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This folk duo from Scotland featured Robin Hall (b. 27 June 1937, Edinburgh, Scotland, d. 18 November 1998, Glasgow, Scotland; vocals, bodhrán) and Jimmie MacGregor (b. 10 March 1930, Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland; vocals, electric guitar). Hall got studied on the Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Dramatic Artwork from 1955-58. There implemented a short spell as an professional in repertory theater, plus some single gigs and radio function. He fulfilled and teamed up with MacGregor in the 1959 Globe Youngsters Festival in Vienna. On the other hand, MacGregor originated from a working-class family members, and was mixed up in folk revival from the 50s. He discovered a lot of songs in the popular house celebrations that occurred at that time, with everyone performing and harmonizing. MacGregor’s 1st influences weren’t Scottish whatsoever, and were, actually, Burl Ives and dark American blues guy Josh White colored. MacGregor developed a repertoire of Ives tunes with the 1st acoustic guitar he bought. His following big impact was Ewan MacColl and ‘Ballads And Blues’. MacGregor graduated after four years at artwork school, and worked well like a studio room potter and instructor. He frequently hitchhiked to London to go to what few folk night clubs there were at that time. Ultimately, he resolved in London, becoming a member of Chas McDevitt’s skiffle group, but he remaining a couple weeks before that they had the strike record ‘Freight Teach’. There adopted some solo shows and membership of varied groups, like the Steve Benbow Folk Four. After conference Hall in Vienna, both were given very much encouragement by Paul Robeson who was simply playing at the same concert. Hall’s single album of kid ballads in the Gavin Greig collection, Last Leaves Of Traditional Ballads, is currently a collector’s item. The duo had been popular on tv, making their initial appearance on BBC Tv’sTonight, and made an appearance five nights every week for 14 years. In 1960, Decca Information released the solitary ‘Soccer Crazy’, which received significant amounts of airplay and attendant promotion. Hall and MacGregor also made an appearance frequently on radio, and so are kept in mind for the seriesHullabaloo, which began on 28 Sept 1963, on ABC tv. They continued to tour the globe, and record a lot more than 20 albums, showing up on countless radio and tv programs. One series that they truly became known was The White colored Heather Club, that they hosted for five years. In addition they documented with Shirley Bland and Leon Rosselson as the Galliards. After 21 years collectively, it had been Hall who known as a halt towards the duo’s profession. He had been anxious and had hardly ever really loved performing. There have been many reunion concerts, the final in 1994. Following the break up, Hall proceeded to go into broadcasting for the BBC Globe Service, aswell as writing, organizing and producing information. Furthermore to script composing, he also used journalism like a music and theatre critic. In 1977, he received two nationwide radio awards, greatest presenter and greatest documentary, for the documentary on Radio Clyde, The Sing Tune Streets, a program about Glasgow informed through songs, tales and kids’s video games. The program was written, created and provided by Hall. MacGregor composed three folk songbooks, do some solo function, and composed a book in the Western world Highland Method, which became the foundation of an effective tv series. Subsequently, he provides produced six outdoor tv series, and created five associated books. His very own radio display for BBC Scotland, MacGregor’s Gathering, continues to be running now for quite some time. In 1993 MacGregor was honored the OBE.