s7 E12 Listener Recording Request Mini Episode Tunes: Eliza Ross: Dark-Eyed one of the Night, Dark Girl of the White Feet Donald MacDonald: Lady Seaforth’s Reel, Lady Mary MacKay’s Reel, Mary Gray, Sweet Molly. Next Episode We will hit 50,000 downloads since relaunching the podcast, and I would love to hear from you. Record a tune you’ve heard from the podcast, or a concordance you play that I haven’t, or just your favorite historic piping tune, or just tell me a story! Tell me the name of the tune, the instrument you are playing and who you are and I’ll try to include it in the episode. If you have links to archival sources for your tunes all the better, or if you have a project coming up you’d like to share with podcast listeners send it my way as well. You can use an Mp3 or wav files, or just a voice memo off of your phone I should be able to work with. I can also rip the audio from youtube videos. Send them to me at [email protected] The set I play is still a bit rough around the edges, especially when performed in the blowing sand of Oak Island, but the tunes are: Dark-Eyed one of the Night from Eliza Ross, Lady Seaforth’s Reel from Donald MacDonald, Dark Girl of the White Feet from Eliza Ross, followed by Lady Mary MacKay’s Reel, Mary Gray and finally Sweet Molly all from Donald MacDonald. See Eliza Ross Manuscript for sources here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript All of the Donald Macdonald tunes are played from the edition available from Ceol Sean here: https://ceolsean.net/content/McDlight/McDlight_TOC.html Or you can look through most of the tunes on the edition available on National Library of Scotland’s Website here: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682572 Thanks for Listening to the Show! Remember Send your submissions to [email protected]com FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my First Album on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes or my second album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker or my third album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at [email protected] letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

Tunes: Straloch: Gallua Tom Walsh: Gallaway Tom Vickers (Same as walsh): The Gold Ring Oswald: Gallaway Tom Scots Musical Museum: Galloway Tam Niel Gow: Kelso Races Sutherland: Kelso Races O’Farrell: Galloway Tom, Tuhy’s Frolic Goodman: Humours of Limerick Ennis: The Lark’s March O’Neill: The Little Yellow Boy, The House in the Glen, The Lark in the Morning Hugh McDermot: A Western Lilt James Morrison: The Lark In the Morning Dave Rickard: The Lark in the Morning Angus McKay: The Hills of Glenorchy James Aird: The Humours of Limerick David Young: Tom Come Tickle me Ryan: Lark in the Morning +X+X+X+ 1627: Gullua Tom From Straloch Lute MS (Courtesy of Traditional Tune Archive) https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Gallua_Tom 1745: Gallaway Tom in Walsh’s Caledonian Country Dances: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94558476 1770s: Gallaway Tom From Vickers: http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0312100.jpg 1754: Gallaway Tom in Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion: https://archive.org/details/caledonianpocket01rugg/page/24/mode/2up 1792: O Galloway Tam From Scots Musical Museum https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87798448 Performed by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YHWFF0sDw0 +X+X+ 1784: Kelso Races from First Book of Niel Gow's Reels, 2d edition: https://hms.scot/prints/copy/8/ 1816: Kelso Races from Sutherland’s Edinburgh Repository of Music: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/91461944 +X+X+ 1806: Galloway Tom, From O’Farrel Pocket Companion Vol 1: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779678 1806: Tuhy’s Frolic From O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780878 +X+X+ 1860s: Humours of Limerick (Jackson) From Goodman http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=99&z=-957.4682%2C950.6699%2C11615.1632%2C4196.3988 1963: The Lark’s March and Story from Seamus Ennis, Masters of Irish Music: Seamus Ennis. https://youtu.be/ryB-N3RIdm8 1903: The Little Yellow Boy (From O’Neill’s Music of Ireland) http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/0701-1200/Sheet-0701-0800/0706-LittleYellowBoy.gif 1907: The House in the Glen From O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland https://imslp.org/wiki/TheDanceMusicofIreland(O%27Neill%2CFrancis) 1926: The Lark in the Morning performed by James Morrison: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/James_Morrison/ +X+X+ Hills of Glenorchy from Angus Mackay https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007069 1780s: The Humours of Limerick from Aird’s Selection of Scotch, Irish, English and Foreign Airs https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87704991 1740s: Tom Come Tickle Me: From David Young: https://rmacd.com/music/macfarlane-manuscript/collection/ 1903: Lark in the Morning: From O’Neill’s Music of Ireland: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/AA3Sheet/0701-1200/Sheet-1001-1100/1019-LarkMorning.gif 1883: Lark in the Morning: From Ryan’s Mammoth Collection: (Page 114) https://violinsheetmusic.org/collections/ 1770s: The Gold Ring, From William Vicker’s Manuscript http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0312400.jpg +X+X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my First Album on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes or my second album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker or my third album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at [email protected] letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

