James Coutts Scottish Dance Band and Sydney Devine
For the very best in traditional music and song, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. James Coutts and his Band are in session and singer Sydney Devine is our special guest.
For the very best in traditional music and song, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. Our band session this week comes from 2016 and a special session recorded by James Coutts and his Scottish Dance Band to mark remembrance weekend. They have a programme of wartime favourites and some poignant pipe tunes to mark Armistice Day.
And Gary's guest is the legendary singer Sydney Devine. Sydney chats to Gary about his life and career from the White Heather Club to his years of touring and selling 15 million albums.
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JAMES COUTTS SCOTTISH DANCE BAND
James Coutts Lead Accordion
Iain Cathcart Harmony Accordion
Graham Berry Piano
Brian Cruickshank Bass
Ian Adamson Drums
TITLE: Kate Dalrymple
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: GRAND MARCH
a) Sergeant Stuart ‘Gus’ Millar [Marie Fielding]
b) The Highland Brigade at Magersfontein [P/M John MacLellan]
c) The Battle of the Somme [P/M Willie Lawrie]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: IRISH ROVER
a) Original [Trad]
b) Meet the Gang [Jimmy Perry]
c) Pack Up Your Troubles [Felix Powell]
d) Keep The Home Fires Burning [Ivor Novello]
e) It’s A Long Way To Tipperaray [Harry Williams]
f) The Great Escape [Elmer Bernstein]
g) Colonel Bogey [F.J. Ricketts]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: CANADIAN BARN DANCE
a) The 92nd Highlanders at the Maya Pass [P/M Donald MacLeod MBE (Q.O.H.)]
b) The Taking of Beaumont Hamel [P/M John MacLellan DCM]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: MODERN WALTZ
a) The Green Fields of France [Eric Bogle]
b) The Sands of Kuwait [Gordon Mackenzie]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: BLUE BONNETS
a) Blue Bonnets O’er The Border [Trad]
b) The 7th and 8th K.O.S.B.’s March to the Somme [P/M R. Halliday]
c) The 10th Battalion H.L.I. Crossing the Rhine [P/M Donald Shaw Ramsay]
d) The 9th Argylls at Ypres [John Y. Goodall]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: STRATHSPEY FOR THE BLACK WATCH
a) Original [Colin Dewar]
b) The Duirinish Piping Society [P/M Evan Macrae (Q.O.C.H.)]
c) The Duke of Edinburgh [Trad]
d) Kirstie McCallman’s Favourite [P/M John MacLellan]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: MISSISSIPPI DIP
a) Theme from ‘The Longest Day’ [Paul Anka]
b) The Dambusters’ March [Eric Coates]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: CALL OF THE PIPES
a) The 8th Black Watch on Passchendaele Ridge [A. Bremner]
b) El Alamein [P/M William Denholm (K.O.S.B.)]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Band Leaders Choice - SAUNTER
a) The White Cliffs of Dover [Walter Kent]
b) I’ll Be Seeing You [Sammy Fain]
c) A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square [Manning Sherwin]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: BOSTON TWO STEP
a) Semper Paratus (Always Ready) [Trad]
b) Anchors Aweigh [Charles A. Zimmerman]
c) The Army Goes Rolling Along [John Philip Sousa]
d) From The Halls of Montezuma [Jacques Offenbach]
e) Into the Wild Blue Yonder [Robert Crawford]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: INVER BRIDGE
a) Inver Bridge [Gordon Shand]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: REEL OF THE 51st
a) The Drunken Piper [A. MacLeod]
b) Hey Ho My Bonnie Lass [Trad]
c) The Light Haired Maiden [Trad]
d) The Piper of Drummond [Trad]
e) The Ale is Dear [Trad]
f) Tail Toddle [Trad]
g) My Pretty Maid [Trad]
h) Dancing Feet [P/M George S. McLennan]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Jimmy's Gone To Flanders
TRK: 5
ARTIST: Siobhan Miller
CD: Far, Far From Ypres: The Concert
LABEL/CAT NR: Greentrax - DVTRAX2024
TITLE: Hamilton House
Hamilton House / Dumfries House / The Harmonica / Hamilton House
TRK: 17
ARTIST: Jim Cameron’s Scottish Dance Band
CD: Jim Cameron’s Scottish Dance Band Volume One
LABEL/CAT NR: CDGR174
TITLE: Homecoming Dance
JJ’s Reel (George Meikle) / Unknown / The Well Wynd (Jim Johnstone) / Swinging on the Gate
TRK:
ARTIST: David Cunningham
CD: RSCDS Book 7 plus 2 dances for 2009
LABEL/CAT NR: RCDS
TITLE: The Iron Man / The Smith's A Gallant Fireman /
Forth Bridge Reel / Gillan’s Reel / The Auld Wheel
TRK: 20
ARTIST: Alasdair Fraser/Paul Machlis
CD: Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle, Volume One
LABEL/CAT NR: Culburnie records - CUL118D
TITLE: Scotland Forever
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Sydney Devine
CD: Green Grass of Home
LABEL/CAT NR: Scotdisc - CDITV530
TITLE: Down in The Glen
TRK: 14
ARTIST: Robert Wilson
CD: The Voice of Scotland
LABEL/CAT NR: LEGACY 11CD
TITLE: Donald Where's Your Troosers
TRK: 11
ARTIST: Andy Stewart
CD: 20 Scottish Favourites
LABEL/CAT NR: EMI Gold - 5329652
TITLE: Tiny Bubbles
TRK: 2
ARTIST: Sydney Devine
CD: Sydney's Dance Party
LABEL/CAT NR: Scotdisc - CDITV695
TITLE: Storrer's Hornpipe / Kirk's Hornpipe/ The Navvie / Miss Gayton's Hornpipe
/ Glasgow Hornpipe
TRK: 13
ARTIST: Ian Hutson and his Scottish Dance Band
CD: Let's Celebrate
LABEL/CAT NR: Highlander Music - HRMCD559
Broadcast
- Sat 7 Nov 202019:00BBC Radio Scotland
