Field recordings from the 1950s, taken from The School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh.
Recorded by Maurice Fleming at the urging of Hamish Henderson and in 'the field' in more ways than one as these tracks come from 'the berry-pickers', mostly the travelling people, who flocked to the east-coast in the season to earn income from picking the crops.
Historic stuff.

Belle Stewart:
1) Ower Yon Hill Lives A Lassie
2) Frank & Ruby
3) Bogie's Bonnie Belle
Sheila Stewart:
4) The Maid of Culmore
5) Hatton Woods
Willie Macphee:
6) Jamie Foyers
Bella Higgins:
7) Late Last Night I Was Asked To A Wedding
Jock White
8) Tifty's Annie
Betty (Dolly) White:
9) The Green Bushes
Charlotte Higgins:
10) Jean McLern
11) Susie Pirate
12) Lowlands of Lowlands
John Higgins:
13) In A Garden A Lady Walking
Martha Reid:
14) The Elfin Knight
15) The Banks o' Airdery, O
16) I'll Cut Off My Long Yellow Hair
17) The Farmer's Curst Wife
18) Lord Randal
19) Falkirk Fair
John MacDonald:
20a) The Golden Vanity
John Reid:
21b) The Golden Vanity
Willie Townsley:
21c) The Tinker's Waddin'
Stewart McPhee:
21d) The Tinker's Waddin'
Ruby Kelbie:
22) Banks o' Red Roses
Tommy Bonthorne:
23) The Dyin Ploughboy
24) The Boys of Bayview
25) The Flower of Strathmore

Field recordings from the 1950s, taken from The School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh.
Recorded by Maurice Fleming at the urging of Hamish Henderson and in 'the field' in more ways than one as these tracks come from 'the berry-pickers', mostly the travelling people, who flocked to the east-coast in the season to earn income from picking the crops.
Historic stuff.

Lineup

See Track Listing.