Parlour 02:30 Tools
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Ruby Murray was born in Belfast on the 29th of March 1935. On a tour of Northern Ireland as a child singer in variety shows, she was spotted by producer Richard Afton who encouraged her to go for a career in show business and she made her TV debut at the age of 12 despite the laws regarding child performers although her work was severely restricted until she was 14. Joining Tommy Morgan's touring revue, she was offered a regular spot as a singer on the BBC show Quite Contrary as a replacement for Joan Regan. Signing a recording deal with Columbia, her first hit single was the ballad Heartbeat which hit the top 10 at the end of 1954 and was quickly followed by her first and only number one Softly Softly. It was during the early months of 1955 as Columbia released further Ruby Murray songs, that she found herself dominating the charts as Happy Days And Lonely Nights, Let Me Go lover and If Anyone Finds This I Love You joined Heartbeat and Softly Softly in the charts giving her five simultaneous entries on that week in March, all of them eventually peaking inside the top 10. Two further hits followed in 1955, Evermore and I'll Come When You Call but at the end of 1955, the tide of Rock n Roll could be held back no more and singers like Ruby Murray, sweet and innocent and belonging to a fast disappearing world were swept aside. During the mid 1950s she expanded her activities, starring in her own TV show, appearing at The London Palladium in the show Painting The Town with Norman Wisdom and she even had one film role in A Touch Of The Sun with Frankie Howerd and Dennis Price. While appearing in a summer season at Blackpool, she met and married Bernie Burgess, a member of the vocal group The Jones Boys. A couple of minor hits followed, Real Love and Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye which was her final appearance in the charts almost at the end of the decade. Her marriage did not last and she remarried Ray Lemar settling in Torquay, Devon. A wave of nostalgia has kept her name in the public consciousness for over half a century, reflecting on a bygone age when singers were clear and every word was pronounced beautifully. EMI put together a compilation of her hits on CD in their EMI years series in 1989 including songs that regularly featured in her act, standards such as Mr Wonderful, Scarlet Ribbons and It's The Irish In Me and updated this with the release of EMI Presents The Magic Of Ruby Murray in 1997 and a triple CD, Anthology The Golden Anniversary Collection in 2005, the 50th anniversary of her peak successes on the charts. A play by Marie Jones about her life, called Ruby opened in Belfast in 2000. Ruby Murray remained active in cabaret and nostalgia shows until her death on the 17th December 1996 from liver cancer after a period of illness. (from allmusic.com) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.