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A Scottish Vernacular Discography 1888-1960
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This comprehensive publication is the result of twenty years research in to recordings made in the British Isles of music and performance relevant to Scotland. The work is inclusive rather than exclusive and has tried to include everything and anything that seems relevant or interesting. This is the very first time that all this data has been gathered together in one place for easy reference. Wherever they exist record company files and other original sources have been consulted alongside extensive research in contemporary newspapers and journals. Artists and their families have been consulted wherever possible and they have been able to give information that is unavailable elsewhere.
This reference book will be invaluable to the historian of Scottish popular culture, the sociologist, the musicologist, the student of Burns' songs, those interested in changes in performance styles, Scottish music hall, historians of the bagpipe, the radio show presenter, the reference department of the public library and so on. And, of course, for the record collector and anyone else with an interest in Scottish popular culture.
Over the course of more than 600 pages artists are listed alphabetically with details of their recordings. You will find here - the artist's real name if it differs from the name on the record together with their dates and locations of birth and death, accompanying musicians' names and/or the instrument played on the record, date and location of the recording session, master and take number, repertoire together with composer and arranger details, all known issues on 78, 45, EP, LP and cylinder released anywhere in the World and finally, where necessary, there are explanatory footnotes. It is fully cross referenced so that the use of pseudonyms, which was extensive in the record industry, is now revealed.
The work opens with a bibliography, which is followed by an overview of discography in general and then a chapter devoted to the Scottish Discography which explains the use of master and take numbers, record company dating and performance codes and much more.
Accompanying this work is a CD-ROM that contains the whole text plus an artist index, in table form, that may be sorted in a variety of ways that suits the researcher. A gallery of over 100 record label pictures gives an indication of the variety of labels that issued Scottish recordings, as well as the changes in label design that occurred over the period covered by this work.
Inside you will find details of recordings made by Scottish country dance bands, music hall artists, Gaelic singers, puert-a-beul, bagpipe soloists and bands, solo instrumentalists on the fiddle, accordion, melodeon, concertina, dulcimer, etc., bothy ballad singers, border ballads, Burns' songs, popular Scots ballads, poetry readers, some Scots jazz bands, speeches by Scots politicians, talks by Scots personalities, dialect monologues and sketches and much, much more.
Some Scots artists also recorded in the United States, ( i.e. Harry Lauder, Will Fyffe, Sandy MacFarlane, et al), whilst other recorded in Canada (Robert Wilson, Tammas Fisher, Will Starr, Alec Finlay, et al). These are also documented as far as has been possible.
Famous names are here - Harry Lauder, Will Fyffe, Harry Gordon, Dave Willis, Jack Lorimer, Joe Corrie, Jimmy Shand, Jim Cameron, Ian Powrie, William Hannah, Calum Kennedy, Robert Wilson, Kenneth McKellar, Pamby Dick, A. J. Scott, William Powrie, Scott Skinner, McKenzie Murdoch, William Ross, Robert Reid, Henry Forsyth - the lists goes on. Hundreds of artists are here on thousands of recording, all documented for the first time.
In this work you can find details of the first recording by a Scotsman in 1888, the voice of a Scotsman who was a page boy to William IV, a piper born in 1860, a fiddler born in 1843, an industrialist born in 1835 - in fact scores of the artists listed were born in the 19th. century. Now it will be possible to trace who has influenced whom, as well as what was thought saleable or important at a particular time and much more.
Did you know that a Scots country dance record was issued in Pakistan, that a Swahili comic sketch used a Jacobite tune, that a Scottish youth band recorded in Riga or that a Jewish cantor made records in Edinburgh or that a Polish army choir recorded Scots songs?
Have you ever wondered just how many artists, both Scots and English, recorded "cover" versions of Harry Lauder's many hit records?
Find out what some English artists had to say about Scots, Scotland, bagpipes and meanness.
