A Tear and a Smile (Tír na nÓg album)

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Artist Tír na nÓg Producer Bill Leader Genre Folk music		Release date 7 April 1972 Label Chrysalis Records

Released 7 April 1972 (1972-04-07) (UK)20 October 1972 (1972-10-20) (US) Recorded February 1972 (1972-02),Morgan Studios, London Length 38:03 (UK edition)35:25 (North America edition) A Tear and a Smile(1972) Strong in the Sun(1973) Similar Tír na nÓg albums, Folk music albums

A Tear and a Smile is the second album by Irish band Tír na nÓg. It was released in the United Kingdom on 7 April 1972 by Chrysalis Records and was the first Tír na nÓg album to be released in the United States, in October 1972. The track list is different between the US and the UK releases. Because of this, two editions of the album exist but there was no reissue of the North American version.
On this last one, "Daisy Lady" and "Dante" are taken directly from the first album Tír na nÓg. The song "Looking Up" was already on the previous album but Leo O'Kelly was not very satisfied by the first version: he and Sonny Condell decided to record a new one, produced by Tony Cox, for A Tear and a Smile. The Lady I Love which was released as a single in Europe, appears also on the US version of the album, these four songs replacing "Down Day", "Bluebottle Stew", "Hemisphere", and "Goodbye My Love".