Stan was born 1928 in Ayrshire, emigrated to Canada in 1957 along with his wife Anne and Bobby Frew.
He formed his band over there originally named ‘The Clansmen’ but his recording company RCA decided that in America that was too much of a reference to the Klu Klux Klan and could be confused as connections to it (the Yanks are something else if not paranoid eh??).  So undaunted Stan, having arranged the Flying Scotsman (and he did the original version) renamed the band ‘The Flying Scotsmen’ to appease RCA.
The irony of that was that when Stan & Bobby Frew formed the band in Canada, they literally took the place by storm getting a recording contract with RCA very shortly after. Stan Hamilton played piano and played together with his childhood friend Bobby Frew (Accordion), his father Jimmy Hamilton (fiddle), John McCroskie (drums) and others.
In Canada he played with Bobby Frew and Bobby Brown (also originally from Scotland, joining 1961 to 1974, when left to form his own band
Stan Hamilton passed away 4 September, 2007.