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Jimmy Macbeath
Artist Biography For Jimmy Macbeath
Jimmy MacBeath 1894 - 1972 Was An Itinerant Worker And Singer Of Bothy Ballads From The North East Of Scotland. He Was A Source Of Traditional Songs For Singers Of The Mid 20th Century Folk Revival In Great Britain.
Jimmy MacBeath Pronounced The Same As Macbeth Was Born To A Family Of Scottish Travellers In The Fishing Village Of Portsoy Banffshire Scotland. He Learned Songs Such As "Lord Randall" Child Ballad 12 From His Mother. At The Age Of 13 He Started Work As A Live-In Farm Hand At Deskford. He Was A Bachelor All His Life And Learned Many Songs In The Bothies Or Farm Huts Where The Male Farm Workers Lived. He Was To Be A Traveller For Much Of His Life In 1908 He Took His First Long Walk From Inverness To Perth. In The First World War He Joined The Gordon Highlanders And Fought In Flanders. Later He Was In The Medical Corps In Ireland. In The 1920s He Was Demobbed. Working As A Kitchen Porter Begging And At Seasonal Fruit Picking He Set About Tramping The Roads Of Scotland England The Channel Islands And Even Nova Scotia. In The Streets Pubs Hiring Fairs And Markets He Earned Money By Singing. It Is Even Said That He Sang In Cinemas Where There Was No Piano For Silent Films. He Tended To Wander During The Summer And Spend The Winter In Elgin. He Died In Tor-Na-Dee Hospital In Aberdeen And Was Buried In Portsoy.
Jimmy MacBeath Was A "traditional Singer". He Was Part Of The Last Generation To Sing Traditional Songs In Bothies Along With John Strachan And Willie Scott In The 1920s He Travelled The Roads With Davie Stewart Who Was Also A Singer And Who Played The Bagpipes And Accordion. Their Styles Were Very Different So One Sang While The Other Collected. He Lived In "model Lodging Houses" Government-Run Houses For Homeless Men Slightly Better Than "flophouses". In 1951 Alan Lomax And Hamish Henderson Were In Turriff When They Heard About Jimmy In Elgin. At The Prospect Of Living At The Expense Of Columbia Records He Came To Turriff And Stayed At One Of The Best Hotel Rooms. In 1952 He Went To London To Appear On The Earliest Folk Series On British Television. For Many Years He Was Popular In Folk Clubs. When He Sang "The Barnyards Of Delgaty" At The 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh The Audience Were Rapturous.
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A Number Of The Songs He Sang Has Been Passed On To Singers Involved In The Early Times Of The Folk Revival In England And Scotland E.G. "The Keach In The Creel" And "Tramps And Hawkers". Peter Kennedy's Collection Folksongs Of Britain And Ireland 1975 Included 13 Of Jimmy MacBeath's Songs.
His Songs And Interviews Have Examples Of Beggar's Cant A Secret Language.
Gadgie In This Keer - Manager In This Place
manashee - Girl
These Words Are Romany And Ultimately Hindi. He Also Sang Songs In Doric Dialect Such As "Fae Would Be A Fisherman's Wife?". For Lovers Of The Occult Track 11 On CD 2 Of "Two Gentlemen Of The Road" Is Of Interest. He Describes The Initiation Ceremony Of "The Horseman's Word" A Kind Of Masonic Organisation For Horsemen Wanting To Control Horses Using Secret Words. They Met Between Midnight And 1 A.M. And Asked The Initiate As Series Of Questions Including "Was The Road Crooked Or Straight?" - "The Road Was Dark And Crooked. I Come By The Light Of The Moon". He Would Be Harnessed And Dragged Through Chaff--Broken Fragments Of Dry Sharp Stalks Of Wheat. The Initiate Would Have To Shake Hands With A Young Calf. This Might Be Interpreted As Greeting The Devil. The Initiate Wore A Tricorne Hat And Heard Obscure Words Recited From A Book. Alan Lomax's Response Is "Sounds Like Witchcraft To Me". MacBeath Is Very Sceptical About The Whole Affair. There Is No Way Of Knowing Whether This Is A Centuries-Old Ceremony Or A Scam Dreamed Up In The 19th Century To Prevent Outsiders From Getting Work As Horsemen. Edit Discography - Wild Rover No More 1967 - Bound To Be A Row 1976 - Two Gentlemen Of The Road 2002 Anthology By Jimmy MacBeath And Davie Stewart - There Is A Man Upon The Farm - The Voice Of The People Vol 20 1998 Various Artists
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Biography - Jimmy Macbeath
Jimmy MacBeath 1894 - 1972 Was An Itinerant Worker And Singer Of Bothy Ballads From The North East Of Scotland. He Was A Source Of Traditional Songs For Singers Of The Mid 20th Century Folk Revival In Great Britain.
