Kenneth McKellar: To Robert Burns - A Tribute CD Track Listing

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Kenneth McKellar To Robert Burns - A Tribute (1993)
The Chamber Orchestra directed by Kenneth McKellar.\n\nAll arrangements by Kenneth McKellar.\nOriginally released 1987.
This folk cd contains 15 tracks and runs 41min 10sec.
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: music songs tracks folk Celtic

1. Kenneth McKellar - The De'il's Awa' Wi' the Exciseman (01:12)
   To the tune "The Hemp Dresser"
2. Kenneth McKellar - The Bonnie Lass o' Ballochmyle (03:23)
   This tune is by William Jackson
3. Kenneth McKellar - There Was a Lad (02:35)
   To the tune "O Gin Ye Were Deid Guidman"
4. Kenneth McKellar - Gae Bring Tae Me a Pint o' Wine (02:41)
   To the tune "The Secret Kiss"
5. Kenneth McKellar - The Birks o' Aberfeldy (02:58)
   This tune "The Birks o' Abergeldie" is from Playford's "Dancing Master" -- 1657
6. Kenneth McKellar - John Anderson, My Jo (03:05)
   John Anderson was reputed to be the Town Piper of Kelso and as Such, a figure of no mean\nImportance. He was also apparently a bit of a "Wanton Wag". Verses about him, some of them\nbawdy, first appeared as early as 1560. Burns altered and softened the
7. Kenneth McKellar - Green Grow the Rushes (01:33)
   First appeared in "The Lute Book" of Sir Robert Gordon of Straloch (1627-29).
8. Kenneth McKellar - A Man's a Man for a' That (03:04)
   Described as "An Old Melody". Of this song, Beranger, the Burns of France said "This is not a\nSong For an Age, But An Eternity".
9. Kenneth McKellar - I'll Aye Ca' in By Yon Toon (01:41)
   "I'll Gae Nae Mair to Your Toon". Written in honour of Jean Armour who eventually became the\npoet's wife. This arrangement is a kind of "Scots Joplin".
10. Kenneth McKellar - Mary Morison (03:47)
    To the tune "The Miller".
11. Kenneth McKellar - Kenmure's On and Away (02:25)
    Air from "Johnson's Museum" (1787-1803). Only parts of the three verses are Burns. The song\nrelates to the 1715 uprising.
12. Kenneth McKellar - Afton Water (03:26)
    An old melody to which Burns sets his words.
13. Kenneth McKellar - O My Luv's Like a Red, Red Rose (03:45)
    "Major Graham". In its time, this poem has been sung to three differnt airs; "Queen Mary's \nLament" -- "Low Down in the Broom" and the one given here and to which Burns Actually set\nhis words.
14. Kenneth McKellar - My Heart's in the Highlands (02:43)
    An Old Highland Air.
15. Kenneth McKellar - Scots Wha Hae (02:42)
    "Hey Tuttie Tattie" . . . Reputed to be the tune to which the Scots Army Marched against\nEdward the Second at Bannockburn (1314). Burns imagines Bruce delivering these words to his\ntroops on the eve of battle.