There is a song called 'The Highland Road', in the heather and haggis line which over the years has been on a number of albums and samplers. Another song of the same name exists, written by Ian McCalman - that is totally different in tune and lyrics.
This 'Highland Road' was written and recorded by Stewart Ross in 1965. In 1968 it was signed to a publisher called Robert Halfin of Minch Music. The original song was chopped around a bit, and edited into a two minute belter for a version by a Tartan singer called Dennis Clancy - but the words don't make as much sense as they first did. Recorded and correctly credited it appeared on Emerald Gem's Shamrock and Heather and Welcome To Scotland.
Meanwhile Bob Halfin died and the publishing rights passed on to EMI music. However, whilst the MCPS and PRS registrations are correct, and the record company has licensed the track out on a beautifully packaged compilation and miscredited on this and another album to Bob Halfin or Haffin *sic. [who only at one stage was the publisher and never wrote the song!] This is despite EMI and myself having made phone calls and letters to tell them to correctly credit the release.
My father is now dead, but I am absolutely gutted, depressed and sick - that we are losing the honour of my father's name being on a really nice album - even though royalties will be correctly distributed. This mis-supplying of information by the record company is going to reverbarate for years, but I want it recorded here in case the subject ever crops up.
Current re-issues of the Stewart Ross song and the Dennis Clancy recording are on Welcome to Scotland Musicbank issued 2001, correctly credited to Ross, EMI Music. The Very Best of Scotland Emerald Gem, 2002, spuriously credited on the sleeve to Halfin. 2004 lavish box and brochure with double CD, Auld Lang Syne, the Music of Scotland - DejaVu retro gold lable - spuriously credited to 'Haffin' *sic. It's amazing how a record company can be told that they had made an error, knowing the sheer level of suicidal despair this causes me - and then go and do it again!