Rhondda Grey
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ธ.ค. 2007
- Images of the Rhondda Valley in South Wales set to the song "Rhondda Grey" by Max Boyce.
This is quite an early sequence, with original images taken as slides in the 1980's.
Sequencing: Pictures to Exe v 2.0.
Music: "Rhondda Grey" from the album "We All Had Doctors' Papers" used by kind permission of Max Boyce.
MCPS licence for music copyright clearance.
Photography and realisation © Ian Bateman FRPS MPAGB - บันเทิง
1965 born and breed a Rhondda boy and I bloody proud ov it ❤
This song in particular brings tears to my eyes. Having torn myself away from the South Wales valleys in 1985; I still consider Wales my home. I’ve never had another. The Welsh are my family. Max Boyce epitomises the character of Wales. I console myself with the trick: if I’d never left, I wouldn’t miss it so much. Cymru am Byth 🏴🙏
Come back
PLEASE COME BACK, MY ARMS ARE OPEN FOR YOU,IT WILL ALWAYS BE HOME. 🤶🎅🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Saw Max perform last week, he sang this song, brought a tear to my eye being a Rhondda boy born and bred.
One of the best songs about the mining industry. Max himself worked underground, and his father died underground in an accident. He sings with feeling.
didn't know that. explains alot....
A lot of people thnk of Max Boyce for just his rugby songs and his fun songs, but in serious mode he could hold his place aming any folk - or dare I say it ,topical - songwriter.
That goes not only for this song but the likes of "Did You Understand?", "Duw It's Hard", "The Price of Coal" and "Ten Thousand Instant Christians".
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. A black day in the history of the valleys, so tragic, so very sad. God bless them all .I was brought up in the Rhondda and Max has this so right, Rhondda grey but I can remember the sun and the green, green grass. I will go back. One day.
I'm from Aberdare originally and now live in Italy for more than 30 years but every so often Hiraith comes to me and a grip in my heard comes back to me...
I meant heart of course
Hello...I'm from the US, with Welsh ancestry. Frankly, I've got a lot of different "ancestries," but my "welsh connection" has always been the strongest. I love this song, and the comments here are making me cry. such love for your homeland! I've visited Wales twice, and hope to go again. (would like to go for a very long visit if i could) This is a beautiful song, befitting a beautiful country. Be blessed!
You have been blessed from South Wales
Me too. Rhonda valley. From the US. I hope to visit. I am Learning welsh.
@@seanhartnett79 Well done.👍
Rhondda boy born and bread. This song makes me proud to be Welsh and more importantly a Rhondda boy.
Lovely song
Tears for my ancestors and the land of my fathers..xx🏴🏴🏴
I went to school in Tirphil in 1945 when I was three my friends were older than me and they had started school so my mum asked the school if I could go as I missed my friends they said that it was no problem gave me a good start in life
Max brings home fabulous memories I left Wales over 70 years ago and I go back most years my heart is always in the valley but the school went many years ago for housing
New tredegar boy here!
This song had me in tears when seen him live in blackwood, brilliant show.
Got out of bed and took a 'walk' around Treherbert, It's 11pm, here in Arizona, but Google lets you do that sort of thing. Opened up another tab and played this song several times whilst I walked down streets I haven't seen in years, and looked at houses I haven't lived in since I was very young. I spent so much time playing at the end of Station Road, on the railway tracks and up the mountain behind. My first school, Treherbert Infants, is long gone--how things change.
Rhondda Grey s a beautiful song that stirred emotions for the past 30 minutes or so. Thank you, Max.
I do the same myself. Hiraeth.
hiraeth' stays with you.
Hiraeth
Arizona is an arid hellhole. Glad I left. Much more lush here in Monmouth/ Trefynwy... and I have a better job!
I remember my father giving me Max Boyce albums 40 years ago...... so apt now the valleys haven’t changed but most of us saw the writing on the wall and left..... still cry when I come over the Severn Bridge x
it`s free now.... but I know what you mean
I now live in Yorkshire, but for 22 years I grew up just outside porthcawl. Then Ogmore Vale, Llantrisant and Cardiff, then ludlow (it's wales to me ) . I miss home and my fellow Welsh. I cry tears of heart break and love hearing this song .
Nos dda .
Yes indeed
I lived with my Grandparents in Rhymney
My Grampa used to hum this song to himself in 197'0 s
The valley was indeed grey due to mining and steel industry
Those days are gone
It's sad that the closures have led to unemployment
But on other hand
Last August I was driving along
Heads of Valley
I stopped at Rhondda Valley
And loiked down upon it
Beautiful green mountains and trees
"How Green was my Valley"
Came to mind
Well It's returned
But we must never forget those men who worked underground to sustain the Energy Industry and often sacrificed thier lives and health
"Dyn Wedi Yn Nyd a Sha"
"We did our best"
A great song - I'm from a mining village in County Durham and this evokes memories for me and causes me to tear up every time, even though I'm in my sixties and live in the USA
John, We have a word in Welsh, it is Hiraeth, pronounced Heeraith, it means LONGING, and in particular it means a longing for where you are from. A very powerful word in Welsh. I know you understand what I mean, for you Geordies, Makams, Takems etc are very much like us. Take care my friend. A South Shields guy is my best friend.
