NEFA
1994.004.02 Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: Welcome
S: Welcome
and stories about real belly bands.
NEFA
1994.004.03 Transcription
P: The Belly Band
T: Bonnie Charlie's Noo Awa
FL: Will ye no come back again
S: Some tuning at start. Level adjustment.
NEFA
1994.004.04 Transcription
P: The Belly Band
T: Twa Recruitin Sergeants
FL: Twa
recruitin sergeants cam fae the Black Watch
S: Some
chat at the start.
NEFA
1994.004.05 Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: The Conversazione
FL: ????
S: Also thanks to the Belly Band and introducing Allan
Sellar.
NEFA
1994.004.06 Transcription
P: Allan Sellar
T: The Moose's Reply
FL: Ye muckle thochtless, hammerin brute
S: Poem by May Harper
NEFA
1994.004.07 Transcription
P: Charles
Birnie
T: Buchan's Reply to Burns
FL: Love's
like a jub-jub, sprinkled ower wi sugar
NEFA
1994.004.08
P: Charles
Birnie
T: Introduction of
Gordon Easton
NEFA
1994.004.09-10 Transcription
P: Gordon
Easton
T: Diddling with descriptions of dances
S: [Re-started,
tr. 9 overmodulated. Original varies some.]
NEFA
1994.004.11 Transcription
P: Charles
Birnie
T: Diddling
S: Diddling
is an art form. It looks easy, but there are rules. Gordon is a
champion diddler. Introduces Tom McKean.
NEFA
1994.004.12 Transcription
P: Tom McKean
T: Puirt-a-Beul: Bidh 'n Dròbhair, Bidh 'n Dròbhair/
Gaol air a' Ghille Bhuidhe
FL: Bidh 'n dròbhair,
bidh 'n dròbhair, bidh 'n dròbhair aig nighean Chaluim
NEFA
1994.004.13 Transcription
P: Charles
Birnie
T: Thanks
and introducing Charlie Thompson
S: [End
of Side A.]
NEFA
1994.004.14 Transcription
P: Charlie Thomson
T: A Wife Saves Money on Obituary
S: Joke.
NEFA
1994.004.15 Transcription
P: Charlie Thomson
T: A Haircut for Rome
S: Joke.
NEFA
1994.004.16 Transcription
P: Charlie Thomson
T: Story about ????
S: Joke.
NEFA
1994.004.17 Transcription
P: Charlie Thomson
T: My Old Lavender Trousers
FL: I
know what the people are looking at
S: Poem.
NEFA
1994.004.18 Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: Thanks
S: Recites
lines of Tullochgorm. [Background chat.]
NEFA
1994.004.19 Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: Anecdote about Betty Boothroyd
NEFA
1994.004.20 Transcription
P: The Belly Band
T: Bonnie Bessie Logan
FL: Bonnie
Bessie Logan, she's handsome young and fair
NEFA
1994.004.21 Transcription
P: The Belly Band
T: The Bonnie Ship the Diamond
FL: The
Diamond is a ship me lads, for the Davis Strait she's bound
S: [Starts
with story:] The sailors would head North, having bought all their
gear. Sometimes they would not catch anything, and so had to go
back the next year just to pay for the gear.
NEFA
1994.004.22 Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: ?????
FL: We'll
drink strong ale and porter
S: From a shanty.
NEFA
1994.004.23 Transcription
P: The Belly Band
T: She'll Be Comin Round the Mountain When She Comes
FL: She'll
be comin round the mountain when she comes
S: All
sing, then women vs. men on chorus.
NEFA
1994.004.24 Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: MC comments
S:
The
women won; discretion is the better part of valour.
NEFA
1994.004.25 Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: Doric valentines
S: A
lady phoned him for advice on writing a valentine in the Doric.
Recites several humorous examples.
NEFA
1994.004.26
P: The Belly Band
T: ????/
The Shearin's No for You
S:
Waltzes. [Original cuts off. End of Side B.]
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