Play List
Music created specially for this websiteEvery track in the Cruden Bay Life Playlist has been created to complement specific content featured throughout the website. We hope this adds an extra layer of insight and depth to the articles and features they accompany.
In each track listing below, you’ll find links to both the lyrics and a page link to the corresponding content, as well as a link to download the track directly to your device.
Track 1: The Dardanelles
Our page on the Dardanelles goes some way towards explaining the reasoning behind this unusual place name, and this original ,song reverberates those same findings creating a poignant and stirring ballad. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 2: St. Olaf’s Well (Low by the sea)
The ancient spring now to be found on Cruden Bay Golf Course has a long and varied tale to tell. Great feats of bravery and glory on the fields of battle, and on the fairways and greens of one of the world’s top courses. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 3: The Hill Remembers
David Brown, Formartine Country Side Ranger and poet, captured in verse the story of ‘Ward Hill’, now set to music by Cruden Bay Life. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 4: Life Stones
An original composition to support the Cruden Bay Life Stones project [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 5: Stone and Sea
Another original composition and companion piece to ‘Life Stones’ [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 6: The Ruined Walls of Slains
An original composition about the ruined remains of Slains Castle. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 7: Farewell to Port Erroll
An original composition created for the Port Erroll webpage, it tells us of the emotive farewells as the wife sees the husband leave Port Erroll in search of fish. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 8: Shadows Over Slains
Another original composition for Cruden Bay Life reflecting on the connections between Bram Stoker, Slains Castle and Count Dracula! [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 9: Take Me Over The Ladies Bridge
Cruden Bay Beach is surely one of the most loved in the North East of Scotland, this original song captures that feeling perfectly. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 10: The Ballad of The Bullers o’ Buchan
The spectacular location of Cruden Bay’s nearest neighbour is celebrated in this original composition. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 11: The Ghosts of The Wistow Hall
An original composition created for the Port Erroll webpage, an account of the loss of the steam ship The Wistow Hall which was wrecked off Cruden Bay in 1912. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 12: The Flight From Cruden Bay
An original composition created for the Dardanelles webpage, an account of the first flight across the North Sea by Norwegian aviator Tryggve Gran in 1914. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 13: The Bricker Houses
An original composition created for the Old Brickworks webpage, a reflection of the industry and those who worked in it for the best part of the 20th century. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 14: The Flag Still Flies
An original composition and heartfelt ballad honouring the life of a Buchan farmer — his toil, dreams of Canada, and his enduring sprit, remembered through the eyes of his daughter. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 15: The Balad of Port Erroll Mission Hall
An original composition about the crooked little building on Harbour Street which ha served the community for over 175 years. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 16: Cruden Bay 2000
An original composition set against the backdrop of Jill MacWilliam’s video, which marked the Millennium in Cruden Bay, 25 years on it brings back many a happy memory. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 17: The Walk of D.R.A.C.U.L.A.
An original composition celebrating a protest march in 1990 when the villagers of Cruden Bay rose as one against proposals to site a landfill site on the edge of the village. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 18: When Christmas Comes To Cruden bay
An original composition celebrating Christmas preparations in Cruden Bay during December 2025 [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 19: The Earl Of Buchan’s Road
An original composition celebrating the deep historical links between Cruden Bay and Châtillon-sur-Indre. Inspired by the life of John Stewart, Earl of Buchan, it reflects both the shared medieval past and the modern friendship symbolised by the twinning of the two communities. [lyrics] [Download Track]
Track 20: The Ballad of the Frederick Solomon
In January 1919, within the space of 2 short days, 2 ships were wrecked off Cruden Bay, the first of which was the S.S. Frederick Snowdon. Everu 1 of the 14 men on board were lost. This original composition remembers them. [lyrics] [Download Track]