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  • Iain Mackintosh
 Scottish Singers
Iain Mackintosh

(1928-1977) Scottish songwriter/singer. Some of Matt's recordings are detailed below. With thanks to Susanne Kalweit.


The Islanders (Waverley ZLP 2048, 1965)
with Jim Craig, Nancy Craig, John Noble (and Ian Brown on bass)

Side One: The Hour That the Ship Comes In (Dylan); Polly Wolly Doodle; Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson); The Pawn Song (Iain MacKintosh); Mary Don't You Weep; Spanish Is a Loving Tongue; John Henry
Side Two: The Dark Island (trad/W Gordon Smith); Red Yo-Yo (McGinn); No Irish Need Apply; Golden River (Jimmy Driftwood); Jolly Roving Tars; Banks O' Sicily (trad/Hamish Henderson)

all songs traditional unless otherwise indicated


By Request (Autogram ALLP 196, 1973)

Side One: John McLean's March (Trad/Henderson); Concertina medley: The Sea Maiden/Holyrood House; Annie's Song (Paxton); Spanish Fandango; Bantam Cock (Thackeray); Mrs Canatelli (Gallagher & Lyle); Pipe medley: The Dark Island/The Bugle Horn; Old Man's Song (Ian Campbell); Chickens (Trad/MacKintosh)
Side Two: Jimmy Clay (Pat Sky); The Terror Time (MacColl); Who Killed Davy Moore (Dylan); International (Gallagher & Lyle); Saturday Night (Paxton); The Glasgow That I Used To Know (McNaughtan); Wildwood Flower (Parody - Trad/Cheech & Chong); Three Men From Carntyne (Watt/MacKintosh)

With Alistair Campbell, John Giblin, Gordon Menzies, Robin Watson.


A Better Class of Folk (Lismor LILP 5022, 1975)
with Dominic Behan, Mike Whellans, Billy Davidson, Allan Barty

Side One: If You Want to See the General [1] (trad arr MacKintosh/Whellans/ Davidson/Barty); The Glasgow I Used to Know (Jim MacLean)
Side Two: Ballad of Joe Hill (Woody Guthrie); The Good Ship Reuben James [1] (Woody Guthrie)

[1] = sung by the ensemble

From Scottish Television's long-running folk series


Encore (Dara Records MPA 010, 1975)

Side One: B.A.C.O.N. and E.G.G.s (Braddock/Putman); The Ballad of Penny Evans (Steve Goodman); Nae Luck About the Hoose; Ballad of Joe Hill (Earl Robinson/Alfred Hayes); Mary Mack's Mother (Trad); The Capitalist Dream (Jeremy Taylor)
Side Two: I Wish I Was A Rock (Derroll Adams/add. lyrics Iain MacKintosh)/Darkies Dream; The Fairfield Crane (Archie Fisher/Norman Buchan/Bobby Campbell); My Sweet Lady (John Denver); Pipe Selection: Massacre of Glencoe (Jim McLean)/ Brochan Lom; Farewell to Glasgow (Jim McLean); And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle)

Iain MacKintosh (vocals, banjo, concertina, small pipes), Mike Whellans (guitar, bodhran, harmonica), Alan Barty (mandola, fiddle, electric bass)


A Man's A Man (Autogram ALLP 215, 1978)
with Hamish Imlach

Side One: A Man's A Man For A' That [1] (trad/Burns); Jamie Foyers (MacColl); D-Day Dodgers [2] (Schulze/Henderson); Parcel of Rogues [2] (trad/Burns); The Roving Ploughboy [1]; Wae's Me For Prince Chairlie; McPherson's Rant [2]
Side Two: Skye Boat Song [2]; Betsy Bell; The Can o' Tea (Matt McGinn); I Am A Miller [2]; Freedom Come All Ye (trad/Henderson); The Flooers o' the Forest [2]; Baron of Brackley [2]; Johnny Cope [2]

[1] = sung by Iain MacKintosh & Hamish Imlach [2] = sung by Hamish Imlach

all songs traditional unless otherwise indicated


Straight to the Point (Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus PL 513, 1979)

Side One: No Use For Him (Eric Bogle); Sam Stone (John Prine); Hero's Return (Eric Bogle); Instr: Roslin Castle; The Writing of Tipperary (Bill Caddick)
Side Two: Blood Upon the Grass (Adam McNaughtan/Ed Miller); Whose Garden Was This (Tom Paxton); Prisoner 562 (Oswald Andrae/Iain MacKintosh); Flowers Are Red (Harry Chapin); For A' That/För all dat/Trotz alledem (Robert Burns/Oswald Andrae/Ferdinand Freiligrath)

with Helmut Debus, Mick Franke, Elke Herold, Helmut Inhulsen, Ulla Schmidt, Michael Thaut


