Name: Blue Skies
Duration: P00H01M06S
Description: Fife's Got Everything (of course) including Blue Skies. The tune, Blue Skies, is of course by Irving Berlin - to whom copyright may have been paid.

Beggar's Mantle Ceilidh Band - Blue Skies

from Shores of the Forth by John Watt & Davey Stewart

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Fife's Got Everything (of course) including Blue Skies. The tune, Blue Skies, is of course by Irving Berlin - to whom copyright may have been paid.

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In his sign-out from the album John mentions various Fife people and places. Onesiphorus Tyndall-Bruce was an Englishman, the only one on this record, who in 1849 restored Falkland Palace and built the church there. His monument stands on Green Hill, Falkland. Largo Law is the hill to the North of Upper Largo, a Fife village close by Lower Largo, the birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, otherwise known as Robinson Crusoe. Robin is responsible for the pun (the 'long arm' of the Largo Law).

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from Shores of the Forth, released November 10, 1976
The Beggar's Mantle Ceilidh Band:
Jock Ritchie from Inverkeithing on fiddle, Jock Mullen from Kelty on accordion, Robin McKidd from Glenrothes on guitar and bass and Brian Miller from Penicuik on guitar and mandolin.

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