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Thread #51618   Message #789462
Posted By: Jim McLean
23-Sep-02 - 06:41 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: John McLean
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: John McLean
Two points. Wolfgang, I re-issued Battle Ballads, a Major Minor LP (1969), as Scottish Battle Ballads on Nevis (1973). The John MacLean song was only on the Nevis LP. Weerover: The Mc rather the Mac is not Irish or Lowland Scottish. It's throwback to the introduction of printing the name. All Mac names tended to be printed as M' and soon the ' was percieved to be a small c. You'll see hundreds of examples of this in books printed mainly in Victorian times or previous. Slainte, Jim McLean