Scotland fans party at Boston's Fenway Park
The Andy Considine stag-do group chat must be buzzing each time the resurgence of "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" reaches new heights.
It is already unusual that a Scotland anthem emerged from a video featuring the former Aberdeen defender dressed in drag, dancing to the 1970s Baccara hit.
Yet, witnessing Fenway Park, one of sport's most iconic venues, erupt in song 3,000 miles from Scotland was another surreal moment.
So how did a spontaneous music video, created by a group of friends on a stag weekend over ten years ago, become the soundtrack of a summer in Boston?
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From Aberdeen head-wetting to five-hour Shoreditch shoot
The story begins on the day Considine—who earned three caps for Scotland and played nearly 600 times for Aberdeen—celebrated the birth of his eldest son with close friends and family.
Known in the UK as "wetting the baby's head," his cousins Victor and Liam spent the day in Aberdeen randomly singing Baccara's "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" in every karaoke bar they visited.
Considine only later understood the song's significance when the same group reunited for his stag do in London.
On the Saturday of that weekend, Considine was given a drag outfit to wear. A drinking game left him "blootered" by late morning, before his best man informed him they would be filming a music video.
A taxi took them to Shoreditch, where a large studio and make-up rooms awaited the former centre-back and his friends to record their version of the disco hit, which topped the UK charts for a week in 1977.
"I got dolled up... my dad and uncles did too," he revealed on Open Goal in 2021. "As the hours went by, it just got more ridiculous."
The video took five hours to complete and was later shown during the best man's speech at Considine's wedding.
"It didn't go down well..." he said.
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Five years later, the nation was captivated by footage of the Scotland team dancing to Baccara in Serbia after securing qualification for Euro 2020.
Considine, an unused substitute that night in Belgrade, was seen celebrating enthusiastically with dressing-room DJ Kieran Tierney and the squad in a now-legendary video posted on Scotland's social media.
The Tartan Army could not travel for the behind-closed-doors play-off due to strict Covid lockdowns, but the anthem remained vivid in fans' minds when a limited number of supporters attended Euro matches that summer.
The victory and ensuing celebrations provided a much-needed boost to the nation and the disco duo, who were amazed by the unexpected revival.
"With this pandemic, I have been sitting at home and this has uplifted me in a way you cannot imagine," Mendiola, who passed away five years ago, told BBC Scotland.
"I will always thank the Scottish team and especially Andy Considine for making me so happy after 43 years.
"I saw all the articles and everyone was calling me. I was delighted. I thanked the Scotland team and spoke with Andy over Instagram. He had such nice words."
The anthem's legacy endures, becoming a staple of the Hampden playlist and accompanying the team to Euro 2024 in Germany and the United States this summer.
The sight of tens of thousands of Scots enthusiastically dancing to the tune after their first World Cup win in 36 years would have been surreal for Considine and the group who persuaded him to record the Shoreditch video.
Days later, footage of Boston Red Sox fans joining in during a Tartan Army takeover at Fenway Park elevated the phenomenon to a new level—and there is potential for more to come.
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