THE STORY OF BAGPIPE TUNE 'AMAZING GRACE'-ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS EDINBURGH CASTLE 50th BIRTHDAY!

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  • Did you know that the #britisharmy had a HIT pop tune 50 years ago this month with the Bagpipe tune #amazinggrace?
    Back in 1972, in the days before digital downloads, mp3's and Spotify, our Bagpipers scored a hit vinyl record (remember those?) with the tune. Eight Gold Discs later, Happy Birthday Amazing Grace! #bagpipers #scotland #edinburghtattoo #rsdg #scotsdg

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  • @elizabethsheffield6609
    @elizabethsheffield6609 ปีที่แล้ว

    ..........what a lovely story telling us of the history of "AMAZING GRACE".............thank you so much xx

  • @franklinwerren7684
    @franklinwerren7684 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is the tune that got me interested in piping 50 years ago. I am still piping today and Amazing Grace is my favorite tune I play.

  • @JohnRodriguesPhotographer
    @JohnRodriguesPhotographer ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My God father's dad was Scottish bag pipes and all. He taught me to love the pipes. Amazing Grace always brings me to tears. He taught the kids on Fort Fix New Jersey 1960-61 to march to Scotland the Brave, my favorite. God bless him and keep him

  • @michaelreynolds3592
    @michaelreynolds3592 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Pride. Don't care what country you're from. Pure pride

  • @reynardthefox
    @reynardthefox ปีที่แล้ว

    Roxburgh on the Tweed..lovely wherever
    Thanks

  • @inspiringtone2975
    @inspiringtone2975 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Scotland forever. Never leaves your DNA no matter how many centuries away from your homeland Scotland. I am a white Scottish woman whose family have lived in America for over 320 years. But we always knew where we came from even though God saw fit for us to live outside our homeland.

    • @ranganathanrajagopal3036
      @ranganathanrajagopal3036 ปีที่แล้ว

      EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT A SCOTTISH I COULD FEEL THE SPIRIT OF BEING A SCOT

  • @SumantBarooah
    @SumantBarooah ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you✌✌✌✌✌

  • @scottmacpherson2352
    @scottmacpherson2352 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm a Canadian cape Breton Island Nova Scotia....very proud of my Scottish heritage I cry when I hear the pipes

  • @paulsaintclair9761
    @paulsaintclair9761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Amazing Grace .... belongs to Scotland

    • @barrymcmanmon9595
      @barrymcmanmon9595 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was written by an Englishman.

  • @tombrydson781
    @tombrydson781 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Always gives me goosebumps

  • @glenlivingstonegl
    @glenlivingstonegl ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I get chills every time i hear it played 🥰

  • @billy1673
    @billy1673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    By the way, the origin of the song is from an English sailor and poet, John Newton in 1772.
    He was serving on a slave ship when it got caught in a terrible storm off the coast of Ireland. It was so bad, he called out to God for mercy.
    After he survived, he became a devout Christian.

  • @sandragarner3913
    @sandragarner3913 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My family has been in the USA since the 1600’s and I was constantly told be proud of where we came from. One of my grandmother used to say was “ through your shoulders like you

    • @sandragarner3913
      @sandragarner3913 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Throw your shoulders back like you have corn to sale” If you had extra corn to sell you were rich. I was amazed when I got to go visit Scotland in 2009 and as we were going up into the highlands I knew why our people settled in Kentucky, Ky

  • @ronlemons5316
    @ronlemons5316 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    For the Scottish ancestry to be in your blood, as you get older and wiser you come to the realization that it is indeed in your DNA. You can actually feel it. When you hear the old Scottish music and the ancient stories you can see it, from those centuries ago. You were there. It's almost like a reincarnation that you feel and see. You could call it " spooky ", but in a good way.

  • @changsan608
    @changsan608 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tears falls down when I hear this everytime!!!

  • @runeulriksen
    @runeulriksen ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’ve had the pleasure of knowing one of the pipers who was involved in the recording, the late Peter Wood Elder, who would later on become Pipemajor of the pipes and drums of the Royal Tank Regiment. When he retired from the army, he moved to Denmark and founded The Clan Rose pipes and drums, who I’m pleased to say still exist.

  • @elizabethashby2673
    @elizabethashby2673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    MY GRANDMOTHER'S FAVORITE HYMN!!!
    THANK YOU 4 SHARING SOME HISTORY!!!

    • @markgradwell4987
      @markgradwell4987 ปีที่แล้ว

      My Dads and mine, so emotional to hear it, spiritually.

