Andy Cameron

:"For other persons of the same or simiilar name, see Andrew Cameron (disambiguation)."Andy Cameron (born 1940) is a Scottish comedian, TV & radio broadcaster.

Career

He entered show business when he was 32, initially working in clubs. His act as a football hooligan led to him becoming a top comedy act in Scottish football clubs. He is probably best known for writing and performing the football anthem Ally's Tartan Army for the Scotland national football team's appearance at the 1978 World Cup. It went to No.6 in the UK Singles Chart and led to two appearances on "Top of the Pops" in 1978. Cameron promptly put all of the profits from his single into producing an album, which he hoped to release while the World Cup fever in Scotland was still going strong. He was too late - Scotland team went out of the World Cup early and Cameron's album fared equally badly.

In 1975 he came second in "New Faces" leading to several appearances on variety shows such as "Live at Her Majesty’s" with Jimmy Tarbuck and "Tarby and Friends".

In 1979, soon after the establishment of BBC Radio Scotland, he was given a 13-week contract to present a programme of music and humour. The show eventually ran for 15 years. He was voted Radio Personality of the year in 1984.

He had his own series on BBC Scotland in 1979 and again in 1982. He was awarded Scottish Television Personality of the Year for his 1983 series called "It’s Andy Cameron".

In the early 1980s he was invited to speak in debates at Cambridge and Oxford Universities alongside Arnold Brown and James Naughtie.

In 1984, Cameron presented STI's "Hogmanay" show. The following year he presented the BBC Scotland Hogmanay show, and continued to do so until 1989. His last Hogmanay appearance was in 1990, in a short programme called "Andy's Scottish Filling" which preceded the live BBC Hogmanay Show.

In 1994 Cameron joined the cast of "Take the High Road", the STV soap. He played a character called Chic Cherry, until the last episode in 2003.

He currently works as an after dinner speaker, and has a 'stand-up' act before Rangers F.C.'s home league matches. Furthermore, he presents a show on Clyde 2 on Sunday afternoons.

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