Vinyl Albums - Comments by Alan Ross

Vinyl Albums - Comments by Alan Ross

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Alan Ross 22nd Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Dave MacIntosh And The Jack Sinclair Scottish Dance Band - The Smiling Voice (1964)	Release reviewed in the Aberdeen Press and Journal December 1964.
Alan Ross 20th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Da Fustra - Da Fustra (1976)	Bizarrely Side A is by 'Da Fustra' Side B is by 'The Country Four'. Listed in an advert for Thule Records, Shetland Times, December 1976.
Alan Ross 20th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Hector MacRae - Tour Of Shetland (1976)	Released October 1976 from Thule Records advert.
Alan Ross 20th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Shirley And Larry Peterson - Two Voices (1975)	Advertised as a new release in June 1975.
Alan Ross 20th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Cyril Baker - Organ Music From St. Magnus' Church, Shetland Isles (1975)	Listed as a new release in June 1975, Thule Records advert Shetland Times.
Alan Ross 20th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Stewart Ross Dance Band - The Highland Road (1970)	First officially advertised as a new release for Thule ,December 1970
Alan Ross 20th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Shirley And Larry Peterson - In A Shetland Garden (1970)	Advertised in the Shetland Times as a new Thule release December 1970.
Alan Ross 20th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Way Rhythm Group - "The Way" Rhythm Group (1972)	Listed and featured as a new release September 1972, in a Thule advert from the Shetland Times.
Alan Ross 18th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Folkus - Folkus Alive (1970)	Released according to publicity and adverts in the Shetland Times, around December 1970, along with two other artists' LP''s, the Stewart Ross Dance Band. plus Shirley and Larry Peterson.
Alan Ross 18th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Country Folk - The Country Folk (1969)	This was released in December 1969, information from Thule advert in the Shetland Times.
Alan Ross 17th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Country Music Shetland Style (1974)	Although undated, it is listed as a forthcoming release in a December 1973 advert. ,However it is listed as a 'new' release in an April 1974 Thule advert in the Shetland Times. So probably recorded in 1973, but held back till 1974.
Alan Ross 17th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Hamefarers - Dance To The Hamefarers (1973)	This was first released in September 1973, and listed as a 'new' release in the Shetland Times.
Alan Ross 17th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Shetland Showcase (1972)	This was released in February 1972, and advertised in the Shetland Times.
Alan Ross 17th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album The Stewart Ross Dance Band - Memories Country Style (1972)	I can now firm the date up, it was October 1972. I was thrown as Stewart Ross made an LP for Thule in 1970, Then one for Scotia in late 1971, I originally thought he went from one label to the other.. but newspaper adverts show that he hopped back for a second LP for Thule, after the Scotia one.
Alan Ross 19th Feb 2024		Vinyl Album The Stewart Ross Dance Band - The Highland Road (1970)	AN INVERNESS van driver is the “Voice of Inverness’’ to hundreds of holidaymakers all over the world. By day Stewart Ross a driver with a fruit and vegetable wholesaler, but at night he is one the folk who entertain tourists in the Northern Meeting Park concerts organised by the local amenities association. The visitors have snapped up Stewart’s records by the score and his songs, “The Highland Road" and “ Home to Inverness,*’ bring back many happy memories of holidays in the North of Scotland. So great has been the demand for Stewart’s discs that they are now almost all unavailable. That however, will be rectified shortly with the release of his first LP. Entitled “The Highland Road,” It will contain many favourites end some new items, including The Garden Of Skye, a number written by Stewart and Addie Harper, the leader of the famous Wick Scottish Band. We recorded the tracks in a studio at Elgin a few weeks ago and the album is scheduled for release in November,” Stewart told me. “ The backing Is provided by his own band, son Ronnie on accordion, Denny Kyte on guitar and John Stephen drums.” 30 September 1970 : Aberdeen Press and Journal
Alan Ross 19th Feb 2024		Vinyl Album Stewart Ross - Music And Song (1971)	"Heading for the lop of the Highland Hit Parade is Inverness singer Stewart Ross, whose first stereo LP is in the shops today. Stewart, a star of the open air summer concerts the Northern Meeting Park, and resident singer in a local Chinese restaurant, where he fronts his own band, has already scored big successes with his previous records. His new album features a song he has written himself, “My Bonnie Maureen” and a number penned by local accordionist Sanders Mackenzie, Salen Woods." 10 December 1971 Aberdeen Evening Express.
Alan Ross 18th Feb 2024		Vinyl Album The Alexander Brothers - Something Old, Something New (1975)	Errors were made on the crediting of several songs on this release. The version of 'My Mother' was actually written with lyrics by Stewart Ross. A later cassette had the credit amended to reflect the correct authorship.
Alan Ross 7th Apr 2023		Vinyl Album The Stewart Ross Dance Band - Memories Country Style (1972)	A terrible release. Little production, just an accordion and single guitar plus drums, with an all in one vocal, no tracking used. What was fine live in restaurants and pubs, does not translate to vinyl. Generally a clashing cacophony and pub singing- a missed opportunity.
Alan Ross 6th Jul 2020		Vinyl Album The Tartan Lads - Scottish Country Roads (1978)	There was a mistake in the crediting of the medley track 'My Mother'. This was authored by Stewart Ross and corrected on compilations.
Alan Ross 6th Jul 2020		Vinyl Album Stewart Ross - Music And Song (1971)	My father Stewart Ross recorded this dire album with little or no production. The stereo separation is terrible, and he sounds like he's shouting down a megaphone. The album is notable for the first recording of a song written by Stewart Ross called 'My Bonnie Maureen', This was later restructured and a couple of words changed, becoming a chart album track for Daniel O' Donnell, on the release 'From The Heart' in 1988, since which time its been recorded by a few artists and put on a number of compilations.
Alan Ross 13th Dec 2018		Vinyl Album The Tartan Lads - Here's To Scottish Whisky (1974)	My father Stewart Ross wrote the title track, 'Here's To Scottish Whisky', this 1974 release marks its first appearance on record, the first of many and the track was subsequently lifted onto national compilations. Standard heather and haggis fare, but with fine orchestration. Not many releases would later be given that quality of arrangement and production.
Alan Ross 1st Nov 2018		Vinyl Album The Stewart Ross Dance Band - The Highland Road (1970)	This primitively produced album, made by my father, was released in 1970 not 1972. The song Culloden Moor is wrongly credited as traditional on the cover, when it was in fact written by Croall and Banks, and recorded on a single by a trio called Mike, John and Sandy.
Alan Ross 8th Aug 2018		Vinyl Album Dennis Clancy - Shamrock And Heather (1969)	This release contains an error. The song the Highland Road on this release was actually written by Stewart Ross of Inverness, in 1965 and many re-issues have the correct information We had to have the credit altered.. Bob Halfin was only the music publisher (through his company Minch Music), not the writer. The song is now published by EMI music