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Roger Whittaker - The Last Farewell (Original Post)
Montauk6
Dec 2022
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sl8
(13,779 posts)1. Thanks for posting. Some backstory:
Last edited Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:46 PM - Edit history (1)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Farewell"The Last Farewell" is a song from 1971 by British folk singer Roger Whittaker. Whittaker hosted a radio programme in The United Kingdom in 1971, backed by an orchestra with arrangements by Zack Lawrence. Whittaker says "one of the ideas I had was to invite listeners to send their poems or lyrics to me and I would make songs out of them. We got a million replies, and I did one each week for 26 weeks."[1]
Ron A. Webster, a silversmith from Birmingham, England, sent Whittaker his poem entitled "The Last Farewell", and this became one of the selections to appear on the radio program. It was recorded, and featured on Whittaker's 1971 album New World in the Morning (A Special Kind of Man in the US and Canada). It is one of the fifty all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) physical copies worldwide.
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SouthernLiberal
(407 posts)2. I have loved this song for a long time
And still, it makes my eyes fill up with tears. Thank you for posting it.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,858 posts)3. One of my all-time favorites.
keithbvadu2
(36,812 posts)4. Many people have done this song... Elvis, Slim Whitman, and more. I like Roger's version the best.
Many people have done this song... Elvis, Slim Whitman, and more. I like Roger's version the best.