A Mulligan or moniker song written by Ray Campbell, Tunker Campbell’s uncle, and recorded by The Flummies as track #4 on their 2000 album Labradorimiut, recorded at Sim’s Studio, Belleoram, NL, and published by World Replication Group. A five piece aboriginal music group, The Flummies are based in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. Alton Best of Mud Lake and Richard Dyson of Batteau are original members of the group which was formed in 1978. Leander Baikie of Northwest River officially joined in 1999 after several years of periodic performances. Eugene (Tunker) Campbell of both Rigolet and Mulligan joined in 1989. Simeon Asivak of Makkovik joined in 1999. The Flummies have carved their place in the Newfoundland and Labrador music scene over the last 32 years. Representing Labrador and the province, the band has seen national and international success, and won East Coast Music Awards, including Aboriginal Artist/Group of the Year, 2003. In early 2010 they were inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour, and in August of that same year they released their eighth album, The River.
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Tom Paxton’s 1963 lament for a friend, recorded by John Barr aka “Little” John Cameron from High Blantyre, Scotland and Torbay, Newfoundland, Canada [1943-2002] from his album Sit Down, Mr. Music Man ©1967 Boot Records, Toronto. “Little” John Cameron spent his youth in High Blantyre, near Glasgow, Scotland. He attended St. John’s Grammar School in Hamilton, Scotland, and started playing as a solo folk singer in local bars and clubs around 1966. His local pub was Hasties Farm where it is said he was allowed to stay after hours. He was a motorcycle fanatic back then and lived alone as his mother had re-wed and moved south to England. John moved to Toronto in 1968 when he was 25, and added “Little” to his name to distinguish it from the Maritime folksinger John Allan Cameron [1938-2006]. After a decade on the city’s music circuit, Little John Cameron came to Newfoundland as a member of the Sons of Erin. When he left that group, he became a popular entertainer in the St. John’s club scene and frequently toured the outports where he is still remembered along the coastal ferry routes of those small communities. During 1970, he returned to Scotland where he visited with his friend from way back who supplied GEST with much of the information in this biography. John continued on the pub circuit in