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Thread #157689   Message #3723169
Posted By: GUEST,Alan Ross
12-Jul-15 - 10:18 PM
Thread Name: Nationality of songs
Subject: RE: Nationality of songs
Oh a funny example of record company stupidity.. There is an Internet album called 'My Irish Roots', which has many typical Irish songs on it. However, oddly my father's heather and haggis song 'The Highland Road' recorded by a 'kilted' tenor Denis Clancy has been included.   There you have a song written by a Scot, which mentions Inverness etc. and sung by a man from Dundee, who was not Irish at all.   Some eejit has made an assumption that it has some connection to Ireland because it was sung by somebody with the surname Clancy!   Tenuous one there!