King of the Button Box Vol.2
Jimmy Shand
Scottish.
SD Productions.
Released: 10th July 2008
Catalogue Number: SDP09
Barcode: x
Running Time: 59+60mins.
You can listen to short samples from some of the tracks on this album using the player below.
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Recorded between 1935 and 1951, these a historical musical gems, and a double CD-pack at that. So this is a 'steal'
Alas no band listings are given.
18 recordings done in Edinburgh, 14 from London and 4 from Glasgow, so that gives you musicologists something to work on.
Happy Listening.
Disc One:
1) Happy Hours.
2) Jimmy's Fancy: Lord Seaforth - Jessie Smith - Laird o' Drumblair.
3) Yodelling Waltz: The Cobbler.
4) Shandygaff: The Back o' Bennachie - Sailor's Hornpipe - The Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre.
5) Circassian Circle: When I Look Back at Bonnie Aberdeen - Kate Dalrymple.
6) MS&R: Balmoral Highlanders - Jessie Smith - Rachael Rae.
7) Eightsome Reel: The Mason's Apron - The Breakdown - Mrs.MacLeod.
8) The Listening Waltz.
9) Athlone Jigs: Irish Washerwoman - Connaughtman's Rambles - Irish Whiskey.
10) The Borderers-Slow March: Dumbarton's Drums - Invercauld.
11) Scott Skinner MS&R: The Lovat Scouts - Forbes Morrison - Thrums Cairn.
12) Pride of Erin Waltz: Irish Jaunting Car - Terence's Farewell - Cockles & Mussels - Kitty of Coleraine.
13) Rocky Mountain Medley: Coming Round the Mountains - Can I Sleep In Your Barn - Hand Me Down My Walking Cane.
14) The Angus Doddies - MS&R: Call To Banff - Brechin Castle - The Apple Tree.
15) Crackaboot - Scottish Quickstep: Why I Left My Hame? - There Was A Lad - A Man's A Man - O' a' the Airts.
16) The Angus Doddies - Irish Waltz & Jig: The Stone Outside Dan Murphy's Door - Dan the Cobbler.
17) La Russe: Punch Bowl - The Cairdin' O't.
18) St.Valery Reel: Victoria Hornpipe - Kirk Hornpipe - The Storrers.
Disc Two:
1) The Black Dance: Polwart On the Green - Callum Beag.
2) The Dancing Dustman - Two Step:
3) Shand's Irish Special: Eileen Allanah - Oft; In the Stilly Night.
4) Rocky Mountain Medley-Part 2: Chicken Reel - Turkey In the Straw.
5) Medley: Piper's Wedding - Lancashire Clog.
6) Highland Pastoral - MS&R: 79th Farewell to Gibraltar - Lady Charlotte Campbell - Lady Montgomery.
7) Strathmore Whirl - Strathspey: Lady MacBeth - Maggie Cameron - The De'il In the Kitchen.
8) St.Bernard's Waltz: Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms - I Love A Lassie - Lunan Bay.
9) Retreat Medley: When the Battle's O'er - Auchmountain's Bonnie Glen.
10) MS&R: Miss Elspeth Campbell - Huntly's Farerwell - Captain Keiller.
11) The Jiggin': Larry o' Gaff - Paddy O'Carroll - St.Patrick's Day.
12) L' Entrainante Valse.
13) Country Dance Selection: Dundee City Police - Aithernie Lodge - Kirkwall Bay.
14) Highland Schottische: Lad Wi' the Plaidie - The Smith's A Gallant Fireman - Duncan Davidson.
15) The Angus Doddies - Medley: The Balkan Hills - The Auld Brig o' Ayr - Jenny Gang the Weaver.
16) Scottish Waltzes: Kelvingrove - Jock o' Hazeldean - Green Grow the Rushes O - The Laird o' Cockpen.
17) The Hills of Home - MS&R: Willie McLennan - Master Francis Sitwell - Inver Lasses.
18) The Angus Doddies - Jacky Tar Dance Set: Jacky Tar - Davie Knick Knack - Good Night an' Joy Be Wi' You.
Recorded between 1935 and 1951, these a historical musical gems, and a double CD-pack at that. So this is a 'steal'
Alas no band listings are given.
18 recordings done in Edinburgh, 14 from London and 4 from Glasgow, so that gives you musicologists something to work on.
Happy Listening.
Lineup
Jimmy Shand - Accordion
with his band.