Roger Whittaker RIP

just seen on bbc news online..was playing his songs last week on youtube.

OP's link is notable that the audience clearly has no interest in Roger and people are looking around, presumably to see if they are on the studio monitors or maybe at the presenter.

RIP RW.

funnily enough thats the clip i was watching..was pmsl at the audience..

never heard of the geezer. rip anyway

Mitolo a song he sang you might know is Durham town.

tolo obv a **** soldier who recently emerged from the jungle.

Durham Town jimnast brings back memories and sadly he has now

I've got to leave old Durham town,
I've got to leave old Durham town.
I've got to leave old Durham town,
And the leavings gonna get me down.

You'll never watch ships going up and down the Tyne from Durham tho.

RIP, a good singer from a bygone age who sang some nice thoughtful, wistful songs. Seem to remember "The Last Farewell" was written by a Birmingham jeweller working in the jewellery quarter of Hockley who wrote it in his lunchbreak. It was one of just 50 all time singles to sell 10 million physical copies.

abut 15 years ago I was asked to leave old Durham town for a job in sunny Gibraltar, turned it down due to family circumstances,

Today I'm sat in the apartment at the lakes watching rain and high winds enjoying a Cumberland sausage sandwich, and there isn't a monkey in site trying to pinch it

no regrets

Hope your well ronnie

thanks Jimnast

watching a lovely rainbow coming through the rain as the suns finally coming through

hoping to be back at work next week only part time though to start and see how I get on

booking our trains etc for Cheltenham meetings, paddy power is a poxy bus from Sheffield to wakefield and thats if they dont go on strike :(

Great easy listening , R.I.P Roger 

skye boat song .......rip roger!

"You'll never watch ships going up and down the Tyne from Durham tho".       Yeah


When I was a boy, I spent my time,
Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne.
Watching all the ships going down the line, they were leaving,
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me.
I've got to leave old Durham town,
I've got to leave old Durham town.
I've got to leave old Durham town,
And the leavings gonna get me down.


Just cos Wear didn't rhyme

The last farewell indeed.

Rest well old man.  Like that avuncular family friend who would pay with you and give you sweets - in a proper way, not a dodgy Jimmy Savile way.

Not a bad whistler either..RIP
Apparently passed away on the 13th and cremated before the announcement.

''I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell''

Cheer up. Labour are going to win the next GE.

I think the audience were waiting for the Bay City Rollers to show up.

Aye, they looked like they'd joined the wrong wedding reception.

Seen him on TOTP Years ago and thought what is this old codger doing on this then he started to sing and i was blown away...R.I.P Roger.

He was like SO uncool man.