Andy Stewart "Hey Johnny Cope"

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Uploaded by on Feb 7, 2008

Andy Stewart hosted the Scottish music and dance show, The White Heather Club.
This was a popular TV programme in the late 1950`s and early 60`s on BBC Scotland.
In this clip Andy is singing "Hey Johnny Cope".

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  • what year was this from?

  • @EwanStewartFan

    Not sure, maybe early 1960s.

  • Who was Johnny Cope?

  • @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.

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  • 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......

  • @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.

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  • Wonderful. - Erkele

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

  • 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.

  • @OurLadyofGalway Fair point.

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

  • @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

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