Death of Robin Hall
jmaxwell
died. Could anyone pass on any more info on this, such as the cause of
death, and where it happened?
Thanks,
John Maxwell
Anne Jackson
from jmaxwell <jmax...@netinc.ca> contains these words:
> I noticed on the uk.music.folk group, that folksinger Robin Hall has
> died. Could anyone pass on any more info on this, such as the cause of
> death, and where it happened?
I was told that he was found dead in his flat in Maryhill, Glasgow.
Haven't seen or heard the news today.
Anne
Micheil Rob Mac Phàdruig
wrote:
I wonder what happened to Cliff Michelmore. I suppose he must be dead
by now. Robin Hall must have been in his early 60s by now and Jimmy
MacGregor must be almost 70.
I remember that one of them was a descendant of Rob Roy MacGregor -
and funnily enough, it was Robin Hall, not Jimmy MacGregor!
Měcheil Rob Mac Phŕdruig
"Faire faire dhuin' ňig
cia do bharantas mór?
'N i do bharail bhith
beň 's nach eug thu?"
jmaxwell
Actually, I've managed to check the news on one of the BBC Scotland on-line
programmes, since I posted my info request. Robin Hall was 61 years old. There
was an interview with Jimmy MacGregor on the programme in which he discussed
the folkie days in the late '50's, early '60's. Apparently, the two of them
used to thumb lifts down to London to check out the blues/folk clubs, etc. The
two of them played together at the clubs quite frequently. They didn't get
together as a musical partnership until they attended a music festival in
Austria, and Paul Robeson encouraged their singing together. Robeson told them
that it was important for them to sing the songs of their own country. Jimmy
MacGregor commented during the interview, that they felt as though they had
represented folk music to the world differently with their guitars, rather
than the old way of looking at it, and hearing it, as a bunch of hands on a
piano, wearing kilts.
The first record that my parents bought was the 1961 Robin Hall and Jimmy
MacGregor album,"Scottish Choice", with "The Galliards". Its old and crackly,
and it doesn't stand up too well against the likes of the modern folk stuff,
but it is of a lot of sentimental value to me, and other folk as well, no
doubt.
JM
Charles Ellson
mik...@whidbey.com "Micheil Rob Mac Ph?druig" writes:
>
> I wonder what happened to Cliff Michelmore. I suppose he must be dead
> by now.
>
He's just finished an 8 week series on the radio, so unless I've missed
something, or the word "Repeat" was missing from the Radio Times, he seems
to be still working.
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mik...@whidbey.com (Micheil Rob Mac Phŕdruig) wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:09:09 GMT, Anne Jackson <amyg...@zetnet.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >The message <3654A6F1...@netinc.ca>
> > from jmaxwell <jmax...@netinc.ca> contains these words:
> >
> >> I noticed on the uk.music.folk group, that folksinger Robin Hall has
> >> died. Could anyone pass on any more info on this, such as the cause of
> >> death, and where it happened?
> >
> >I was told that he was found dead in his flat in Maryhill, Glasgow.
> >
> >Haven't seen or heard the news today.
> >
> >Anne
>
> MacGregor must be almost 70.
>
> I remember that one of them was a descendant of Rob Roy MacGregor -
> and funnily enough, it was Robin Hall, not Jimmy MacGregor!
>
> Měcheil Rob Mac Phŕdruig
> "Faire faire dhuin' ňig
> cia do bharantas mór?
> 'N i do bharail bhith
> beň 's nach eug thu?"
>
Cliff Michelmore is still around and is doing a programme called something
like "A Year to Remember" at 4 pm on Radio 4 on Sundays. - Neil.
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|>In article <3654e809...@news.whidbey.com>,
|> mik...@whidbey.com (Micheil Rob Mac Phàdruig) wrote:
|>> I wonder what happened to Cliff Michelmore.
Why????
|>>I suppose he must be dead
|>> by now. Robin Hall must have been in his early 60s by now and Jimmy
|>> MacGregor must be almost 70.
Jimmy McGregor is hale and hearty and does occassional TV series such as
McGregors Walks (or something like that) where he walked the West Highland
Way and then followed up with some east to west walks, one in the borders
and the other, something like Stonehaven to Mallaig via the Great Glen.
