- Rab Corbett
Rab Corbett is the name of a
persona who made a number of prank calls in Scotland at some point in the late-1990s. Using the Scottish vernacular and copious amounts of swearing, the calls were mainly directed at businesses in and around the city ofPaisley ,Scotland and have achieved cult status in Scotland.The calls were made by a group of guys from Paisley who have subsequently kept their identities hidden. This is due to some of the recipients of the calls not being too happy.
Radio Clyde 'sGeorge Bowie had nothing to do with the project.The group called themselves Hang Up and the disc was titled Never Mind The Jerkys Here's Hang Up.
In 1998, the compilation of calls was released as a
CD on the God Bless Records label. The catalogue number is NOIR 008CD. God Bless is the record label of formerTeenage Fanclub memberBrendan O'Hare .After initial release the tracks were ripped-off to cassette tape. Although some tapes were done by the group as various version existed with tracks that didn't make the CD. These tapes were subsequently converted to
MP3 andRealMedia files and posted on the Internet a few years after their initial circulation. Nowadays they are common asringtone s within certain sections of the Scottish population.The caller also uses the names Charlie Joe, Dr Raymond McKenzie and Afrik Jahal. In one of the calls and refers to his mother as Mavis Corbett.
Transcript of "Snudge"
External links
* [http://www.wido.co.uk/html/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=1 Link to downloadable versions]
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