Watt Nicoll
Watt A Night
1969 - Transatlantic XTRA 1089 LP
Side One
The Crude Word
Wee Bird
Pound In the Hand
Dawn Talk
The Ballad of Graham Brown
Plumbers and Jiners
Side Two
Ballad of Wee Dan
Horny Bull
A Whisky History
Whisper Away
Never Drink the Water
Bonny One
Queen's Own Household Cavalry
Credits
Watt Nicoll: vocals, whistle, ocarina
Musicians: Ian McIntosh, Bob Eaglesham, Mike Whellans, Ally Bain, Stanley Thompson
Vocals: Doreen Swan & John Ballard
All songs written by Watt Nicoll
Sleeve Notes
Do you like a good belly laugh?
Are you patriotic, sentimental or a romantic?
Do you like good company and belting great choruses?
Then you're my kind of person and I've always believed that, if you could get afew hundred people like us into a hail, a few pints and a couple of halfs inside them, and the right kind of exciting musicians you could have one helluva good night, and, if it happened to be recorded it could make one helluva fantastic record.
On this L.P. I sing and play and generally make myself heard, I have the pleasure of introducng my favourite person, Doreen, as a recording artiste along with our nephew, Wee Johnnie Ballard, to say nothing of world champion strong man Graham Brown, but this is really misrepresentation for, although it's credited to me it isn't purely my record, it's a keepsake for three hundred people who all 'jined in' to have a 'BOMB' of a night.
It was recorded in the Ardencaple Hotel, Helensburgh where we had a bus load of Geordies frae Newcastle, dozens frae Fife, Edinburgh, Glesca, Dundee, Aberdeen, Oban and even one frae Auchenshugle. We had sentimentals which filled us wi emulsion, we had singing and laughing, music, belly laughs and belly dancing right through tae six in the morning and it's all here just as it happened, a recording of three hundred great people — 'Watt a Record' — 'Watt a Night'
Transatlantic Records and Watt Nicoll offer their thanks to the management and staff of the Ardenca pie Hotel, Rhu, Helensburgh, for their assistance.