He's probably knocking on 60 now. He was in his late teens, early twenties
when he, Hall and Paddy Bell were doing the folk club rounds in the late
50s/early60s.
tnn
Bryn Fraser
writes
>In article <3654e809...@news.whidbey.com>,
> mik...@whidbey.com (Micheil Rob Mac Phŕdruig) wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:09:09 GMT, Anne Jackson <amyg...@zetnet.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >The message <3654A6F1...@netinc.ca>
>> > from jmaxwell <jmax...@netinc.ca> contains these words:
>> >
>> >> I noticed on the uk.music.folk group, that folksinger Robin Hall has
>> >> died. Could anyone pass on any more info on this, such as the cause of
>> >> death, and where it happened?
>> >
>> >I was told that he was found dead in his flat in Maryhill, Glasgow.
>> >
>> >Haven't seen or heard the news today.
>> >
>> >Anne
>>
>> by now. Robin Hall must have been in his early 60s by now and Jimmy
>> MacGregor must be almost 70.
>>
>> and funnily enough, it was Robin Hall, not Jimmy MacGregor!
>>
>> Měcheil Rob Mac Phŕdruig
>> "Faire faire dhuin' ňig
>> cia do bharantas mór?
>> 'N i do bharail bhith
>> beň 's nach eug thu?"
>>
>
>Cliff Michelmore is still around and is doing a programme called something
>like "A Year to Remember" at 4 pm on Radio 4 on Sundays. - Neil.
I like Cliff Michelmore, he once referred to me as a "rising star in the
political sky" or something like that. I bet he does not do well on the
horses...................
>
Bryn Fraser
('S truagh nach robh mi cho
aotrom ris an t-seabhaig theid
caol anns á speur.....)
Sgt. Christopher Macrae 78th
Micheil Rob Mac Phàdruig
Ellson) wrote:
>In article <3654e809...@news.whidbey.com>
> mik...@whidbey.com "Micheil Rob Mac Ph?druig" writes:
>
>>
>> I wonder what happened to Cliff Michelmore. I suppose he must be dead
>> by now.
>>
>He's just finished an 8 week series on the radio, so unless I've missed
>something, or the word "Repeat" was missing from the Radio Times, he seems
>to be still working.
>--
Glad to hear it - he was a most amiable sort of fellow.
As you're obviously up to speed on TV personalities - is Eamonn
Andrews still with us?
Micheil Rob Mac Phàdruig
Usenet Hobo) wrote:
>
>|>In article <3654e809...@news.whidbey.com>,
>|> mik...@whidbey.com (Micheil Rob Mac Phŕdruig) wrote:
>
>|>> I wonder what happened to Cliff Michelmore.
>
>Why????
>
>|>>I suppose he must be dead
>|>> by now. Robin Hall must have been in his early 60s by now and Jimmy
>|>> MacGregor must be almost 70.
>
>Jimmy McGregor is hale and hearty and does occassional TV series such as
>McGregors Walks (or something like that) where he walked the West Highland
>Way and then followed up with some east to west walks, one in the borders
>and the other, something like Stonehaven to Mallaig via the Great Glen.
>He's probably knocking on 60 now. He was in his late teens, early twenties
>when he, Hall and Paddy Bell were doing the folk club rounds in the late
>50s/early60s.
>
Ah, Paddy Bell! That sweet and tiny voice. Max Ferguson, who's pretty
much the dean of CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) is perennially
trying to find out what happened to her as he was very taken with her
voice and played her records continually on his show which now seems
to have vanished... If you know where she is today, I'll pass the news
on to poor old Max so he can finally relax!
She was a wee blonde girl who sometimes sang on the Tonight Show and
sometimes appeared with The Corries.
Charles Mcgregor
from tnnurse@NO_SPAM.usa.net (The Usenet Hobo) contains these words:
> |>In article <3654e809...@news.whidbey.com>,
> |> mik...@whidbey.com (Micheil Rob Mac Phŕdruig) wrote:
> |>> I wonder what happened to Cliff Michelmore.
> Why????
> |>>I suppose he must be dead
> |>> by now. Robin Hall must have been in his early 60s by now and Jimmy
> |>> MacGregor must be almost 70.
> Jimmy McGregor is hale and hearty and does occassional TV series such as
> McGregors Walks (or something like that) where he walked the West Highland
> Way and then followed up with some east to west walks, one in the borders
> and the other, something like Stonehaven to Mallaig via the Great Glen.
