Akenaton, Tattie Bogle.. Bob Halfin - who wrote Lovely Stornoway, suggested my father should write a song based on the title he came uo with 'You'll Never Ge Used to Uist. The song doesn't seem to exist anymore, as I only have a contract for it. But you can bet that knowing my father's style, and what the brief would have been, there would have been a lot of 'bonnie this and that in it. The finest place you'll ever see, no matter wherever you roam.. that type of thing. Place name songs written to order, as it was the fashion in that type of music. A Brigadoon vision, but heck when these things work, we can throw reality away and they do touch the sentimental part of an audience. My father had never been further than England when he wrote the Kennedy sung version of 'Dark Island', It's typical of the kind of 'lovely' rose tinted vision us Scots perpetuates in the period when it was written. Same with his song 'Home to Inverness'; which contains numerous sprinkled uses of the word "bonnie"..and a lot of artistic license. No mention of the town dump, run down areas, industrial features, uglier buildings or deprivation.   The Proclaimers and other non heather and haggis acts kind of broke some of the conventions in the songs they wrote, which swept my father's type of music into the 'dated' bracket.