A PICTURE in an occasional series that should be entitled “Things celebrities have to do for money or to plug a show”. Here we have singer Glen Daly, who could bring a tear to a glass eye with his Scottish songbook, looking remarkably chipper as he holds two very large fish.

The photographer notes that Glen is at Bernard Corrigan’s, the leading Glasgow fish wholesalers, in 1972. Alas he fails to record the reason why Glen is actually there, as staff crowd round.

As I say, the likeliest explanation is that Glen had a show perhaps at the Pavilion that he needed to drum up publicity for, or he had been hired for some shopping feature appearing in the Evening Times.

Glen, who recorded The Celtic Song which is still played at Parkhead, began work in the shipyards after school, but moved to the stage where he sang and did an occasional double-act with Lex McLean. He had a good singing voice, and recorded many an album, often at the Ashfield Club, of classic songs about Scotland which many a granny listened to at New Year.

Corrigan’s is still going strong, although its shop on Byres Road recently closed. A shame as I often stared in the window trying to guess what the exotic fish were.