Talk:Hamish Imlach

Deleted the Emettones

I deleted the the following:

"As a member of the Emmettones he recorded, "Bold Robert Emmett", which reached number one in the Irish charts."

Also this comment left by someone else "Having grown up with the Irish charts from the beginning I have no memory of Emmettones and after consulting "The Larry Gogan Book Of Irish Chart Hits" I find that there is no mention there, therefore I feel your earlier contributer has got their facts wrong."

The Emmettones looks like a made up cross between the Emmet Spiceland and the Wolfe Tones.

Looks like this has has been here since october 06 though I can't make it show red in a diff.

Mind you this does sound like the kind of tale Hamish would tell (though that doesn't make it any more likely to be true)!Filceolaire (talk) 11:50, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Bold Robert Emmett by the Emmettones, on Beltona 45-BL 2722 (1960), is listed in the Hamish Imlach bio/discography given at the end of this article. There is a jpg of the record. Whether it got in the Irish charts I don't know, but I doubt it somehow! Cyclingmole (talk) 12:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Ban

I've added 'for a time' to the BBC ban, on the grounds that it was on the BBC I first heard Imlach singing 'Cod Liver Oil'. It was certainly played on the folk music programmes. Peridon (talk) 00:31, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

US-centric

I'm editing the following sentence: Despite being little-known in the US and outside of the folk community, he influenced many other artists, including most notably John Martyn and Billy Connolly. as I can see no relevance in his being unknown in the US when he is being described as an influence on two other Scots. Normally I would have went ahead and made the change but I wanted to make the point on here as well as there is too much of a US-centric bias across Wikipedia. On no level is the notability of Hamish Imlach contingent on his being known in the USA so out it goes. Keresaspa (talk) 20:04, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm not happy about the 'outside the folk community' either. I was talking about him the other day with a Scottish colleague who is definitely not a folkie - but was an Imlach fan. Peridon (talk) 21:04, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Agree with you on that so I've made another edit to the sentence. There is no real way to prove that he is only known to folk fans so that statement is also pretty redundant. Indeed I have an uncle who is a fan but not a folkie so I reckon your point is well made. Keresaspa (talk) 00:23, 19 January 2010 (UTC)