10 Aug 12 - 05:10 PM (#3388471) Subject: Fish Gutting Lassie From: GUEST,mg I love this song and these women...2 form a group... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK7B7_uE6S4 Does anyone know them? Know how to get in touch with them? Have this on a CD? I would like to put it on an upcoming CD about canneries etc. From you tube Silver of the Sea show held upstairs at the Salmon Bothy at the Portsoy Festival (2010). Performers are Shanty Jack (aka Pete Hayselden) from England, Gaye Anthony and Trish Norman from Scotland, and Nanne Kalma and Ankie van der Meer from the Netherlands. |
10 Aug 12 - 05:25 PM (#3388474) Subject: RE: Fish Gutting Lassie From: BobKnight The two in costume are Gaye and Trish, I don't know who the other woman is. You can contact Gaye, the taller of the two, on Facebook under her name of Gaye Anthony. |
10 Aug 12 - 06:12 PM (#3388491) Subject: ADD: The Fish Gutting Lassie From: Joe Offer Commander Crabbe buried this in another thread (which is OK) and paired it with another song (which is confusing). Here it is, all in its lonesome splendor: Thread #128881 Message #2891614 Posted By: Commander Crabbe 21-Apr-10 - 05:10 PM Thread Name: Sardine Songs, Herring Hymns Subject: Lyr Add: THE FISH GUTTING LASSIE
Suzanne, no apologies needed. |
10 Aug 12 - 06:17 PM (#3388493) Subject: RE: Fish Gutting Lassie From: Joe Offer Gaye Anthony and Trish Norman have a website at http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/prod/dialspace/town/avenue/rcx71/G&T/. -Joe- |
10 Aug 12 - 06:25 PM (#3388497) Subject: RE: Fish Gutting Lassie From: Joe_F Please, put a hyphen in "fish-gutting" (in the subject line & title; it is there in the text). When I first saw the subject line, I imagined -- well, never mind. |
10 Aug 12 - 06:32 PM (#3388505) Subject: RE: Origins: Fish Gutting Lassie From: Joe Offer Well, Joe, our fish get a little carried away now and then. A change in the thread title might be pedantically correct, but that's not how the song has been identified in our sources.... |
10 Aug 12 - 06:32 PM (#3388506) Subject: RE: Fish Gutting Lassie From: Anne Neilson This is a composed song -- by Ian Sinclair from Thurso, Scotland. Ian was a member (fiddle) of the respected Scottish folk group Mirk, along with his wife Margie (a very much admired singer of traditional songs) and Ray Crompton on guitar and mandolin. They had a couple of good records, but the distance from the north of Scotland made it difficult to promote their music, given that all three were in full-time employment. Other well-known songs of Ian's are "The King's Shilling" and "Tak' a Dram", both of which are becoming accepted into the Scottish 'traditional' repertoire. |
10 Aug 12 - 06:35 PM (#3388507) Subject: RE: Origins: Fish Gutting Lassie From: Joe Offer Anne, do you know how to contact Ian for permission to record this song? It might be better to e-mail contact information to me, unless you can furnish contact information that Ian has made public. At one time, he was performing with a group called Mirk with Margie Sinclair and Ray Crompton, but the only Mirk recording I could track down was issued in 1979. Ian Sinclair also wrote the well-known song The King's Shilling. -Joe Offer, Mudcat Archivist- joe@mudcat.org |
10 Aug 12 - 08:09 PM (#3388544) Subject: RE: Origins: Fish Gutting Lassie From: GUEST,mg I am wondering if the tune is Jack Hagerty or not. I am bad at telling if tunes are the same. |
11 Aug 12 - 04:19 AM (#3388629) Subject: RE: Origins: Fish Gutting Lassie From: GUEST,Paul Slade "Please, put a hyphen in "fish-gutting" (in the subject line & title; it is there in the text). When I first saw the subject line, I imagined -- well, never mind." A trout eviscerating a border collie? Because that's the picture that immediately sprang into my mind. |
17 Aug 12 - 10:47 AM (#3391367) Subject: RE: Origins: Fish-Gutting Lassie From: GUEST,Gaye Anthony Ian Sinclair of Thurso, a great song-writer wrote the song. We accredited it to him on our CD. The other singer with Trish and I is Ankie Vandemeer of Friesland of the duo Nanne 'n' Ankie. The occasion was at the Portsoy Boat Festival in the Salmon Bothy . We performing Nanne's musical play " The Silver of the Sea' along with Pete Hasleden aka Shanty Jack. There were songs in Dutch and Fries as well. It is recorded on our album Fish and Ships Too. |
20 Oct 12 - 09:20 AM (#3423021) Subject: RE: Origins: Fish Gutting Lassie From: GUEST,Fish Gutting Lassie From a toddler until 1992, a long time, I spent every summer holiday with my parents in Sutherland, either at Durness or Kinlochbervie and I can remember well hearing Mirk perform this song at the Ceilidh Place at Ullapool. I had a small portable tape recorder that night and I made a tape recording of them singing and this was the start of a new career. My late Mum's folk, were "Thorburns", an old fishing family from Fisherrow, East Lothian and I speak to groups and at day centres about the fishing families and traditions. I always sing 2 verses of that song when doing the fishgutting section of the talk as it is so descriptive. Particularly at dementia day centre, the song and its wonderful music opens communications. Iris McMillan |