'B.O.F', as my wife and I wd always express it, merely a Private-Eye-ism as you well know

Indeed; you'd hoodwinked me by your use of text-speak into thinking I was dealing with a younger man. I am by inclination quite cringingly deferential to seniority, especially if they're also my social superior - though here in the Mudcat Tavern we are all, at least, equal after a fashion; holy saints, shameful bastards and all!

I thought I had that School of Scottish Studies record you mentioned a while back; turns out it was Volume 2 : Music of the Western Isles, which does contain its fair share of Waulking Songs. This was a crucial album back around 1978 when we used to listen to it back-to-back with field-recordings of Pygmy yodelling, just as we did with Gaelic Psalm singing and Albanian vocal polyphony. One night we'd be digging Peter Bellamy at The Bridge, the next Derek Bailey at Spectro Arts Centre. Anyhoo - thanks to my new USB turntable I can spin my ancient vinyl afresh: Waulking Songs, Yodelling Pygmies, Peter Bellamy, Davie Stewart, Derek Bailey, Peter Maxwell Davies & the Fires of London, Atrium Musicae de Madrid and all!