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by Rob Howard
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![]() Before emigrating to Australia in 1980, Arthur Spink recorded for the Beltona label in the 1960s and 70s, and made several best-selling LPs. These albums have been recently reissued on four CDs, each containing two LPs. ‘The Best of Arthur Spink - Volume One’ has all the tracks from the LPs ‘Scotland's Greatest’ and ‘Dancing Fingers’. Tracks: Roxburgh Castle/Fairy Dance/Dr. Robertson’s Reel/Archie Menzies; The Conundrum/Highland Fling/High Level Hornpipe; These Are My Mountains/Rothesay Bay/Song of the Clyde/Northern Lights of Aberdeen; Hawaii Tattoo; Gaelic Airs Waltz; Household Brigade; Cock o’ the North/Liberton Pipe Band; Reine de Musette; The Tartan/The Badge of Scotland/Scotland the Brave; Wheels; Bluebell Polka; Cuckoo Waltz; Balmoral Highlanders/Laird o’ Drumblair/Mrs MacLeod; Storrar’s Hornpipe/Staten Island/Bonnie Banchory/Davy Knick-Knack; Oslo Waltz; McDonald’s March/Stirling Castle/Mrs MacPherson; Czardas; My Home/Dream Valley of Glendaruel; Dancing Fingers; New Rigged Ship/The Rock and Wee Pickle Tow/A.M. Shinnie/The Drunken Parson; Green Grow the Rashes-O/A Man’s A Man for a That/Ye Banks and Braes/Scots Wha Hae; Dundee March/James Stephen; Sailor’s Hornpipe; The Dark Island; The Cradle Song/The Piper’s Weird/Lass O’ Lowrie; Old Comrades The other CDs are Volume 2: LPs – ‘Hoots Mon’ and ‘The Continental Accordion of Arthur Spink’, Volume 3: LPs – ‘King of the Scottish Accordion’ and ‘The Flying Scotsman’; Volume 4: LPs – ‘Arthur Spink’s Hogmanay’ and ‘Arthur Spink’s Dance Party’. For further information email: jiml@musicinscotland.com |