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Jimmy Shand's first recording session was in 1933 with the Regal Zonophone company. His employer, Dundee music shop owner Charles Forbes, had agreed to underwrite the costs - unknown to Jimmy - and so the session took place in the Abbey Road studios in London. There was a pianist available, but on some tracks Jimmy asked if he could record unaccompanied. Two records were eventually issued, MR 1387 and MR 1388.
1) CAR2411 Bottom of the Punchbowl/My Love She's But a Lassie Yet/Fair Maid of Perth
2) CAR2412 Atholl Highlanders/Rakes of Kildare/Teviot Bridge
3) CAR2414 Londonderry Hornpipe/High Level Hornpipe
Presumably matrix no. CAR2413 was The Druken Piper/Laird o' Drumblair/Deil Amang the Tailors - mentioned in Shand's biography by David Phillips (Dundee 1976); alas, I have not got a copy of that track.
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Other collections of Scottish 78rpm records:
Will Powrie, Scottish Melodeon from 78 rpm Recordings
Donald Davidson: Scottish Mouth Organ Classics
William Hannah: Scottish Melodeon 78s
What a pleasant surprise to stumble across this new posting. Hopefully it is the start of something.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the JS sides. Note that he isn't playing that big red 3 row Hohner B/C/C# he was later famous for on these sides, but rather a mere 2 row B/C, like all the Irish fellows wail away on now, according to the redoubtable Stephen Chambers in his great posting on the history of Irish Button Boxes.
Interesting that JS plays a G# instead of G in the Atholl H-Landers.
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much. Being spanish, fiddler and interested in scottish music, your post have of an invaluable value to me; Nothing in my homeland is available but modern & commercial stuff. I indeed treasure all the albums from past fiddlers and regret deeply your issues with copyright.
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