Jerry Agin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The original source for the dance seems to be Omskirk Scottish Dances
Book 5.
At this point I'm going to go ahead and use Cardiff Caledonians to lead
off a set for Postie's Jig. But my curiosity has been aroused. Can
anyone add anything to what I've
Once upon a time, I was informed that when it concerned the
Gordons, it was Gey, not Gay.
-- Tom
From: Clifford Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2002/12/21 Sat AM 09:16:33 CST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [scots-l] Harry Lauder 78s
At a piping concert last year in STL, the Gay
Is this a slightly veiled reference to Freddie Mercury's preference?
:-)
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 07:16, Clifford Abrams wrote:
At a piping concert last year in STL, the Gay Gordons was announced
as The Very Happy Gordons.
CliffA
--- Toby Rider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Queen Among
Andrew Kuntz wrote:
What does the title [The Bobers of Brechin] refer to?
Presumably you know that Brechin is a town in Angus, so that leaves us
with bober. The Concise Scots Dictionary gives one definition of
bob as a dance (developing, I assume, from the simple bob, to
move up and down)
From the memoirs of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, about being
in a big house in the Highlands under her governess at the age of
15 in 1812, getting up at 6am with her sister:
In winter we rose half an hour later, without candle, or fire,
or warm water. Our clothes were all laid on a
Really. A mistake indeed! Is there a Marmite song or tune anywhere
out there? It would probably sound like Schoenberg at any rate.
CA.
The musical equivalent of mistaking Marmite for chocolate spread I
don't think I've managed to hear the Schoenberg to this day...
