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The McCalmans

Some of The McCalmans's recordings are detailed below:


The McCalmans All In One Mind (Waverley SZLP 2103, 1968)

Side One: Sally Free and Easy (Tawney); Gala Water; Qhaheri; Farewell to Fiunary; Cocaine Blues (Arnoll/Nichols); Doo Me Ama; Do Let Me Go
Side Two: Santiano; Off to Sea; North Country Farmer; Plains of Waterloo; Homeward Bound; Pace Egging Song

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat (vocals, guitar), Ian McCalman (vocals, guitars), Hamish Bayne (vocals, mouth organ, flageolet)


three.jpg Singers Three (CBS Inheritance 52699, 1969)

Side One: Bonnie St Johnstone; The Trooper and the Maid; Kirsteen; Call On Me (Ian Rankin); To people Who Have Gardens; Braes Abbon Bonawe
Side Two: Lord of the Dance (Carter); Coasts of Barbary; The Sun Rises Bright In France; Wha'll Be King But Charlie; The Bonnie Brown Maid; The Life of a Man; Willie's Gane tae Melville Castle

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat (vocals, guitar), Ian McCalman (vocals, guitar), Hamish Bayne (vocals, mandolin, whistle)


All Folk Together All Folk Together (EMI Talisman STAL 5013, c.1969)
with The Islanders, The Livingstones, The Lowland Folk Four, Anne Byrne, Eddie & Finbar Furey

Side One: Sally, Free and Easy (Tawney) Side Two: Santiano


turn.jpg Turn Again (CBS 64145, 1970)

Side One: What Would Have Happened If I'd Stayed Around (Rab Noakes); The Broom; The Widow of Glencoe (W E Aytoun); Without Me, Just With You (Rab Noakes); The Balena; East Neuk Misfortune (Rab Noakes);
Side Two: Turn a Deaf Ear (Rab Noakes); The Second Mariner's Song (P Morgan/McCalmans); Loving Hannah; Captain's Lament (P Morgan/McCalmans); The Sad Gypsy (E Goffin/B Mann); The Streets of London (R McTell)

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat (vocals, 6-string guitar, 12-string guitar), Ian McCalman (vocals, guitar), Hamish Bayne (vocals, mandolin, whistle, concertina)
with Aly Bain (fiddle)


nostr.jpg No Strings Attached (RCA International (Camden) INTS 1340, 1971)

Side One: The Women Are A' Gone Wud; The Weaving Song; A Carrion Crow; A Kangaroo; Rise and Follow Charlie; The Chief's return From War
Side Two: Windmills (Alan Bell); The Tailor; Busk, Busk Far Fairer She; The Execution of Montrose Veronica (Vreeswijk/McCalman)

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat (vocals, guitar), Ian McCalman (vocals, guitar), Hamish Bayne (vocals, mandolin, whistle, concertina, organ)
with Rick Nickerson (bass guitar)


aud.jpg An Audience With The McCalmans (RCA LSA 3179, 1973)

Side One: Bonnie Dundee; The Trawling Trade (John Connolly); My Johnny Is a Shoemaker; Charles In France; The Love Bug Will Bite You; The Burning; Kilgannon Mountain
Side Two: Mingulay Boat Song; Auburn Maid; All Around My Hat; Bread and Fishes (Alan Bell); Sweet Senorita; Goodnight and Joy (trad/McCalmans)

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat (vocals, guitar), Ian McCalman (vocals, guitar), Hamish Bayne (vocals, mandolin)


smug.jpg Smuggler (Transatlantic XTRA 1149, 1975)

Side One: Smuggler; If Mother Should Die; Gardens; Hornpipes/Reels; Mount and Go; The Boatie Rows/The Carls of Dysart; The Flowers o' the Forest; The Barnyards o' Delgaty
Side Two: Bar-Room; No Churchman Am I; The Silkie of Sule Skerry; A Man's a Man For A' That; Nagasaki (Dixon/Warren); Johnnie Cope; Skye Boat Song; Tammy Traddlefeet/The Rising

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat (vocals, guitar, mandolin, bodhran), Ian McCalman (vocals, guitar, English guitar), Hamish Bayne (vocals, mandolin, whistle, concertina) with Dave Moses (string bass, bass recorder)


full.jpg House Full (Transatlantic XTRA 1166, 1976)

