Scottish funkster Jesse Rae might not have made a name for himself but he did write the huge hit Inside Out for Odyssey.

I was generally disappointed by the film The Drama, largely because I didn’t really buy into the relationship, or the so-called drama that threatens to derail it.

But I did like the music, and was intrigued by this song, Inside Out, not least because it’s subtly different from the hit single by Odyssey that I remember.

That’s because it’s by Jesse Rae, who actually wrote the song and recorded his own version, which I don’t think I’d ever heard before.

Jesse is one of the most eccentric funksters in a world not exactly thin on eccentrics. For a start, he’s Scottish. So, you might point out, were the Average White Band. But the AWB never performed, as Jesse always did, dressed in kilt and helmet, brandishing a claymore.

A fervent champion of Scottish culture and independence, Rae released a single in 1981 with the Scottish politician David Steel on vocals, called I Feel Liberal – Alright. It was not a hit, and nor was Steel with the voters.

Rae had rather more success the following year, albeit vicariously (and financially) when his song Inside Out became a Top 3 hit for Odyssey, who had already had disco hits like Native New Yorker and Going Back To My Roots.

Rae had never released a record under his own name but in the Seventies he spent several years living in America, working with the P-Funk collective’s even more eccentric offshoot Space Cadets.

A few years later he finally had a single called D.E.S.I.R.E. released by the Miami label TK but it flopped, as did his own version of Inside Out when it finally came out in 1984.

A year later he went on to have a very minor hit with Over The Sea, aided by a self-directed video that may be the most Scottish thing you’ve ever seen.

And in 1996 he made a little bit of music history by becoming the first artist to release an entire album over the internet.