who are the Gilnockie Highlanders?

[OC Richard]

I'm no expert on vintage vinyl but the style of the album cover suggests to me the 1970s. The "mono/stereo" logo is interesting, does it suggest an earlier date, the 1960s?

As far as oxymoronic "Highlanders" band names go, there's plenty of those here in the US. Wherever Scots congregated they used that name for things, even in places flat as a billiard board. I guess it refers to the people, not the topography.

That reminds me, have any of you been to Levelland, Texas? It's as flat as the name promises, like being at sea, pretty much.

http://www.levellandtexas.org/index.aspx?nid=177

[imrichmond]

The price sticker in French Francs (25 francs, around 5$US at the time), the designation "gravure universelle" (mono/stereo compatible recording), and the words "Les Tréteaux" (meaning "the boards" or "the stage" but also the name of the now-defunct French recording company that issued this recording) on the cover mark this as a recording issued in France likely in the 1960s or 1970s. The Gilnockie Highlanders in all likelihood never existed. I suspect the name was invented simply to appeal to the average French person's idea of "Scottishness", just like the cover, with its decidedly odd elements. The recording is quite possibly a compilation of older recorded tracks or a re-issue of an older recording under a new title.

[ShaunMaxwell]

That reminds me, have any of you been to Levelland, Texas? It's as flat as the name promises, like being at sea, pretty much.

http://www.levellandtexas.org/index.aspx?nid=177

James McMurtry (son of Texas novelist Larry McMurtry) has a song about Levelland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-D824LHti4

[Profane James]

I may be thinking of something else, but, I have a vague memory of this being discussed either here, or on another forum (Bob Dunsire?). I believe the consensus was that it was another countries answer to marketing an album of GHB tunes.