The Jivenaires - Irish Showbands Links and Resources

The Jazz Professional - another must-be-seen-to-be-believed site for anyone with a Jazz background, or who's playing Jazz now. Has hundreds of hours of reading material - interviews, biographies, memoirs and photos.
The Big Bands Database - literally everything anyone could ever want to know about Jazz and Swing. Also a comprehensive (to put it mildly) collection of music-related links.
Jumbo Jimbo's Song Lyrics Archive - Lyrics can be searched for in a number of ways. Also an excellent collection of Songs with chord/Lyrics sheets, Songs with fingering charts and songs with tabs.
Lyrics World - literally thousands of lyrics here, good selection of oldies and standards
Rabid Squirrel's Jazz Archives - strange name, excellent collection - lyrics to jazz tunes but also lots of pop and standards
Collins Crapos Oldies Site - Reviews of tunes and some lyrics
Dens Oldies Lyrics Page (no longer open, but archived at Internetarchives.org- Lyrics as well as midi files of many songs - awkward interface, and slow-loading
Looking for Live Irish Music anywhere the world? Check out Mr Frank Ryan's LiveIrishMusic.com - an outstanding resource!
GEMM - Hard-to-find new & used cds, tapes and vinyl - found many showband and showband artists 45s/78s listed here - Brendan Shine, Dermot Hegarty, Butch Moore, Sean Dunphy, Brendan Bowyer...etc., etc. Prices? You shoulda held on to those old 45's, folks!
The Swinging 60's 2002 - not showband related, but this eclectic site has lots of information about 60's pop and rock'n'roll
More Links:
- Bands and Artists - links to homepages, fan pages, biographies
- Newspaper, Magazine, Ezine Articles and Interviews
- Books, Videos, TV and Albums -
- Boyle and Co, Roscommon - The birthplace of the Jivenaires
- Irish and Miscellaneous