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Goodnight Sweetheart

from Ancestral Manoeuvres 1984 by McCalmans

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I mentioned we had great times in Shetland and on our first tour with the "new" line-up we stayed at Rick Nickersons' place in Lerwick. Rick played bass guitar on many of our earlier albums and we were listening to some of his record collection, in particular the "American Graffiti" soundtrack which featured "The Inkspots" singing "Goodnight Sweetheart". I reckoned it could be one of our "light relief" novelty tracks and imagined it as an encore song but the guys thought I was nuts. To their credit, we rehearsed the song and it was Nick who started the finger snapping choreography thing. Derek played along with the swaying send-up dance and, thank God, I played guitar, thus escaping an embarrassing "dad-dance". It worked.

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from Ancestral Manoeuvres 1984, released January 1, 1984
Nick sings the verses. Publishing Noble, Campbell and Connolly

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McCalmans Edinburgh, UK

Formed 1964, Edinburgh, studying Architecture. Ian McCalman, Derek Moffat, Hamish Bayne, for 18years.Then McCalman, Moffat, Nick Keir for 27yrs. Then McCalman, Keir, Stephen Quigg for 9yrs. 27 albums, multiple TV series. World tours. "Best live act" award, "Hall of Fame", "Hamish Henderson award", recorded 400 songs, retired 2010. folk singers, writers, talkers, travellers, Love Scotland. Friends! ... more

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