  • @lynetteewhitelyn3246
    @lynetteewhitelyn3246 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hearing mass pipes and drums in Martin Place Sydney in 1979 was to know joy and tears beyond anything I’d ever experienced.

  • @scottishpiper7063
    @scottishpiper7063 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    From nz. I love your music and its beautiful. right now im learning how to play the bagpipe.

  • @jacobkeppler1984
    @jacobkeppler1984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Amazing grace is a Beautiful song

  • @john5406
    @john5406 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A Scot is a Scot even unto a hundred generations....

  • @elizabethleiva3953
    @elizabethleiva3953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Que hermoso. Me emociona las gaitas sobre todo en Escocia. Algún día, algún día.,....

  • @lancedeatherage3819
    @lancedeatherage3819 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am English at Welsh Irish and Scottish but the Scottish draws me home

  • @isabelledavis2981
    @isabelledavis2981 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I would love to hear 👂 amazing grace by dragoon guards live in concert 🎶

    • @gittabanks6258
      @gittabanks6258 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I will be there next week and have tickets. Beyond excited!!

  • @heidemariejark-berndt7097
    @heidemariejark-berndt7097 ปีที่แล้ว

    Its great and amazing I love the pipes, drums, tartans and the proud of the Scots

  • @iii9266
    @iii9266 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of my favs.

  • @isabelledavis2981
    @isabelledavis2981 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I wish I could hear 👂 amazing grace being played live

    • @johnritchie4801
      @johnritchie4801 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Learn to play the Bagpipes and then you will have the priviledge of listening to yourself playing Amazing Amazing grace. I did.
      I also gained the ability to play other tunes

  • @annastorchi2394
    @annastorchi2394 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Che suono meraviglioso hanno le cornamuse. Le vostre bande i vostri vestiti di ogni Clan diverso mi affascinano da sempre. Che bella deve essere la Scozia ♥️♥️♥️

  • @ranganathanrajagopal3036
    @ranganathanrajagopal3036 ปีที่แล้ว

    THE SPIRIT OF SCOTTISH REGIMENT

  • @billy1673
    @billy1673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No, I’m not crying! You’re crying!

  • @joelahnstein2281
    @joelahnstein2281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    First heard it on DMZ of ROK on a record of a colleague. Stayed with me. The best was at the 88 Edinburgh Tatoo. Still tear up every time.

  • @donaldmartin7109
    @donaldmartin7109 ปีที่แล้ว

    AMEN

  • @ecysmith6652
    @ecysmith6652 ปีที่แล้ว

    These remarkably talented musicians only add majesty to one of the most moving hymns ever composed. One can feel the presence of supreme forgiveness, deliverance, and hope of salvation in Jesus Christ when it is performed . I always shed tears of awe and joy when I hear Amazing Grace.

  • @ylovaht2097
    @ylovaht2097 ปีที่แล้ว

    Elvis Presley level this masterpiece is

  • @saschaborntrager6883
    @saschaborntrager6883 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wunderschön!

  • @lisatanino1943
    @lisatanino1943 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Onore e gloria❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹

  • @mariehyvon3306
    @mariehyvon3306 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mercie pour la vidéo qui fait plaisir le
    Sont des cornemuse
    Puis Grand Mercie à vous

  • @markgradwell4987
    @markgradwell4987 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing Grace by The Massed Pipes And Drums gets you emotionally, especially when the Drums come in lifting the sound of the whole piece. When i hear it i get emotional, it Physically shakes you. I'm 55 it's the only hymn/ Psalm that gets to me.

  • @24327355
    @24327355 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As one who served in the Scot's D'Gs for 14 yrs and lived a lot of that time between the Pipes & Drums block and the Mil Band block in Senne....You do miss the music which was always their but not noticing it at the time ( how lucky were we ?)...P/S Highland Cathedrals the tops...yours Ecky...

  • @marymagdalenmendoza3124
    @marymagdalenmendoza3124 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful

  • @paztabana3075
    @paztabana3075 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐😍

  • @patriciastewart2239
    @patriciastewart2239 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant

  • @patrickfiorito
    @patrickfiorito ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I say F*ck that. I like the sound of the bagpipes. 🤷‍♂️ I guess its the warrior in me. I feel like starting a war everytime I hear them. 😂🤣😂🤣

  • @piperbob2
    @piperbob2 ปีที่แล้ว

    P/M Tony Crease - "What's a row, now and again !"

