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NEFA
1994.006.01
P: The Belly Band
T: ????(March)/ ????
S: With
Gordon Easton (fiddle).
NEFA
1994.006.02
P: ????
T: Thanks to all
NEFA
1994.006.03
P: All
T: Happy Birthday
FL: Happy birthday to you
NEFA
1994.006.04 Transcription
P: All
T: Auld Land Syne
FL:
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
NEFA
1994.006.05
P: The Belly Band
T: American tune
NEFA
1994.006.06 Transcription
P: The Belly Band
T: Although My Locks are Getting Grey
FL: ????
S: With Gordon Easton. [Signal cuts out briefly.]
NEFA
1994.006.07
P: The
Belly Band
T: ????
NEFA
1994.006.08
P: The
Belly Band
T: The Smith's a Gallant Fireman
NEFA
1994.006.09
P: Gordon
Easton
T: The Hen's March ower the Midden
S: With
the Belly Band.
NEFA
1994.006.10
T: Background
chat
S: [End
of Event.]
NEFA
1994.006.11
P: Tom
McKean
T: Announcement
NEFA
1994.006.12 Transcription
P: William
McKinnon
T: The Demise o the Craftie
FL: There's
fairm toons in Buchan, baith big aye an sma
S: Song
of own composition
NEFA
1994.006.13 Transcription
P: William
McKinnon
T: Background to previous song
S: Made
that song about four months ago, when walking to work. The song
builds up over time, a line or two at a time, then you spend a long
time polishing it. He wrote the song down verse by verse, as it
came. He would head off for work planning to work on the song. You
have to get a suitable subject and a tune. He started with the subject,
a couple of lines, which you then put to a tune. This was the first
song he ever made.
NEFA
1994.006.14 Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: Family singing tradition
S: He
sings some traditional songs, but not a lot. He has sung all his
life, going here and there, mostly whatever was on the go in his
youth. Shows his eldest sister's (Jean Mathew's) song notebook.
She was recorded by Kenny Goldstein. [Leafs through book.] He does
not know the tunes to most of them. Jean got the songs from her
grandfather, probably. He sang 'The Wee Cooper o Fife'. 'Bogie's
Bonnie Belle' is in the book. 'Strathardle'.
NEFA
1994.006.14b Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: The Maid of Kenmore
FL: The moon glimmers pale on the ???? of Loch Tay
NEFA
1994.006.15 Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: Other favourite songs
S: Another
favourite was 'Can I Sleep in Your Barn'. [End of Side A.]
NEFA
1994.006.16 Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: People to talk to and the notebooks
S: Recommends
TM contact Robert Lovie; he would have all the cornkisters. WM's
sister's notebooks have some duplication of songs.
NEFA
1994.006.17 Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: Jean Mathew's bothy song, 'Newton's Hash'
S: WM's
sister made a bothy song, 'Newton's Hash' (to the tune of 'Nicky
Tams'). Sings
quietly, but is not happy with the words.
NEFA
1994.006.18 Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: Ful Cycle o the Grun
FL: O
Mormond Hill has beauty, an the Braes o Gight are gran
NEFA
1994.006.19 Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: Farming life in WM's youth (1)
S: A fun-heuk is a word he made up for the cooper's aitch
that they used to used for cutting fun (whins) roots. WM worked
the last working horse in the area, at South Reidbog. He hated the
tractors when they came in; you could not talk to them the way you
could to horses. You just go as fast as you can on a tractor; there
is no pride in the work with the tractor.
NEFA
1994.006.20 Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: Dogs
and hunting on the farm
S: WM
started working with horses, and with dogs, when he was very young.
The gun dog lived till he was twenty one. He was used for catching
vermin, which the sheep dog chased towards him. He brought home
every kill he ever made. He was canny and knew to creep when you
did. WM was busy with the farm, so he did not go out with the gun
very often. The dog got eight or nine kills every day for a year.
The rabbits would take over a field and the stock would not go in.
NEFA
1994.006.21 Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: Farm
work and the War
S: WM
was just out of school (at thirteen) when he started doing most
of the work on the farm. He was two years there, then two years
with a carrier's lorry in Longside, then home again for three years.
Finally he joined up in 1951 or 1952, when his younger brother was
old enough to take over on the farm. He was in Malaya for ten months,
but got a discharge because of a rupture he had when an infant.
NEFA
1994.006.22 Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: Jean Mathew and cornkisters
S: WM's
sister, Jean Mathew, was seventeen years older; he was an uncle
at two months old. There was not all that much singing around the
house. Before he went to school there were one or two farm servants
with gramophones. A lot of the songs he likes are from that era.
The records used to get lent around. WM was never very keen on the
cornkisters. He has started composing by chance. The second song
was deliberate. It is difficult to get a good subject for a song.
He is thinking of making one on the meal mills. Every village used
to have one. Most burnt, and the need for them was gone. Meal, milk,
and tatties were the staples.
NEFA
1994.006.23 Transcription
P: William McKinnon
T: Farming has changed so much
S: After
WM came out of the services, he worked in the forestry for about
four years, then the radio station, and various local companies.
He would be lost on a farm now, so many changes. Perhaps the horse
will come back again. [End of Side B.]
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