Matt McGinn
Screwtops Are Falling On My Head
1975 — PYE PKL 5527 LP
Side One
Intro by Matt McGinn Junior
Granda
The Cradle of Civilisation — including:
Cider Wi' Yer Maw,
Ma Darlin' Is a Charlie and
My Dearest My Darling (Davidson)
My Wee Auntie Sarah
Crofter Story
Suzie
Side Two
Screwtops — including Leaving In a Police Van (Davidson)
and Amazing Grace
Gaelic Joke
Heiderum Hauderum
Maggie Might
Glaswegians Would (Matt McGinn, Jr.)
Two Wee Germs
Somebody's Wean
The Schmitt Family
Nelly May (J Herd)
Credits
Many thanks (alphabetically) to:
The Audience for Turning up
Jim Dorans for Banjo, Mandolin and Fiddle
Billy Davidson for Guitar and Material
Mr. & Mrs. Grenfall for Hospitality
Alex Hutton for Mandolin, Fiddle and Banjo
Stuart Jeffries for Engineering
Pete Kerr for Organisation, Material and Co-ordination
Shug O'Rourke for Bouzuki, Flute and Piccolo
Alex Osborne for Guitar
Beef Taggert for Cheek
Special thanks to:
Bryce Laing for Earplugs (imported)
Henry Spurway for Two Large Gins and Tonic for The Producer
Mrs. Thatcher for The Pies (Where's Cookin' Fat?) Glasgow Royal
Infirmary for The Stomach Pump
H. M. Government for The Toilet Rolls
Recorded February 1975
Front Photograph by Frazer Ballantyne
Sketch by Hugh Miller of Scottish Daily News
all tracks written by Matt McGinn (unless otherwise noted)
Sleeve Notes
Gales of laughter greeted every line of patter and song in the making of this album live at The Bonnie Prince Charlie in East Kilbride. That was the purpose of the exercise.
Now that hilarity is being passed on to the hundreds of thousands of fans and relations of Matt McGinn throughout the Scottish-speaking world.
McGinn, the most original and funniest of Scotland's comedian/songwriters, has become a household name since he took up singing (and roaring and bawling) some fourteen years ago. Since then, the sound of this human with the crow's voice has been marvelled at through clubs, concert halls, radio, films, the goggle box and the Medical Journal.
Matt McGinn....two little words synonymous with the big belly laugh and the chuckle, the earthy and the innocent in fun.
Dinah Campbell Dimaio
(Spinster of the Parish of Ballupha')
…Balladeers Notes
Screwtops Are Falling On My Head was Matt McGinn's final album, and the only not re-released in (any form).