Willie Kemp, King of the Cornkisters (born 1888 in Oldmeldrum – 1965) is best known as a singer and writer of Doric comic songs.
During the early 1920s, Kemp went to Art school in Aberdeen and while there, he joined a concert party.
An employee of the Beltona record label heard his broadcasts and he was invited to Beltona's London studios to make recordings.
His musical composition skills were good, his lyric composition less so, and as a result his best work was done in collaboration with others, particularly the lyricist G Bruce Thomson with whom he wrote McFarlane o the Sprotts o Burnieboosie, The Weddin o McGinnis tae his Cross-eyed Pet and McGinty’s Meal and Ale.
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