Posted on 12/07/2024 2:38:09 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
Lyrics from Roger Whittaker
The ones I remember…
The Last Farewell
If…
Durham Town
…and a couple other songs I don’t remember the titles to.
An amazing baritone and he never needed a “band” in the traditional sense.
Born in Kenya and fought the Mau-Mau during his National Service.
One of the few to live the sort of life he sang songs about.
We had the LP album and a couple of others by Roger Whitaker.
Our son has them now.
We left Hawaii in the early 1970s.
While we lived there we visited the British sailing ship that was anchored in Honolulu, “The Falls of Clyde”.
Listening to this song always makes me lapse into extreme nostalgia.
Sadly, it appears that the Falls of Clyde is about to be scrapped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls_of_Clyde_(ship)
Add my mom to the list, she still plays RW and especially loves Last Farewell.
Elvis must have been a fan too. His version is on youtube.
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