> He's probably knocking on 60 now. He was in his late teens, early twenties
> when he, Hall and Paddy Bell were doing the folk club rounds in the late
> 50s/early60s.
He just finished doing a Radio Scotland series on John Muir, the founder of
'modern' conservation. I think he must be over 60 since I remember Him
and Robin Hall on the tonight program when I was about 6.
regards
chic
Charles Ellson
mik...@whidbey.com "Micheil Rob Mac Ph?druig" writes:
<snip>
> As you're obviously up to speed on TV personalities - is Eamonn
> Andrews still with us?
>
Seamus Android popped off some time ago, but I can't remember when.
Craig Cockburn
<mik...@whidbey.com> writes>>|>In article <3654e809...@news.whidbey.com>,
>>|> mik...@whidbey.com (Micheil Rob Mac Phàdruig) wrote:
>>
>>|>> I wonder what happened to Cliff Michelmore.
>>
>>Why????
>>
>>|>>I suppose he must be dead
>>|>> by now. Robin Hall must have been in his early 60s by now and Jimmy
>>|>> MacGregor must be almost 70.
>>
>>Jimmy McGregor is hale and hearty and does occassional TV series such as
>>McGregors Walks (or something like that) where he walked the West Highland
>>Way and then followed up with some east to west walks, one in the borders
>>and the other, something like Stonehaven to Mallaig via the Great Glen.
>>He's probably knocking on 60 now. He was in his late teens, early twenties
>>when he, Hall and Paddy Bell were doing the folk club rounds in the late
>>50s/early60s.
>>
>
>much the dean of CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) is perennially
>trying to find out what happened to her as he was very taken with her
>voice and played her records continually on his show which now seems
>to have vanished... If you know where she is today, I'll pass the news
>on to poor old Max so he can finally relax!
>
>She was a wee blonde girl who sometimes sang on the Tonight Show and
>sometimes appeared with The Corries.
>
Last time I saw her she was making a regular appearance at the West End
Hotel folk session on a Wednesday night, usually with blind Bill. I used
to go to those sessions - they were one of the better ones for singers.
--
Craig Cockburn ("coburn") http://www.scot.demon.co.uk/
Port na Banrighinn, Alba. (Queensferry, Scotland) PGP key available.
Sgri\obh thugam 'sa Gha\idhlig ma 'se do thoil e.
Micheil Rob Mac Phàdruig
<cr...@scot.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <365606fd...@news.whidbey.com>, Micheil Rob Mac Phŕdruig
><mik...@whidbey.com> writes
>>
>>Ah, Paddy Bell! That sweet and tiny voice. Max Ferguson, who's pretty
>>much the dean of CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) is perennially
>>trying to find out what happened to her as he was very taken with her
>>voice and played her records continually on his show which now seems
>>to have vanished... If you know where she is today, I'll pass the news
>>on to poor old Max so he can finally relax!
>>
>>She was a wee blonde girl who sometimes sang on the Tonight Show and
>>sometimes appeared with The Corries.
>>
>
>Last time I saw her she was making a regular appearance at the West End
>Hotel folk session on a Wednesday night, usually with blind Bill. I used
>to go to those sessions - they were one of the better ones for singers.
>
>--
>Craig Cockburn ("coburn") http://www.scot.demon.co.uk/
>Port na Banrighinn, Alba. (Queensferry, Scotland) PGP key available.
>Sgri\obh thugam 'sa Gha\idhlig ma 'se do thoil e.
Thanks Craig - I'll pass that on!
John F. Eldredge
> Jimmy
>MacGregor commented during the interview, that they felt as though they had
>represented folk music to the world differently with their guitars, rather
>than the old way of looking at it, and hearing it, as a bunch of hands on a
>piano, wearing kilts.
