James C.M. Campbell (1896-1979) was indubitably one of the most distinguished Gaelic concert singers that Scotland has known. But he was also representative of a far rarer breed: a singer whose formal education in music, perfected far away from his native Highlands, never led him to deny the virtues of traditional singing. He had a huge repertoire of songs, both those that made him famous on the concert platform but also those that he had learned traditionally, most of them within the family circle. From the archives of the School of Scottish Studies