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[citation needed] There is a biography The Jimmy Shand Story: The King of Scottish Dance Music by Ian Cameron (2001). A number of his older recordings have been re-released by Beltona Records. Since the 1950s the crowd at Dunfermline Athletic F.C. have left the ground after the game to the sound of Shand's "The Bluebell Polka".
"Jock Tamson's bairns" is a Scots (and Northumbrian English) dialect version of "Jack (John) Thomson's children" but both Jock and Tamson in this context take on the connotation of Everyman. The Dictionary of the Scots Language gives the following definitions: Jock: (1) A generic term for a man, a male person.
Teuchter (English: / ˈ tj uː x t ər / TEWKH-tər, Scots: [ˈtjuxtər, ˈtʃuxtər]) [1] [2] is a Lowland Scots word sometimes used to offensively describe a Scottish Highlander, in particular a Gaelic-speaking Teuchter. [3]
Bairn is a Northern England English, Scottish English and Scots term for a child. [1] It originated in Old English as "bearn", becoming restricted to Scotland and the North of England c. 1700. [2] In Hull the r is dropped and the word Bain is used. [3]
"Real Good Looking Boy" is a song written by the guitarist of the British rock band The Who, Pete Townshend. It was originally released in 2004 on the compilation album Then and Now , and was one of two new songs on that album, the other being "Old Red Wine".
Billy Boys originated in the 1920s as the signature tune of the Billy Boys, who were a Protestant Glasgow razor gang in Bridgeton (an area of Glasgow historically associated with the city's Protestant population, and with Scottish unionism – Brigton is the Scots form of Bridgeton) led by Billy Fullerton.
McLachlan premiered Jeremy Thurlow's piano concerto, [4] and has given first performances of works by other composers, including Ronald Stevenson, Charles Camilleri, Michael Parkin, and Beethoven. His recording of John McLeod 's Piano Music was selected as Record of the Week in the Glasgow Herald and his recording of 'Piano Music from Scotland ...
Though it is sometimes said that Lorne sausage is named after him, [9] [10] [11] advertisements for Lorne sausage have been found in newspapers as early as 1896, [12] [13] and both the sausage and Lorne himself seem to have taken their names from the Scottish region.