03/03/2018
Gary West is joined by Stuart Eydmann to explore the earliest pipe music recordings, from John MacColl's historic 1899 release on the Berliner label, to Robert Reid in the 1930s.
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On the 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 (1947)
Title: The Blue Bonnets, Bonnie Dundee
Label: Parlophone Par F-3381
Artist: Field Marshal Montgomery pipe band
Title: MacLeod’s Òran Mòr, The Fiddler’s Joy, The Lads of Kilmarnock, Tommy and Ronnie’s Double Tonic, The Train Journey North
BBC recording: World Pipe Band Championships, 2011
Broadcast
- Sat 3 Mar 201821:00BBC Radio Scotland
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