Calum and Christine Kennedy.
The Highlander
my friend Murdo, who think that the finest voice ever to come out of
that talented island was Calum Kennedy. And for many non-Gaels, his
soft voice represented the voice of the Isles.
So, here are three songs by Calum - Eilidh (Ellie, a pet name for
Helen), Oh Peggy love, and Song of a Young Child. The fourth song is
by Calum's daughter (or granddaughter?) Caìristìona (say
Carris-CHEE-enna) who has a haunting voice and who sings about
returning to Lochs on the Isle of Lewis to visit the kindly people of
her childhood. It made me instantly homesick for my childhood - the
solo voice with the squeeze box accompaniment ... it has all passed
far too quickly... I am a little confused about Christine because I
think she also uses the name Kristine to separate herself from the
Presidential Kennedys et al.and she also seems to have two religious
CDs out and third following. No matter, her voice is exquisite.
I have used and tested the "tiny urls" below because the full URLS are
so cumbersome. The singers names and a short title are given in Gaelic
and English and because of downloading restructions, the accents have
had to be removed, but can be cut and pasted back on the downloaded
mp3s if you decide to store them with Gaelic rather than English names
and titles..
Ceannadach, Calum - Eilidh
Kennedy, Calum - Ellie
http://tinyurl.com/qq475
Ceannadach, Calum - a' Pheigi a' ghràidh
Kennedy, Calum - oh Peggy love
http://tinyurl.com/oxv76
Ceannadach, Calum - Òran mu leanabh òg
Kennedy, Calum - Song about a young child
http://tinyurl.com/mft5t
Ceannadach, Cairistìona - chaidh mi cuairt
Kennedy, Christine - I am going on a visit
http://tinyurl.com/ovnou
The Highlander
Faodaidh nach ionann na beachdan anns
an pòst seo agus beachdan a' Ghàidheil.
The views expressed in this post are
not necessarily those of The Highlander.
Ag amas air adhartas ann an Gàidhlig.
Aiming for advancement in the Gaelic.
HelpmaBoab
"The Highlander" <mic...@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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He drunk like a fish apparently - he had lovely daughters though.I think I
prefered the daughters singing.
We used to have Callums Caleigh on TV each week.Should Calum have 1 or 2
L's?
Tam
The Real Fifeshire Bimbo
Cheers, Helen
hramsay at cogeco dot ca
Defender of M$OE
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The Highlander
wrote:
Calum's Ceilidh. With two L's Calum would be pronounced Cal-yum and
the L would change from the L that people in Aberdeen say, like "Lum"
to the thin English L. like classy women from London saying Dolly.
>
>Tam
helenr
The Highlander wrote:
> There are many Leòdhasaich (people from the Isle of Lewis), including
> my friend Murdo, who think that the finest voice ever to come out of
> that talented island was Calum Kennedy. And for many non-Gaels, his
> soft voice represented the voice of the Isles.
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4872068.stm
Singer Calum Kennedy passes away
The singer Calum Kennedy has died in Aberdeen at the age of 77.
Mr Kennedy was one of the best-loved Scottish singers and entertainers
of his generation.
Born in the Lochs area of Lewis in 1928, he originally set out to be a
doctor but his talent for singing took him on another path.
In 1955 he won the Mod Gold Medal at the age of 26. The pinnacle of his
career was in the late 60s and early 70s when he had his own TV
programme.
R.Peffers.
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The Highlander wrote:
> There are many Leňdhasaich (people from the Isle of Lewis), including
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4872068.stm
No, and you beat me to it by a whisker. The whole family were musical and
most were on his TV shows.
--
Robert Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).
(When replying take pam away from peffers.
Scotland).
The Highlander
wrote:
>
>The Highlander wrote:
>> There are many Le=F2dhasaich (people from the Isle of Lewis), including
>> my friend Murdo, who think that the finest voice ever to come out of
>> that talented island was Calum Kennedy. And for many non-Gaels, his
>> soft voice represented the voice of the Isles.
>>
> Did somebody post this already?
I didn't. The piece above was in connection with one of his songs.
Calum Kennedy's death closes a unique time in Gaelic song, when the
haunting beauty of his voice caught the imagination of many Scots and
stirred their interest in the music of the Gael. In the Gaelic musical
world he was an icon.
>
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4872068.stm
>
>Singer Calum Kennedy passes away
>The singer Calum Kennedy has died in Aberdeen at the age of 77.
>Mr Kennedy was one of the best-loved Scottish singers and entertainers
>of his generation.
>
>Born in the Lochs area of Lewis in 1928, he originally set out to be a
>doctor but his talent for singing took him on another path.
>
>In 1955 he won the Mod Gold Medal at the age of 26. The pinnacle of his
>career was in the late 60s and early 70s when he had his own TV
>programme.
>
Jane Margaret Laight
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5051103.html
A truly beautiful voice is stilled.
JML
The Real Fifeshire Bimbo
> "helenr" <helen_...@hotmail.com> wrote
> Did somebody post this already?
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4872068.stm
>
> Singer Calum Kennedy passes away
> The singer Calum Kennedy has died in Aberdeen at the age of 77.
> Mr Kennedy was one of the best-loved Scottish singers and entertainers
> of his generation.
>
> Born in the Lochs area of Lewis in 1928, he originally set out to be a
> doctor but his talent for singing took him on another path.
