Episode 25. Jacobite Manoeuvres
Sunday, 1st July 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
The battles between the Hanoverians and the Jacobites inspired many songs still sung today, and not all of them are about Bonnie Prince Charlie and his dad. There’s a song and a fiddle tune about George I’s mistress – the English called her ‘The Elephant’, the Scots called her ‘The Sow’. There’s the song about Johnnie Cope sleeping in at the Battle of Prestonpans, which turns out to mean something far ruder if you get the words wrong, as some do. And there are the heart-rending laments for the men lost in battle for the Jacobite cause. John Purser introduces us to all of these.
Episode Playlist
- Anon: The Scotch Trumpet Tune
Members of the BBC SSO
BBC recording - Trad: The Reveille
George McIlwham, piccolo Heather Corbett, percussion
BBC recording - Trad: The Soo’s Tail Tae Geordie
Jo Miller, fiddle
BBC recording - Trad: The Soo’s Tail Tae Geordie
Jo Miller, voice
BBC recording - Trad: The Wee Wee German Lairdee
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
CD Scottish Traditional Songs
Ossian Publications OSS CD105 - Trad: Sileas Do Dh’Arm Rìgh Sheumais
Alyth McCormack
BBC recording. - Trad: The Wee Wee German Lairdee
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
CD Scottish Traditional Songs
Ossian Publications OSS CD105 - Trad: Sileas Do Dh’Arm Rìgh Sheumais
Alyth McCormack
BBC recording. - Trad: Piobaireachd: The Prince’s Salute
Pipe Major Bill Livingstone
CD The World’s Greatest Pipers Volume 9
Lismor LCOM 9045 - Trad, arr MacNeil: An Fhideag Airgid (The Silver Whistle)
Flora MacNeil
CD Craobh nan Ubhal
Temple Records COMD 1002 - Trad. arr MacDonald: A Jacobite Waltz
John MacDonald
CD The Singing Molecatcher of Morayshire
Greentrax CDTRAX 9053 - Beethoven: Sir Johnie Cope
Edgar Fleet, tenor Accademia Monteverdiana/Denis Stevens
LP Beethoven Folksong Settings
Nonesuch H71340 Side 1 - Trad: Johnnie Cope
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
CD Scottish Traditional Songs
Ossian Publications OSS CD105 - Trad. arr MacDonald: Òran air Là Chulodair
Allan MacDonald
CD The Piper & The Maker
Greentrax CDTRAX 265 - Trad. arr MacNeil/Kinnaird: Mo run geal og (My fair young love)
Flora MacNeil & Alison Kinnaird
CD Craobh nan Ubhal
Temple Records COMD 1002
