Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor
Glasgow Street Songs
1970 — Hallmark SHM 698 LP
Side One
The Dundee Weaver [1]
The Bleacher Lassie O Kelvinhaugh [1]
Yer Ma Wee Gallas Bloke Naemair [1]
Three Craw/If You Will Marry Me [2]
Skippin Barfit Thro The Heather [3]
Jinkin' You, My Johnnie Lad [3]
Side Two
Lodgin' Wl' Big Aggie [1]
Coulther's Candy [1]
Duke Street Jail/You Canna Shove Your Grannie Off A Bus/The World Must Be Coming To An End [2]
Johnnie Lad [2]
The Bonnie Lass O'Fyvie [3]
Collier Laddie [3]
Credits
1 & 3 Robin Hall
2 Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor
These tracks are taken from Robin and Jimmie's first recordings on the "Collector Series" EPs. (see below)
Reproduced in "Electronically Created Stereo".
Sleeve Notes (Excerpts)
Robin Hall and Jimmy Macgregor should know Glasgow. It is on innate part of them, their heritage, for they are both Glasgow born and the Glasgow folk tradition runs through their veins.
This is an album of the songs of Glasgow Streets. When you have listened to "Coulther's Candy", a lullaby that has wafted numberless bairns to slumberland; the saucy "Dundee Weaver" and the beautiful "Bleacher Lassie O' Kelvinhaugh"; and "Collier Laddie", the love song with the classical theme of the rich man who attempts to lure away a poor but honest girl from her childhood sweetheart, then you will begin to understand a little of the tradition, the sentiment, even the romance, of this great, grimy city.
None are better fitted to translate into song the heart and soul of Glasgow than two of her sons, Robin Hall and Jimmy [sic] Macgregor.
