Danny Doyle

Daniel Doyle (28 April 1940 – 6 August 2019) After leaving school at the age of fourteen, Doyle started doing odd jobs, including working as general factotum in Dublin's Pike Theatre, where he began to pick up, from the travelling players, songs from the Irish countryside. The song was composed in the 1970s by Pete St. John for the Dublin City Ramblers and peaked on the Irish Music Charts for 12 weeks. In 1979 Doyle was the first artist to record St John's song "The Fields of Athenry". He is probably best known for his 1967 number one hit "Whiskey on a Sunday". His other notable works are "A Daisy a Day" and "The Rare Auld Times". The hit songs "A Daisy A Day", "Streets Of London", "Lizzie Lindsay" and "Whiskey On A Sunday" that were released in the 1960s made him popular.

In 1980, he appeared on Thames Television's "Cooper's Half Hour" starring comedian Tommy Cooper. In 1983, he moved from Ireland to the United States. He is survived by his wife Taffy. Expressions of Danny Doyle (1967) A Portrait of Danny Doyle (1969) A Very Special Love Song The West's Awake(1976) Presenting Danny Doyle (1977) Under a Connemara Moon (1995) Emigrant Eyes St. Brendan's Fair Isle The Wearing of the Green "Irish Soldier Laddie" / "Morning Train" (IE #7) April 1967 "A Daisy a Day" / "Far Away in Australia" (IE #1) May 1973

Books The Gold Sun of Freedom (with Terence Folan)