Side One: Ye Jacobites; Coasts of Barbary; I's the Boy; Kora; Mine (unknown); Awa Whigs Awa; Dingle Regatta/A Little Village
Side Two: Farewell the Faroes (McCalman); Sweeter than Sugar (Mills Bros); Aikie Braes (GS Morris); Diamond; Boat Song; Proposal & Acceptance; Tim McGuire (Leon Rosselson)`

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat (vocals, guitar), Ian McCalman (vocals, guitar), Hamish Bayne (vocals, mandolin, whistle, concertina)
with Dave Moses (session bass)


side.jpg Side By Side By Side (Transatlantic TRA 346, 1977)

Side One: Side By Side By Side (s ondheim); Romeo and Juliet (Stan Kelly); Dancing Days (John Connolly/Bill Meek); Bellman's Song (Bill Meek); The Chair at the Table (unknown); Hornpipe; Farewell to Sicily (Henderson)
Side Two: Sheriff Muir; Loving Hanne; German Lairdie; Standing In the Rain (Sydney Carter); Broadside Man (John Connolly); Bound to Go; Side By Side (H Woods)

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat (vocals, guitar, bodhran, fiddle), Ian McCalman (vocals, guitar, weirdolin (12-string lute), banjo), Hamish Bayne (vocals, mandolin, whistle, celeste, concertinas)


burn.jpg Burn the Witch (Transatlantic TRA 357, 1978)

Side One: Fare Ye Well Ye Mormond Braes; The Lion (Edinburgh Castle) (trad/J Lumsden/I McCalman); Jenny Lasswade (I McCalman); Farewell to Nova Scotia; She Had to Go and Lose It Again (Doe/Doaques); Aye Waukin O; Gin I Were Where the Gaudie Rins; Veronica (Vreeswijk/McCalman/Hoydal)
Side Two: Burn the Witch (I McCalman); Bonnie Lass o' Gala Water; Jock Stewart; March of the Cameron Men; The Phantom Whistler/Random Jig; Doon In the Wee Room; The Recruiting Service Drum (Tannahill); Sons of Heroes

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat (vocals, guitar), Ian McCalman (vocals, guitar), Hamish Bayne (vocals, mandolin, whistle, concertina)
with Dave Moses (session bass)


Transatlantic Best of Scottish Folk Best of Scottish Folk (Transatlantic MTRA 2003, 1978)
with Hamish Imlach, Alex Campbell, Owen Hand, Ian Campbell Group, Isla Cameron, Watt Nicoll, Archie Fisher, Dave Swarbrick, Matt McGinn

Side One: Skye Boat Song
Side Two: Smuggler

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat, Ian McCalman, Hamish Bayne


best.jpg The Best Of (Transatlantic MTRA 2016, 1979)

Side One: Sheriffmuir; Bellman's Song (Bill Meek); Nagasaki (Dixon/Warren); Kora; Hornpipe/Reels; No Church Man Am I; Johnnie Cope
Side Two: Smuggler; She Thought She Had Lost It At the Astor (Doe/Douques); Burn the Witch (Ian McCalman); Farewell to Sicily (H Henderson); Tim McGuire (Leon Rosselson); Sweeter than Sugar (Mills Bros); Doon In the Wee Room

All songs traditional except where indicated

Derek Moffat, Ian McCalman, Hamish Bayne


Sandy Bell's Ceilidh Sandy Bell's Ceilidh (Alba Records MAR056, 1979)
with Aly Bain, Chorda, Dick Gaughan, Lizzie & Maggie Cruikshank, Bell's Big Ceilidh Band

Side One: John Barleycorn
Side Two: Kirsteen

All songs traditional

Derek Moffat, Ian McCalman, Hamish Bayne


Freedom Freedom Come All Ye (Wilkie House Records WHR001, 1985)
with Mirk, Iain Mackintosh, Hamish Henderson, Margaret Bennet, The McAlmans, Davy Steel, and Dougie MacLean

Side One: Side Two:

This LP was the Scottish folk scene's effort to aid suffering in Ethiopia

Derek Moffat, Ian McCalman, Hamish Bayne


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