I will never tire of those analog synth brass sounds. NEVER. Definitely one of the best peices of music ever written for a TV show. RoS would have had a completely different feel to it had the music been any different. It was a magical combination of great casting, glorious set pieces, brilliant story lines, atmospheric direction (loved some of the color filtering used on the lense) and exceptional music. The best Robin of Hood ever. It will never be bettered.
Clannad and RoS were the soundtrack of my youth, from medieval re enactment to full time armourer..... my son is obsessed with it too!., I play Clannads music nearly every day and will as long as I can.Made a pilgrimage to Leos Bar in Donegal in 1990, a unique experience!. Nothings Forgotten
I can't explain how I like this Robin Of Sherwood series. Tears in my eyes.. I like Marian very much. Actually my loving girl is very much like her. Sheromi this is for you.... This changes my life.. What a story Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.......
Ahh the good old days of these classics from early childhood....They should re-release the lot on an expanded double-CD....They'd make a fortune....Come on Clannad!!!!....
Wow ! 14 years and nearly 200,000 views later - and an ‘Extended ‘ version of Legend is finally about to be released featuring these tracks ! I expect this mix of mine will now be taken down - I hope you enjoyed listening - now go and buy the new remastered extended soundtrack ! 😊
😊😊😊😊😊 is amazing. I thank you and have kept your version for posterity as I listen to it alot. I knew they would have the music somewhere. Nothing is forgotten!
Love this. Robin of Sherwood had some of the most amazing music which fit so perfectly with the atmosphere of the show. Clannad were and are brilliant. I have turned so many people onto this classic series just from the music alone.
Clannad has just announced the release of a 'special edition of the Legend album which will feature previously unreleased music' on BMG later in 2024. It would be great if those missing master tapes have resurfaced (though it could just be some live performances, remixes, etc). Time wil tell...
Thank you so much for putting this together, can't say much more than that. How comforting that there are other people out there who have been searching for these unreleased tracks as much as I have!!
Also played in Children of Israel episode, when the Sheriff come back with his soldiers before the ambush. I always loved this scene since I was a kid, I thought it was so cool and kind of glorious
Clannad made around 10 hours of music for the show. Most of the cues were never used and only 32 minutes worth found its way on to the vinyl release. I so wish season 3's music was on vinyl. I love it. I also wish I could listen to all 10 hours of music. I'd never tire of it. Its such a shame Clannad hasn't gone back to this soundtrack, dug out all the unused music and re-released it. Come on CLANNAD....YOU DID WIN A BAFTA FOR THIS. PFFFFFF!!!!!!!
I heard that the master tapes were lost and Clannad doesn't own them. I'm pretty sure that the would make it available if they could... I would love to hear it too...
Thanks so much for putting this one up - just brilliant. How sad that all this wonderful music never got released - brings back good memories. It was a wonderful series, mainly because it had a good message - looking back for a pure English socialism and rebellious spirit - fiery, radical priests; hateful, grasping, illegal and greedy authorities; noble suffering and the joy of struggle. All that plus Clannad. Sigh.
Where has our England gone? look at the mess now ! I got called a "Pagan Fwit" by someone who seems to have removed his or her comment. How low have we sunk?
Yes. Drama with a message, but one which is VERY pertinent to the times the UK is in right now, perhaps showing that some things won't change without struggle and a fight.
Listening to this Jan 2024......these comments above pale into insignificance after the Covid debacle. The World is upside down more than ever before in history. Lunatics running the asylum.
Throughout Seasons 1, 2 & 3 Clannad used the Sequential Prophet 5 Rev 2 for all the bass, drones, brass, arpegio leads and filter sweep sounds. On a few tracks they also used the Synclaviar Digital Sampling Synth to create etheral sounds. This is most notable on the opening sequence to the Herne track. Season 3 music saw the introduction of the Yamaha DX7 for some bass and lead duties. The band also experimented with the Roland TR707 drum machine.
