Nick, the registered title was The Whisky (no 'e') Chorus and I wrote it around 1966. Macgregor and Hall recorded it but I'm not sure when but Alastair Gillies recorded it on Decca in 1974. Nigel Denver and Alastair mcDonald had been singing it since I wrote it and it was from them that Jimmie heard it. I produced an LP with MacGregor and Hall so maybe I taught them it then.
Slainte,
Jim McLean.
PS I used to write for the Joe Gordon Folk Four way back in the late fifties. In fact Joe asked me to write a song about The Barras which I did. I wrote a few funny TV one off songs for them (and Andy Stewart!!) to the tune of The Highland Chorus in 1959.