Young and Foolish (album)

Young and Foolish is the second comedy album released by Northern Irish comedian and actor James Young.

The album cover features a picture taken by Stanley Matchett. In the picture Young and his business partner Jack Hudson are standing on the back of an Ulster Transport Authority bus. Each man has a speech bubble coming from his mouth. Husdon's states "James Young in" with Young's replying "Young and Foolish". The back cover features a poem and sleeve notes written by John Knipe.

Track listing

Side 1

  • Meet James Young - 13:24
  • Surgery Hours - 6:19
  • The Stranger - 4:19
  • Jumper Room - 2:41
  • Side 2

  • The Centre Forward - 4:00
  • Time For Love - 4:20
  • A Man's Best Friend - 3:17
  • The Presentation - 5:36
  • A Boy Looks At Life - 5:02
  • Salute to Belfast - 3:15
  • Re-release

    Emerald Music re-released the album in 1999 in a four-disc boxset to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of Young's death. The album was boxed with three of Young's other comedy albums (The Young Ulsterman, Very Much Live In Canada and Behind the Barricades). The album was marketed as James Young: Ireland's Greatest Comic Legend Volume 1.

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    Young And Foolish

    by: Tony Bennett

    Once we were foolish children
    Playing as children play
    Racing through a meadow April bright
    Dreaming on a hilltop half the night
    Now that we're growing older
    We have no time to play
    Now that we're growing wiser
    We are not wise enough to stay
    Young and foolish
    Why is it wrong to be
    Young and foolish?
    We haven't long to be
    Soon enough the carefree days
    The sunlit days go by
    Soon enough the bluebird has to fly
    We were foolish
    One day we fell in love
    Now we wonder
    What were we dreaming of
    Smiling in the sunlight
    Laughing in the rain




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