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Jock played on the 1967 record FOLK SONG 67 published by The Federation of Scottish Folk Song Clubs (Catalogue Number: JEF TD 6228).
1: Lochaber Gathering/ Tam Bain’s Lum (The Beggar’s Mantle Ceilidh Band)
2: Shores of the Forth/ Fisher’s Hornpipe (Davey and the Band)
3: Dunfermline Linen (John Watt) (recitation)
4: Pittenweem Jo (John and the Band)
5: My Wee Dog (John Watt)
6: Dundee City Police Pipe Band/ Hills of Glenorchy (The Beggar’s Mantle Ceilidh Band)
7: The Eymouth Disaster/ The Boatie Rows (John and the Band)
8: Annabelle Rosabelle (Davey and the Band)
9: Kelty Clippie (John & Davey and the Band)
10: Barbara Donnachie/ Coolie’s Reel/ The Ash Plant/ The Corner House (The Beggar’s Mantle Ceilidh Band)
11: Mining Trilogy: Anthony Reilly/ Eany Many/ Schooldays Over (John & Davey and the Band)
12: Bobby Muldoon (John and the Band)
13: The Poachers (Davey and the Band)
14: The New Toon Hall/ There Cam a Young Man/ The Goby O/ Rosin the Beau (The Beggar’s Mantle Ceilidh Band)
15: Farewell tae the Ferries (John and the Band)
16: Fife’s Got Everything (John & Davey and the Band)
17: including Blue Skies (John and the Band)
Archival Recordings
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.090
Native Area/Country: Fife: Inverkeithing, Fife: St Andrews, Edinburgh, Shetland: Lerwick, Shetland/ Edinburgh, ?
Catalogue: sa
Additional Comments: Nagra 7″ reel
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): Peter Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock, STEWART Davy, GAUGHAN Dick, ANDERSON Tom, BAIN Aly, CHALMERS;Maureen
Type of Material: Scots songs condemned bothy Child ballad love Burns fiddle music
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.90.A3a
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle + guitar accomp.
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Title/”Cue”: JOHNNIE COPE
Type of Material: Reel
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.90.A3b
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle + guitar accomp.
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Title/”Cue”: NONE SO PRETTY
Type of Material: Reel
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.90.A3c
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle + guitar accomp.
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Title/”Cue”: LOCH LEVEN CASTLE
Type of Material: Reel
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.90.A3d
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle + guitar accomp.
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Title/”Cue”: GLENLIVET
Type of Material: Reel
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.90.A3e
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle + guitar accomp.
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Title/”Cue”: THE RIVER
Type of Material: Reel
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.091
Native Area/Country: Fife: Inverkeithing, Fife: St Andrews, Edinburgh, Shetland: Lerwick, Shetland/ Edinburgh, ?
Catalogue: sa
Additional Comments: Nagra 7″ reel
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): Peter Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock, STEWART Davy, GAUGHAN Dick, ANDERSON Tom, BAIN Aly, CHALMERS;Maureen
Type of Material: Scots songs Child ballad nautical Jacobite Burns fiddle music
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.91.A1a
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE John
Musical Instrument: Fiddle
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Summary: Own comp.
Title/”Cue”: BONNIE GLENDEVON
Type of Material: Slow air
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.91.A1b
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE John
Musical Instrument: Fiddle + guitar accomp.
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Summary: Own comp.
Title/”Cue”: BLAIRGOWRIE FESTIVAL
Type of Material: Instrumental
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.92.A12
Native Area/Country: Shetland, Edinburgh, Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: ANDERSON Tom;BAIN Aly;RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Summary: With guitar accomp. Fragment – tape runs out. TRACK B BLANK.
Title/”Cue”: DEIL AMANG THE TAILORS
Type of Material: Reel
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.092
Native Area/Country: Fife: Inverkeithing, Fife: St Andrews, Edinburgh, Shetland: Lerwick, Shetland/ Edinburgh, ?
Catalogue: sa
Additional Comments: Nagra 7″ reel
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): Peter Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock, STEWART Davy, GAUGHAN Dick, ANDERSON Tom, BAIN Aly, CHALMERS;Maureen
Type of Material: Scots songs music-hall condemned soldier love fiddle music
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.92.A1a
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Title/”Cue”: UNNAMED TUNE
Type of Material: March
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.92.A1b
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Summary: Own comp?
Title/”Cue”: ROYAL BURGH OF INVERKEITHING
Type of Material: March
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.92.A1c
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Summary: Arr. – J Scott Skinner.
Title/”Cue”: SMITH’S A GALLANT FIREMAN
Type of Material: Strathspey
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.92.A1d
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Summary: Own comp?
Title/”Cue”: JIMMY FRASER
Type of Material: Reel
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.92.A1e
Native Area/Country: Inverkeithing
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1970.05.16
Fieldworker(s): P R Cooke
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Jock
Musical Instrument: Fiddle
Place Recorded: TMSA Ceilidh, Inverkeithing
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Summary: Own comp.
Title/”Cue”: NEW BRIG
Type of Material: Reel
SSS Archive No.: SA1970.177
Native Area/Country: Angus: Forfar [x2], Perthshire: Gleneagles, Roxburghshire: Hawick [x2], Inverness-shire: Lochaber, Fife: Inverkeithing [x2], Shetland: Lerwick, Perth
Catalogue: sa
Additional Comments: Uher 5″ reel
Date Recorded: 1970.08.22
Fieldworker(s): Peter Cooke
Informant/Artiste: ROBB Cyril, ROBB Frank, DUNCAN Alec, HOBKIRK Bob, SCOTT Lindsay, GRANT;Angus, RITCHIE John, WATT John, ANDERSON Tom, STEWART Norman
Place Recorded: Blairgowrie Town Hall folk fiddle competition
Type of Material: fiddle music Scots songs narrative bothy ballad reminiscent
SSS Archive No.: SA1971.292.A3a
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1971.11.20
Fieldworker(s): M MacLeod, AJ Bruford
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Alex SHOULD THIS BE JOCK?
Musical Instrument: Fiddle
Place Recorded: Fiddle Festival – Kirriemuir
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Summary: Fiddle, with piano accompaniment. March, Strathspey, Reel competition. Beginning missing.
Title/”Cue”: KANTARA TO EL ARISH
Type of Material: March
SSS Archive No.: SA1971.292.A3b
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1971.11.20
Fieldworker(s): M MacLeod, AJ Bruford
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Alex SHOULD THIS BE JOCK?
Musical Instrument: Fiddle
Place Recorded: Fiddle Festival – Kirriemuir
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Summary: Fiddle, with piano accompaniment. March, Strathspey, Reel competition.
Title/”Cue”: MRS MACKENZIE OF APPLECROSS
Type of Material: Strathspey
SSS Archive No.: SA1971.292.A3c
Catalogue: sa
Date Recorded: 1971.11.20
Fieldworker(s): M MacLeod, AJ Bruford
Informant/Artiste: RITCHIE Alex SHOULD THIS BE JOCK?
Musical Instrument: Fiddle
Place Recorded: Fiddle Festival – Kirriemuir
Central Index Ref.: Q3
Summary: Fiddle, with piano accompaniment. March, Strathspey, Reel competition.
Title/”Cue”: YETTS OF MUCKART
Type of Material: Reel
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