Correct. I'm pretty sure the opening motif was DX-7 Trumpet, but it could have been Prophet and they overdubbed it with a Synclavier voice for the remixed end title in '85 . The Herne voices were looped Clannad voice 'ahhh' with a shit load of processing . A digital version of what 10cc did back in '74 with "I'm Not In Love" but without using tape loops.
Many thanks! I know that background and incidental music rarely makes an album, and since Legend was produced with vinyl in mind we had that time limit as well. I loved it!
I enjoyed this, except the very end when it just cuts off. But it was really nice to listen to this. I will let others in the Facebook Robin of Sherwood group know about it.
It happened today, the extended version of the album is out. The first two tracks from this video are still not officially released, though, as well as Baron De Belleme and Morgwyn Of Ravenscar's creepy themes and a couple more. It will probably never happen.
I was looking for this theme part [3.31 - 4.03] for entire google , Thanks , what emotional part, when i start to listen this part, It feel like for a moment i lived in Sherwood
I've just remastered this mix to improve the audio quality slightly and made it available for download on my Soundcloud page for those who want it on their iPod / Phone / MP3 player. Just go to soundcloud and search for Robin Of Sherwood Lost Soundtrack mix .
I still have the full original soundtrack on audio cassette...possibly the first album I bought for myself - had to save a fair bit of pocket money. Nice to hear some of the other music from the soundtrack again.
@loopingstaruk: awesome work, thank you! huge fan of Clannad here since... ever! still, incredibly enough, I had never heard some of this before. it's such a shame these fantastic pieces remain unreleased. like someone already argued here - and I agree - one can only wonder why they wouldn't include more of this music in the Legend album when there was so much room left. my guess is RCA, the label, must have wanted it as a "normal" album with a "normal" running time, and LPs in the 80's would run for 30 to 45 minutes in general. still, a proper Robin of Sherwood original and complete soundtrack should have deserved the release. again, thank you for the compilation and the chance to download it on soundcloud!
@ashan1970 I quite agree. Seeing as Clannad seem to have run out of ideas on the recording front and they are re-united with Pol Brennan again, re-recording the lost RoS music would seem like the perfect project- I mean they perform some of it regualrly live.
The 'Legend' album was so short that there was plenty of room for these tracks too. The one at 1:20 I always missed on the official album along with the extended version of 'Battles'.
There was a whole load of music recorded after Legend for season three in 1985. They also remixed the main themes and remastered the drums with much more reverb and added overdubs with newer synths as well.
Hard to recreate stuff 32 years on without the original studio and producer. The core synth sounds are easy to reproduce but the drums and the guitars were produced in very much the style of the mid 80s which means a lot of production work that most studios wouldn't be familiar with these days. For example the drums on the end titles are the same drum track that was recorded in 1983 but given a late '80s treatment (massive hall reverb, more compression, EQd higher on the low end) which gives them that epic sound , which in the original recording was super dry and flat. Ditto on the Simmons drums which they used in season three (but not in season 1) which is all in the production. The Simmons by itself without effects and processing is super dull. That's just one of the challenges. And a lot of Clannad stuff on these tracks also included their voices processed (Herne for example) which no fan could redo. You would need the original producer (Tony Clarke who died in 2010 ) and recording engineer to remember all the settings.
Ah so this _has_ been around for a long time! Hopefully the video stays even after the long-awaited release. 😊🎶 I've not watched the show but knew of it. The one at 3:37 (Robin and Marian) sounds like Enya's early piece An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian (or vice versa depending on which was composed first) also not officially released. ♡ I also rather like Nothing Is Forgotten, that certainly rings true. 😌
for those who haven´t discover: you also find here on youtube a longer live played medley of Clannad´s Robin-of-sherwood-songs from a concert not long ago! So check it out :)
Just thought some of you good folks might be interested in having a listen to my new album Pagan Electronica - Some of the big analog synth sounds I used actually remind me of those in the Robin of Sherwood music.- you can find it at loopingstar.bandcamp.com
@CosmicFish Absolutely spot on!,..just ignore them,we and many others know how special RoS and everything involved with it is...,a few sour people cannot compete with that..
