Roy Williamson - Nicky's Theme
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- This is one of the instrumental tracks from Roy Williamson's posthumous album, The Long Journey South, compiled from his home studio tapes. This track was written by Roy for his wife Nicky, whom we have to thank for getting the chance to listen to more of his music.
Roy was a brilliant musician.. so talented..on so many instruments.. A slightly unappreciated member of the original Corrie Folk Trio & Paddie Bell.. but he was young then. We will remember him .. with great relish.
Today, 25 June, 2019, would be Roy's 83rd birthday. If anyone wants to celebrate, listen to his record collection or watch UA-cam videos. Plenty of them, but never enough!
You should've seen the tributes I did on F Iacebook for Roy's 83rd birthday on Facebook. I will always miss him. Love you Poppa Roy. I also did a poem tribute on the anniversary of his passing
ARKYBARK, I just listened to Roy's music again after several months; it is heartbreaking. He must have known he was going to die; he needed to communicate the fact to Nicky and perhaps to other people; he also needed to memorialise his marriage to her in some manner.
Roy knew he was dying but tried to be positive to those he loved.
What Beautiful Music for my dear friend Nicky. You are together again and missed so very much xxx
Hi Carol! You knew his Widow personally? Wow. I included Nicky in a tribute I did for Roy a year ago and I was wondering if you could get in touch with me. You know Mary Ann my friend with whom I still in keep in touch with and we are both fans of the Corries Roy in particular. I call him my musical Poppa as he was known as the GODFATHER of Scottish Folk. Anyway please drop me a line I'd love to hear from you. Thanks
Hi Elizabeth if you can drop me an email
I recently came across this CD at an Irish summer school in Germany - of all places. It was priced at €5.80. I paid more than €25 for it from Amazon, the only place I could find it at the time. My dream is to someday stumble across a Corrie Folk Trio album autographed by the three guys and Paddie.
+Arkybark We can but dream.
Love this beauty, typical of Roy, magical Roy, R I P Roy.
Isn't love beautiful I was always thinking how beautiful Roy was and then he writes this for his wife Nicky , I'm sorry you lost a beautiful husband Nicky but you will always have this melody of his love to remember him by, you have been blessed lassie
Gaileen Buchanan: Nicky was Roy's second wife. His first wife, with whom he had two daughters, was Violet Thomson. Nicky is no longer alive; Violet, to the best of my knowledge, IS alive. She lives in Edinburgh with her and Roy's younger daughter, Sheena.
Absolutely brilliant, God bless you Roy. Miss you my friend.
So lovely.Magical Roy.
Yes he was. Such a sweet soul.
Thank you for lifting my spirit, a beautiful experience!
Has anyone noticed the inherent melancholy in this music? When he composed it, Roy Williamson may have known he might die.
Quite possible. Most of the tracks from the studio tapes that were put on the CD are in this mood. Not sure if there were any recording dates on them. On the CD sleeve notes, his widow wrote that Roy planned for the track called Number One to be a new direction.
Thanks for your response. I own a CD of "The Long Journey South," purchased in Edinburgh years ago.
On another topic, is Ronnie Browne's book hard to read? I ask because it may shift between standard English and Scottish dialect, which I found offputting in another author's book [not connected with the Corries].
Not hard to read at all. It's all in standard English, no dialect, neatly organised into chapters. It's also not all chronological so you can read at random rather than all the way through at once.
Great; thanks.
I've ordered the book.
I've also added 2 comments in the Reinhard Farkas exchange.
For convenience I'll copy them below.
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Arkybark: I bought a CD of "The Long Journey South" at a shop in Edinburgh's Old Town years back. I also bought a CD that Ronnie made. I don't recall the name of the store.
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I should note that the shop may no longer stock these products. The owner or manager had known Roy Williamson, who'd left Edinburgh for Forres. When he learned that Roy was ill, he went to Forres to see him. He told me that the medicine Roy was taking for the brain tumor "had changed the shape of his face." I should have replied that I'd noticed how full his face was on the cover of "The Silver Collection" tape.
I'll add that like you I own a copy of Karen Williamson's book about her father: She observes that he was not good about taking his medicine. If that's the case. I don't know how the change in his face can be explained.
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What a pleasant piece of music to start my day ,,,,,
Wow! That's truly beautiful, D. I hadn't heard it before. Thanks for posting it!
