: Poem, Riddle, Song

 William Soutar 

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1 Introduction to Poems 1:56

2 The Daft Tree 0:16

3 Bawsy Broon 0:42

4 The Waefu’ Wee Lassie 0:34

5 Adventure 0:26

6 Wullie Waggletail 0:31

7 Dreepin Weather 0:24

8 At Tibbermuir 0:44

9 The Drucken Fuggie-Toddler 0:59

10 The Lanely Müne 0:19

11 In the Nicht 0:48

12 Bairntime 1:00

13 Song 0:43

14 Wintry Song 0:49

15 The Hunt 1:31

16 Brichtness 0:30

17 Saint Dod 1:39

18 A Whigmaleerie 0:59

19 Birthday 2:57

20 The Wood 1:25

21 Merlin 0:51

22 Haunted 1:02

23 Ae Simmer’s Day 0:55

24 Silence 1:08

25 Poem 1:17

26 Pilgrimage 0:33

27 I Lang Tae Gie Mysel’ 1:04

28 Introduction to The Riddles 0:48

29 Schedow, Tongue, Caterpillar 2:19

30 A Candle 0:31

31 A ? (guess) 0:24

The introduction and linking commentary to the poems and riddles were written by Alexander Galloway and read by David Steuart. Poems and Riddles were read by May Low, Stanley MacDonald and David Steuart with the expert help of Perthshire schoolchildren, and recorded on location in Perth. 32 Intro to Songs then to Isobel Dunlop 1:36

33 Broken Brig 2:15

34 Jamie 1:08

35 Evening Star 2:53

36 Intro to Lysbeth Melvin 1:00

37 Leerie-licht 0:48

38 Dreepin Weather 0:33

39 Laverock’s Lilt 0:54

40 Puddle-doo 1:32

41 Day is Düne 1:44

42 Intro to Francis George Scott 1:14

43 The Gowk 1:23

44 The Tryst 2:17

45 Corbie-sang 1:39

The singers were Jane Schnveld and David Malcolm accompanied by Henry Neil.

Notes on the composers were compiled and read by George Philp from information kindly supplied by George Scott, son of F G Scott, Dr Jack Dunlop, brother of I Dunlop and Dr Marjorie Clark, cousin of L Melvin.

Permission to reproduce William Soutar’s work has been kindly granted by the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland.

The unicorn depicted on the cover was the device adopted by Soutar and drawn by James A Finlayson.

total running time on CD 51:27