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The Irish Rovers

A long-running Canadian group specializing in Celtic folk music, The Irish Rovers formed in Toronto in 1963. Co-founders George Millar and Jimmy Ferguson had both grown up in Northern Ireland before relocating to Toronto, where they began singing together as teenagers. After moving to Calgary and expanding their duo to a quartet, they released The Irish Rovers' debut album — a live recording titled The First of the Irish Rovers — in 1966. The Unicorn followed in 1967 and charted at Number 24 in America, where its title track became a Number 2 hit on the US Adult Contemporary Char...