Loch Lomond has had a lot of mutations over the years. There have been some fairly sanitized versions as well as some blood thirsty ones. A bee bop version was done in WWII and I once heard a real Messy Soprano sing it on the Sullivan Show. The most listenable version I've heard was done by The Coories. I think because they just sang the song outright without pretense or trying to make it more than it was.

I realize that there some out there in the electric mists who view The Coories with the same disdain as they might John Denver or PPM. For me they were the first people to sing Scottish songs and make them accessible for me. They were also the first dialectic singers I ever heard who sang like their voices matched their words. (Sandy Paton's Many Sides album ofcourse won't be mentioned here.)

Maybe we sould discuss performing as a new thread or resurrect the old one that surely must exist.

Don Meixner