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Sentimental Killer

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Released
  
March 1992

Producer
  
Eric Visser

Artist
  
Mary Coughlan

Label
  
East West Records

Length
  
42:40

Sentimental Killer (1992)
  
Love for Sale (1992)

Release date
  
March 1992

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
July-August 1991 Westland Studios, Dublin

Similar
  
Love for Sale, Live in Galway, Uncertain Pleasures, Tired and Emotional, Under the Influence

Sentimental Killer is a March 1992 album by Irish jazz singer Mary Coughlan under East West Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group which was at the time known as WEA.

Contents

The song "Magdalene Laundry" written by J Mulhern has the chorus line "Ooh Lord won't you let me wash away the stain", and refers to the Magdalen Asylums run by the Roman Catholic Church in which Irish prostitutes, unmarried mothers, developmentally-challenged women and abused girls were incarcerated indefinitely.

Track listing

  1. "There is a Bed" (Marc Almond)
  2. "Hearts" (Jacques Brel)
  3. "Magdalen Laundry" (Johnny Mulhern)
  4. "Francis of Assisi" (Johnny Mulhern)
  5. "Love in the Shadows" (D. Long)
  6. "Ain't no Cure for Love" (Leonard Cohen)
  7. "Handbags and Gladrags" (Mike d'Abo)
  8. "Just a Friend of Mine"
  9. "Ballad of a Sad Young Man" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf)
  10. "Not up to Scratch"
  11. "Sentimental Killer" (Johnny Mulhern)

Personnel

  • Conor Barry - Guitar
  • Mary Coughlan - Vocals
  • James Delaney - Piano, Organ
  • Noel Eccles - percussion
  • Peter McKinney - drums
  • Paul Moore - Bass
  • Allan Murray - Accordion
  • Davy Spillane - Uilleann Pipes

    • Songs

    1There Is a Bed4:44
    2Hearts3:22
    3Magdalen Laundry4:24

    References

    Sentimental Killer Wikipedia
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