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Thread #33008   Message #3876354
Posted By: GUEST,Graham mc Arthur
10-Sep-17 - 01:24 PM
Thread Name: Help: The Emmetones, Josh MacRae? Enoch Kent/
Subject: RE: Help: The Emmetones, Josh MacRae? Enoch Kent/
I was with the Emmetones when they recorded Robert Emmet Finian Men etc,
The record was managed by a guy called Stanton (from memory) who had a record shop near Barrowland in Glasgow.
He had a niche market producing records either for sale to the Orange
lodges or Irish extreme interests ( A foot in each camp!!)
Josh Mc Crae was the contact for the Emmetones / Hamish Imlach, on Guitar, Bobby Campbell fiddle , Josh MC Crae singer.
I drove them down to London and they were paid with a hundred pound note , the old fashioned hand written type ..Hmmish managed to get it changed in the Hungarian Csarda restaurant in Soho wa had a v expensive meal there .
. Enoch Kent used to play with Josh border reivers and had no involvement with the Emmettones.
Hamish carried on as a singer , Booby went to work as assistant editor with The Scotsman, Josh had an early death (I believe)