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Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor

Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor teamed up together in 1958 or 59 and very quickly became hugely successful, thanks to regular appearances on national television.

Some of Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor's recordings are detailed below:


Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor Robin Hall: Glasgow Street Songs Vol.1 (Collector Records JES.2, 1958)

Side One: The Dundee Weaver; Coulther's Candy; Lodgin' Wi' Big Aggie
Side Two: Ye Ma Wee Gallus Bloke Naemair; The Bleacher Lass o' Kelvinhaugh

All songs traditional.

Robin Hall


JES 3 Robin Hall: Robert Burns Bi-Centery (Collector Records JES.3, 1958)

Side One: Rantin' Rovin' Robin; My Love Is Like a Red, Red, Rose
Side Two: My Love She's But a Lassie Yet; A Man's a Man for A' That; Scots Wha Hae

All songs Burns/trad.

Robin Hall


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The Wee Magic Stane Glasgow Street Songs Vol.2 (Collector Records JES.5, 1959)

Side One: Three Craw; If You Will Marry Me; Duke Street Jail; You Canna Shove Your Granny Off a Bus; The World Must be Coming to an End
Side Two: Johnnie Lad; The Wee Magic Stane

All songs traditional.

Robin Hall, Jimmie MacGregor


macpr.jpg - 6Kb Robin Hall: MacPherson's Rant (Collector Records JES.7, 1959)

Side One: Meg O' the Mill; MacPherson's Rant
Side Two: My Bonnie Laddie's Land A-Growin'

All songs traditional.

Robin Hall


gss3.jpg - 5Kb Glasgow Street Songs Vol.3 (Collector Records JES.9, 1960)

Side One: The Forty-Second; Co-Operative Cookies; The Means Test Man; Sky High Joe
Side Two: The Calton Weaver; Hot Asphalt; Two Heids

All songs traditional.

Robin Hall, Jimmie MacGregor


gall1.jpg - 5Kb Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor (Beltona SEP 85, 1960)

Side One: Banks o' Sicily (Hamish Henderson); The Tiree Love Song
Side Two: Wi' My Rovin' Eye; Jug of Punch

All songs traditional unless otherwise noted.

Robin Hall (vocal), Jimmie MacGregor (vocal, guitar, mandolin),


gall1.jpg - 5Kb The Galliards (Beltona SEP 90, 1960)

Side One: Cumbaya; MacPherson's Rant
Side Two: Zamar Noded (Shemer); Doodle Let Me Go (Yellow Girls)

All songs traditional unless otherwise noted.

Robin Hall (vocal), Jimmie MacGregor (vocal, guitar, mandolin), Shirley Bland (vocal), Leon Rosselson (vocal, guitar, banjo)


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Scottish Choice (Decca Ace of Clubs ACL 1065, 1961)
with The Gaillards (Shirley Bland and Leon Rosselson)

Side One: Tramps and Hawkers; Brochan Lom, Tana Lom/Bodachan A' Mhirein; The Day We Went to Rothesay; The Craw Killed the Pussie; The Stoutest Man In the Forty Twa; Highland Fairy Lullaby; My Love She's But a Lassie Yet
Side Two: Mingulay Boat Song; Nicky Tams; The Piper O' Dundee; The Bonnie Earl o' Moray; Mormond Braes; Coulters Candy; The Rovin Ploughboy

All songs traditional.

Robin Hall (vocals), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Leon Rosselson ( vocals, guitar, banjo), Shirley Bland (vocals)

* Re-released as Scottish Choice (Decca Eclipse ECS 2074, 1971) *


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A Rovin' (Decca Ace of Clubs, 1962)

Side One: Dig My Grave; Villancico; Go Tell Aunt Rhody; My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose; Asikatali; A Bold Young Farmer; When I First Came To This Land
Side Two: Johnny, I Hardly Knew You; Lamidbar (Argov); Up Among the Heather; Ksekina Mia Psarapoula; A Bucketful of Mountain Dew; The Overgate; Lowlands; Time For Man Go Home

All songs traditional except where indicated.

Robin Hall (vocals, guitar), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Leon Rosselson (vocals, guitar, banjo), Shirley Bland (vocals), John Jobson (bass)

* Re-released as A Rovin' (Decca Eclipse ECS 2126, 1973)


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Tonight and Every Night (His Master's Voice CLP 1646, 1962)
with The Gaillards (Leon Rosselson and John Jobson)

Side One: Johnnie Lad; Hares On the Mountain; Inverey; Scottish Medley (The 42nd/My Love She's But a Lassie Yet/Mormond Braes); Twa Heids Are Better Than Yin; Cuttie's Waddin'; Ye Banks and Braes; Glasgow Street Song Medley
Side Two: Mick Maguire; Davey Faa; The Recruiting Sergeant; The Wild Mountain Thyme; Gin I Were Wgere the Gaudie Rins; The Old Triangle (Brendan Behan); Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes; Three Craws

All songs traditional.

