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Jim Cameron's Scottish Dance Band The Early Years
Available on CD - Catalogue Number - BLT01 - £11.49 |
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Kirrie
fiddler Jim Cameron first found recording success in 1933 as a solo
artiste on the famous Beltona label.
Later he combined with his brothers to make further recordings as
‘The Cameron Men’ and also as a trio with Jimmy Shand and Sandy Moir
on accordion and piano. |
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| Following the second world war, Jim Cameron’s Scottish Dance Band became Beltona’s biggest earner rivalling the success of Cameron’s great friend Jimmy Shand on Parlophone. | ||
| The recordings on this CD were made in a period between 12th December 1949 and 24th May 1951 at venues in London and Glasgow. They have been played into computer, digitally improved and then remastered to CD. Over 74 minutes of good old fashioned music. | ||
| 27 Tracks - Total Running Time of 74 min 07
sec.
Note that the original Beltona matrix and catalogue number is given below the track title |
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1. |
Isle of Skye DR14377-1A / BL2494 |
Isle of Skye (Niel Gow) : Jessie’s Hornpipe (Traditional) : Miss Forbes’ Farewell to Banff (Isaac Cooper) |
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2. |
Scottish Reform DR14375-1A / BL2492 |
Scottish Reform (Traditional) : Miss Sally Hunter (Traditional) : Miss Stewart’s Jig (Traditional) |
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The Pride of Erin DR14380-1A / BL2496 |
Gentle Maiden (Traditional) : When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (Ball, Olcott, Graff) : The Irish Jaunting Car (Traditional) |
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The Dundee Reel DR 14379-1A / BL 2495 |
Bonnie Dundee (Traditional) : Lady Dorothy Stewart (Traditional) |
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The Gay Gordons DR14370-1A / BL2490 |
The Balkan Hills (P. Logan) : Australian Ladies (W. Fergusson) |
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La Russe DR14372-1A / BL2491 |
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La Russe (Traditional) : Lord
Rendal’s Bride (Traditional) : Lady McKenzie of Coulle (J. McKenzie) |
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Waltz Country Dance DR14378-1A / BL2494 |
Come Under My Plaidie (J.
McGill) : Springtime in the Rockies (Sauer) : Eileen Allanah (Thomas,
Marble) : Sound the Pibroch (Traditional) |
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Strip the Willow DR14373-1A /
BL2492 |
Birsay Beach (Traditional) :
Miss Charlotte Bruce (W. Shepherd) :
Miss Rough of Longbank (S. Cameron) |
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The Angus Reel
M3075 / BL2523
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Miss Jean Milligan (W. Matthew)
: Misses Gordon of Rafford (S. Cameron) |
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10. |
Scottish Waltz DR14384-1A / BL2497 |
The Nut Brown Maid (Traditional)
: Lunan Bay (Shand) : Westering Home (Traditional) |
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11. |
Canadian Barn Dance DR 14369-1A / BL 2489 |
The Rock and Wee Pickle Tow
(Traditional) : Miss Gordon of Haddo (Traditional) : Meldrum House
(Traditional) |
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12. |
Broun’s Reel DR14371-1A / BL2491 |
Caddam Wood (Rennie): The
Piper’s Cave (Sutherland) |
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13. |
Monymusk DR14368-1A / BL2490 |
Monymusk (Traditional) :
Caledonian Society of London (Traditional) : The Iron Man (Skinner) |
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The Dashing White
Sergeant DR 14367-1A / BL 2489 |
The Dashing White Sergeant
(Traditional) : Kirk’s Hornpipe (Traditional) : Let’s Be Merry
(Traditional) |
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Eightsome Reel DR14387-1A / BL2499 |
Earl of Crawford (Traditional) :
Willie Davie (Traditional) : Roxburgh Castle (Traditional) : |
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St. Bernard’s Waltz DR14374-1A / BL2497 |
Bonnie Gallowa (Sprott,Hormsky)
: Rothesay Bay (Traditional) : Away Up In Clachan (Traditional) |
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The Gay Gordons DR14376-1A / BL2493 |
Admiral Levison Gower
(Traditional) :
Millbank Cottage (Traditional) |
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The Glasgow Highlanders DR14381-1A /
BL 2496 |
The Glasgow Highlanders (Traditional) : The Sherwood Rangers (Traditional) : Phil the Fluter’s Ball (Traditional) |
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19. |
Polka DR14393-1A / BL2502 |
Traditional Polka with Jim on fiddle and his daughter May on accordion |
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20. |
Lamb Skinnet DR14385-1A / BL2498 |
Lamb Skinnet (Traditional) :
Farewell to the Creeks (Robertson) : Lady Nellie Wemyss (Traditional) |
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The Linton Ploughman DR14383-1A / BL2493 |
The Gobie O (Traditional) : I
Lost My Love (Traditional) : Drummond Castle (Traditional) |
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22. |
Miss Nancy Frowns M3077-1 / BL2524 |
My Wife’s a Wanton Wee Thing
(Traditional): Midlothian Pipe Band
(Traditional): The Quaker (Traditional) |
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51st Division Reel DR14390-1A / BL2500 |
The Drunken Piper (Traditional)
: Glengarry (Traditional) : The Man at the Loom (Traditional) |
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Petronella DR14389-1A / BL2500 |
Persian Dance (Traditional) :
Birnam Wood (Traditional) : Davie Nick Nack (Traditional) : |
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Strathglass House M3076 / BL2523 |
Strathglass House (Traditional)
: Mackenzie Hay (Traditional) : Willie Shaw (Traditional) |
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Scottish
M3070-1 / BL2521 |
My Ain Wee Hoose (Traditional) : When You and I Were Young, Maggie (Johnson, Butterfield): The Rowan Tree |
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27. |
Hamilton House DR14382-1A / BL2495 |
Hamilton House (Traditional) :
Dumfries House (Traditional) : The Harmonica (Traditional) |