  • @sendtextmessageto
    @sendtextmessageto ปีที่แล้ว

    i invented the skirts the skotish wear in the 1980s and bagpipes in the 1980s 100 percent sure

  • @catherinehodge7624
    @catherinehodge7624 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd love to hear this hymn played on the bagpipes backed by the tenors on steel pans it would be mind blowing. Just saying.

  • @w.reidripley1968
    @w.reidripley1968 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The rock-simplest tune there is on the pipes. There's just one single spot where you have to watch out not to make a crossing noise.
    Might make a good set with "It Is Well With My Soul."

    • @w.reidripley1968
      @w.reidripley1968 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A/k/a "when peace like a river " after its first line. (Not "Peace like a River.")

  • @theredrover3217
    @theredrover3217 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    USA from the Judy Collins era - can't recall any Amazing Grace a disappointment. Pipes another version indeed, well earned Awards. 👏👏👏

  • @philclarke1389
    @philclarke1389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Would have been a better DVD if they had shown both Bands playing as they were in the 70s. There was hardly a mention of the Military band,without who there wouldn't have been AG because the score was arranged by the then BM Mr Fairbairn.

    • @armyinscotland9529
      @armyinscotland9529  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello Phil. Sadly, there wasn't any video around of the original recordings that we were able to access. It was hard enough to find the 2002 content. But thank you for taking the time to comment.

    • @petronopulas
      @petronopulas ปีที่แล้ว

      Stuart Fairburn now lives in Perth Western Australia. My Wife and I attended the same Church. A pity the Brigadier only briefly mentioned “ Fairburn” instead of Bandmaster Stuart Fairburn who arranged the tune for Military Band and Pipes. Unfortunately when the recording took place, Stuart had been transferred to a new Band but he is acknowledged as the person who did the arrangement.

    • @philclarke1389
      @philclarke1389 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@petronopulas As an ex member of the Mil Band on the original recording (English member i have to add) i am extremely proud to have been involved in what was a groundshaking experience,esp for the British Army bands. I don't think you could quantify the reactions throughout the Military when it happened. Iv'e been searching all over the world for the last 40 odd years for original videos of the concerts,photographs,posters etc. Iv'e written to the BBC,ITV for all the TV shows we did, all the concert venues in Australia,New Zealand, France, Germany, Scandanavian countries,UK countries etc etc but it seems all recordings were deleted for whatever reasons(probably "storage"problems(no Memory Sticks then)Guess memories are all we have now.

  • @karlvera
    @karlvera 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    🇨🇱💓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @AirplaneDoctor_
    @AirplaneDoctor_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Strange that he picked the 1996 tattoo because that year the SCOTS DG's performed the Gael , theme from the film Last of the Mohicans, with the SA Zulu police dancers. The tune spread all over the world as a bagpipe composition thanks to that performance. As for Amazing Grace, it didn't mean much as it had become such a standard by then the luster had worn off.

    • @brendonwilhelmi_7251
      @brendonwilhelmi_7251 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have seen your comments previously. My father was born in Scotland and loved watching the tattoo every year. Since his suicide in 98 I have also watched it every year here in Aus . It is a Christmas tradition. My dad hung himself on Anzac Day after I had marched in the local RSL Anzac parade . The bagpipes were played and still are by the Perth Highland band. The sound is deeply haunting and stirring. I feel them in my bones. I would love to see my ancestors land. Thankyou for keeping an ancient culture alive. Can you say what years or performance you were in at all. Carmen C

  • @Dadopersoblueboots
    @Dadopersoblueboots 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Most of the money went on jollies for the Ruperts

  • @sendtextmessageto
    @sendtextmessageto ปีที่แล้ว

    i invented british hats the black ones 1980s

  • @amilcarcarvalho7214
    @amilcarcarvalho7214 ปีที่แล้ว

    Está música significa a liberdade e a dignidade humana na terra, Brasileiro não conhece,
    Gratidão !

  • @giuseppelogiurato5718
    @giuseppelogiurato5718 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazon grass

  • @mairiwoods5246
    @mairiwoods5246 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pity there was no mention of the words of this written by John Bunyan.

  • @mcgregorpiper
    @mcgregorpiper ปีที่แล้ว

    As I often tell people, if you don’t like “Amazing Grace” do not learn to play the bagpipe.

  • @patrickkelly7085
    @patrickkelly7085 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very nice English tune

  • @eileentaylor1691
    @eileentaylor1691 ปีที่แล้ว

    the tune is british