Does this sentence imply that Hall and McGregor did, or did not, wear
kilts while performing? It could be read as saying that the hands
were wearing kilts, or even that the piano was wearing a kilt. :)
--
John F. Eldredge -- eldr...@poboxes.com
PGP key available from http://www.netforward.com/poboxes/?eldredge/
--
"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power;
not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace." - Woodrow Wilson
Roderick MacDonald
from mik...@whidbey.com (Micheil Rob Mac Phàdruig) contains these words:
> On Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:48:16 +0000, Craig Cockburn
> <cr...@scot.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >In article <365606fd...@news.whidbey.com>, Micheil Rob Mac Phàdruig
> ><mik...@whidbey.com> writes
> >>
> >>Ah, Paddy Bell! That sweet and tiny voice. Max Ferguson, who's pretty
> >>much the dean of CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) is perennially
> >>trying to find out what happened to her as he was very taken with her
> >>voice and played her records continually on his show which now seems
> >>to have vanished... If you know where she is today, I'll pass the news
> >>on to poor old Max so he can finally relax!
> >>
> >>She was a wee blonde girl who sometimes sang on the Tonight Show and
> >>sometimes appeared with The Corries.
> >>
> >
> >Last time I saw her she was making a regular appearance at the West End
> >Hotel folk session on a Wednesday night, usually with blind Bill. I used
> >to go to those sessions - they were one of the better ones for singers.
> >
> >--
> >Craig Cockburn ("coburn") http://www.scot.demon.co.uk/
> >Port na Banrighinn, Alba. (Queensferry, Scotland) PGP key available.
> >Sgri\obh thugam 'sa Gha\idhlig ma 'se do thoil e.
She came to Newton Stewart once, playing a concert with the Clyde
Valley Stompers, a few years back.
Are they still around?
Rod
Roddy K Macdonald
Roderick MacDonald wrote in message <199811221...@zetnet.co.uk>...
>She came to Newton Stewart once, playing a concert with the Clyde
>Valley Stompers, a few years back.
>
>Are they still around?
>
Theme Song fame)? I last saw Paddie Bell in Edinburgh on Saturday - she's
fine, going strong and still a regular singer on the Edinburgh folk circuit.
I find it hard to imagine her singing trad jazz with the Clyde Valley
Stompers.
Yours aye
Roddy
Roderick MacDonald
from "Roddy K Macdonald" <ro...@macdonald50.freeservr.co.uk>
contains these words:
Sorry, you're right - it was Fionna Duncan, as I just checked with my
mum who went to the concert in question. And it was 1981 - a good few
years back!
Regards
Rod
Craig Cockburn
<cr...@scot.demon.co.uk> writes
>>
>
>Last time I saw her she was making a regular appearance at the West End
>Hotel folk session on a Wednesday night, usually with blind Bill. I used
>to go to those sessions - they were one of the better ones for singers.
>
Geoff Harden
Paddy Bell which he played on.
No idea how widely it was distributed.
John Barrow would surely know more (he knows almost everything!).
Geoff Harden
>
>Ah, Paddy Bell! That sweet and tiny voice. Max Ferguson, who's pretty
>much the dean of CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) is perennially
>trying to find out what happened to her as he was very taken with her
>voice and played her records continually on his show which now seems
>to have vanished... If you know where she is today, I'll pass the news
>on to poor old Max so he can finally relax!
>
>She was a wee blonde girl who sometimes sang on the Tonight Show and
>sometimes appeared with The Corries.
>
Graham Benny
>
> The message <tnnurse-ya0235800...@singer.cent.gla.ac.uk>
> from tnnurse@NO_SPAM.usa.net (The Usenet Hobo) contains these words:
>
> > |> mik...@whidbey.com (Micheil Rob Mac Phŕdruig) wrote:
>
> > |>> Robin Hall must have been in his early 60s by now and Jimmy
> > |>> MacGregor must be almost 70.
>
> > Jimmy McGregor is hale and hearty and does occassional TV series such as
> > McGregors Walks (or something like that) where he walked the West Highland
> > Way and then followed up with some east to west walks, one in the borders
> > and the other, something like Stonehaven to Mallaig via the Great Glen.
> > He's probably knocking on 60 now. He was in his late teens, early twenties
> > when he, Hall and Paddy Bell were doing the folk club rounds in the late
> > 50s/early60s.
>
> 'modern' conservation. I think he must be over 60 since I remember Him
> and Robin Hall on the tonight program when I was about 6.
>
Saturday's (or perhaps last Friday's) Herald carried an obituary to
Robin Hall in which he was mentioned as the younger of the two. It did
not give an actual age for Jimmy MacGregor but I suspect he is not much
older. Robin Hall's age was given as 61 but he looked much older in
comparison to J MacG. I suppose lifestyle and health had a lot to do
with it. Robin Hall was latterly in poor health and a heavy drinker -
when he was pointed out to me in a Byres Road pub a couple of years ago
he was barely recognisable from the younger image I had of him.
