Videos and Presentations
• Aoyama Cemetery For Site (Mar.2024) in Word
A Dafty Dancing:
1. A Fan of this Great Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfgNBQrsKNs
2. Another Song for Crazy Dancing: https://youtu.be/VAH7PalOAeM
3. Sea Cruise by Frankie Ford: https: Dafty Sea Cruise https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipO7rNC5pafWsewi8AeEyrwe1i-GUIm2257Lg5Qs
- Introduction to FineLine Press: FLPee’s Gee Bee discusses briefly some of FLPress’s interesting books over 14 years. January 2023 https://youtu.be/WmRa8CxCJDU (Apologies – “gomen nasai” – to Mary King; her walk down Japan was 7,500 kms … not the diminutive distance I say here!)
- Memories – recalling our gravedigging summers together.
- Blood Money, Blood Oath! – Memory of James and Graham giving blood for cash in Athens in 1970.
- Dafty Dancing to a Great Song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfgNBQrsKNs
- Present Perfect: Spot points you could improve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIZxY4jlE8k
- Bye Buy Our Home! Trying to sell home against odds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-gPbBYQCWs
- Poetry a Centenarian Remembers: About the book by Graham Bathgate https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations
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Tartan Daffodils: G.Bathgate, a daft Scotsman Scottifies Wordsworth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3wvnFDU28w
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Serious Stones: Graveyards in New Zealand and Tokyo https://youtu.be/6TIyhILiS0c
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What to do in Self-Isolation? Billy and Graymey sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKfxALA6A0Q
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Shadow(s) Play by G.Bathgate: Listen carefully! https://photos.app.goo.gl/td6rnQnRcrAeaMNw5
- Scots Lingo: Memories of Scots as a Foreign Language https://youtu.be/apmiZr3Z4Ek
- Robert Louis Stevenson: Personal memories, a dialogue https://youtu.be/cm_lh-t3oA8
- Audios from book “Gushers” by G.Bathgate:
- Presentation by G.Bathgate at Japan Writers’ Conference, Tokyo, 8-9 Oct. 2017
Original (Very) Singing (Sort of) and Recitation
Ahm No’ Awa’ Tae Bide Awa’ (Full version!)
• I Woke Up This Morning (Apologies to Crispian St Peters and others)
• Erza Hoose in Embry (Sung&Spoken)
• Erza Hoose (Apologia tae Ra Animals)
• Uncle Ivan – Turn that Wireless Off!
• The Time Has Come (With some subtle changes)
• Thengs (Scots version)
• You Are My Sunshine
• In These Hawns …
• Blue Suede Shoes – recitation of course!
• Great joke! Back Passage … say no more!
• Wand’rin’ Star
• The Braes / Battle o’ Killiecrankie-o
• Twal’ Scottish Days o’ Christmas (Very Scottish!)
• Mindin’ o’ The Man – Introduction
• Scottishisms (Not translated!)
• Jesus Loves Me! (Jings!)
• The Last Time – Spoken
• Sir Patrick Spens, great Scots ballad
• A Wee Scottish Tale … very short!
• Short spelling joke (Womb) … less than a minute:
• No’ Awa’ Tae Bide Awa'(Mercifully only three versions):
- 1. Stay Away / Bide Awa’
- 2. Parody of “No’ awa’ tae bide awa'” – Thinking kindly of a fair number of friends and acquaintances recently shuffled off. (March, 2023)
- 3. Ahm No’ Awa …’ sings Grim Bathgate … after a fashion