Cisco was truly a gentle giant of a man. He toured the UK and sang in Glasgow in I think 1960. He told us he worked on many Hollywood B cowboy movies, always as the man what sat whittling at the fork in the road. When the posse rode up, his line was always "They went that-away!" When he came to Glasgow he asked to go to Betty's Bar, a goodtime girls' haunt on the Broomielaw waterfront which he and Woodie had frequented on wartime trips. Hamish Imlach (q.v.) took him there, but a new landlord had just recently cleared the girls out. Ewan McVicar
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