Artiste: Tim Wright
Label: Beltona

Lothians based Tim Wright’s Scottish Dance Band enjoyed great popularity in the immediate post war years. They recorded extensively for the Beltona label in the late 1940s and in the 50s moved on to HMV.
The recordings on this CD were made for Beltona in April 1948. The line up was likely to have been a six-piece led by 2 fiddles and with probably a muted saxophone - helping to produce a distinctive and quite different sound from other dance bands. A different sound perhaps, but a sound of the era for sure - is as is the selection of traditional airs chosen to make up the repertoire.

1. The Duchess of Atholl’s Slipper - Strathspey
The Duchess of Atholl’s Slipper : Bonnie Louden’s Woods ands Braes

2. The Machine Without Horses - Jig
The Machine Without Horses : Hamish MacIntosh

3. There’s Nae Luck - Strathspey
There’s Nae Luck : Mackenzie Hay

4. River Cree - Jig
Jackson’s Bottle of Claret : Miss Milligan

5. Mrs Grant’s Fancy - Strathspey
Miss Grant of Grant : Willie Hay

6. The Reel of the 51st Division
The Drunken Piper : The Barren Rocks of Aden : Mansfield’s March

7. Scottish Ramble - Strathspey
Scottish Ramble : Forbes Morrison

8. The De’il Among the Tailors - Jig
The De’il Among the Tailors : Holyrood House

9. Strathglass House - Strathspey
Mrs Mackenzie’s Favourite : Colonel Byng’s Favourite

10. Grant’s Rant - Reel
Grant’s Rant : The Earl of Lauderdale

11. Monymusk - Strathspey
Monymusk : Rose Among the Heather

12. Scottish Reform - Reel
Scottish Reform : Auld Rosen the Beau : The Bonnie Muirv

13. The Braes of Tulliemet - Strathspey
The Braes of Tulliemet : Hon. Mrs Drummond of Perth

14. Triumph - Reel
Triumph : The Old Bog Hole

15. Maggie Lauder - Strathspey
Maggie Lauder : The Smith’s a Gallant Fireman

16. Petronella
Petronella : The Lass o’ Paties Mill