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In 1924, he made a record-breaking tour of Scotland with a revue, Froth, that also featured the Houston sisters when it played in Glasgow. [2] In 1927, Lorne made two short films, The Lard Song [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and Tommy Lorne and "Dumplings" , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] both filmed in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
Westering Home" is a traditional Scottish folk song that was written by Hugh S. Roberton in the 1920s. The lyrics of the song talk about the Scottish Island of Islay . It was subsequently adopted as the slow march of the Royal Navy .
Billy Boys originated in the 1920s as the signature tune of the Billy Boys, who were a Protestant Glasgow razor gang in Bridgeton (an area of Glasgow historically associated with the city's Protestant population, and with Scottish unionism – Brigton is the Scots form of Bridgeton) led by Billy Fullerton.
January 19 – The Salzburg Festival is revived. [1]September 4 – City of Birmingham Orchestra (England) first rehearses (in a city police bandroom). Later this month, its first concert, conducted by Appleby Matthews, opens with Granville Bantock's overture Saul; in November it gives its "First Symphony Concert" when Edward Elgar conducts a programme of his own music in Birmingham Town Hall.
Topics specifically related to the decade 1920s in the music of United Kingdom, i.e. in the years 1920 to 1929. 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; ... Scottish music (1900–1949)
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Pages in category "1920s in Scotland" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1920 in Scotland;
Francis James Child, one of the key figures in beginning the first folk revival. In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century there was and an attempt to produce a corpus of Scottish national song, involving Robert Burns (1759–96) building on the work of antiquarians and musicologists such as William Tytler (1711–92), James Beattie (1735–1803) and Joseph Ritson (1752 ...