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Tommy Scott (1st April, 1946–present). Scottish musician, record producer, talent scout and Bee-Gee impersonator. He is famous for his the unique Scottish countryside videos with musical accompanyment/dancing. His trademark, 'Ant's In Yer Pants' jig, aviator sunglasses and singing style marked him out from his contemporaries in the Scottish music scene.

Biography
His musical career began with appearances in theatre, radio and TV with many of Scotland's legendary entertainers, including Andy Stewart, Chic Murray, and Lex McLean.

He travelled the length and breadth of the country with "The White Heather Club", Jimmy Shand, Willie Starr and Jack Radcliffe, and also performed the cabaret circuits in England, Germany, France and Holland.

In demand as a producer and one of Britain's most consistent hit makers, charting no fewer than 34 times.

Early life
Born on 1st April 1946, Tommy was the youngest of 12th children in the Scott Household. It was a musicial family, his father, Scotty, had learned to play the spoons when serving as a Sergent in the Dublin Fusiliers during the First World War and his mother, Talulah, was a classically trained Soprano opera singer. She studied in Switzerland at the Sor Bon(1914-1919). They met when Scotty went AWOL and fled to the neutrality of Switzerland.

Tommy's first words was the chorus to "Bonnie Wee Jeanie McCall" at the tender age of 1. His fantastic appetite for music meant that it was only weeks until he had learned the full song by heart.

Tommy's mother tragically left the household when Tommy was just 3, as his banjo playing conflicted with her classical trained ear.

As a poor family, Tommy was needed as a bread winner and never attended primary school. Instead, his father took him around the local Baillieston pubs to earn money by performing the hits of the day. Scotty played the spoons and Tommy sang his heart out. It was during this time that Tommy learned his trademark jig. To cope with the drunken pub crowds lobbing empty, and sometimes full, pint glasses at the performers, Tommy developed panther-like reflexes to avoid being hit by the glasses. So frequent were the missles, that Tommy's left-right movements evolved into the boxer-like jig he has made famous around the world.

Education
Tommy did not attend school until he was 9. A chance encounter with the local headmaster from Bannerman Primary school, who saw him perfoming in the Pipp Inn, Parkhead, ended Tommy's early musical career. The headmaster discovered that Tommy was the student who had not been attending his class for the last 4 years and Tommy was immediatley given the belt.

Tommy excelled at school and had a particular aptitude for mathematics. This lead to him being awarded a scholarship to Oxford where he studied Advanced Quantum Mechanics,

It was during this time that Tommy was approached by members of British Intelligence. His unique folk singing credentials made him very attractive to the intelligence community, who were looking for an agent to penetrate the Glasgow folk music scene which had increasingly been showing interest in communist theory. The unions of the Glasgow shipyards were a hive of red activity and Tommy was instructed to join the union, play the banjo and sing at the local social clubs in order to develop the persona of "Tommy Scott, musician".

As a by-product, Tommy started to release videos of his act.