Ok, it was ... 30 years ago !! Can you believe that?! And we are still here. It will never be over!
You are so right!
Nothings ever forgotten
masz rację, nigdy
34 years ago now. Can't believe it!
Yeah. "It will never be over!" The sheriff said it himself, right? Season 2 Ep 1
I will never tire of those analog synth brass sounds. NEVER. Definitely one of the best peices of music ever written for a TV show. RoS would have had a completely different feel to it had the music been any different. It was a magical combination of great casting, glorious set pieces, brilliant story lines, atmospheric direction (loved some of the color filtering used on the lense) and exceptional music. The best Robin of Hood ever. It will never be bettered.
Totally thumbs up on your opinion. Feel the same.
I love the analog synth sounds of the Prophet 5. I also love the digital synth sounds of the DX7. Clannad made all kinds of great sounds!
My husband used in the 1980's play keyboard and we have just got some old ones instead of digital for the sound.
And NOTHING'S FORGOTTEN!
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Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.
WOW! I totally forgot about that saying.
Herne protect us :)
Clannad and RoS were the soundtrack of my youth, from medieval re enactment to full time armourer..... my son is obsessed with it too!., I play Clannads music nearly every day and will as long as I can.Made a pilgrimage to Leos Bar in Donegal in 1990, a unique experience!. Nothings Forgotten
I am pretty sure the reason I identify spiritually as druid today starts with this when I was five years old.
Salute from Poland 😊
I can't explain how I like this Robin Of Sherwood series. Tears in my eyes.. I like Marian very much. Actually my loving girl is very much like her. Sheromi this is for you....
This changes my life.. What a story
Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.......
This is great...oh boy didn't we live in this TV series when we were kids..
Still the best and always will be
Thanks loopingstaruk
Yep👍🏾👍🏾
Still listening it in 2024
This is the most famous TV series in Sri Lanka, to date.
🇱🇰 's favourite 🫂
In memory of my brother. We used sit to watch Robin of Sherwood back in Nigeria in the 90s. RIP Skimps. Nothing is ever forgotten
Ahh the good old days of these classics from early childhood....They should re-release the lot on an expanded double-CD....They'd make a fortune....Come on Clannad!!!!....
I watched it on my childhood (30 years earlier) . After I watched 7 times in my life as tv series. But it is my favourite tv series still at now.
Wow ! 14 years and nearly 200,000 views later - and an ‘Extended ‘ version of Legend is finally about to be released featuring these tracks ! I expect this mix of mine will now be taken down - I hope you enjoyed listening - now go and buy the new remastered extended soundtrack ! 😊
😊😊😊😊😊 is amazing. I thank you and have kept your version for posterity as I listen to it alot.
I knew they would have the music somewhere. Nothing is forgotten!
Yep, fantastic news. Sadly, still a couple of tracks missing from the extended release, but of lot of great tracks are included.
Love this. Robin of Sherwood had some of the most amazing music which fit so perfectly with the atmosphere of the show. Clannad were and are brilliant. I have turned so many people onto this classic series just from the music alone.
so ironic then, that they are irish and "robin",l if he exixted at all, was a saxon from englanf. lol./ God speed anyway
Nothings forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten ...,
I can't tell you how long I've been searching for this - thank you!
Me to.
Same.
Clannad has just announced the release of a 'special edition of the Legend album which will feature previously unreleased music' on BMG later in 2024. It would be great if those missing master tapes have resurfaced (though it could just be some live performances, remixes, etc). Time wil tell...
It's all we ever dreamed of in glorious high quality 😅
I listen to this at least a couple of times every week! Fantastic compilation and really excellent music. Blessed be.
mattski73 Hey glad you enjoy it !
