Founded out the ashes of The In Crowd, here we have another wee gem of a band from Glasgow in the 1960s called the Scots Of St. James who at one time had Hughie Nicolson in their line up. The Scots released two 45s one on Go in 1966 and another on the Spot label in 1967. Unfortunately the second 45 called Timothy wasn’t as good as their first.
The A side Gypsy, (which was a cover version of the Ben E King track) and the B side was Tic Toc, and one has to ask the question, did a certain Two-Tone band rip this tune off in 1979 ? bearing in mind this was recorded in 1966, I’m sure when one here’s the opening intro too this tune, the same opinion will be agreed.
Owen ‘Ownie’ McIntyre replaced Hughie Nicolson, Jimmy Oakley (vocals), Graham Maitland (guitar), Diego Danalaise (bass), Alan Kelly (drums) but as there was a London bias towards Scottish bands, this meant bands had to leave Scotland and go too London for a recording contract. This wasn’t too the liking of the latter two, and they were replaced by Norrie MacLean and Stewart Francis. They also embarked on a highly successful tour of Germany. By all accounts Norrie MacLean was a bit of a lad even stealing a fellow musicians speaker columns in London, noted for having a cycnical view on life and later hung himself. Another thing that went against Scottish bands, was were the public bought their records. I believe in Glasgow there was only two places were you bought records that counted towards chart placings.
The Scots had a few more personnel changes as the rest of the band fell out with Jimmy Oakley, Alan Gowrie (ex-vikings) was also brought on board along with Hamish Stuart (dream police). They changed their name to Hopscotch while Oakley went solo. Enjoy.
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