FTX 389 "If
you will not open your door - we'll lay it flat upon the floor"
TRADITIONAL SONG & DANCE FROM THE ORKNEYS
Each day I listen out to hear again some of the songs and tunes I encountered
when I visited the islands for two weeks in 1955. So that others can enjoy what
I heard nearly fifty years ago, I have put together a selection of my own favourites
in the hope that they will spark off the memories of some of the present-day
Orcadians. In doing so I would like to thank all the performers who so generously
suspended fishing and farming in order to make, what I would call, important
historical records.
CLIFF HORNPIPE - SIR JAMES THE ROSE - ARCHIE
O' LAMBHOLM - THE GARDENER AND THE PLOUGHMAN - MISS BROWN'S
- TAM GIBB'S SOO - THE RENDAL POLKA - WILL O' THE LUM
- GRIMSETTER POLKA - THE GREAT SILKIE O' SULE SKERRY -
HUSH-A-BY, PEERIE THING - SCAPA FLOW - THE STANDING STONES -
HALF PAST TEN - NAPOLEON CROSSING THE RHINE - THE POOR
OLD MAID - WEDDING MARCH - ORKNEY WEDDING CUSTOMS - SCOTCH
REEL - THE HAMMERS OF SYRADALE - FOUR POSTS OF THE BED -
ANDREW ROSS - GRAND MARCH - THE NOR-WEST SONG - PADDY
CARTER (Polka Mazurka) - HOY'S DARK AND LOFTY ISLE - THE SPEAKING
WALTZ - THE NEW'R-EEN'S NIGHT SONG
