
John Ellis and his Highland Country Band
For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We have a great band session from our archives, featuring John Ellis and his Highland Country Band.
For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We have a great band session for you from our archives, featuring John Ellis and his Highland Country Band, which was first broadcast in 1990. As guest, Gary is joined by fiddle player, teacher and composer, Graham Mackenzie.
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John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
John Ellis – Fiddle
Douglas Muir - 1st Accordion
Irene Dear – 2nd Accordion
Douglas Cargill – Bass
Chick Bonnar - Piano
George Boath - Dums
TITLE: Gay Gordons
a) Isla Cottage [Angus Lawrie]
b) A Mile Aboon the Kellis [Douglas Muir]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Lady Louisa MacDonald’s Strathspey
a) Original [Robert Mackintosh]
b) Auld Luckie [Trad]
c) Mrs MacLeod [Trad]
d) Bonnie Bessie Lee [Trad]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: The Queen’s Bridge
a) Original
b) Old Highland Air [Trad]
c) Elegant Esther Gray [Lindsay Ross]
d) Original
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Mrs Stewart’s Jig
a) Captain Charles Stewart’s Jig [Malcolm MacDonald]
b) Joe Foster’s Jig [Lindsay Ross]
c) The Family Pride [Lindsay Ross]
d) The Wind that Shaks the Piggery [Lindsay Ross]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Waltz
a) Come Over the Stream Charlie [Trad]
b) A Hundred Pipers [Trad]
c) The Skye Boat Song [Trad]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Pipe Medley
a) Calum Campbell’s Memories of Kyle [Evan Gare]
b) Mary Gare’s Ruby Wedding [Evan Gare]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: The Chapman
a) Miss Macpherson of Gillieston [Trad]
b) John MacDonald’s Reel
c) The Rae Rant
d) Miss Macpherson of Gillieston [Trad]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recordin
TITLE: Barn Dance
a) Miss Nancy Mackay [John Mackay]
b) Portree Highland Games [P/M Donald MacLeod]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Espie McNabb
a) Joyce Meiklejohn’s Jig [Frank Moy]
b) The Man From North Connell [Calum MacLean]
c) Jim McAllister’s jig [Calum MacLean]
d) Jig for Jen [Andy Bathgate]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Highland Medley
a) Glenprosen Ghillies Ball [Douglas Muir]
b) Walking the Floor [John Chisholm]
c) Highland Pibroch [Trad]
d) The Brolum [Dr Charles Bannatyne]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Scottish Walz
a) Bonnie Gallowa’ [George Hornsby]
b) Scalloway Voe [Ronnie Cooper]
c) Rothesay Bay [Alfred Scott-Gatty]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Highland Schottische
a) Camerons Of Sheildaig [Ken C Mackay]
b) Malaclete [Freeland Barbour]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Eight Men of Moidart
a) I’ll Gang Nae Mare tae Yon Toon [Trad]
b) Burnhervie Picnic [Jock Morgan]
c) Cumberland Reel [Douglas Muir]
d) Orkney Reel
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Eva Three Step
a) John Mathieson of Nairn [Evan Gare]
b) Fiona Gilfinnan [Douglas Muir]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: The Waverley Polka
TRK: 1
ARTIST: The Clydesiders
CD: Scottish Folk Songs of the West
LABEL/CAT NR: Scotdisc – 191018051822
TITLE: Shetland Reels:
Tilly Plump / Ahint Da Daeks o' Voe / Da Scallowa Lasses / Donald Blue
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Amy Laurenson
CD: Strands
LABEL/CAT NR: Amy Laurenson
TITLE: Iain Ghlinn' Cuaich
TRK: 10
ARTIST: Capercaillie
CD: ReLoved
LABEL/CAT NR: Vertical
TITLE: Bridge Street Reels:
Mario's Cap / The Lass From Skye / Reelin' Doon Bridge Street
TRK: 3
ARTIST: Graham MacKenzie
CD: Dawning
LABEL/CAT NR: Blue Door Music - BDM002CD
TITLE: The Love of The Isles
TRK: 7
ARTIST: Willie Hunter
CD: The Willie Hunter Sessions
LABEL/CAT NR: Greentrax – CDTRAX144
TITLE: Forgotten Daze / Cottesloe Beach / The Honesty Bar
TRK: 5
ARTIST: Michael McGoldrick
CD: Wired
LABEL/CAT NR: Vertical records - VERTCD074
TITLE: Steady !
John MacFadyen of Melford / Centenary Jewel
TRK: 2
ARTIST: Tom Orr Scottish Dance Band
CD: Off The Beaton Track
LABEL/CAT NR: CPR002
TITLE: The Contradiction Reels:
The Nine Pint Coggie / The Greenfields Of Glentown / The Contradiction
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Graham MacKenzie
CD: Dawning
LABEL/CAT NR: Blue Door Music - BDM002CD
TITLE: Calum’s Road
TRK: 14
ARTIST: Capercaillie
CD: ReLoved
LABEL/CAT NR: Vertical Records
TITLE: Reels
The Drunken Piper / Far From Home / Jackson’s Number Two / Reevies’s Number Nine
TRK: 11
ARTIST: Iain Anderson Scottish Dance Band
CD: The Stanley Ceilidh Volume 1
LABEL/CAT NR: Coinsby Music – CONISB02
Broadcast
- Sat 6 Jul 202419:00BBC Radio Scotland