The Roches

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Hammond Song 05:46 Tools
Runs in the Family 03:30 Tools
Mr. Sellack 04:04 Tools
We 02:37 Tools
The Train 03:31 Tools
The Troubles 03:28 Tools
Damned Old Dog 04:08 Tools
The Married Men 04:33 Tools
Quitting Time 04:20 Tools
Acadian Driftwood 00:00 Tools
Pretty and High 04:06 Tools
Star Of Wonder 01:51 Tools
Losing True 04:46 Tools
Deck The Halls 02:10 Tools
Us Little Kids 03:10 Tools
Sleigh Ride 02:34 Tools
No Shoes 04:13 Tools
Good King Wenceslas 03:30 Tools
Here We Come A Carolling 01:31 Tools
Angels We Have Heard On High 01:26 Tools
Do You Hear What I Hear? 03:04 Tools
The Holly And The Ivy 01:54 Tools
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 01:15 Tools
Christmas Passing Through 03:41 Tools
Adeste Fideles 01:24 Tools
Jingle Bells 01:44 Tools
The Little Drummer Boy 03:19 Tools
Winter Wonderland 01:55 Tools
We Three Kings 05:30 Tools
Silver Bells 02:46 Tools
The Hallelujah Chorus 00:00 Tools
For Unto Us A Child Is Born 03:56 Tools
Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly Light 00:00 Tools
Joy To The World 01:15 Tools
Frosty The Snowman 02:09 Tools
Only You Know How 00:00 Tools
Away In A Manger 02:09 Tools
Moonswept 00:00 Tools
The First Nowell 00:00 Tools
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear 03:05 Tools
The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane 03:35 Tools
Nurds 00:00 Tools
O Little Town Of Bethlehem 02:55 Tools
On the Road to Fairfax County 04:46 Tools
Long Before 00:00 Tools
Steady With The Maestro 03:45 Tools
Family of Bones 00:00 Tools
Huh 00:00 Tools
I Fell In Love 00:00 Tools
Gung Ho 03:13 Tools
The Largest Elizabeth In The World 03:24 Tools
Jesus Shaves 04:16 Tools
It's Bad For Me 00:00 Tools
My Sick Mind 00:00 Tools
Piggy Mask 00:00 Tools
One Season 00:00 Tools
The Scorpion Lament 03:34 Tools
Stop Performing 00:00 Tools
The Death of Suzzy Roche 00:00 Tools
Come Softly To Me 00:00 Tools
Factory Girl 00:00 Tools
Bobby's Song 00:00 Tools
Louis 00:00 Tools
Sex Is For Children 03:38 Tools
Hammond Song - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
September 11th at the Shambhala Center 00:00 Tools
Big Nuthin' 00:00 Tools
This Feminine Position 00:00 Tools
The Boat Family 00:00 Tools
Instead I Chose 00:00 Tools
Love Radiates Around 00:00 Tools
Everyone Is Good 00:00 Tools
Keep On Doing What You Do/Jerks On The Loose 00:00 Tools
Can We Go Home Now 08:39 Tools
Speak 00:00 Tools
My Winter Coat 00:00 Tools
In The World 00:00 Tools
You (Make My Life Come True) 00:00 Tools
Home Away From Home 00:00 Tools
Another World 00:00 Tools
I'm Someone Who Loves You 00:00 Tools
Cloud Dancing 00:00 Tools
I Love My Mom 00:00 Tools
Love To See You 00:00 Tools
Keep On Doing What You Do/ Jerks On the Loose 00:00 Tools
Holidays 00:00 Tools
Face Down At Folk City 00:00 Tools
The Anti-Sex Backlash Of The 80's 00:00 Tools
Missing 01:36 Tools
When You're Ready 00:00 Tools
Weeded Out 00:00 Tools
Easy 00:00 Tools
So 00:00 Tools
Ing 00:00 Tools
Older Girls 00:00 Tools
Losing Our Job 00:00 Tools
Move 04:02 Tools
Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Broken Places 00:00 Tools
Merciful God 00:00 Tools
Person With A Past 00:00 Tools
The Angry Angry Man 00:00 Tools
A Dove 00:00 Tools
Gimme A Slice 00:00 Tools
Move Roche 00:00 Tools
You're the Two 00:00 Tools
Feeling Is Mutual 00:00 Tools
Christlike 00:00 Tools
You're the One 00:00 Tools
Wedding Bell Blues 00:00 Tools
Hammond Song - 2006 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Somebody's Gonna Have To Be Me 00:00 Tools
Troubled Love 00:00 Tools
The Troubles - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
Too Tough Hide 00:00 Tools
Christlike Roche 00:00 Tools
Love Radiates Around - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Hammond Song - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
The Troubles - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Answered Prayers 00:00 Tools
Maid of the Seas 00:00 Tools
Expecting Your Love 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Love Of God 00:00 Tools
Mr. Sellack - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
The Hallelujah Chorus - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
The Train - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
Disappointed 00:00 Tools
Funky Towel 00:00 Tools
Nurds - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Love Radiates Around (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Another World - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
The Married Men (live) 00:00 Tools
Love To See You (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Nurds - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
The Troubles - 2006 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Do The Boodanee 00:00 Tools
The Laundry 00:00 Tools
Will You Be My Friend? 00:00 Tools
Rover 00:00 Tools
My New Bicycle 00:00 Tools
Love to See You - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Before You Sing 00:00 Tools
One Season - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
