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(1928-1977) Scottish songwriter/singer. Some of Matt's recordings are detailed below. With thanks to Susanne Kalweit.
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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
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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.
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Songs For Peace (FolkFreak FF 4010, 1983)
Side One: The Ballad of Penny Evans (Steve Goodman)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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