My first attempt to Google 'Isabel Sutherland Bonny Boy' got me to a chap playing 'I Once Had a Boy' on the euphonium (rather well, actually), but I finally tracked down the BL recording. Not the same as Jack's abc, but I recognized it immediately. No, that one doesn't sound like a revival recreation. I don't have a great library of Scots song books, or Greig Duncan etc, but I've got the Lizzie Higgins version and it's not that. Is it possible Isabel Sutherland was the source? I don't know much about her own sources.
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