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"Come On Eileen" is a song by the English group Dexys Midnight Runners (credited to Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express), released in the United Kingdom in June 1982 [4] as a single from their second studio album Too-Rye-Ay. It reached number one in the United States and was their second number one hit in the UK, following 1980's "Geno".
Dexys (known as Dexys Midnight Runners from 1978 to 2011) are an English pop rock band from Birmingham, with soul influences, who achieved major commercial success in the early to mid- 1980s. They are best known in the UK for their songs " Geno " and " Come On Eileen ", both of which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart , and achieved six ...
Too-Rye-Ay is the second studio album by English pop band Dexys Midnight Runners.It was released in July 1982 by Mercury Records.The album is best known for the hit single "Come On Eileen", which included the refrain that inspired the album's title.
Few pop songs evoke such an overwhelming, immediate rush of pure joy more than Dexys Midnight Runners’ No. 1 hit “Come On Eileen.” In the world of 1982 pop radio, there was simply nothing ...
Four decades ago, soulful British post-punks Dexys Midnight Runners, now simply known as Dexys, became unlikely pop superstars when their skiffle-inflected banjo jam “Come On Eileen” went to ...
Kevin Rowland (born 17 August 1953) is a British singer and musician best known as the frontman for the pop band Dexys Midnight Runners (currently called Dexys). [1] The band had several hits in the early 1980s, the most notable being "Geno" and "Come On Eileen", both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.
Dexys Midnight Runners achieved the best-selling single of 1982 with "Come On Eileen", which spent four weeks at number-one.The group had a second top 10 hit later in the year with their cover of Van Morrison's "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)", which peaked at number five.
After Dexys was reformed by Rowland in 2003, O'Hara appeared as a guest artist on Dexys' fifth album Let the Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul in 2016, and she temporarily rejoined the band for its two live performances and one television performance that year in place of Dexys' current violinist, Lucy Morgan, who was unavailable. [7]