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Your Cheatin' Heart is a BBC Scotland six part comedy drama serial, transmitted in 1990 and written by John Byrne. It starred Tilda Swinton, John Gordon-Sinclair, Katy Murphy, Eddi Reader and Ken Stott. The format is similar to Byrne's earlier serial Tutti Frutti but the tone is much darker.

Plot

Cissie Crouch (Tilda Swinton) is working as a waitress in an American themed bar and restauraunt in Glasgow called 'Bar L', while her husband Dorwood Crouch (Kevin McMonagle) is in prison for a robbery she believes he did not commit. (The prison where Crouch is being held is a thinly disguised version of Barlinnie Prison, known locally as 'The Bar L'). She meets journalist Frank McClusky (John Gordon-Sinclair) who agrees to help her to clear her husband's name by investigating Fraser Boyle (Ken Stott), a violent small-time criminal and drug dealer who had been a member of Dorwood's band 'Dorwood Crouch and The Deadwood Playboys'. McClusky discovers a connection between Boyle and Irish band 'Jim Bob O'May (Guy Mitchell) and The Wild Bunch'. We also learn that Boyle is the father of Cissie's child, who has been taken into care due to Cissie's inability to meet the child's needs and is living with foster parents in Aberdeen.

McClusky uses a taxi operated by Billie McPhail (Katy Murphy) and Jolene Jowett (Eddi Reader), who also perform as Country and Western duo 'The McPhail Sisters', and are looking for additional support musicians for what they see as their big chance as support act for the Wild Bunch. McCluskey pretends to be a musician and persuades Cissie to join him in supporting them in order to infiltrate the Country and Western 'scene' in Glasgow.

David Cole (Guy Gregory), the owner and manager of the Bar L, turns out to have been engaging in large scale international drug dealing, and is murdered by the gang of rival Ralph Henderson (Jack Fortune), who plans to use The Wild Bunch to transport the drugs.

Dorwood climbs onto the prison roof to protest his innocence, but falls off and then escapes from hospital, still seriously injured, with the help of Boyle who plans, incompetently, to smuggle him out of the country with the Wild Bunch.

So all the characters converge on the venue of the Wild Bunch concert at the 'Ponderosa', a roadhouse bar outside Glasgow.

Music

Throughout the series many of the characters perform country and western standards in small pubs and clubs. The music was all specially recorded for the series under the direction of Rab Noakes (credited as Robert Noakes) and Michael Marra. Backing tracks were pre-recorded and the vocals performed live on location by the cast.

Cast

• John Gordon-Sinclair – Frank McClusky
• Tilda Swinton – Cissie Crouch
• Kevin McMonagle – Dorwood Crouch
• Katy Murphy – Billie McPhail
• Ken Stott – Fraser Boyle
• Eddi Reader – Jolene Jowett
• Tom Watson – Timberworf Tierney/Cherokee George/
• Guy Mitchell – Jim Bob O'May

List of episodes

1. "Throwing Up in The Gorbals"
2. "The Eagle of the Apocalypse and the Sidewinders of Satan"
3. "This Could Turn Septic On Us, Ya Big Ungrateful Midden"
4. "Happy Trails"
5. "Lay That Pistol Down Babe"
6. "The Last Round Up"

Soundtrack Album

The soundtrack album was released by BBC Enterprises as BBC CD 791 (5 011755 079123) and on cassette as ZCF 791.

Performances were credited to the characters, rather than the performers. Vocals were re-recorded for the CD over the backing tracks originally recorded for the series.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Character(s) performing	Length
1.	"Your Cheatin Heart"	Hank Williams	Cissie Crouch and The McPhail Sisters	3:00
2.	"Jambalaya"	Hank Williams	Jim Bob O’May and The Wild Bunch	2:59
3.	"Don't Be Cruel"	Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley	The McPhail Sisters	2:35
4.	"Always On My Mind"	Johnny Christopher, Mark James, Wayne Carson	Dorwood Crouch and The Deadwood Playboys	3:38
5.	" Hey Good Lookin'"	Hank Williams	Roxanne and Timberwolf	2:08
6.	"Quicksilver"	George Wyle, Eddie Pola, Irving Taylor	The McPhail Sisters	2:56
7.	"Running Wild"	Tom Hall	Dorwood Crouch and The Deadwood Playboys	2:33
8.	"Deep Water"	Fred Rose	Jolene Jowett	2:47
9.	"Tennessee Waltz"	Redd Stewart, Pee Wee King	Jim Bob O’May and The Wild Bunch	3:01
10.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	The Deadwood Playboys	1:57
11.	"From A Distance"	Julie Gold	Jolene Jowett	4:11
12.	"Settin' the Woods On Fire"	Ed Nelson, Fred Rose	Jim Bob O’May and The Wild Bunch	2:23
13.	"Your Cheatin' Heart"	Hank Williams	Dorwood Crouch and The Deadwood Playboys	2:54
14.	"Half As Much"	Curley Williams	Jolene Jowett	2:25
15.	"It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'"	Johnny Tillotson	Jim Bob O’May and The Wild Bunch	3:02
16.	"Great Balls of Fire"	Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer	The Wild Bunch	1:55
17.	" The End of the World"	Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee	The McPhail Sisters	2:31
18.	"Hello Mary Lou"	Gene Pitney	Dorwood Crouch and The Deadwood Playboys	2:25
19.	"Singing The Blues"	Melvin Endsley	Jim Bob O’May and The Wild Bunch	2:13
20.	"Just Out Of Reach"	Virgil F Stewart	The McPhail Sisters	3:19
21.	"Lovesick Blues"	Cliff Friend, Irving Mills	Dorwood Crouch and The Deadwood Playboys	2:33
22.	"Sleepless Nights"	Felice and_Boudleaux Bryant	Cissie Crouch	2:42
23.	"I Can't Stop Loving You"	Don Gibson	Fraser Boyle	2:54
24.	"Runnin' Wild"	Joseph W. Grey, Leo Wood, Arthur H. Gibbs	Jolene Jowett	1:48
25.	"Your Cheatin' Heart"	Hank Williams	Jim Bob O’May and The Wild Bunch	3:57
26.	"Your Cheatin' Heart"	Hank Williams	John Carmichael and his Scottish Dance Band	2:32

External links

• Tutti Frutti at IMDb
• Tutti Frutti review on Screenonline

Category:1990 in Scotland Category:BBC Scotland television programmes Category:British comedy-drama television programmes Category:Scottish television comedy Category:1990 British television programme debuts Category:1990 British television programme endings Category:1990s Scottish television series