Live In Glasgow (Kettle Records KOP 2, 1979)

Side One: The Cat's in the Cradle (Harry Chapin); I'm My Own Grandpa (Lonzo & Oscar); No Man's Land (Eric Bogle); A Poor Old Man (Trad); Song of Unrequited Love (Adam McNaughtan); Quo' the Idealist (Adam McNaughtan); The Writing of Tipperary (Bill Caddick)
Side Two: Granny Fraser's Flittin' (Trad); Flowers Are Red (Harry Chapin); Scrumpy (Trad); No Use For Him (Eric Bogle); Liz (Shel Silverstein); Unaccompanied Song (Harvey Andrews); Paddy and the Bricks (Pat Cooksey); Put Another Log on the Fire (Shel Silverstein); The Oldest Swinger In Town (Ed Pickford)

Recorded live at the Star Folk Club, Glasgow, 22 March 1979


Singing from the Inside (Kettle Records KOP 6, 1981)

Side One: An Honest Working Man (Eric Bogle); A Sweet Song of Yesterday (Bob Zentz); William (Leon Rosselson); Annie Brown (Adam McNaughtan); Armstrong (John Stewart); Tomorrow (Bob Gibson/Iain MacKintosh); Why Do the Little Girls Grow Crooked (Harry Chapin); I'm Going Back on the Bicycle (Tommy Sands)
Side Two: Wars o' Germany (Trad); For the Special Friends (Iain MacKintosh); The Food-a-holic (Crawford Howard); The Glasgow Mother's Lullaby (Eric Bogle); The Traditional Folksinger's Lament (Eric Bogle); We Sell Everything; You Are the Only Song (Harry Chapin)

Recorded live at Glenfarg Folk Club


Songs For Peace (FolkFreak FF 4010, 1983)

Side One: The Ballad of Penny Evans (Steve Goodman)


Home for a While (Kettle Records KOP 14, 1984)

Side One: Some Kind of Love (John Stewart); The Long Road to Perfection (Colum Sands); A Wild Utopian Dream (Alex Glasgow); Whatever You Say, Say Nothing (Colum Sands); I'll Stick on the Stamp (Iain MacKintosh); The Rolling Hills o' the Borders (Matt McGinn); Take the Children and Run (Don Lange)
Side Two: The Ballad of Jimmy Steele (Davy Steele); Protect and Survive (John Clifton); I'm Quiet (Malvina Reynolds); Young Paul (Jeremy Taylor); Pearl Handled Pocket Knife (Fort & Hutchins); All Used Up (Bruce 'Utah' Phillips); The Greenland Whale Fisheries (Trad); Call Me the Whale (Paul Kaplan)


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

Side One: Granny Fraser's Flittin' (trad) Side Two: Poor Old Man (trad)

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


Standing Room Only (Kettle Records KOP 16, 1986)

Side One: How Can It End (Peter Nardini); Fifty Pence (Trad/Iain MacKintosh); Margarita (Harvey Andrews); Message From Mother Earth (Frankie Armstrong); The Songs That Harry Wrote (Harvey Andrews); For All the Good People (Ken Hicks)
Side Two: Oor Hamlet (Adam McNaughtan); Love Song (Victoria Wood); Hands Off the Old Town (Iain MacKintosh); Mary Cecilia Brown (Dory Previn); You Don't Need A Dog (Peter Nardini); Sing for the Song (Shel Silverstein)

Recorded live at Strathaven Folk Club


Live In Hamburg (MusiKiste 26-6-356, 1986)
with Hamish Imlach

Side One: Johnny Cope [2] ; Skye Boat Song [2] ; The General [1] (trad/new words Imlach/MacKintosh); Weary Life [1] (Bogle/Imlach/MacKintosh); Dance Band on the Titanic (Harry Chapin); Rollin' [1] (Randy Newman); Susie [1] (Imlach/MacKintosh)
Side Two: Paddy Lay Back [2] (trad/new words Imlach/MacKintosh); Tramps and Hawkers [1]; The New Restaurant (Malvina Reynolds); Lily the Pink [1] (trad/new words Imlach/MacKintosh); My Friends [1] (John Denver); All the Tunes in the World [1] (trad/words Ewan McVicar)

