A Tear and a Smile is the second album

Album

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 by Irish

Republic of Ireland

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 band Tír na nÓg

Tír na nÓg (band)

Tír na nÓg are an Irish folk band formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969 by Leo O'Kelly and Sonny Condell. They are often considered as one of the first progressive folk bands with other artists like Nick Drake or group like Pentangle...

. It was released in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 on 7 April 1972 by Chrysalis Records

Chrysalis Records

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 and was the first Tír na nÓg album to be released in the United States, in October 1972. The tracklist is different between the US and the UK releases. Because of this, two editions of the album exist but there was no reissue of the North American version.

On this last one, "Daisy Lady" and "Dante" are taken directly from the first album Tír na nÓg

Tír na nÓg (Tír na nÓg album)

Tír na nÓg is the first album by Irish band Tír na nÓg. It was released on May 1971 in the United Kingdom by Chrysalis Records and distributed by Island Records but was not published in the United States because Leo O'Kelly and Sonny Condell refused to record a cover of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm"...

. The song "Looking Up" was already on the previous album but Leo O'Kelly

Leo O'Kelly

Leo O'Kelly is an Irish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. He is mainly known as a member of the Irish folk duet Tír na nÓg....

 was not very satisfied by the first version: he and Sonny Condell

Sonny Condell

Sonny Condell is an Irish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and graphic artist. He is mainly known as a member of the Irish bands Tír na nÓg and Scullion. He released some hits in Ireland as a solo artist like "Down in the city" in 1977 that he covered later with the Belgian singer Micha...

 decided to record a new one, produced by Tony Cox, for A Tear and a Smile. The Lady I Love

The Lady I Love

"The Lady I Love" is the second single by Irish band Tír na nÓg. It was released on March 1972 by Chrysalis Records on 7" vinyl with "Heidi" as its B-side and was chosen by Melody Maker newspaper to be its single of the week of March 4, 1972....

 which was released as a single in Europe, appears also on the US version of the album, these four songs replacing "Down Day", "Bluebottle Stew

Bluebottle Stew

"Bluebottle Stew" is the third single by Irish band Tír na nÓg. It was released in 1972 by Chrysalis Records and distributed by Festival in Australia and New Zealand on 7" vinyl with "Come and See the Show" as its B-side.-Format and track listing:...

", "Hemisphere", and "Goodbye My Love".

1972 UK edition

1972 North America edition

Personnel

• Sonny Condell
  Sonny Condell
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   – vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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  , clavinette, percussion
  Percussion instrument
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• Leo O'Kelly
  Leo O'Kelly
  Leo O'Kelly is an Irish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. He is mainly known as a member of the Irish folk duet Tír na nÓg....
  
   – vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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• Larry Steele – bass
  Double bass
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• Barry De Souza – drums
  Drum kit
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• Paul Tregurtha – engineering
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• Nick Harrison
  Nick Harrison
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   – arranger
• Tony Cox – production
  Record producer
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• Bill Leader – production
  Record producer
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Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	7 April 1972	Chrysalis Records Chrysalis Records Chrysalis Records was a British record label that was created in 1969. The name was both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis...	stereo Stereophonic sound The term Stereophonic, commonly called stereo, sound refers to any method of sound reproduction in which an attempt is made to create an illusion of directionality and audible perspective...  LP Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	CHR 1006
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	7 April 1972	Chrysalis, Island Records Island Records Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...	mono Monaural Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or channels are fed from a common signal path...  8-track	Y8HR 1006
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	1972	Chrysalis	stereo 8-track	Y8HR 1006
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	1972	Chrysalis	stereo compact cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...	ZCHR 1006
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	1972	Chrysalis	stereo LP	6307 504
Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	1972	Chrysalis	stereo LP	6307 504
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	October 1972	Chrysalis	stereo LP	CHR 1006
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	1972	Chrysalis	Reel-to-reel tape (7½ in/s) Reel-to-reel audio tape recording Reel-to-reel, open reel tape recording is the form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording medium is held on a reel, rather than being securely contained within a cassette....	CHR 1006-C
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	October 1972	Chrysalis	stereo LP	CHR 1006
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	1972	Chrysalis	stereo LP	SCYL-934,623
New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...	1972	Chrysalis	stereo LP	SCYL-934,623
New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...	1972	Chrysalis	stereo compact cassette	CY-24623
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	September 1991	Edsel Records Demon Music Group Demon Records is a United Kingdom record label founded in 1980 by former United Artists A&R executive Andrew Lauder and Jake Riviera who had previously started Stiff Records...	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	ED CD 334