Seamus' other achievement are sometimes overshadowed by his presence as a piper, even if we forgive him some of his popular follies like Football Crazy, he was quite the singer.

There's one story from his broadcasting days where he had to do a live broadcast on the Co Waterford singer (and a friend of his) Labhras O Cadhla.
On his arrival in the studio at the time the broadcast was to commence Seamus realised he hadn't brought his field recordings of O'Cadhla's singing. Without skipping a beat he announced the first song and, in the appropriate style, sang it himself. Legend has it nobody noticed the difference.