24/01/2015
Gary West is joined by Stuart Eydmann to explore the earliest pipe music recordings, from John MacColl's 1899 release on the Berliner label to Robert Reid's 1930s recordings.
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On today's show:
Artist: Willie McCallum
Title: Brig General Ronald Cheape of Tiroran, Donald MacLellan of Rothesay
CD: Hailey’s Song
Label: Temple COMD2060
Artist: The Whistlebinkies
Title: Muntanyes de Canigo
CD: Alabannach
Label: Greentrax CDTRAX288
Artist: John MacColl (1899)
Title: The Campbells are Coming
Label: Berliner 7723
Artist: Henry Forsyth (1904)
Title: The Barren Rocks of Aden
Label: The Winner 2108
Artist: James Scott Skinner (fiddle)
Title: The Devil in the Kitchen
Label: Rena 1283
Artist: Peter Wyper (melodeon)
Title: Lord Lynedoch
Label: Regal G6955 R435
Artist: Highlanders Band (1913)
Title: The 79th Farewell to Gibralter
Label: Edison Blue Amberol 23008
Artist: Willie Ross (1930)
Title: Maclean of Pennycross, Lady MacKenzie of Kilcoy, The Grey Bob
Label: HMV B-3245
Artist: John MacDonald, Inverness. (1927)
Title: The Lament for Patrick òg MacCrimmon (first line of ground)
Label: Columbia 4513
Artist: Robert Reid (1934)
Title: The De’il in the Kitchen (for the Highland Fling)
Label: Beltona Bel 2108. M-173
Artist: Robert Reid (1936)
Title: Major John MacLennan, Tullochgorm, The Piper and the Dairymaid
Label: Bel 2307. M-637
Artist: Bowhill Colliery pipe band
Title: The Blue Bonnets, Bonnie Dundee (1947)
Label: Parlophone Par F-3381
Artist: Field Marshal Montgomery pipe band
Title: John Roy Stewart, Charlie’s Welcome
BBC recording: World Pipe Band Championships, 2011
Broadcasts
- Sat 24 Jan 201521:05BBC Radio Scotland
- Sun 25 Jan 201519:06BBC Radio Scotland
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