Happy to Meet – Sorry to Part

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Happy to Meet – Sorry to Part
Studio album by Horslips
Released	1972 (Ireland) 1973 (UK, Europe and US)
Recorded	Fall 1972
Studio	Rolling Stones Mobile Studio in Ireland
Genre	Celtic rock, progressive rock
Length	44:45
Label	LP - Oats (Ireland), RCA (UK), Atco (US) CD - Edsel (UK)
Producer	Alan O'Duffy, Horslips
Horslips chronology
Happy to Meet – Sorry to Part (1972) The Táin (1973)

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Happy to Meet – Sorry to Part is an album by Irish rock band Horslips. It was first released in Ireland by the end of 1972 as their début album. Before this, they had released the same year three singles: Johnny's Wedding/Flower amang Them All and Green Gravel/Fairy King in Ireland and The High Reel/Furniture overseas. Happy to Meet – Sorry to Part was also released the following year in United Kingdom, Germany, France and United States. In 1978, the LP was re-released in UK together with The High Reel, added as the last track.

This is widely considered to be the first Celtic rock album ever recorded. With this, Horslips took the lead in Irish music of the time and created an original mixture from traditional Irish tunes and rock music. The album's name itself is that of an Irish jig.

The original vinyl release was enclosed in an octagonal album cover.

Track listing[]

1. "Happy to Meet" (instrumental) – 0:48
2. "Hall of Mirrors" – 5:29
3. "The Clergy's Lamentation" (instrumental) – 4:39
4. "An Bratach Bán" – 2:04
5. "The Shamrock Shore" – 4:34
6. "Flower Amang Them All" (instrumental) – 2:04
7. "Bím Istigh Ag Ól" – 3:43
8. "Furniture" – 5:13
9. "Ace and Deuce" (instrumental) – 3:35
10. "Dance to Yer Daddy" – 4:37
11. "Scalloway Ripoff" (instrumental) – 1:54
12. "The Musical Priest" (instrumental) – 4:33
13. "Sorry to Part" (instrumental) – 1:32
14. "The High Reel" (instrumental) – 2:43

Note: the last track appears with the 1978 release only (LP).

Personnel[]

• - keyboards, concert flute, tin whistles, uilleann pipes, vocals
• - guitars, banjo
• - fiddle, mandolin, concertina, vocals
• Barry Devlin - bass guitar, vocals
• Eamon Carr - drums, bodhrán, percussion

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External links[]

• Horslips official site - find out how the album was recorded in an old haunted manor.