Robin Hall (vocals), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Leon Rosselson (guitar, banjo, accordion), John Jobson (bass)

*This album was re-relased as "Two Heids are Better than Yin" (Bulldog Records BDL 1019, 1977)


next.jpg The Next Tonight Will Be with... (His Master's Voice CLP 1715, 1963)
with The Galliards (Shirley Bland & Leon Rosselson)

Side One: Drill Ye tarriers Drill; New York Girls; Johnny Todd; Linstead Market; The Jug of Punch; A Sailor Courted a Farmer's Daughter (French); The Wild Colonial Boy (Crofts)
Side Two: Hinei Matov; Lowlands of Holland; The Quality of Mersey; Derriere Chez Nous; The Barnyards o' Delgaty; North Country Lad; Birlinn Ghoraidh Chrobhain

All songs traditional unless otherwise noted.

Robin Hall (vocals, guitar, percussion), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar), Shirley Bland (vocals), Leon Rosselson (guitar, banjo, accordion, vocals), Bill Sutcliffe (bass), Brian Brocklehurst (bass), Pete Turner (drums)


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By Public Demand (Fontana TL5349, 1964)

Side One: Enniskillen Dragoon; Sinner Man; Love's A Teasing; The Frog and the Mouse (Hawarth); Lullaby for a Mucky Kid (Stan Kelly); Haunted Single End (Matt McGinn); Tapuach Hineni (Hadar/Dor); Donald Don
Side Two: The Gallowa Hills; Times Are Getting Hard (Hayes/Hall/MacGregor); Drinking Gourd; Fal-o-ro, We're Sailing; Corrie Doon (Matt McGinn); Dirty Old Town (Ewan MacColl); Roddy McCorley

All songs traditional except where indicated.

Robin Hall (vocals, guitar), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Cedric West (guitar); Brian Brocklehurst (bass), bill McGuffie (piano); Derek Grossmith (piccolo, clarinet, flutes), Bobby Orr (drums)

  • Re-released as By Public Demand (Fontana FJL502, 1966)

  • Re-released as By Public Demand (Philips International 6382 124, 19??)

red yo yo Red Yo Yo (Fontana TE17489, 1967)

Side One: The Red Yo-Yo (McGinn); Murder In the Chip Shop; Candlelight Fisherman
Side Two: The Auld Piper; Where Are You Goin' My Bonnie Wee Lass (new words Roddy McMillan); The Carrion Crow

Robin Hall (vocals), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar)
with Archie Duncan (accordion), Dave Barclay (bass)


scot.jpg Songs of Grief and Glory (Fontana STL5436, 1967)
with Nadia Cattouse

Side One: Grief and Glory (Peter Firth); Back Buchanan Street (Harry & Gordon Dison); Tread Lightly (Ruth Roberts); Talkin' Trouble - Monday Blues (Philip Hills); The Threshold (Susan Tuck); There Must Be Something Wonderful About Fighting (Tommy Gardner/Gary Whitehead); Kelston Round Hill (Christopher Rowe)
Side Two: The Folk Singer (Neil McGowan); If That Is What You Want (Andrew Rainbow); Pigs Can See the Wind (Dave Goulder); People Like People Like Themselves (Jeanette Stanley); Folk Nativity (Jane Laxton); The Man for All Colours (Nick Parry Jones); Irony Road (Dafydd Idris Edwards); Grief and Glory (Firth)

Robin Hall (vocals, guitar), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar), Nadia Cattouse


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Scotch and Irish (Decca LK 4601, 1964)

Side One: The 42nd; Rosin the Beau; If You Will Marry Me; Brian O'Lynn; Baloo Baleerie; The Holy Ground
Side Two: Whisky You're the Devil; The Queen's Four Maries; The Hot Ashfelt; The Calton Weaver; Bonnie Lass O'Fyvie; The Parting Glass

All songs traditional.

Robin Hall (vocals, guitar), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Jack Emblow (accordion), Bill Sutclifee (bass), Brian Brocklehurst (bass), Lisa Turner (banjo)

Re-released as Scotch and Irish (Decca Eclipse ECM 2024, 1969)


over.jpg One Over the Eight (Mercury 20169 SMCL, 1969)

Side One: Charlie Is My Darling; Tatties and Herring; Johnny has Gone for a Soldier; As I Came Doon the Canongate; The Whisky Chorus (Jim Mclean); The Bonny Broom; Heil-Ya-Ho, Boys
Side Two: One Over the Eight (Jimmie MacGregor); Ludgin' Wi' Big Aggie (new words Jimmie MacGregor); The Auld Sang (Willie Soutar/Jimmie MacGregor); Tha Tighinn Fodham Eiridh (Rise and Follow Charlie) (new words Jimmie MacGregor); The Sweet Nightingale; The Duncee Weaver

All songs traditional unless where indicated.