Incidentally, I'm sure he was in the same pub (Tennent's) on the
Saturday evening before he died, he was found dead on Tuesday. However
the Daily Retard had a speculative story that he may have lain
undiscovered for over a week.
In contrast Jimmy MacGregor had more of an outdoor lifestyle doing
programmes on TV and radio interviewing/chatting to locals and minor
celebs and investigating history, etc. on big walks such as the WHW,
Caledonian and Forth & Clyde Canals, Southern Upland Way ... There was
always a bit of doubt about how much walking he actually did and how
much was helicopter assisted. He was getting quite chubby. I heard a
story about someone going to help him on with his rucksack on the SUW
only to discover that it was stuffed with scrunched up newspapers!
Used to see him about Byres Road as well, usually drinking coffee in The
Chip, but I believe he is now based down in London.
HTH
Graham
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Ian O. Morrison
<cnb...@cc.sun.strath.ac.uk> writes
>In contrast Jimmy MacGregor had more of an outdoor lifestyle doing
>programmes on TV and radio interviewing/chatting to locals and minor
>celebs and investigating history, etc. on big walks such as the WHW,
>Caledonian and Forth & Clyde Canals, Southern Upland Way ... There was
>always a bit of doubt about how much walking he actually did and how
>much was helicopter assisted.
When he did the Speyside Way, many years ago now, I was responsible for
the museums at either end - Tomintoul and Tugnet Ice House. Jimmy
MacGregor did walk the whole route, but not in one go. In fact the
programme was shown in the reverse direction to that which he followed,
and the whole thing was spread over three months, June to August IIRC.
I wouldn't blame Jimmy MacGregor for the decisions his producer
(presumably) took - that's the sort of devious way these media folk
work.
Does anyone remember the "Great Railway Journeys of the World" series
shown about 1980? Michael Palin, just setting out on his travelogue
career, did one about the Kyle of Lochalsh line. Shortly after the
filming, I happened to be spending a night B&B at the Kyle
stationamster's house, and he (the stationmaster) had some tales to tell
about the whole experience of starring with the Great Man - he had to
wave a flag to set the train off at the end of the film.
---
Ian O. Morrison
- http://www2.scran.ac.uk/staff/ianm/index.htm
Roderick MacDonald
from "Ian O. Morrison" <I...@nmsdoc.demon.co.uk> contains these words:
> Does anyone remember the "Great Railway Journeys of the World" series
> shown about 1980? Michael Palin, just setting out on his travelogue
> career, did one about the Kyle of Lochalsh line. Shortly after the
> filming, I happened to be spending a night B&B at the Kyle
> stationamster's house, and he (the stationmaster) had some tales to tell
> about the whole experience of starring with the Great Man - he had to
> wave a flag to set the train off at the end of the film.
Gather round, everybody - get your jim-jams on, and bring your mug of
cocoa. Uncle Iain has some tales to tell about Mr Palin....
Expectantly,
Rod
sm...@my-dejanews.com
Craig Cockburn <cr...@scot.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I saw Paddie tonight at Ronnie Browne's concert.
>
Has Bill Smith (ex Corrie Folk Trio) done any singing lately?
Marjorie
>
>pretty much the dean of CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) is
>perennially trying to find out what happened to her as he was very
>taken with her voice and played her records continually on his show
>which now seems to have vanished... If you know where she is today,
>I'll pass the news on to poor old Max so he can finally relax!
>
> She was a wee blonde girl who sometimes sang on the Tonight Show and
> sometimes appeared with The Corries.
>
Gavin Browne:
<http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gavin_Browne/homepage.htm>
I have it and her voice is as sweet and clear as ever. Sure wish she'd
do more CDs!
Regards,
Marjorie
Archesuk
>n article <H+tYxJAK...@scot.demon.co.uk>,
> Craig Cockburn <cr...@scot.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I saw Paddie tonight at Ronnie Browne's concert.
>>
Is Ronnie still performing??Does anyone have details of any venues.
Ray Millar
Craig Cockburn
<arch...@aol.com> writes