[1] = sung by Iain MacKintosh & Hamish Imlach [2] = sung by Hamish Imlach

Recorded live at 'Die Zwiebel', Hamburg, Elbtreppe, on 1 Sep 1985


Gentle Persuasion (Greentrax TRAX 014, 1988)

Side One: Tomorrow, You're Gone (Christine Lavin); Uncle Walter (Tom Gala); Run the Film Backwards (Sydney Carter); My Old Man (Steve Goodman); It's So Easy To Dream (Bob Frankie); When I'm Gone (Phil Ochs); The January Man (Dave Goulder)
Side Two: The Farm Auction (Enoch Kent); The Wheelchair Talking Blues (Fred Small); The Song of the Pineapple Rag (Bob Blue/Iain MacKintosh); First You Lose the Rhyming (Harvey Andrews); Waltzing Around in the Nude (Dick McCormack); Five Ways to Kill a Man (Edwin Brock/Iain MacKintosh)

with Brian McNeill and Alan Reid


Just My Cup of Tea (MusiKiste 34-6-098 CD, 1991)

The Horse (Oscar Brand*); 1913 Massacre (Woody Guthrie); Tunes of Glory (Pete St John); Poor Boy on the Road (Bob Gibson); A Man You Meet Every Day (John McCready); Sure Sounds Like Society To Me (Harry Chapin); The Last Stand (Harry Chapin); The Activity Room (Ruth Pelham); Old Men and Children (Frank Hennessy); Strong Women Rule the World (Brian McNeill); The High-Low Song (Tom Gala); I Can't Touch the Sun (Shel Silverstein); Newfoundland (Frank Hennessy)

with Phil Shackleton and Volker Wilmking

* = this song was misattributed on the LP to Iain MacKintosh


Risks and Roses (Greentrax CDTRAX 043, 1991)

If I Had A Boat (Lyle Lovett); Remember When the Music Came From Wooden Boxes (Harry Chapin); I Wish I Was In Glasgow (Billy Connolly); Cheeky Young Lad (Harvey Andrews); The Rats Are Winning (Charlie King); The King of Rome (Dave Sudbury); Flowers Are Red (Harry Chapin); My Home Town (Alan Reid); Roses from the Wrong Man (Christine Lavin); Acceptable Risks (Charlie King); Instr: Dill Pickle Rag; Annie McKelvie (Ian Ingram); Kilkelly (Peter Jones); The Hug Song (Fred Small)

with Brian McNeill and Alan Reid


I Was Born In Glasgow (Gallus Music GAL 102, 1991)
with Ian Davison, Hamish Imlach, Ewan McVicar, Alan Tall.

Side One: I Wish I Was In Glasgow (Billy Connolly); The Glasgow I Used To Know (Adam McNaughtan) [1]; Farewell to Glasgow (Jim McLean)

[1] = with Ewan McVicar


Stage By Stage (Greentrax CDTRAX 101, 1995)
with Brian McNeill.

The Plainstanes (Brian McNeill)/The Glasgow Magistrate (Trad) [3]; The Wind and Rain (Trad) [1]; The Sea Maiden (Trad)/The Balkan Hills (P. Gillon); The Bonnie Wee Lassie Who Never Said No (Trad) [2]; Holyrood House (Trad); Generations of Change (Matt Armour) [1]; The Dallas... High Heel Two-Step (Brian McNeill)/Smoky Mokes (Abe Holzmann); Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster)/Traveller's Moon (Brian McNeill) [2]; Summer of Love (Peter Nelson) [1]; The Recruited Collier (Trad)/The Tank (Brian McNeill)/Cronin's (Trad)/The Fisherman's Lilt (Trad); What You Do With What You've Got (Si Kahn) [1]; The Black Swan (Trad)/Roslin Castle (Trad); You Can't Take It With You When You Go (Jez Lowe/Bev Sanders) [1]

[1] = sung by Iain MacKintosh
[2] = sung by Brian McNeill
[3] = shared


The Alex Campbell Tribute Concert (2 CD, T Records TCD 007, 1997)

CD Two: Iain MacKintosh - I Wish I Was In Glasgow (Billy Connolly); Iain MacKintosh & Hamish Imlach - Everybody Loves Saturday Night; Allan Taylor, Mike Silver, Iain MacKintosh & Ensemble - Been on the Road So Long (Alex Campbell); Iain MacKintosh - No More Stravaigin' (Gibb Todd)


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