Robin Hall (vocals), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar, mandolin), with The Jim Johnston Band, and Angus Cameron (fiddle), Iain McAffie (guitar), Herbie M'Haffie (flute)


strt.jpg Glasgow Street Songs (Hallmark SHM 698, 1970)

Side One: The Dundee Weaver; The Bleacher Lassie O' Kelvinhaugh; Yer Ma Wee Gallas Bloke Naemair; Three Craw/If You Will Marry Me; Skippin' Barfit Thro' the Heather; Jimkin' You, My Johnnie Lad
Side Two: Lodgin' Wi' Big Aggie; Coulther's Candy; Duke Street Jail/You Canna Shove Your Grannie Off a Bus/The World Must be Coming to an End; Johnnie Lad; The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie; Collier Laddie

All songs traditional.


glas.jpg We Belong to Glasgow (Fontana Special 6438 033, 1970)

Side One: The Barras (Jim McLean); Two Heids; Ally-Bally-Bee (new words Robin Hall); Ma Wee Gallus Bloke(new words Robin Hall); There Is a Happy Land/Ye Canny Shove Yer Granny/I Sent Her for Breid (new words Jimmie MacGregor);
Side Two: The Govan Billiard Hall Song (Roddy McMillan); I'll No Marry You; Nancy Whisky; Kelvinhaugh; Three Craws (new words Jimmie MacGregor)

All songs traditional except where indicated.

Robin Hall (vocals), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar, mandolin) with Brian Brocklehurst (contra bass), Bobby Campbell (fiddle) and Alastair McDonald (banjo)


high.jpg Highlands and Lowlands (Nevis, NEV R003, 1972?)

Side One: Rattlin' Roarin' Wullie (new verse by Jimmie MacGregor); As I Came Doon the Overgate; Fetlar Lullaby; On the Banks of Loch Lomond (new verse by Jimmie MacGregor); If You Ever Come to London; Bonny Hills O' Gallawa'
Side Two: Jock McGraw; Ho-Van Gorry O-Go; Birlinn Ghoraidth Chrobhain; Toddlin' Hame; Rory Murphy

All songs traditional except where indicated.

Robin Hall (vocals), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar, mandolin) with Carey Wilson (fiddle), Alastair McDonald (guitar, mandolin, banjo), Iain Campbell (bass), Herbie McTaggart (a multitude of wind instruments), Bobby Orr (drums)


ucs.gif Unity Creates Strength (Nevis, NEV R007, 1972)
with Dominic Behan, Alex Campbell, Danny Kyle, Ian Campbell, The Laggan, Alistair MacDonald

Side 1: Highland Medley
Side 2: Pack Up Your Tools and Go


kids.jpg - 6Kb Kid's Stuff (Decca Eclipse ECS 2161, 1974)

Side One: Candlelight Fisherman; Frog and the Mouse (Hawarth); Three Craws; The Red Yo-Yo (McGinn); Little Brown Dog; The Hippopotamus Song (Flanders/Swan); Ye Canny Shove Yer Granny Off a Buss/Do-Re-Me
Side Two: Jeelie Pieces Song (McNaughton); Windy Old Weather; Murder In the Chip Shop; Carrion Crow; Riding in My Car (Guthrie); My Dog'd Bigger Than Your Dog (Paxton); The Old Piper

All songs traditional unless otherwise noted.

Jimmie Macgregor (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Robin Hall (vocals, guitar)
with Archie Duncan (accordion), Ricky Fernandez (bass), Billy Thom (drums), The Killermont Young Singers (chorus)


Scotland's Best Scotland's Best (Beltona SBE 181, 1975)

Side One: rattlin' Roarin' Wullie; Fail oro, We're Sailing (McMillan.Macgregor); Ca' the Yowes (trad/Burns); Scotland's Dawn (Orr/Macgregor); Why Should the Cockle Gatherers? (Hall/Macgregor); The New Football Crazy (Hall/Macgregor)
Side Two: Fishing and Trawling (McMillan/Hall/Macgregor); Busk and Go; The Gaudie; Let Glasgow Flourish (Macgrgeor); The Dark Island (Silver/MacLachlan)/Master of Ballantra (Macgregor); Guid Nicht & Joy Be Wi' You

Robin Hall (vocals, guitar), Jimmie MacGregor (vocals, guitar, mandolin)
with Ricki Fernandez (bass), Billy Thom (drums), Jimmy Hill (flute), Archie Duncan (accordion), Angus Cameron (fiddle), Anne Wightmand (backing vocals), May Orr (backing vocals), Lynn Taylor (backing vocals), Jimmy Woodburn (backing vocals), Margaret Draycup (backing vocals),


sngs.jpg Songs for Scotland (Beltona SBE 190, 1977)

Side One: The Land of Macleod; Where Is the Glasgow I Used To Know? (McNaughtan); The Field of Bannockburn (trad/Macgregor); Fetlar Lullaby; The Wee Magic Stane (J McEvoy); Pack Your Tools and Go (trad/Macgregor); England Forever (Cliff Hanley)
Side Two: The Freedom Come All Ye (Hamish Henderson); St Andrew (Cliff Hanley/Robin Hall); The Miner's Lullaby (Matt McGinn); The John Mclean March (Hamish Henderson); Scottish Tradition (Jimmie Macgregor); Is There for Honest Poverty (Burns)

Robin Hall, Jimmie MacGregor with Alex Hutton, Sean O'Rourke, Ricki Fernandez (bass), Billy Thom (drums)


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