Haunting and mesmerizing medieval Soundtrack.Outstanding Melody and magical rhythm which conveys the spirit and mood of medieval england perfectly.
Thank you so much for putting this together, can't say much more than that.
How comforting that there are other people out there who have been searching for these unreleased tracks as much as I have!!
8:19 for the best one of the lot - what beautiful music for a stunningly brilliant series. "Nothing is forgotten".
4:06 - 7:16 I love this track. Allways played if King John came to Nottingham.
Who's the man in the fancy crown?
The scene when Prince John surveys the room from his throne after being announced as King is brilliantly chilling.....
“My brother…..is dead.(crying) He named me his heir…HIS HEIR!!!”
Also played in Children of Israel episode, when the Sheriff come back with his soldiers before the ambush. I always loved this scene since I was a kid, I thought it was so cool and kind of glorious
Dziękuję za udostępnienie. Robin Hood to mój ulubiony bohater. Ta wersja tto najlepsze wspomnienia z dzieciństwa 😄😍
So pleased to find this, brilliant to hear unreleased Robin music
Rebecca Cohen Enjoy 😀
Listening in 2020! Brilliant.
Listening in 2021!!!
Thank you so much for this and the Soundcloud download. Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten!
Just the music on it's own brings back the scenes and dialogue.
Glad to have been have been a kid at the first airing...
Still here listening to this 35 years after it came out.
Anyone else?
Yep
I have wanted these tracks added to the album Legend for so long.
why can't I stop listening to this
Same here.
Clannad made around 10 hours of music for the show. Most of the cues were never used and only 32 minutes worth found its way on to the vinyl release. I so wish season 3's music was on vinyl. I love it. I also wish I could listen to all 10 hours of music. I'd never tire of it.
Its such a shame Clannad hasn't gone back to this soundtrack, dug out all the unused music and re-released it. Come on CLANNAD....YOU DID WIN A BAFTA FOR THIS. PFFFFFF!!!!!!!
I heard that the master tapes were lost and Clannad doesn't own them. I'm pretty sure that the would make it available if they could... I would love to hear it too...
DIGITALSCREAMS Would love a Legends 2 cd 👍🏻
Totally agree
Clannad somehow musically embodies the character of the stories its unbelievable
Great music. Great retelling of the Robin Hood story - my Favourite.
I remembered when the series was over in Polish TV we were tuned the Czech TV to be able to watch again...
Very nice to listen theses tracks from Clannad that aren't on the Legend's album...We hope that we will have once the pleasure to listen them!!😉
Thanks so much for putting this one up - just brilliant. How sad that all this wonderful music never got released - brings back good memories. It was a wonderful series, mainly because it had a good message - looking back for a pure English socialism and rebellious spirit - fiery, radical priests; hateful, grasping, illegal and greedy authorities; noble suffering and the joy of struggle. All that plus Clannad. Sigh.
Where has our England gone? look at the mess now ! I got called a "Pagan Fwit" by someone who seems to have removed his or her comment. How low have we sunk?
Yes. Drama with a message, but one which is VERY pertinent to the times the UK is in right now, perhaps showing that some things won't change without struggle and a fight.
Listening to this Jan 2024......these comments above pale into insignificance after the Covid debacle. The World is upside down more than ever before in history. Lunatics running the asylum.
Absolutely amazing
Throughout Seasons 1, 2 & 3 Clannad used the Sequential Prophet 5 Rev 2 for all the bass, drones, brass, arpegio leads and filter sweep sounds. On a few tracks they also used the Synclaviar Digital Sampling Synth to create etheral sounds. This is most notable on the opening sequence to the Herne track. Season 3 music saw the introduction of the Yamaha DX7 for some bass and lead duties. The band also experimented with the Roland TR707 drum machine.