Glad you liked it. I didn't appreciate how much I liked it, too, till I started making the video and listened to it over and over again to get the photo transition right!
BEAUTIFUL NO MOR NO LESS
not a god of music But A God of everything
What do you think is the significance of this in terms of the video or the music?
ARKYBARK: At first I thought the photograph beginning at 3:14 was of green pumpkins!
Does anyone know what instrument or instruments Roy is playing in this video?
From what I've read about Roy's instruments, I expect he's playing his "big guitar", as it was called - at times with a capo to create the lovely "tinkling" sound. He's not playing his combolin, which would produce a resonance,. The background guitar is most likely the one Ronnie always used.used. Maybe a guitarist would be able to explain it better.
@@Arkybark Thanks. (Alas, I don't know what the "big guitar" is.)
On another topic, pasted below are copies of your query about comments about "On the Banks of the Roses" and my response.
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Why have the four comments disappeared? UA-cam at it again?
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Arkybark: Click on SORT BY and then on Top comments & see what happens
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I am having major problems with UA-cam comments and I am not alone as I can see from the community forum. Your comment showed up in my email as a comment on Shenandoah, and I was puzzled about the plural of instrument(s). when all I hear in that one is guitars, one of which which sounded like the one that someone identified previously as his "big guitar." I don't know what kind of guitar that is, either. As to this one, for the background he is using a synthesizer and for the melody is playing one of his flutes.I don't know what else he may have been using. This is one of his home studio recording.
@@Arkybark Thanks for your prompt reply. I don't know why my comment appeared as a comment on Shenandoah. Anyway, for some reason I hear a horn sound in "Nicky's Theme." I'm just theorizing; I don't know much about music. I'll remark again that the music sounds melancholy to me; in fact, it sounds dreadfully sad.
@@Arkybark I just watched the Corrie video 'Rehabilitation Blues,' in which Roy plays a large guitar that perhaps is his 'big guitar'.
I've watched this video several times. Are the photographs of places in Germany? Or are they scenes from Scotland?
Somehow the replies I send from my phone don't get through to the video. All the photos were made on an evening bicycle ride through the meadows near me - in Germany. As the song doesn't really have anything to do with Scotland and I don't know anything about Nicky other than she's Dutch (that's why I included the bicycle), I thought I'd illustrate it with pastoral themes as the music seems to suggest.
Thanks. I suspected the photos were from beautiful Germany
@@Arkybark I just watched the video again & realized it's too sunny for Scotland!
Arkybark, did you know that one of the photos you worked into this beautiful piece has a cross on te trunk in light of purple and other soft shades at 1,34
just the beauty of it all by one God not by any one individual god by nos if that makes sence
Gaileen Buchan: Your remark does NOT make sense. Why don't you learn how to type or spell?
Sorry Arkybark the cross is in the photo at 1.54
I hadn't noticed it until you pointed it out. It was more the sunburst in the last frame that struck me - it was around the summer solstice last year and the sun was very low. Who knows? The god of music at work...
Do you know where I can buy this music file?
Reinhard Farkas As far as I know, no tracks can be bought individually. This is on on a now-out-of-print CD made by Roy's wife from his studio tapes after his death. I bought it a couple of years ago from amazon.com. I just checked and they still have some copies. Starts at $19.99. Type in Roy Williamson "The Long Journey South." Some of the tracks are purely experimental; none were intended for release. I like this one and the whale music called The Long Journey South best of the instrumentals. Of the vocals, Donald Og, Laggan Love and Peggy Gordon are really good.
I will try to buy the CD via Amazon.UK from a private seller, if they send to Austria
Arkybark: I bought a CD of "The Long Journey South" at a shop in Edinburgh's Old Town years back. I also bought a CD that Ronnie made. I don't recall the name of the store.
I should note that the shop may no longer stock these products. The owner or manager had known Roy Williamson, who'd left Edinburgh for Forres. When he learned that Roy was ill, he went to Forres to see him. He told me that the medicine Roy was taking for the brain tumour "had changed the shape of his face." I should have replied that I'd noticed how full his face was on the cover of "The Silver Collection" tape.
I'll add that like you I own a copy of Karen Williamson's book about her father: She observes that he was not good about taking his medicine. If that's the case. I don't know how the change in his face can be explained.