Jimmy Shand

Sir Jimmy Shand was Scotland’s response to America’s “ruler from the polka,” Lawrence Welk. Probably one of the most effective entertainers in britain through the post-World Battle II period, Shand was granted a MBE (Medal from the English Empire) in 1962 and knighted in 1999. Although his maximum arrived in 1955 when his documenting “The Bluebell Polka” offered greater than a million copies and became a high 20 strike, Shand received the like of the English public for the others of his existence. A regular visitor on BBC Television shows, he previously his final achievement, in 1994, when his video “Dance Using the Shands” was detailed in the U.K. Music Video Graphs’ TOP for five weeks. The boy of the miner who performed melodeon in his free time, Shand was destined to get a career within the mines until an over-all hit, in 1926, avoided him from operating. Embracing music, he worked well at Forbes’ Music Store and began carrying out. Documenting traditional Scottish jigs for Regal Zonophone in 1933, he produced his debut appearance on BBC Radio the next year. Following Globe Battle II, he documented in a prolific price for EMI/Parlophone. Richard Thompson paid homage to Shand in his music, “Don’t Stage on My Jimmy Shands.”