no trespassing 00:00 Tools
The Feeling Is Mutual 00:00 Tools
Lovey 00:00 Tools
The Hallelujah Chorus - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Little Bitty Betty 00:00 Tools
Postcard 00:00 Tools
Keep On Doing What You Do/ Jerks On The Loose - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
When Kids Are Mean 00:00 Tools
knifed 00:00 Tools
Mr. Sellack - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Here We Go 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah Chorus 00:00 Tools
Keep On Doing What You Do / Jerks On The Loose - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
You 00:00 Tools
Face Down at Folk City - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
that won't happen 00:00 Tools
Hammond Song (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
la vie c'est la vie 00:00 Tools
The Train - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Nurds - 2006 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Spaceman 00:00 Tools
Another World (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Losing True - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
I've Got Nothing to Hide 00:00 Tools
The Hallelujah Chorus - 2006 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Mr. Sellack - 2006 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Liquid Days (Part One) 00:00 Tools
Love Radiates Around - 2006 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Face Down At Folk City (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Keep On Doing What You Do/ Jerks On The Loose - 2006 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Want Not Want Not - 2006 Remastered LP Version 00:00 Tools
Someone With A Heart 00:00 Tools
Uncle Dave 00:00 Tools
Nurds (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
One Season - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Louis (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Good Night 00:00 Tools
It's Bad For Me (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Bells 00:00 Tools
Train 00:00 Tools
Little Drummer Boy 00:00 Tools
The Train - 2006 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Losing True - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Goodnight 00:00 Tools
Losing True - 2006 Remastered 00:00 Tools
One Season - 2006 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Bobby's Song (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
My Sick Mind (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Another World - 2006 Remaster 00:00 Tools
The Hallelujah Chorus (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Boat Family (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Death Of Suzzy Roche (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Hammond Song (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Factory Girl (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
HERE WE COME A CAROLING 00:00 Tools
This Feminine Position (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
One Season (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Troubles 00:00 Tools
Holly and the Ivy 00:00 Tools
The Troubles (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Want Not Want Not - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Wat Not Want Not 02:56 Tools
Love To See You - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
Keep On Doing What You Do/ Jerks On The Loose (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Love Radiates Around - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
Be Afraid 00:00 Tools
Clothes Line Saga 00:00 Tools
Another World - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
01 We 00:00 Tools
Largest Elizabeth In The World 00:00 Tools
Love to See You - 2006 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Nurds (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Want Not Want Not - 2006 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Damned Old Dog (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
We (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Out of Your Mind 00:00 Tools
west virginia 00:00 Tools
04 Clothes Line Saga 00:00 Tools
Mr. Sellack (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Mountain People 00:00 Tools
Face Down At Folk City - 2006 Remastered Album Version 00:00 Tools
Keep On Doing What You Do-Jerks On The Loose 00:00 Tools
Here We Come a-Carolling 00:00 Tools
The Train (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
You're A Slob 00:00 Tools
Im Mad 00:00 Tools
The Anti 00:00 Tools
The Hammond Song 00:00 Tools
Break Forth o' Beauteous Heavenly Light 00:00 Tools
¡Smile! 00:00 Tools
Underneath the Moon 00:00 Tools
Malachy's 00:00 Tools
Lucky 00:00 Tools
Break Fourth O Beauteous Heavenly Light 00:00 Tools
Adestes Fidelis 00:00 Tools
Sleight Ride 00:00 Tools
Face Down at Folk City - 2006 Remaster 00:00 Tools
04 Damned Old Dog 00:00 Tools
The Troubles (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Hammond Song - 2006 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Wigglin' Man 00:00 Tools