Correct. I'm pretty sure the opening motif was DX-7 Trumpet, but it could have been Prophet and they overdubbed it with a Synclavier voice for the remixed end title in '85 . The Herne voices were looped Clannad voice 'ahhh' with a shit load of processing . A digital version of what 10cc did back in '74 with "I'm Not In Love" but without using tape loops.
wow u know youre stuff
Wow, you really are tuned-in to this scene!
I was always looking for three of the songs in this mix. Shame they didn't make it onto the album!
2:34 - That's one of my favorite themes that wasn't released on the album. LOVE it! Thank you for uploading this!
A rare find for me today Thur Nov 9 2023 to relive my childhood memories 🕘💎🤔🎤🎼🎵🎶🎹💚
8:20 thank you man im looking for this track for so long
ohhh wow happy memories i love this show even now nearly 30 years later hard to believe
Many thanks! I know that background and incidental music rarely makes an album, and since Legend was produced with vinyl in mind we had that time limit as well. I loved it!
Wow. Because I always loved the music from this show and have long hoped some of the missing music could be made available. Thank you.
I enjoyed this, except the very end when it just cuts off. But it was really nice to listen to this. I will let others in the Facebook Robin of Sherwood group know about it.
It happened today, the extended version of the album is out. The first two tracks from this video are still not officially released, though, as well as Baron De Belleme and Morgwyn Of Ravenscar's creepy themes and a couple more. It will probably never happen.
The extended version is great, finally, but I agree that it's a pity that a few tracks are still not included.
Goosebumps...thank you so much, this was the missing bit!
Nothing is forgotten.
Nothing is ever forgotten :)
I'm going to see Clannad in concert in Toronto in two weeks' time. I hope they play some RoS music!!
Any srilankans here? This was the best ever show in rupavahini during the 90's.
I used to have the Robin Hood soundtrack on cassette, so many years ago....
4:05 - goosebumps!
I was looking for this theme part [3.31 - 4.03] for entire google , Thanks , what emotional part, when i start to listen this part, It feel like for a moment i lived in Sherwood
Never saw the series when it aired, but I discovered it as a college student in 2007 and fell in love.
There was one particularly gorgeous, stirring piece of music recorded for season 3 that I always loved (see minutes 3:40)..
My favourite too
I’d have that as my ringtone if I could
that was exactly the music i searched for a while
This has totally made my day! I can see Robin in my head as I listen!!
I love this song music never got fedup, all songs in Robin Hood.
I've just remastered this mix to improve the audio quality slightly and made it available for download on my Soundcloud page for those who want it on their iPod / Phone / MP3 player. Just go to soundcloud and search for Robin Of Sherwood Lost Soundtrack mix .
+loopingstaruk Thank you so much for this. Love these extra tracks and remember them well.
AMAZING, thankyou so so much!
loopingstaruk do you have a link to the files??
Thanks
Bill Morrison Hi Bill you can download this mix from my Soundcloud account. Just search sc for Loopingstar
Got it thanks 😎
Sent from my iPhone
I love the second track so much, took me a while to find but glad I did
+Blacklava I always think of Will remembering how Moth betrayed him in "Adam Bell."
Fabulous thanks 😊
I had alwasy said but there is more then the legend album to the sound track of ROS. Thank you for posting it.
The best music and the better serie of Robin Hood that I see...
Great sounttrack, my generation 80's is well aware of the TV series and music from Polish television.
Still love this
2:31 - 3:30 Love it!
100% epic! Good call!
great job , i've searched for it so long
Robin of Sherwood
Haunting
thank you for uploading this music!
OMG! This Is Amazing!
I knew there were many pieces of music left out. And truly wished they would be reamde and released finally.
I still have the full original soundtrack on audio cassette...possibly the first album I bought for myself - had to save a fair bit of pocket money. Nice to hear some of the other music from the soundtrack again.