Jimmy MacBeath Pronounced The Same As Macbeth Was Born To A Family Of Scottish Travellers In The Fishing Village Of Portsoy Banffshire Scotland. He Learned Songs Such As "Lord Randall" Child Ballad 12 From His Mother. At The Age Of 13 He Started Work As A Live-In Farm Hand At Deskford. He Was A Bachelor All His Life And Learned Many Songs In The Bothies Or Farm Huts Where The Male Farm Workers Lived. He Was To Be A Traveller For Much Of His Life In 1908 He Took His First Long Walk From Inverness To Perth. In The First World War He Joined The Gordon Highlanders And Fought In Flanders. Later He Was In The Medical Corps In Ireland. In The 1920s He Was Demobbed. Working As A Kitchen Porter Begging And At Seasonal Fruit Picking He Set About Tramping The Roads Of Scotland England The Channel Islands And Even Nova Scotia. In The Streets Pubs Hiring Fairs And Markets He Earned Money By Singing. It Is Even Said That He Sang In Cinemas Where There Was No Piano For Silent Films. He Tended To Wander During The Summer And Spend The Winter In Elgin. He Died In Tor-Na-Dee Hospital In Aberdeen And Was Buried In Portsoy.
Jimmy MacBeath Was A "traditional Singer". He Was Part Of The Last Generation To Sing Traditional Songs In Bothies Along With John Strachan And Willie Scott In The 1920s He Travelled The Roads With Davie Stewart Who Was Also A Singer And Who Played The Bagpipes And Accordion. Their Styles Were Very Different So One Sang While The Other Collected. He Lived In "model Lodging Houses" Government-Run Houses For Homeless Men Slightly Better Than "flophouses". In 1951 Alan Lomax And Hamish Henderson Were In Turriff When They Heard About Jimmy In Elgin. At The Prospect Of Living At The Expense Of Columbia Records He Came To Turriff And Stayed At One Of The Best Hotel Rooms. In 1952 He Went To London To Appear On The Earliest Folk Series On British Television. For Many Years He Was Popular In Folk Clubs. When He Sang "The Barnyards Of Delgaty" At The 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh The Audience Were Rapturous.
Repertoire
A Number Of The Songs He Sang Has Been Passed On To Singers Involved In The Early Times Of The Folk Revival In England And Scotland E.G. "The Keach In The Creel" And "Tramps And Hawkers". Peter Kennedy's Collection Folksongs Of Britain And Ireland 1975 Included 13 Of Jimmy MacBeath's Songs.
His Songs And Interviews Have Examples Of Beggar's Cant A Secret Language.
Gadgie In This Keer - Manager In This Place
manashee - Girl
These Words Are Romany And Ultimately Hindi. He Also Sang Songs In Doric Dialect Such As "Fae Would Be A Fisherman's Wife?". For Lovers Of The Occult Track 11 On CD 2 Of "Two Gentlemen Of The Road" Is Of Interest. He Describes The Initiation Ceremony Of "The Horseman's Word" A Kind Of Masonic Organisation For Horsemen Wanting To Control Horses Using Secret Words. They Met Between Midnight And 1 A.M. And Asked The Initiate As Series Of Questions Including "Was The Road Crooked Or Straight?" - "The Road Was Dark And Crooked. I Come By The Light Of The Moon". He Would Be Harnessed And Dragged Through Chaff--Broken Fragments Of Dry Sharp Stalks Of Wheat. The Initiate Would Have To Shake Hands With A Young Calf. This Might Be Interpreted As Greeting The Devil. The Initiate Wore A Tricorne Hat And Heard Obscure Words Recited From A Book. Alan Lomax's Response Is "Sounds Like Witchcraft To Me". MacBeath Is Very Sceptical About The Whole Affair. There Is No Way Of Knowing Whether This Is A Centuries-Old Ceremony Or A Scam Dreamed Up In The 19th Century To Prevent Outsiders From Getting Work As Horsemen. Edit Discography - Wild Rover No More 1967 - Bound To Be A Row 1976 - Two Gentlemen Of The Road 2002 Anthology By Jimmy MacBeath And Davie Stewart - There Is A Man Upon The Farm - The Voice Of The People Vol 20 1998 Various Artists read less