Jill Of All Trades 00:00 Tools
Quitting Time (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
06 The Train 00:00 Tools
05 The Troubles 00:00 Tools
01 The Hallelujah Chorus (A Ca 00:00 Tools
10 Pretty And High 00:00 Tools
Spaceman (feat. Mark Johnson) 00:00 Tools
Lost In The World 00:00 Tools
Pretty And High (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Clothesline Saga 00:00 Tools
07 The Married Men 00:00 Tools
The Married Men (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
09 Quitting Time 00:00 Tools
The Troubles - 2006 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Telephone Bill 00:00 Tools
Thank God I'm A Pubic Hair 00:00 Tools
Down the Dream 00:00 Tools
Wonderful Christmastime 00:00 Tools
O, Little Town of Bethlehem 00:00 Tools
Speak To The World 00:00 Tools
08 Runs In The Family 00:00 Tools
The Death Of Suzy Roche 00:00 Tools
Totally Christmas 00:00 Tools
Keep on Doing What You Do / Jerks on the Loose - 2006 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Mr. Sellack [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Hammond Song - Remastered 2006 00:00 Tools
The Train (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Break Forth O Beauteous Heaven 00:00 Tools
Pounding 00:00 Tools
First Noel 00:00 Tools
Peaceful Valley 00:00 Tools
Will You Be My Friend 00:00 Tools
02 - Hammond Song 00:00 Tools
The Holly & The Ivy 00:00 Tools
Hammond Song [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Married Men 00:00 Tools
On The Road To Fairfax County (David Massengill cover) 00:00 Tools
The Great Gaels 00:00 Tools
Acadian Driftwod 00:00 Tools
The Train [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 00:00 Tools
No Tresspassing 00:00 Tools
Runs In The Family (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
First Nowell 00:00 Tools
Big nuthin 00:00 Tools
Playing With Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Beatle Mania Blues 00:00 Tools
When On The Radio 00:00 Tools
Mr. Sellack (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Burden of Proof 00:00 Tools
The Roches - Hammond Song 00:00 Tools
Can We Go Home Now? 00:00 Tools
The Hallelujah Chorus - 2006 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Hammond Song (2006 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Keep On Doing What You Do/ Jerks On The Loose - 2006 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
The Married Men [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
The Troubles [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
One Season (2006 Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
"Hammond Song" 00:00 Tools
Losing True (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Roches - I Fell In Love 00:00 Tools
The Hallelujah Chorus (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
jesus saves 00:00 Tools
Power 00:00 Tools
03 - mr. sellack 00:00 Tools
Scorpion Lament 00:00 Tools
When Kids When Kids Are Mean 00:00 Tools
The Hallelujah 00:00 Tools
Mr. Sellack - 2006 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Jerks on the Loose 00:00 Tools
The Feminine Position 00:00 Tools
Face Down at Folk City (2006 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Runs In The Family [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Liquid Days 00:00 Tools
Losing True - 2006 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Want Not 00:00 Tools
Roches - Sex is for Children 00:00 Tools
Pretty And High [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
We [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Big Nothin 00:00 Tools
Damned Old Dog [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Before You Sing - the Roches 00:00 Tools
The Hallelujah Chorus (A Ca 00:00 Tools
Uncle Dave [Live] 00:00 Tools
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The Roches (Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy Roche) were a vocal group of three songwriting Irish-American sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey, known for their "unusual" and "rich" harmonies, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances. The Roches were active as performers and recording artists from the mid-1970s through 2007, at various times performing as a trio and in pairs. In the late 1960s, eldest sister Maggie (October 26, 1951 – January 21, 2017) and middle sister Terre (pronounced "Terry", born April 10, 1953) quit school to tour as a duo. Maggie wrote most of the songs, with Terre contributing to a few. The sisters got a break when Paul Simon brought them in as backup singers on his 1973 #2 album There Goes Rhymin' Simon. They got his assistance (along with an appearance by The Oak Ridge Boys) on their only album as a duo, Seductive Reasoning (1975). Shortly after that, youngest sister Suzzy (rhymes with "fuzzy", born September 29, 1956) joined the group to form The Roches trio. Around this time, they parlayed bartending jobs at famous Greenwich Village folk venue Gerde's Folk City into stage appearances, an experience they commemorated in their song, "Face Down at Folk City" (from