Danny Doyle
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1940-02-06
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Basketball Coaching 101
- Canal
- Ciara and Bark Bark Discover Numbers: (Bark Bark Speaks Irish)
- Ciara and Bark Bark Discover Colors: (Bark Bark Speaks Irish) (Volume 1)
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Danny Doyle (28 April 1940 – 6 August 2019) was an Irish folk singer. After leaving school at the age of fourteen, Doyle started doing odd jobs, including working as general factotum in Dublin's Pike Theatre, where he began to pick up, from the travelling players, songs from the Irish countryside. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was one of the top Irish singers, regularly featuring in the Irish charts and scoring three No.1 singles (notably displacing ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me" after just one
Key dates
- Born
- 6 February 1940
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Queens
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Educated at
- Belmont Abbey College
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Detroit Pistons
- Position played
- small forward
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1940 birthsAmerican men's basketball playersBasketball players from Queens, New YorkBelmont Abbey Crusaders men's basketball playersBLP articles lacking sources from October 2023Detroit Pistons draft picksDetroit Pistons playersLiving peoplePittsburgh Rens playersPower forwardsTrenton Colonials players