My dear old Scottish grandma moved to Sydney Australia in 1945 from Glasgow. 9 kids 50 grandkids. She love all her kids but she effong loved Andy Stewart. I know all the songs she played them every Saturday night.
I had the honour of pipeing Andy Stewart across the tarmac and into the Wellington Airport terminal. He was my hero, and I will never forget that. I used to sing his songs on the bus when the City of Wellington Highland Pipe Band travelled to completions around New Zealand. God bless you, Andy.❤
If RU-vid came out just 10 years earlier 1980s my dear old Scottish Nana (living here in Sydney Australia would have watched Andy Williams all day. Love ya Nana I know your watching us in heaven. The just God's made heaven for people like Nana's 🍀❤️🇦🇺🌹
Just found this and I am over the moon to watch it and share it brings back many ,many, happy memories. May he rest in peace.. love from a native New Yorker.
Very much back in the day, we had a neighbour who was an Hungarian refugee (pre 1956 and always someway contemptuous of those who took advantage of the "Revolution" to head west). Occasionally I would get a ride from him to the school where I was a student and he was a teacher. Do remember one occasion when Andy Stewart's "Scottish Soldier" was played on the local radio. Neighbour's reaction to the song was that he was - like the Scottish soldier - doomed never to return to his native hills again His family moved on, and we lost contact. But do wonder if our Hungarian neighbour lived long enough to return home.
Lived in Malvern Johannesburg East in the 70s, we had this vynal single record, as a kid I would play it over and over again as the Scotty accent was mesmerising.
Love Andy Stewart's rich voice, saw him in Australia just before his youngest child was born l think. though hearing impaired his voice still makes me homesick, watched with subtitles, wow, hilarious the interpretations obviously not from a Scot