Another World, 1985). It was here that they met many of their future singing and songwriting collaborators. Terre was now writing songs as well, and by the time of their first album as a trio, The Roches (1979), Suzzy had also begun writing. Robert Fripp produced the album. Maggie's "The Married Men" from this album was eventually to become the biggest hit of the songwriting trio — not for them, but for Phoebe Snow. After Snow and Linda Ronstadt performed the song in a duet on Saturday Night Live, the Roches were invited themselves to perform on the show a few months later in 1979 at the behest of Paul Simon. They did two songs, both unreleased at the time, "Bobby's Song" and "The Hallelujah Chorus". Throughout the 1980s, The Roches continued to release their music to small audiences, little or no air play, and only modest record sales. Their widest exposure in the '80s was an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in November 1985, where they performed their song "Mr. Sellack". In 1990, they returned to their Christmas-caroling roots with the release of the 24-track We Three Kings, which included the a cappella "Star of Wonder", written by Terre. After another pop album (A Dove, 1992), they recorded an entire album of children's songs entitled Will You Be My Friend?, featuring a song by brother David and various young backup singers, including Suzzy's daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche. After a tour interrupted by the death of their father, The Roches released Can We Go Home Now (1995), the last original recording they released as a trio until 2007. In 1997, the sisters formally put their group on long-term hold. They continued to work on solo projects and often collaborated on albums and performances. Terre teaches guitar workshops and has released a solo album. Suzzy, who has acted on the stage and in several movies, released two of her own albums and two with Maggie, with whom she has toured. All three sisters periodically participated in New York-area events. At the end of 2005, the three Roches (with brother Dave) reunited for a short but highly successful holiday tour. Several more appearances in the U.S. and Canada took place in 2006–07, and in March 2007, after a 12-year hiatus, The Roches released a new studio album, Moonswept. Following the tour for Moonswept, the Roches announced that they would no longer be touring, although they have made isolated appearances individually and as a group, mostly in and around New York City. On January 21, 2017, Maggie Roche died of cancer at age 65. Maggie had an "unusual" contralto voice – "almost a baritone." Terre provides a soprano that brackets the upper range of the sisters, while Suzzy fills in the middle range. While touring, the sisters accompany themselves with guitars and keyboards, occasionally with additional musicians. Brother David is also a singer-songwriter with his own solo album, and has often backed up the trio on their recordings. Maggie's son, Felix McTeigue, has recorded three albums (one with his group Filo). Suzzy's daughter, Lucy, has also contributed vocals on the Roches' and McTeigue's albums, and in 2007 she produced an EP of her own, 8 Songs, followed by 8 More in 2008 and tours opening for acts such as Amos Lee and the Indigo Girls. Lucy has released two full-length albums, "Lucy" in 2010, and "There's a Last Time for Everything" in 2013. Her father is Loudon Wainwright III, and she is the half-sister of singers Martha and Rufus Wainwright. The majority of Roches songs are written by the three sisters, whether individually, in every combination, or collaborating with other songwriters. They have also recorded their own arrangements of songs by a variety of New York folk artists, as well as a few covers of famous songs. Their three-part arrangement of the four-part "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah, featured on Keep On Doing (1982), is well regarded in a cappella circles. Discography - Maggie and Terre Roche Seductive Reasoning (Columbia, 1975) I Gave My Love a Kerry (Earth Rock Wreckerds, 2004) - The Roches The Roches (Warner, 1979) Nurds (Warner, 1980) Keep On Doing (Warner, 1982) Another World (Warner, 1985) No Trespassing (Real Live Records, 1986) Speak (MCA, 1989) We Three Kings (MCA, 1990) A Dove (MCA, 1992) Will You Be My Friend? (Baby Boom, 1994) Can We Go Home Now (Rykodisc, 1995). The Collected Works of the Roches (Rhino/Warner, 2003) Moonswept (429 Records, 2007) Rhino HiFive: The Roches (Rhino/Warner, 2007) - Suzzy Roche Holy Smokes (Red House, 1997) Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA (Red House, 2000) - Terre Roche The Sound of a Tree Falling (Earth Rock Wreckerds, 1998) - Suzzy & Maggie Roche Zero Church (Red House, 2002) Why The Long Face (Red House, 2004) Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche[edit] Fairytale and Myth (2013) Mud and Apples (2016) - Terre Roche, Sidiki Conde and Marlon Cherry (as Afro-Jersey) Afro-Jersey (2013) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.