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Thread #173941 Message #4219702
Posted By: GUEST,Howard Jones
24-Mar-25 - 08:22 AM
Thread Name: Help with copyright Shipyard Apprentice UK
Subject: RE: Help with copyright Shipyard Apprentice UK
Norman Buchan and Bobby Campbell are also usually credited with this song along with Archie Fisher. Buchan was a teacher and folklorist who was an influential figure in the Scottish folk revival and was instrumental in introducing Archie Fisher and Bobby Campbell to folk song and encouraging them to explore the songs of Scotland's industrial heritage and to write their own.
Booby Campbell was a fiddle player and journalist who worked with Archie and his sister Ray, and with Gordon McCulloch and Enoch Kent formed the group The Exiles who were an important influence during the formative years of the folk revival.
Both are now dead, and I guess that "Miles" and "Vivian Campbell" are the beneficiaries of their estates.