@loopingstaruk: awesome work, thank you! huge fan of Clannad here since... ever! still, incredibly enough, I had never heard some of this before. it's such a shame these fantastic pieces remain unreleased. like someone already argued here - and I agree - one can only wonder why they wouldn't include more of this music in the Legend album when there was so much room left. my guess is RCA, the label, must have wanted it as a "normal" album with a "normal" running time, and LPs in the 80's would run for 30 to 45 minutes in general. still, a proper Robin of Sherwood original and complete soundtrack should have deserved the release. again, thank you for the compilation and the chance to download it on soundcloud!
8:20 - party in Wickham! ;)
I sooo love this track, I've been looking for it for ages
Yesss...Lord of the trees
Happy memories especially the last minute
@ashan1970 I quite agree. Seeing as Clannad seem to have run out of ideas on the recording front and they are re-united with Pol Brennan again, re-recording the lost RoS music would seem like the perfect project- I mean they perform some of it regualrly live.
thanks so much for putting this up!!!!!!!
Thank you very much for posting it!!!!
Yes, I waited for this for years! many many thanks! :)
Excellent! Thank you!
Well done👍
2:32 the best of the best
The 'Legend' album was so short that there was plenty of room for these tracks too. The one at 1:20 I always missed on the official album along with the extended version of 'Battles'.
There was a whole load of music recorded after Legend for season three in 1985. They also remixed the main themes and remastered the drums with much more reverb and added overdubs with newer synths as well.
surprised the track at 2:33 never made it on the album - an uplifting tangerine dream type of sound
So wish all of season 3 music got released...or redone using the same instruments. This is my favourite chill out music
Hard to recreate stuff 32 years on without the original studio and producer. The core synth sounds are easy to reproduce but the drums and the guitars were produced in very much the style of the mid 80s which means a lot of production work that most studios wouldn't be familiar with these days. For example the drums on the end titles are the same drum track that was recorded in 1983 but given a late '80s treatment (massive hall reverb, more compression, EQd higher on the low end) which gives them that epic sound , which in the original recording was super dry and flat. Ditto on the Simmons drums which they used in season three (but not in season 1) which is all in the production. The Simmons by itself without effects and processing is super dull. That's just one of the challenges. And a lot of Clannad stuff on these tracks also included their voices processed (Herne for example) which no fan could redo. You would need the original producer (Tony Clarke who died in 2010 ) and recording engineer to remember all the settings.
Oh well thanks for that, now realise why another release won't ever happen
Ah so this _has_ been around for a long time! Hopefully the video stays even after the long-awaited release. 😊🎶
I've not watched the show but knew of it. The one at 3:37 (Robin and Marian) sounds like Enya's early piece An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian (or vice versa depending on which was composed first) also not officially released. ♡ I also rather like Nothing Is Forgotten, that certainly rings true. 😌
Blessed be.
4:06 can anyone tell me if I can get this part separately I've been looking for this track if it has a name of its own even if it's unreleased
for those who haven´t discover: you also find here on youtube a longer live played medley of Clannad´s Robin-of-sherwood-songs from a concert not long ago! So check it out :)
4:06 Brilliant masterpiece. Beautiful.
Just thought some of you good folks might be interested in having a listen to my new album Pagan Electronica - Some of the big analog synth sounds I used actually remind me of those in the Robin of Sherwood music.- you can find it at loopingstar.bandcamp.com
this was great, thanks :D
This is great, thanks for sharing :)
@ladwigs Yes , Robin Of Sherwood is available on DVD, and even better, has just had a Blu Ray release ! Just search for them on amazon.co.uk .
did they make it into a CD??????? Wud be a must! C. Foxgloves
The second track is probably my favourite from the series.
@CosmicFish Absolutely spot on!,..just ignore them,we and many others know how special RoS and everything involved with it is...,a few sour people cannot compete with that..
So true - so many Clannad songs are not available here any more!! At least i have the most also on cd :)
Anybody could tell me what are the name of thease tracks? Pls pls 🙏❤️
3.30 - 4.05
what is it called?