Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)

Subject: RE: Question to Jim McLean-For These Are My Mountains
From: Jim McLean
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 05:02 PM

Try Kerr's Music Corporation Limited 79 Berkeley Street Glasgow: Telephone [phone].

Subject: RE: Question to Jim McLean-For These Are My Mountains
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 06:04 AM

I have the original single by Peter Mallan of These Are My Mountains.
It came out in 1966. I have now put it on Youtube.
Actor/songwriter Jimmy Copeland`s son is successful Scottish actor James Cosmo.

Subject: RE: Question to Jim McLean-For These Are My Mountains
From: meself
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 08:41 AM

Which of course begs the question: are "successful Scottish actor James Cosmo" and poster "Gramrugby" of '04 (five posts up) one and the same?

Subject: RE: Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Nov 13 - 06:58 PM

what is a scart I can't find it anywhere
Phil Wilson

Subject: RE: Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jul 23 - 06:32 AM

Keen to contact Jimmys son if we know how please. To get permission to use the tune for an eco song cover.

Subject: RE: Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jul 23 - 09:04 AM

Contact the publishers in the first instance, Kerr's Music Corp. who still exist. They own the rights. It's often wrongly put down as trad. due to ignorance, and overfamiliarity when it is a modern Scottish copyright work, often now nicked by Irish country singers.

Subject: RE: Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 02 Jun 25 - 05:35 AM

2014 : Tom Alexander talking about playing at The New Metropole in Glasgow. It features a bit of the song on video.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01q47g1

Subject: RE: Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 03 Jun 25 - 05:38 AM

IIRC, back in the 1960s "These Are My Mountains" came second to the ballad "Loch Marie" in a TV song contest. There was almost a riot in our house when the winner was announced. From the post-contest backlash, "These Are My Mountains" was the out & out favourite of the general public, by far.
FWIW, I've never heard "Loch Marie" sang anywhere else since - nice song that it was. That alone speaks volumes.

Subject: RE: Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)
From: GUEST,Rossey
Date: 05 Jun 25 - 07:27 PM

THREE months after the series has ended it seems certain that STV's A Song for Scotland competition has been a success. When he launched the contest STV's Programme Controller Francis Essex said he hoped it might "discover a song that will... truly reflect Scotland one that will be whistled and sung all over the country. "Not only did we get that song Roy Ford's beautiful "Loch Maree" we got another in "These Are My Mountains'*, the runner-up, and we're delighted with the success they've brought the artists who recorded them," says Francis. Moira Anderson, whose rendering of "Loch Maree" won the contest, has had considerable success with her recorded version, backed by "These Are My Mountains", which was written by Jimmy Copeland. Four different recordings have been made of "These Are My Mountains". For apart from Moira's there are versions by the Alexander Brothers. Peter Mallan and the Jim McLeod Band. In seven weeks the Alexander Brothers' record has sold over 20.000 copies, and the song is also featured on and supplies the title for their new L.P. Peter Mallan, who sang it on the pro gramme, has sold over 10,000 copies of his version.   The Stage, June 1966.

Subject: RE: Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 12 Jun 25 - 07:37 PM

Sheet Music for These Are My Mountains here   - https://musescore.com/shea-arellano/for-these-are-my-mountains

Subject: RE: Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jun 25 - 09:24 AM

That last post is encouraging copyright theft. No credit to the writer James Copeland, and implying trad. it is a modern copyright work, the tune has been posted without cue credit or care as to its writer and publisher ownership. It is not official sheet music, it is a stolen pirated music score.

Subject: RE: Origin: These Are My Mountains (Jimmy Copeland)
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jun 25 - 10:25 AM

That last post ironically should have read cue credit or care! I should have taken more care before posting.   I am incensed that this copyright work is being posted on music score without credit or copyright recognition and then a link was posted here.   This is against the ethos of Mudcat, and undermines the whole thread in giving the origins and story of Jimmy Copeland's song.   The music score posted is an abomination, and should not have been posted here, as it breaches copyright without true credit, on what is a MODERN Scottish lyrical work and tune.