The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62301 Message #1007852
Posted By: Jim McLean
25-Aug-03 - 01:19 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Govan Billiard Hall Song (Roddy McMillan)
Subject: RE: govan billiard hall lyrics
I think he sounds like Noel Coward doing Matt McGinn! No I don't think Roddy ever made any recordings on his own. I used to go fishing with him and an old friend called Jimmie Riley who played a very fine guitar. Jimmie sometimes accompanied Roddy in 'The Corner Cafe' in Glagow's Trongate (1959?) when he sang a very funny song called the Bacon Machine, I think. Years ago I had a recording of 'The Puffers', the funniest thing I have ever heard, but Para Handy was played by Duncan MacRae, a role which Roddy later took on.