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Jimmy MacBeath Pronounced The Same As Macbeth Was Born To A Family Of Scottish Travellers In The Fishing Village Of Portsoy Banffshire Scotland. He Learned Songs Such As "Lord Randall" Child Ballad 12 From His Mother. At The Age Of 13 He Started Work As A Live-In Farm Hand At Deskford. He Was A Bachelor All His Life And Learned Many Songs In The Bothies Or Farm Huts Where The Male Farm Workers Lived. He Was To Be A Traveller For Much Of His Life In 1908 He Took His First Long Walk From Inverness To Perth. In The First World War He Joined The Gordon Highlanders And Fought In Flanders. Later He Was In The Medical Corps In Ireland. In The 1920s He Was Demobbed. Working As A Kitchen Porter Begging And At Seasonal Fruit Picking He Set About Tramping The Roads Of Scotland England The Channel Islands And Even Nova Scotia. In The Streets Pubs Hiring Fairs And Markets He Earned Money By Singing. It Is Even Said That He Sang In Cinemas Where There Was No Piano For Silent Films. He Tended To Wander During The Summer And Spend The Winter In Elgin. He Died In Tor-Na-Dee Hospital In Aberdeen And Was Buried In Portsoy.
Jimmy MacBeath Was A "traditional Singer". He Was Part Of The Last Generation To Sing Traditional Songs In Bothies Along With John Strachan And Willie Scott In The 1920s He Travelled The Roads With Davie Stewart Who Was Also A Singer And Who Played The Bagpipes And Accordion. Their Styles Were Very Different So One Sang While The Other Collected. He Lived In "model Lodging Houses" Government-Run Houses For Homeless Men Slightly Better Than "flophouses". In 1951 Alan Lomax And Hamish Henderson Were In Turriff When They Heard About Jimmy In Elgin. At The Prospect Of Living At The Expense Of Columbia Records He Came To Turriff And Stayed At One Of The Best Hotel Rooms. In 1952 He Went To London To Appear On The Earliest Folk Series On British Television. For Many Years He Was Popular In Folk Clubs. When He Sang "The Barnyards Of Delgaty" At The 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh The Audience Were Rapturous.
Repertoire
A Number Of The Songs He Sang Has Been Passed On To Singers Involved In The Early Times Of The Folk Revival In England And Scotland E.G. "The Keach In The Creel" And "Tramps And Hawkers". Peter Kennedy's Collection Folksongs Of Britain And Ireland 1975 Included 13 Of Jimmy MacBeath's Songs.
His Songs And Interviews Have Examples Of Beggar's Cant A Secret Language.
Gadgie In This Keer - Manager In This Place
manashee - Girl
These Words Are Romany And Ultimately Hindi. He Also Sang Songs In Doric Dialect Such As "Fae Would Be A Fisherman's Wife?". For Lovers Of The Occult Track 11 On CD 2 Of "Two Gentlemen Of The Road" Is Of Interest. He Describes The Initiation Ceremony Of "The Horseman's Word" A Kind Of Masonic Organisation For Horsemen Wanting To Control Horses Using Secret Words. They Met Between Midnight And 1 A.M. And Asked The Initiate As Series Of Questions Including "Was The Road Crooked Or Straight?" - "The Road Was Dark And Crooked. I Come By The Light Of The Moon". He Would Be Harnessed And Dragged Through Chaff--Broken Fragments Of Dry Sharp Stalks Of Wheat. The Initiate Would Have To Shake Hands With A Young Calf. This Might Be Interpreted As Greeting The Devil. The Initiate Wore A Tricorne Hat And Heard Obscure Words Recited From A Book. Alan Lomax's Response Is "Sounds Like Witchcraft To Me". MacBeath Is Very Sceptical About The Whole Affair. There Is No Way Of Knowing Whether This Is A Centuries-Old Ceremony Or A Scam Dreamed Up In The 19th Century To Prevent Outsiders From Getting Work As Horsemen. Edit Discography - Wild Rover No More 1967 - Bound To Be A Row 1976 - Two Gentlemen Of The Road 2002 Anthology By Jimmy MacBeath And Davie Stewart - There Is A Man Upon The Farm - The Voice Of The People Vol 20 1998 Various Artists read less
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