This mammoth work fills a gaping hole in the basic information data base for anyone interested in any way in Scottish popular culture. It received the coveted ARSC Award for the "Best Discography in general recording Topics" in 2014 and is an indispensable must-have for any library. Bill was justifiably proud of this work and while the large paper based printed version is no longer available, shortly before he died Bill updated much of the text and database and this has been reproduced in the Reference Series as RS46.
This reference book will be invaluable to the historian of Scottish popular culture, the sociologist, the musicologist, the student of Burns' songs, those interested in changes in performance styles, Scottish music hall, historians of the bagpipe, the radio show presenter, the reference department of the public library and so on. And, of course, for the record collector and anyone else with an interest in Scottish popular culture.
Over the course of more than 600 pages artists are listed alphabetically with details of their recordings. You will find here - the artist's real name if it differs from the name on the record together with their dates and locations of birth and death, accompanying musicians' names and/or the instrument played on the record, date and location of the recording session, master and take number, repertoire together with composer and arranger details, all known issues on 78, 45, EP, LP and cylinder released anywhere in the World and finally, where necessary, there are explanatory footnotes. It is fully cross referenced so that the use of pseudonyms, which was extensive in the record industry, is now revealed.
The work opens with a bibliography, which is followed by an overview of discography in general and then a chapter devoted to the Scottish Discography which explains the use of master and take numbers, record company dating and performance codes and much more.
Accompanying this work is a CD-ROM that contains the whole text plus an artist index, in table form, that may be sorted in a variety of ways that suits the researcher. A gallery of over 100 record label pictures gives an indication of the variety of labels that issued Scottish recordings, as well as the changes in label design that occurred over the period covered by this work.
Inside you will find details of recordings made by Scottish country dance bands, music hall artists, Gaelic singers, puert-a-beul, bagpipe soloists and bands, solo instrumentalists on the fiddle, accordion, melodeon, concertina, dulcimer, etc., bothy ballad singers, border ballads, Burns' songs, popular Scots ballads, poetry readers, some Scots jazz bands, speeches by Scots politicians, talks by Scots personalities, dialect monologues and sketches and much, much more.
Some Scots artists also recorded in the United States, ( i.e. Harry Lauder, Will Fyffe, Sandy MacFarlane, et al), whilst other recorded in Canada (Robert Wilson, Tammas Fisher, Will Starr, Alec Finlay, et al). These are also documented as far as has been possible.
Famous names are here - Harry Lauder, Will Fyffe, Harry Gordon, Dave Willis, Jack Lorimer, Joe Corrie, Jimmy Shand, Jim Cameron, Ian Powrie, William Hannah, Calum Kennedy, Robert Wilson, Kenneth McKellar, Pamby Dick, A. J. Scott, William Powrie, Scott Skinner, McKenzie Murdoch, William Ross, Robert Reid, Henry Forsyth - the lists goes on. Hundreds of artists are here on thousands of recording, all documented for the first time.
In this work you can find details of the first recording by a Scotsman in 1888, the voice of a Scotsman who was a page boy to William IV, a piper born in 1860, a fiddler born in 1843, an industrialist born in 1835 - in fact scores of the artists listed were born in the 19th. century. Now it will be possible to trace who has influenced whom, as well as what was thought saleable or important at a particular time and much more.
Did you know that a Scots country dance record was issued in Pakistan, that a Swahili comic sketch used a Jacobite tune, that a Scottish youth band recorded in Riga or that a Jewish cantor made records in Edinburgh or that a Polish army choir recorded Scots songs?
Have you ever wondered just how many artists, both Scots and English, recorded "cover" versions of Harry Lauder's many hit records?
Find out what some English artists had to say about Scots, Scotland, bagpipes and meanness.
This mammoth work fills a gaping hole in the basic information data base for anyone interested in any way in Scottish popular culture. It received the coveted ARSC Award for the "Best Discography in general recording Topics" in 2014 and is an indispensable must-have for any library. Bill was justifiably proud of this work and while the large paper based printed version is no longer available, shortly before he died Bill updated much of the text and database and this has been reproduced in the Reference Series as RS46.