Archie Fisher

Archie Macdonald Fisher MBE (born 23 October 1939) is a Scottish folk singer and songwriter.

In 1962 Ray and Archie released the single "Far Over the Forth" on the Topic Records label and appeared on the BBC Hootenanny programme.

At an early stage Fisher recognised the power of Barbara Dickson's singing and in 1969 invited her to guest on his albums.

His song "Witch of the Westmorland" was recorded by Dickson in 1971 on her album From the Beggar's Mantle, by Fisher himself on The Man With a Rhyme in 1976, by Stan Rogers in 1979 and by Golden Bough in 1983.

After Barbara Dickson achieved fame as an easy listening singer, it was many years before she sang folk songs again.

His style of singing is very gentle and he generally avoids all electronic instruments, an exception is the recording of 'The last time I saw Esau Shaw' from the album 'Orfeo'.