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Lynne Ninkovic from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Posted 26 Aug 2003.
Just watched the delightful clip of Andy Stewart c. 1959. It reminds me of New Year's Eves ad nauseam before I was old enough to go out and do something more interesting. Every year the same thing - Andy Stewart, Kenneth McKellar, Moira Anderson - how I longed to grow up! My husband remembers exactly the same thing at their house. Can it really be 35 years since we last saw this nonsense? (Just for the record we both love Scotland!) | | |
|  | Jessie Young from Falkirk. Posted 7 Nov 2003.
For every view there is its opposite.
I loved the White Heather Club. The thought of it makes me wallow in nostalgia. Especially at New Year - we would watch Andy Stewart - not forgetting the Police Pipe Band. There would be no alcohol drunk in our house all day on 31st December then our neighbour, who happened to be tall and dark, would come round to first foot us.
My mother had a plate of freshly baked shortbread ready for him. After our neighbour had given us all a drink from his bottle and he had partaken from my father's bottle, we all trooped round next door. There, my father played the piano and we all sang community songs. Our neighbour played some records and we would have a dance - including the speciality - an eightsome reel - all in their living-room. We usually got home about 6 a.m. On New Year's day, we went round visiting our neighbours to share a dram and were first foots ourselves.
All that tradition seems to have died out nowadays. You see, the Andy Stewart thing was a real way of life that did exist in Scotland at that time - maybe just in small villages - but it was real.
I think we should be remembering this culture at New Year, on 25 January and on 30th November. We get the modern music all the time, why not a bit of tradition to celebrate our roots now and again? It doesn't have to be the Andy Stewart thing but I know that what we used to know as the "Folk" scene still goes on and remains popular. I think we should have more of it on TV - especially on Scottish special dates.
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| | jane from france. Posted 16 Oct 2006.
It was brilliant and I miss it so...along with the real Dr.Finlay
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