The members of the Irish Rovers were all EmigrEs from Northern Ireland who formed in Calgary in 1964. They started performing regularly at The Depression Coffee House but it took them 4 more years before signing their first record deal with Decca. After the success of their first hit, Shel Silverstein's 8 million copy "The Unicorn", the band were given their own CBC-TV show. It ran for 6 years and won a Canadian ACTRA award for 'Best Variety Performance'. After the cancellation of their variety show, they produced 16 one-hour TV specials in the mid-70's. In 1977 they were signed to Attic Records who went whole hog and released three albums of Irish Rovers material that year. Their output was frenetic throughout the 1980's including several chart topping and award winning back-to-back albums including 'The Rovers' (1980), 'No More Bread And Butter' (1981) and 'It Was A Night Like This' (19
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