The Musical Interlude...

Subtitled: Folkin' Hell

Okay, okay... I promise... this is the last night of dodgy music for a while! Next interlude I'll get back to the good stuff, but tonight I'm remembering the days as a youngster (before I discovered real music like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Johnny Hates Jazz... lol) when Mum used to take out the record player (ask your grannies) and her collection of Scottish music records and play them... usually with either her or Dad singing along.

Funny how the songs were so often about death, fighting and murdering clans, but I still have happy memories whenever I hear them... especially this first one - it's those (S)Corries again (sorry, Mum) with "The Massacre Of Glencoe"... an event that really took place in the Highlands of Scotland...

Read about the massacre here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe

There's also a thing starting off on Radio Scotland (presented by Orcadian and Big Brother winner Cameron Stout) looking for the Top 100 Traditional Scottish Tunes (my god, Cameron, so rock & roll(!))...

Vote for yours here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/features/thetradtop100.shtml

So another one that would appear on my list (but not on Mum's, 'cause she hated her voice) is Eddi Reader (from Fairground Attraction) and "My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose"...

The Musical Interlude...

Subtitled: Freddie, This Is Your Fault!

After reading about Freddie's trip away with friends and how they were singing daft old songs (http://seewot.blogspot.com/), I've got silly songs going round and round and round my head!

So, first of all, The Corries (ancient Scottish band that my Mum used to love, and who I used to refer to as The Scorries (which is an Orkney word for a seagull)) and what I think is actually called "The Bricklayer's Song"...

And then Billy Connolly and "If It Wisnae Fur Yur Wellies"...

(Freddie, I wanted to post "The Evil Scotsman" by BC, but I didn't dare!)

And what other songs have been whirling their way round my cranium that for some reason I couldn't find on YouTube?

"The Jeely Peece Song"... (Oh, ye cannae fling peeces oot o 20 storey flats... 700 hungry weans'll testify tae that... If hid's butter, cheese or jeely, if the breed is plain or pan... The odds against hid reachan earth er 99 tae wan)...

and

"The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede", but I keep getting in a mucking fuddle with the words!

Apologies to the non-Scots blog readers who won't have a clue what I'm on about... but blame Freddie!