>
> In 1955 he won the Mod Gold Medal at the age of 26. The pinnacle of his
> career was in the late 60s and early 70s when he had his own TV
> programme.
>
> No, and you beat me to it by a whisker. The whole family were musical and
> most were on his TV shows.
A whisker? A gey long wan then. There's 8 hours and 10 minutes between my
post and yours :)
R.Peffers.
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did not then bother.
The Highlander
<jml2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
and from The Scotsman...
Calum Kennedy
Singer and businessman
Born: 2 June, 1928, in Oronsay, Lewis.
Died: 15 April, 2006, in Cults, Aberdeen, aged 77.
CALUM Kennedy seemed set for a career in accountancy until he won the
Mod gold medal in the Music Hall, Aberdeen, in 1955. It was a triumph
which reshaped his life twice: he embarked on a highly successful
showbusiness career, and his personal and business life became centred
on Aberdeen rather than his native Lewis.
Winning gold presented the handsome young singer with instant
invitations to perform around Scotland. The turning point in his
career came when he began to sing and write songs in English as well
as his native Gaelic. Shows of his own followed, along with lucrative
record deals.
With his wife, Anne Gillies, herself a Mod gold medallist three years
before Kennedy, they packed Aberdeen's Tivoli Theatre twice nightly
for a whole year, with a line-up of performers giving real meaning to
the word "variety". With a shrewd eye to business, he was one of a
consortium of seven who bought both the Tivoli, and the Palace in
Dundee, bringing north entertainers such as Frankie Vaughan, Anne
Shelton and the Billy Cotton Band. He also headed Radar Records, a
recording and music publishing company to put out his albums.
Touring with Kennedy was the stuff of legend, not just for the
demanding schedule, but for the parties that followed the concerts. It
was that feeling for what makes a good party that led to the success
of his 1960s and 1970s television programmes. Broadcast live, Calum's
Ceilidh and Round at Calum's were completely non-formulaic, being the
essence of what happens at a ceilidh. The initial Calum's Ceilidh was
the first live programme transmitted by Grampian TV, and the series -
running to hundreds of programmes - gained a Central Belt audience
when it moved to STV.
From their Renfrewshire home in Elderslie, Kennedy and Anne ran a
family show with the "Singing Kennedys", including their five
daughters in the line-up. Only the eldest daughter, Fiona, remains in
the business today.
The kind of tours originated by Kennedy and his crew ought to have
died out long ago, but audience demand was there, and he joyously
played to them into the 1980s, with a work output that sometimes
astonished his peers in showbiz. One west-coast winter tour north from
Oban presented a pantomime in the first house, with the same cast
working in variety in the second. Sometimes the same audience appeared
at both.
He brought glamour to unlikely places. A Shirley Bassey-esque
performer appeared nightly in Wick, slinky frame covered in a thousand
sequins, with her caravan almost as highly decorated.
Aged 51, Kennedy announced his retiral, but his fans demanded more,
and seven years later, he was back on stage as the dominant voice of
Gaelic music to Highlander and Lowlander alike. His Lewis heritage
inspired his writing of Lovely Stornoway, a song which became most
identified with Gaelic music the world over, and which contains a line
referring to his birthplace at Oronsay.
Kennedy himself always said that his proudest moment was in Moscow in
1957, winning the world ballad championship against 500 entrants from
30 countries. Among them was a young Irish singer Richard Harris who,
like Kennedy, had both a great future ahead of him, and was not averse
to the occasional drink. Together they travelled by train to Moscow on
what proved by all accounts to be an eventful journey.
No stranger to the law courts, he successfully sued Eden Court Theatre
in Inverness over sales of his records, but failed in a bitter wrangle
with the BBC to stop the broadcasting of Calum Kennedy's Commando
Course, a documentary parodying his work.
He was devastated by the sudden death of his beloved wife, Anne, in
1974. Some 13 years later he married his second wife, Christine
Wilson, a singer and principal player with Irvine Amateur Operatic
Society, but the marriage was not a success and the couple divorced.
They had a daughter.
Hit by a series of strokes, Kennedy lived his last years in a nursing
home in Aberdeen, and is survived by his six daughters and several
grandchildren.
This article:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=584642006
Last updated: 18-Apr-06 10:31 BST
The Real Fifeshire Bimbo
>>> "helenr" <helen_...@hotmail.com> wrote
>>
>>> Did somebody post this already?
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4872068.stm
>>>
>>> Singer Calum Kennedy passes away
>>> The singer Calum Kennedy has died in Aberdeen at the age of 77.
>>> Mr Kennedy was one of the best-loved Scottish singers and entertainers
>>> of his generation.
>>>
>>> Born in the Lochs area of Lewis in 1928, he originally set out to be a
>>> doctor but his talent for singing took him on another path.
>>>
>>> In 1955 he won the Mod Gold Medal at the age of 26. The pinnacle
>>> of his career was in the late 60s and early 70s when he had his own TV
>>> programme.
>>>
>>> No, and you beat me to it by a whisker. The whole family were musical
>>> and most were on his TV shows.
>>
>> A whisker? A gey long wan then. There's 8 hours and 10 minutes between
>> my post and yours :)
>>
> No! What I meant was that I was about to post when your post downloaded.
> I did not then bother.
Yes! Now if you had said that first time around I might have understood
you.
R.Peffers.
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