@@philevans7181 w
What a LOVELY COMMENT, 👍👍👍👍🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
This reminds me of growing up in wales
Max is a legend!
Great song. Reminds me of the happy summer holidays I spent at my granny's house in the Rhymney Valley.
What a moving musical tale! I og hail from a mining state: WV. Many a friend's father wkd underground. Lost more than 1 before their time - wives, too - to tragedy & disease. The C-word's shadow weighed heavy across my friends & family: Grandma, Grandpa, Papa Hall, Daddy, Rita, & more. Beautiful song, tho. Dredges up memory & imagery both sad & sweet.
Best colour in the world if your a valley boy 👍
A fantastic advert for wales with a very unique voice
Brilliant xx
Lovely haunting song, my family comes from South Wales although it is the Rhymney Valley where we are from, we are all the same, both of my late parents (God bless them) loved this song, my dad died aged 62 from complications with his lungs caused by working in numerous collieries in our valley. I am so proud to come from this beautiful country and love her people with all my soul. Thanks for posting this song and video.
Im from there too. One of the best places to grow up x
Haven't heard this song for ages still sounds fab today
you can take the boy out of the valley but you cant take the valley out of the boy
love it and love the Rhondda.
Glad you liked them! I also hail from Ynyshir, hence the number of pictures. Mt grandmother lived in a house opposite The Eagle if you remember where that was!
Ian
my home, how it was so many years ago. The people, the life how it was. I am no longer there but it is in my heart and the tears in my eyes listening to this and remembering all the good times, and Aberfan where we did what we could.
Welsh passion and genius, So proud!!
Classic¬
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thanks for showing so much of ynyshir , my 8 yr old daughter didnt recognizr her own school untill she said "thats the ROCKET !"
The emotional link I have to this and many other Max Boyce songs is so much a part of what makes me me,. #CaruCymru
This brought a tear to my eye. Max always has made amazing songs.
I miss South Wales.
Sospan Fach
Remember when I first heard this (We All Had Doctor's Papers) that should I ever get the opportunity to go on Desert Island Discs, this would be one of my 8. The Valleys aren't grey anymore
what a beautiful song what a beautiful place thank u ;)
Beautiful
Great video to a great song !
Beautiful song and images, hadn’t realised your link with Max, even though you mentioned him at your presentation to Newcastle Camera Club last week 👍
Thanks for sharing, shared.
Thanks Gary.
Gets me every time Xx
Spot On!
geezes crist!
PS: thank you Ian.
Thank you Mouse Shadow for your kind words.
Ian
The best thing was for these valleys to be paid back some of the value of the resurces stolen....4 trillion pounds according to one study (and thats in 1901 currency value!)
A fantastic song, that I only recently discoverd through Martyn Joseph's cover.
And in my opinion it only gets more touching by the fact that I believe it can be interpreted in different was.
The straight (no pun intended) reading is about being proud of your local (working class) heritage. Or, in addition to that, proud of the heritage, but also acknowledging the hard work/suffering it has consisted of.
But there is also, I guess, a more "Billy Elliot-ish" reading that is about being forced to stick to that old life-style. The father does not want the boy to find a different view of the world (by using new colours), but forces the boy to see the world trough the old grey:
"And that's the colour that we want
That no shop has ever sold
You can't buy that in Woolies lad
With your reds and greens and gold
It's a colour you can't buy lad
No matter what you pay
But that's the colour that we want
It's a sort of Rhondda grey"
Having said that, I of course believe Boyce's intention probably was the first one, but I do think the "meaning" is up for grabs once a work of art is released.
Ma'r Cymru'n dal i dalu!!!
0:36 Ynyshir infant school. Does anybody remember the black and white dog the caretaker used to bring with him to work every morning, during the mid 1970s to around 1986?
I went to ynyshir infants.back in 69 xxx
There used to be a stone like table on the hills just behind a row of houses do you have any photos or videos of it as I used to play on it when I was a kid but I can't remember the name of the road my uncle used to live on
Haunting.'She walks in beauty,like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes..' She walked here and will evermore.She is every colour, rainbow enchantress.Know thyself.*love* xX She is Woman.
People before profit...Cymru rydd!
I think it translates as something like "We have done our share"
Spot on.
The best thing they did was close down the coal mines in Rhonndda. The price of coal was too high
Fideo Ardderchog!
rhondda went from majority welsh speaking in WW2 to 8% in 1991...some decline eek
So sad 😢 I believe it's getting better though, teaching Welsh in the schools I think.😊😊😊
hiraeth