The king of Scottish dance music Jimmy Shand is top of the pops again 57 years after his only other hit The Bluebell Polka made the charts.
A whole new generation of young people are dancing to Sir Jimmy’s music after a remixed version of one of his classic tunes topped the dance charts in Germany.
The Linton Ploughman, based on the Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre, has been turned into a dance track by Glasgow DJ Stevie Lennon.
The tune, Shander, made it to number one in Germany’s Top 100 Club Download chart last week, and Stevie hopes the rest of the world will catch on.
Sir Jimmy, who died in 2000 aged 92, sold millions of records in a 70-year career and made it into the UK top 20 with the Bluebell Polka in 1955.
While the remixed version of the famous Fifer’s track is rather different to the music his fans are used to, his son Jimmy Jr (75) is confident his father would have liked it.
It has received over 73,000 views, with a mostly positive reception.
Stevie, who runs the annual Stereofunk festival at Strathclyde Park, hopes Shander will find similar success.
”I hope this is just the start of it for Shander, once Britain picks it up. I expect it to become a big hit in Scotland but I’m just delighted with how it’s gone so far.”