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GUEST,Alan Ross Lyr/Tune Req: Lovely Stornoway (Kennedy/Halfin) (61* d) RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Lovely Stornoway (Kennedy/Halfin) 10 Feb 20


Indeed Jim McLean! As I said elsewhere, Bob Halfin managed to write a novelty 'Scottish' song about Tomnahurich cemetery Inverness - which according to the Highland News was going to be a hit. It died a death. The song is now lost, and seemingly buried.   I have found that the credit on some LPs by tenor Dennis Clancy of my father's cheesy song 'the Highland Road' (not the McCalmans' song of the same title), went on the label to Bob Halfin - who was not in any way a writer of the work. This was later sorted - but some old LP's and CD printings still bear his name due to a mysterious 'error'. My father knew nothing of this.. he only signed the song to Minch Music through Halfin's agency (I still have the contract here). Some LP printings were correct, and CD's are now pretty much correct. It is also now corrected with all agencies worldwide, and published by Sony/EMI, but wrong credits to Halfin still exist on a few old issues - and we don't know how or why it happened in the first place? It may have been because my father wasn't a member of the PRS/MCPS until the mid-1970's and had little writer protection, trusting the honesty of the publisher Minch Music (which Halfin was connected to). 'You'll never get used to Uist' was another of Halfin's great titles.. My father wrote the whole song based on his suggested title - and Halfin claimed joint authorship, for making the suggestion! As for Calum Kennedy, he was notoriously frequently suing someone, or they were suing him. The youtube video of the BBC's 'fly on the wall' documentary 'Calum Kennedy's Commando Course' based on his doomed variety tour is always great viewing.   Anyway this is classic thread creep!


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