Tunes: John Tams: Over the Hills and Far Away Playford ‘Twas O’er the Hills and Far Away John Blow and Henry Purcell: Jockey’s Lamentation, The Recruiting Officer John Jay: Over the Hills and Far Away Mr. Ralph: Over the Hills and Far Away Oswald: Over the Hills and Far Away Aird: O'er the Hills and Far Awa James Hogg: Over the Seas and Far Awa, Whig Song Over the Hills and Far Away Thomas Glen: O’er the Hills and Far awa Angus MacKay: O’er the Hills and Far Away William Ross: O’er the Hills and Far Away LBPS Blue Book: O’er the Hills an’ Far Awa’ Matt Seattle: Over the Hills & Far Away 1710: Twas O’er the Hills and Far Away from Playford’s Dancing Master Volume 2 http://playforddances.com/dances-2-3/twas-oer-the-hills-and-far-away/ 1719: Jockey’s Lamentation & The Recruiting officer from John Blow and Henry Purcell’s Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; Set to Musick https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87911783 1728: Over the Hills and Far Away From John Gay’s the Beggar’s Opera: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90407462 1730: From Mr. Ralph’s The Fashionable Lady; or the Harlequin’s Opera https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94513380 Already Recorded: 1750s: Over the Hills and Far Away From Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion Vol II https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94599360 1821: Over the Seas and Far Awa From Jacobite Relics of Scotland by James Hogg https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/91267699 1821: Over the Hills and Far Away (Pro Government anti Jacobite Lyrics) from Jacobite Relics of Scotland by James Hogg https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87824279 1843: O’er the hills and Far awa From Thomas Glen’s A New and Complete Tutor for the Great Highland Bagpipe https://ceolsean.net/content/TGlen/TGlen_TOC.html 1844: O’er the Hills and Far Away from Angus MacKay’s The Piper’s Assistant https://ceolsean.net/content/PipeAsst/PipeAsst_TOC.html 1870s: O’er the Hills and Far Away From William Ross’s Collection of Pipe Music https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/WRoss_TOC.html 1990s-2000s: O’er the Hills an’ Far Awa’ from The Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society Committee Sessions https://lbps.net/j3site/documents/blue_book.pdf 2006: O’er the Hills and Far Awa from Matt Seattle’s Over the Hills & Far Away https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/over-the-hills-and-far-away END Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my First Album on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes or my second album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker or my third album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at [email protected] letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

+X+X+X+ Cover Art from David Allan’s Lead Processing at Leadhills: Weighing the Lead Bars from the 1780s showing a Blue Bonnet and a Cocked hat. Courtesy of National Galleries Scotland: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/99127/lead-processing-leadhills-weighing-lead-bars 1686: John Playford, Dancing Master rendition of Johnny Cock thy Beaver here: https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dancing-master/Dance/images/Play1138.gif This whole database was helpful: https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dancing-master/Index.htm 1900: I would not have known to look here were it not for John Glen’s monumental work on early Scottish melodies, if you hadn’t noticed it is Glen’s collection that makes up much of the archival copies of these texts I rely on: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/91349758 ?: Carolan’s Setting for Variations came likely from Donal O'Sullivan's work of tunes actually composed by Turlough O’Carolan (b.1670-d.1738) I got the transcription (and apparently also a key change) on Vince Brennan’s remarkable website, with ABC copies of all the tunes: http://www.oldmusicproject.com/occ/tunes.html Note this setting is likely not Carolan, also, that you shouldn’t say the “O’” before Carolan’s name if you’re speaking English. 1733: William Dixon’s Watty’s Away: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition 1750ish: James Oswald’s Setting for Johnny Cock-up thy Beaver: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94599108 1792: Scots Musical Museum (Robert Burns Song) https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87798244 1757: Bremner’s Setting for Scots Bonnet: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002603 1807-1810: O’Farrell’s setting of The Blue Bonnett: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf It is tune 17 on the PDF You can read through the fascinating discussion of Beaver and links to many newspaper articles from the early 20th century here on the English Language and Usage Stack Exchange forum: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/503590 June 1922: Missouri Newspaper: Cambridge Students Pride themselves on their whiskers https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89066316/1922-06-26/ed-1/seq-4/#words=%22yelling%2Bbeaver%22 October 1922: Washington Newspaper: King George may need to shave https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1922-10-29/ed-1/seq-59/#words=%22out%2Bbeaver%22 December 1922 Washington Newspaper: Beaver near extinction because of the Beaver Game: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1922-12-03/ed-1/seq-39/#words=%22out%2Bbeaver%22 “Looking For Whiskers Bearded men find themselves unwontedly popular at Cambridge just now. They are gravely or hilariously saluted by undergraduates with cries of ‘Beaver!’ This is part of a game which the young wits of the University have devised in which pointes are scored by the player who first sights a bearded person. From Gloucester Citizen, Gloucester, England, Wednesday May 17, 1922 Volume 47, 115 From the Evening Telegraph (Dundee, Scotland) Tuesday october 3, 1922 Day By Day “There is absolutely no truth in the story that when a Royal figure wearing a beard entered a Cambridge function the undergraduates rose to their feet as one and shouted, ‘Royal beaver game, set, match.” “When Aussies wore Whiskers from Thursday Aug 2, 1934 Gloucester Citizen, talks about men wearing beards being scorned by barbers, and harassed on the street by cries of Beaver. Jan 20, 1941 Gloucester Citizen, “Ban on ‘Hitler’ Moustache but ‘Beavers’ are Popular Discusses how beards fell out of fashion, but are back in for military personnel after WWII. You can see the “Beaver!” Limerick printed here in the Wordsworth Book of Limericks: https://archive.org/details/wordsworthbookof0000unse/page/324/mode/1up? You can see several of the Mid-19th Century Bonny Black Hare Broadsides here, Courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/title/Bonny%20black%20hare Interesting discussion of Bonny Black Hare from AL Lloyd and others that popularized singing it during the British Folk Revival: https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/thebonnyblackhare.html I have lost several hours to Grosse’s 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5402/pg5402-images.html Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! 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S7 E08 John Charles Guest Host Singer Spotlight: Kenneth MacIver of Lewis with guest tracks from Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie, Allan MacDonald, Julie Fowlis and Jeremy Kingsbury Featuring musical guests: Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie Allan MacDonald Julie Fowlis Jeremy Kingsbury Episode notes: On this episode we celebrate the recordings of Kenneth MacIver of Lewis (1924-1978). Kenneth's recordings are available from the School of Scottish Studies, via Tobar an Dualchais here: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/person/7570?l=en Tunes Tha M'inntinn a-raoir a-nochd 's a-raoir - On my mind last night, tonight and last night Also known as "Munlochy Bridge" Sung by Kenneth: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/101365?l=en Munlochy Bridge on "LAS" by Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie: https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/track/strathspeys-and-reels Siuthadaibh Bhalachaibh, Siuthadaibh - Go to it Lads, Go To It Also known as "Devil in the Kitchen". Sung by Kenneth: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/101365?l=en Played by Allan MacDonald on "Fhuair mi Pog": https://www.greentrax.com/music/product/Allan-MacDonald-Margaret-Stewart-Fhuair-Mi-Pog-CD Càit am bi na Maraichean - Where will the Sailors Be? Sung by Kenneth: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/101359?l=en Mo Chailinn Bheag Dhonn - My Little Brown-Haired Lass Sung by Kenneth: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/101363?l=en Hì Horò na Boireannaich - Hi Horò the Women Sung by Kenneth: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/101361?l=en O Nach Àghmhor A-Nis - Oh How Joyful it is Just Now Sung by Kenneth: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/94168?l=en Nam Bithinn na Mo Mhaighdeann - If I was a Maiden Sung by Kenneth: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/101379?l=en Tha Fionnlagh ag Innearadh - Finlay is Spreading Manure Sung by Kenneth: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/101379?l=en By Julie Fowlis on Cuilidh: https://www.juliefowlis.com/product/cuilidh-cd/ By Allan MacDonald at 1998 piping recital: https://musicscotland.com/products/series-3-1998-vol-2 Mac a' Phì Cnag-Shùileach - Big-Eyed MacPhee Also known as "Mrs. MacLeod of Raasay" etc. Sung by Kenneth: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/101379?l=en Jeremy's deep-dive episode on Campbells are Coming: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e13 You can get “Pig Town Fling” on Jeremy’s most recent Album, Bannocks of Barley Meal: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal (Cover art is a Photo Jeremy took of a Sailing Ship off the Coast of Lewis and Harris in 2019) Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my First Album on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes or my second album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker or my third album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at [email protected] letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA