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By Andy Todd (@toddandy)
Jukebox Durie is our weekly review of the best (and the worst) Scottish football songs.
Do you want a football trivia question to keep you guessing in the run up to the Scottish Cup final? Howabout this one. Last week we featured “Glory, Glory to the Hibees”. This week we’re shining a spotlight on “The Hearts Song”. What connects the two songs?

Is it:

A: Both songs have near enough the same tune
B: Both songs were written by the same man
C: All of the above.

If you guessed C, you would be right – they do have very similar tunes, because they were written by the same man!

Hector Nicol was a comedian, a singer, and a star of ancient Scottish soap Take The High Road. (Take The High Road for those who don’t know, was like watching Coronation Street set in Kilsyth, or Emmerdale after all the actors have a stroke.) And not only did Hector write for Hibs and Hearts he also wrote “The Terrors of Tannadice” for Dundee United and “Dark Blue Of Dundee” for Dundee.

What a hoor!

In celebration of the Salt ‘n’ Sauce final, this week’s tune is The Hearts Song.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tcXXLy4bwM&w=420&h=315]

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About the Author
After too many years as season ticket holder at Parkhead, Andy Todd renounced the SPL three years ago to support Queens Park. One team is a rank bunch of amateurs who play in a state of the art stadium and the other is…(I think we can all see where this is going).

Andy has been performing comedy for 18 months but is currently ‘between gigs’ while he writes a book on Scottish property law to be published in Summer 2012. Its potential audience will be less than 300 but his mum will be very proud.

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Check out Andy’s website: www.toddandy.com

Andy Todd’s Jukebox Durie presents The Hearts Song

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