Highlander Radio

Subject: Highlander Radio
From: Jim McLean
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 05:22 AM

I found this site http://www.celticradio.net/php/playing/php where you can request certain tracks, mainly Scottish and Irish, and listen to them. The radio plays non stop and there is a large data base. There is some junk but it's definitely a very interesting site. ( tried to make a blue clicky but all got was the HTML language), sorry.

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Mr Happy
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 05:53 AM

http://www.celticradio.net/php/playing.php

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Jim McLean
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 05:55 AM

Thanks for the blue clicky, Mr Happy. I copied and pasted as requested but no blue clicky!

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Mr Happy
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 06:11 AM

looks like a really interesting site Jim- ta! for putting it up.

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Strupag
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 07:15 AM

Good site Jim, I would guess that it's a US site, We used to have a "Highlander Radio" bases somewhere near Dingwall and after a bit of searching I found it. They have changed their name to "Scottish Internet Radio". It's more "choochterie" than the new highlander radio.
Now there's a word to flummox a few mudcatters.
Try it out here http://www.scottish.internetradio.co.uk/

Andy

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Jim McLean
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 10:39 AM

Also a good site, Strupag, although a wee bit narrower than Highlander Radio which appears also to have quite a few American 'choochters'

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 10:47 AM

Well, I don't know what youse are kootchi-kooing about, but they both sound great to me. Thanks!

katflummoxedIguess:-)

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 11:19 AM

Jokes on me...I just went to put the scottish internet radio in my favs. folder and found I already had it! That'll teach me to check my files more often.:-)

choochterie have anything to do with piping?

PS: I'm REALLY enjoying the President's Half Hour. Good stuff on there from a Canadian CD, lots of background info on the songs.

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Jim McLean
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 11:38 AM

I'll leave Strupag to explain what a Teuchter is!

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 11:49 AM

LOL, okay! If ya look in HERE, Joe Offer has enlightened us on that bit. And, ljc, may he rest in peace and bless his heart, posted this a while back:

BLAUSTEIN, Richard (East Tennessee State University) STALKING THE ELUSIVE TEUCHTER JOKE: EXPLORING SCOTTISH INTER-REGIONAL HUMOR. Are teuchters Scotland's hillbillies? Though Scottish inter-regional humor concerning highlanders and Gaelic speakers does exist, teuchters are overshadowed by the residents of Aberdeen, typified as exceedingly canny and thrifty, also overly intimate with sheep. Just as other people tell demeaning jokes about Scottish misers and "sheepshaggers," Scots tell these very same jokes about Aberdonians. The principal numskulls in Scottish humor are not teuchters but the Irish. It is noteworthy that the Irish tell these same jokes about Kerrymen, just as American jokes about hillbillies become West Virginia jokes in Southern Appalachia.

BTW, I take back what I said about the President's programme. I prefer the older, trad stuff. The lyrics and tunes were okay of most of the songs, but a tad over-produced for my taste. Still love the history they express, though.

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Strupag
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 02:11 PM

Well Kat,
As one who is from and lives in the highlands, I suppose I have some right top define what a Choochter or Teuchter is.
I read some where that it was used back in the Scottish regiments. The piping tutors refferred to themselves in their own highland dialect as "choochter" and, in typical army fashion, that became the byname for highlanders in general. I find that feasable and the most probable explanation.
Where I slightly disagree with the above, I don't think it is meant or taken as a term of derision.
I actually moved from the highlands and finished my secondary schooling in Glasgow (before moving back up again) I was always referred to as "the wee choochter". I can honestly say that I never sensed any suggestions that the highlanders were more backward (as in the case of the Hillbillies)
This is possible due to the fact that Glasgow had its other obsessions at the time. Now I was asked several times if I was a Proddie or a Kafflik choochter.
The term is often used by highlanders themselves these days, as I did at the start of the thread. If a thing is a bit teuchtery (or choochterie) then we mean that the music is closer to Jimmy Shand that Dick Gauchan.

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 03:49 PM

Well, Andy, I'd rather hear it from the "choochter's" mouth than from some academic in the States, but I didn't read his take on it to mean hillbillies. Anyway, thanks for the info. Is that a phonetic spelling? If not, how does one pronounce it correctly? I do find it very interesting, esp. as my great-grandparents on both sides were Scottish, and if I have it correctly, at least two of them were Highlanders, the Sutherland and the Ewing.

BTW, Jim, my internet radio is permanently tuned to Highland Radio, now! And, the list of gotta-have CDs grows.

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Jim McLean
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 04:14 PM

I agree with Strupag's post. My parents (on my father's side) come from Mull and although brought up in Paisley, we called my grandfather 'an auld teuchter'! Kindly meant, of course, sometimes!
Kat, I'm also permanently tuned to Highlander Radio. My added interest is in hearing all the different versions of Glencoe.

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Strupag
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 09:20 AM

Hey Jim,
How often have you gone into a pub and heard a wee Glasgow man singing "Ahh caullll wis the winndd" sung in special Glasgow ballad mode? Doesn't stop it from being a great song though!

Dougie Maclean once told me that he saw this wee drunk man coming out of a bar with his carry-oot bag. His wumman was calling him all the names. The wee guy just turned round and bawled "Let me Tell ye That ah Luv ya". Have you any similar stories?

An Kat, looks like your an American Teuchter. Welcome home a bealich!

Andy

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 10:23 AM

Moran taing!

(Did google get that richt?:-)

kat

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Strupag
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 12:08 PM

Sorry Jim, I just looked at my recent thread and should have said "Caullldd wis the Snaaa"

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Micca
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 12:26 PM

Kat, The Irish equivlent is a "Culchie" and means nearly the same as the Teuchter term above!!

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: Jim McLean
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 12:46 PM

Strupag, there was the story about the wee Glesca wumman who toook her man into a draper's shoto look for a monogrammed handkerchief with an 'S' but couldn't find one. 'Let's go hame, Shooey' she said. 'There's nane here'!(A Glasgow joke?)

Subject: RE: Highlander Radio
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 03:01 PM

Thanks, Miccadarlin'!