Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - The Bonnie Wee Lassie frae Gourock
Alternate Title - Piper MacFarlane
Contributors - Belle Stewart
Reporters - Peter R. Cooke

Summary - Comic music-hall song in which the singer describes courting a young woman from Gourock.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:03:44
Date Recorded - 1971.04.26
Language - Scots
Genre - Song
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 89248
Original Tape ID - SA1971.071
Original Track ID - SA1971.071
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R

Classification - R5212;


Recording Location:
  County - Kinross-shire
  Parish - Kinross
  Village - Kinross


Item Location:
  County - Renfrewshire
  Parish - Inverkip
  Village - Gourock

Item Notes - Usually called 'The Bonnie Wee Lassie frae Gourock', in relation to Belle Stewart's performances on disc and in print, this is actually Harry Lauder's 'Piper MacFarlane'. The words were written by Lauder and Gerald Grafton, to music by Lauder, published and recorded for Pathé in 1906. Both MacColl & Seeger (in 'Till Doomsday in the Afternoon', 1986, pp. 262-264) and Geordie McIntyre (in his notes to 'Belle Stewart: Queen Among the Heather' CDTRAX9055, 1998) note that Belle learned the song from a broadsheet, from The Poet's Box in Dundee.
See also:
'Francis & Day's 2nd Album of Harry Lauder's Popular Songs' (no date, sometime between 1909 and 1912) pp. 44-45

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/89248/1


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