Still here and still tapping away. The only downside is in bed tonight the auld legs pay for my enjoyment, but after a couple of days,🤪😍 I'm at it again. Such is the price for listening to guid all time dance music.
@margaretsim4593 жыл бұрын
Beautiful sound. Great timing. Superb tunes. All round delight to listen to.
@frankjones18682 жыл бұрын
Yes, a nice album. I m a box player, and loved his sound. For me his first recording was his best, in 1969 called I Love Scotland.
@codieroberts78524 жыл бұрын
First class band what a sound 👍
@sandylaird80294 жыл бұрын
Lovely listening to this music. I was in the Scottish band scene and cannot stop drumming such is the force it has on you. This is music to enjoy as you grow older. I dislike weddings now. The jungle music is not for this auld Tuechter.
@sashagill74914 жыл бұрын
As good as a tonic on a dreary Sunday afternoon in Donegal
@charlietodd24516 жыл бұрын
Superb. Rock solid tempo. I'm told that Rob provided his band members with music but played entirely from memory himself - and that takes some doing for a Country Dance programme. He was a master at playing for sequence dancing as well. Very much in the Shand mould.
@user-mm1dc8nr3i5 ай бұрын
So do I!
@AllansStation3 жыл бұрын
How can anyone with any sense of Scottish dance music give this a thumbs down?
@alexanderwinton25833 жыл бұрын
Magic!!!!🎹🎼
@kenwhitt38897 жыл бұрын
Wow that is great. Will have to come back and hear more again.
@shandfan7 жыл бұрын
Rob Gordon was the right hand of Jimmy Shand! Has left us far too early.For a time Rob and Jimmy had the same fiddler in their bands.Syd Chalmers.An eminence himself in the scene.
@douglasmacnaughton64383 жыл бұрын
Yes you got that right Syd Chalmers was a master i remember him Jimmy Shand in the early 50's playing at the Angus Country Dance Club's Ball in Kidd's rooms in Dundee
@shandfan2 жыл бұрын
@@douglasmacnaughton6438 Chalmers' sound was like a complete string orchestra.He was at times simpy dominating in the Shand Band.
@melvinwilson9492 Жыл бұрын
Syd was a fabulous player, on Shands old 78s the violin sound was truly beautiful.
@elsieydickie75737 жыл бұрын
I play this all the time.Marvellous
@geraldbell93247 жыл бұрын
Fantastic sound sadly gone, seen the band live at Castle Douglas acc club around the time this was recorded.
@charlietodd24513 жыл бұрын
Tremendous band. Per Tommy Pringle from Selkirk, who stood in on 2nd box occasionally, he provided very tidy copies for all the band members but played entirely from memory himself. For a Country Dance he would have the programme in front of him (about 22 dances) but whether he needed a list of his tune titles for the set and the encore I don't know - but still a staggering achievement to play all that without the dots in front of you. He was well known for his huge repertoire and was also one of the few SDBs who were good at Sequence Dancing as well. A very clean, lively and faultless player. Sadly I never heard him live.
@msbridgit25067 жыл бұрын
Love this music.....
@elizabethghent1942 жыл бұрын
Wonderful music and playing. Rob Gordon was one of the great players of his time and still is to me. I still use some of his recordings with my Scottish Country Dance group here in Canada, with fond memories of dancing in Scotland. I am enjoying this so much, thank you for posting.
@frankjones90248 ай бұрын
Hello Liz - good to hear that this is still going strong in Canada. I think this dates from '88 so second box would be Ian Cruickshanks, who is still going strong in Scotland. I,m now 72 and a box player. The greatest influence in my youth was Rob Gordon, and as I,ve commented earlier, his first recording when he was 29, is a beauty. Keep dancing. Frank in Bristol.
@elsieydickie7573 Жыл бұрын
Best Scottish dance band ever
@AllansStation7 жыл бұрын
Robb Gordon the nearest to the Shand sound. Great stuff
@shandfan7 жыл бұрын
That is not surprising.Rob played many of the same tunes as Shand and in the same succession,Shand did.See my post above.There've been relationships between the 2 bands.
@jamesgibson1646 жыл бұрын
Caledonia
@jamesgibson1646 жыл бұрын
shandfan p
@yas6y445 жыл бұрын
Congrats, excelent music
@msbridgit25067 жыл бұрын
*The views sit at 2,615 on 8/06/2017 The odd 615 are mine* *Ms. Bridgit Campbell*
@boxplayer15 жыл бұрын
Total harmony absolutely solid tempo must have been great for the dancers
@JohnSmith-ii9ci3 жыл бұрын
A great depth of sound and rhythm nearly as good as Jimmy Shand
@kishorkumarsunuwarsunuwar83443 жыл бұрын
nice to hear this music in accordion but i play on pipes
@maryclarke52423 жыл бұрын
HI SANDY AS AN OLDIE [OH DEAR WHERE DID IT GO, ] I . .LOVE .DRUMING ,AS A FEMALE SHOULD I??? ANY .WAY IDO,, I AM ULSTER SCOTS AND THE BEST DRUMMING I KNOW IS [ BAILYS MILLS ACCORDIAN BAND.] I LOVE ALL SDB MUSIC BUT FOR SOME REASON THE DRUMMING IN BALLIES MILLS GETS ME,,, GEEIT A GO..LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK/////