Songs To Swish Your Pleats To

[Peter Crowe]

There are a few that come to mind from the sacred to the modern and very much in between!

Sacred: Old 100th.

In between would include a lot by Burns, eg 'Hielan Laddie, Scots Wha Hae, Braw Braw Lads, Ye Jacobites By Name, to mention a few.

Modern stuff like Runrig's Hearts of Olden Glory, Pride of Summer, and Alba, in fact a lot of their earlier less commercial stuff.

Pipe/Miltary tunes like The Dark Island, Black Bear, Blue Bonnets oe'er the Border.

Even non Scottish specific, eg. Hearts of Oak, Dambusters March etc.

[EagleJCS]

As far as pop music goes, anything with a lively beat would probably do. Even big band or swing music would probably get a god swish going if you're walking to it.

Most pipe bands really like 6/8 marches for a good 'swish'. (6/8 refers to the time signature of the music: 6 beats to each measure, the eighth note gets one beat).

When marching to a 6/8, the first and fourth beats are where your feet get placed: beat one is the left foot (ALWAYS start marching on your left foot!) and beat four is the right foot, so two steps per measure. If you listen to a pipe band playing this style, you'll probably hear the bass drum hitting these two beats.

Examples:
Bonnie Dundee, Cock O' the North, The Glendaruel Highlanders, Garry Owen, Leaving Port Askaig, etc.

[LANCER1562]

How about "Major Brodie's March" from "Bridge on the River Kwai?"

[Meggers]

Rocky Road to Dublin! Thats a song that gets me bouncing on my feet every time.

I got a great mental image of you wagging your "pleats" (AKA: behind!) to Rockin Robin by the way.

[Downunder Kilt]

How about "Major Brodie's March" from "Bridge on the River Kwai?"

I think you mean the song "Colonel Bogey" which Jock has alread suggested

[freddie]

Somebody beat me to it, but 'The Glandaruel Highlanders' is the one for me. That's one tune you can really 'swing' the pleats to .

[2176agp]

Well --- my fave is Move It by Cliff Richard -- especially when its spinning around at 78 rpm.

But -- one that is a must is Hoots Mon by Lord Rockingham's XI -- again best served at 78 rpm -- with immortal lines like : Hoots mon. There's a moose loose aboot this hoose!




Tony

[HockeyBoyDavis]

How about we step into this Century with something more like "Drunkin Lullibies" from Flogging Molly.

[Nick the DSM]

I was going to say Kreator or something, but that works too...

[McElmurry]

Depending upon sporran selection perhaps Muskrat Love.