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Thread #60217   Message #1614279
Posted By: Artful Codger
26-Nov-05 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Req: Lovely Stornoway (Kennedy/Halfin)
Subject: RE: Lyr/tune req/ADD: Lovely Stornoway ?
The Canterbury Country Orchestra recorded "Stornaway" on their album "Mistwold" (F&W Records, of Plymouth, VT, USA; mid 1970's?) On the album, Dudley Laufman wrote:

I first learned "Stornaway" from the beautiful singing of Mary McLane of Cambridge. Teddy Levin went to Stornaway, a city in the Hebrides of Scotland. He said that Mary's singing far surpassed the city ... rather a scruzzy place he said. So we do it here like a couple of guys in a bar. [...]"