Andy Stewart "Hey Johnny Cope"

[EwanStewartFan]

what year was this from?

[bealach]

@EwanStewartFan

Not sure, maybe early 1960s.

[lehnrik]

Who was Johnny Cope?

[bealach]

@lehnrik

“Hey! Johnny Cope” is a Jacobite song and refers to General Sir John Cope. At the time of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion General Cope commanded the Government Forces in Scotland.

[lehnrik]

@bealach Aha, ok, thanks! Happy new Year!

[bigboondi]

Andy was watched the world over, I remember watching his shows on early New Zealand TV, and as a kid I thought Scotland was just like his TV show. that was the early 60's in NZ.

[DEREK772]

That's sick, the host sings on his own show

[HaggisPowah]

Saw Andy live in Aberdeen as a kid ! He was the business!

[MANTLEBERG]

OUR WILLIE....

AHE KEIN WHUT YU SAY WILLIE, BIT THE GRASS IS WET, AN ME HURLES TOO WEE.

[OurLadyofGalway]

Mr. Stewart died the year I was born. He's great - so natural! I love "Johnnie Cope." I'm not Scottish but the Irish -me!- and the Scots were allies!

[Pawnbroker00]

@OurLadyofGalway Scotland and ireland were never allies.. ireland was never united, it spent most of the past millenium under the yoke, retard

Irish and scottish were traditionally friendly, since both had celtic cultures of the same origin

[OurLadyofGalway]

@Pawnbroker00 I apologise for not being more explicit. If 'Bonnie Prince Charlie" had suceeded Catholic Ireland would have allied Herself with him. Thanks for explaining!

[robsargent4]

@OurLadyofGalway Fair point.

[JCMcGee]

@Pawnbroker00 : Do you know the 1st thing Robert Bruce did after gaining Scottish Independence?

[robsargent4]

@JCMcGee Did he not send his brother Edward Bruce to assist the Irish Gaels to fight against the Hiberno Normans? Then somehow or other Edward Bruce (not Edward King of England) was crowned High King of Ireland, but the Irish Gaels were never united behind him, some of them even fighting for the Hiberno Normans. Well actually Irish Gaels probably had more in common with a Hiberno Norman than a Scotto Norman. Anyway the Hiberno Normans & the Anglo Normans managed to defeat & kill Edward Bruce

[robsargent4]

@JCMcGee despite help from his older brother Robert, King of Scots & that was the end of that. So the King of Scots did try to ally himself with the Irish Gaels against the Hiberno Normans, but apart from anything else, maybe the fact that he & his brother were part-Norman themselves could account for the mixed reaction they received from the Irish Gaels. Of course the Gaels in Ireland & Scotland continued to have family & military ties after this, just as they'd always done, but I don't think

[robsargent4]

@JCMcGee Ireland as a whole & Scotland as a whole have ever been allied.

[wilsonj1954]

Happy New Year from Hooks N Crooks!

[LittleDikkins]

God rest your sweet soul, Andy Stewart.

[surfer5864]

This is the best version of the song. I think I've watched this video over 50 times in the past week. We need more videos of Andy on youtube, I love watching him sing.

[endora60]

This is better than most of Stewart's stuff, but I'd still rather hear the Corries' version. This is a little too "Hollywood."

[Pawnbroker00]

Good times, way back when there was no niggers and foreigners in scotland

[endora60]

@Pawnbroker00 OMG, you didn't really just dishonor yourself and your country with this kind of racism! You owe your family and nation and everyone on YouTube an apology.

[Pawnbroker00]

@endora60 How is it racism? Why apologise? There was no niggers back then, only the occasional englishman. Nowadays, even here in the countryside there are many english immigrants.

[fokjock]

@endora60

Hey dearie-just because you embrace Labours open door "Scotlands no place for racism", crap doesn't mean we all have to swallow it.I preferred my country the way it was when I was young.We don't need the economic immigration we have here now despite being lied to- I wasn't asked if I wanted it-but got it all the same.

Gordon Brown and his Ilk I hope will rot for what he's done.

[DimpleScot]

@Pawnbroker00 You don't have to love recent immigration policy, but in talking about black people in such a disparaging way you make all Scottish people look bad. I've travelled the world as seen a great deal of poverty, and if I were in the shoes of those seeking immigration here I would do the same and so would you. Please just enjoy the music.

[Pawnbroker00]

@DimpleScot True but that doesn't mean they should be allowed in

[DimpleScot]

@Pawnbroker00 True but that doesn't make it ok to call them n****rs.  Grow up.

[sanjuancb]

Stewart's voice is just perfect for this song! Makes the modern talent sounds anemic, that's for sure...

[fredxmertz]

PLANXTY do a very fine version of this song, but a VERY different interpretation. with Uillean pipes and bodhran.

[derail14]

what a excellent tenor voice, i love this kind of stuff, real music indeed.

[Cool2BCeltic]

Andy Stewart was definitely a kilted entertainer with the emphasis on the entertainer. He also had quite a gift for ad-libbing.

[diggertroc]

Cant beat the old shit and the banter

[staceym4866]

this song is really good

[123678944]

get oooot me house knew!!

[matelot95]

I remember his show in the early 70's on Tyne Tees at 12:30 on a weekday

[stupat3]

Sometimes it would be guid to go back to these days,I live in Queensland but will never forget my scottish roots. stuart

[CenturyGamer]

scottish roots? Lol dont tell me your a colonist cunt

[stupat3]

thank your understanding of the english language, let me know when you can write a proper reply .

[CenturyGamer]

Wtf? Fuck the foreign language

[starfighter441]

@CenturyGamer.

you might consider that without we "colonial cunts" the mother country would have been lost.

BTW it is you're not your, do try to keep up with the rest of the class.

[CenturyGamer]

what mother country? Your ancestors must not have valued it all that much to leave it in it's hours of weakness,, english murdering and repeatedly trying to destroy scotland and it's spirit, culture and language, now i must say even the modern english aint doing all that well

[wullies11]

Ah wis only a wee laddie when the white Heather club wis oan the go but it is bloody guid.

[KiltDude32]

Does anyone have the full episode they can upload? Sorry, but I can't get enough of The White Heather Club.

[Factnotfictionpeople]

See, with talent like his you don't need all that studio wizardry - RIP Mr. Stewart - New Year's isn't the same since we lost you......

[connelpark]

neerday has never been the same since Andy was taken off he was the man

The young uns have their yins noo so best of luck tae them

[wendellzzz]

come awa' ben an' toast yer erse et the fire....

[kangaroocomedy]

Come Again?

[MrTomDHG]

Oh man, my dad sings this everytime I have a sleep in...

[1D84down]

Yeah, the White Heather Club was best avoided by teenagers in the 60s like the plague but Andy, like a lot of artistes of the time, seem to have a touch of style now. Just nobody dare start singing 'Donald, where's your...' - a bl00dy disgrace to Scotland!

[red777photo]

ace. i'm gonny sing this up the ochils the moarra

[Savagedd]

They don't make em like Andy anymore. How we Scots teenagers hated him in the sixties - but looking back he was entertaining.

[Cool2BCeltic]

This was Scotland's counter attack on the rock 'n' roll revolution. My Granny used to like Andy Stewart (well the Grannys of most Scots of a certain age liked him). He was described as one of a host of kilted entertainers but he stood out because he was genuinely entertaining. I've told a few people that it was his son, Ewan Stewart, who played First Office Murdoch in Titanic and they're incredulous, discounting the very noticeable father-son likeness.