Very touching. Wonderfully to the point: " We know Major Tom's a junkie !
@straightshooterssc45914 ай бұрын
Stunning.
@minicle4265 ай бұрын
Find the ship's what? >_>
@pablodebiddlybo37716 ай бұрын
Roger the cabin boy 😮
@stuartwaller91382 ай бұрын
Oh Matron!!!
@MemskiBobSki7 ай бұрын
40 years ago I discovered The Blue Nile. 40 years later I Love this Life.
@AltoonaYourPiano8 ай бұрын
This show is a little bit before my time so I remember hearing the urban myths and believing them. I was told there was a "Master Bates", "Seaman Staines", "Pirate Willy" (sometimes told as "Big Willy the Pirate"), and "Roger the Cabin Boy". Turns out only one of those was real (except I'm not so sure he was ever called "Big Willy the Pirate", just "Pirate Willy"), but it's so easy to see how the myth could spread. Pirate Willy being real and eliciting a few giggles and a few kids mishearing Master Mates as Bates and then along the line someone must have asked "what's the other seaman's name?" and someone says "I think Staines" and they giggle and start telling everyone the name of the other pirate ("Seaman Staines" was actually Pirate Barnabas). And then someone was like "And there was the cabin boy's name, what was it?" and a kid is about to say "Tom" but then decides on "Roger" and laughs to himself. And then a myth is born. The myth probably started within a month of the show's first airing, because you know how kids are.
@reallivebluescat28 күн бұрын
I think there was an article about it too, making shit up
@richardking320611 ай бұрын
Pretty sure I saw this when it went out live, because I recalled it immediately. I remember being lucky enough to get tickets to see Blue Nile at what was the Colston Hall (now Bristol Beacon) on their last tour. They were utterly beautiful, but so modest with it. It’s so sad that they’ve not toured since. I’d happily go see them anywhere I could get to. I hope that they are well and thriving at whatever they’re doing now. Much missed.
@JackBlack-gh5yf11 ай бұрын
Some people used to reckon The Magic Roundabout was full of drugs references! 😵💫 A shame the drivel about Captain Pugwash caused the collapse of The Sunday Correspondent, because they failed to check the facts of the story - ie it's rubbish! 🤨
@stevenleyland657811 ай бұрын
But captain pugwash is sexual as pugwash is an old naval term for oral sex fact
@dewimatthews Жыл бұрын
That her niece was under the trapeze seems unwise. I hope she wasn’t badly hurt.
@catherinecharles730 Жыл бұрын
Sublime. 💫
@contadlasczyk7633 Жыл бұрын
Stunning vocals.....up there with Brian ferry and David sylvian
@kerrinschmidt5946 Жыл бұрын
Dad ist ja aus meiner Kindheit von Spaß am Montag 😂😭.
@stuartmiller9648 Жыл бұрын
Stunning. Words cannot express the pain and beauty in this song,the sadness and the joy......beautiful.
@upumpkin Жыл бұрын
I was watching it on the Internet Archive just now and I genuinely thought that was his name
@upumpkin Жыл бұрын
I wasn't aware of any controversy I just watched it for fun.
@duncansmith8992 Жыл бұрын
One of the rare, few men, who can bring you to the verge of tears, with his voice, words, melodies and music.
@joncoutts1330 Жыл бұрын
A beautiful singer. I could listen to him read the phone book.
@PatrickGalbraith Жыл бұрын
Paul Buchanan is a great musician I'm puzzled as to why I never knew of back in the 80s. He and Blue Nile were/are fantastic, and so is this rendition of Major Tom.
@robertbrown6531 Жыл бұрын
This is a beautiful version of this classic song
@beatriceprovenzano6862 Жыл бұрын
I love Paul Buchanan: great performer
@iainroy6643 Жыл бұрын
Simply brilliant.
@andynpoet Жыл бұрын
I must admit I prefer Paul's other cover on the night off ' I Can’t Give Everything Away' and I have heard somewhere Paul had to be persuaded to do this song also but it's excellent stuff still. He's always excellent thou.
@rabit818 Жыл бұрын
Paul added more pathos.
@imagecarpenter Жыл бұрын
Leave it out pal it is bullshit cover
@cowraolasczyk4076 Жыл бұрын
Genius song sung by a voice of gold
@stelamaris6664 Жыл бұрын
Espetáculo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@terrydear4038 Жыл бұрын
Paul Buchanan has an extraordinary ability to write and sing with such beauty. Quite how both Paul and The Blue Nile are not acknowledged for their music is one of the great mysteries of the modern world.
@wwonka52 Жыл бұрын
I so agree. Love listening, drinking my wine, and sobbing so happily. lol
@DVDandFilmBloke2 жыл бұрын
I can kind of understand why John Ryan got upset by those jokes but come on, with a name like Master Mate (and the way Peter Hawking's said it) you must have seen the jokes coming.
@ronaldmcdonald830310 ай бұрын
I remember someone telling me that the cabin boy was called Roger, when I told him he was wrong because I have the tapes and he's called Tom. He told me I was wrong and was hearing things. There is a myth that there are lots of rude joke in captain Pugwash. I have some of the original episodes. Master Mate is the only one I know of. I'm not easily offended, I love dark humour, especially Bo selecta, but my mum only likes feel good stuff. If you like darker stuff try watching the Ren and Stimpy show, or some 70's and 80's TV programmes if you can find them. People today are complainy pants anyway. Were way too offended these days, everything fun is being ousted. 25 years ago all the good stuff was on TV, Now were stuck with Dr' who and Peppa pig. If I was going to watch Dr' Who, I would go to an antique shop and get the 70's originals. TV is going down hill, there now even considering having a female Bond. All the good stuff is not, "Un fashionable!" There is no Ronald McDonald any more, thanks to super size me!
@philipdalton1000sАй бұрын
Actually the word "wank" has effectively been used in "Goodnight Sweetheart". Not the actual word, of course, but some character who's incapable of pronouncing his "R's" properly saying "You outrank me". Comedy is often littered with similar puns.
@thestormforce52 жыл бұрын
To be blessed with such a voice!
@Trainlover19952 жыл бұрын
It’s Master Mate. “Master Bates” is part of an urban legend.
@Nakeethus_Hunter2 жыл бұрын
Indeed... The writer of Pugwash even won a libel case against The Guardian over it
@DVDandFilmBloke2 жыл бұрын
It's still funny though. I know his name is Master Mate but still John Ryan could have picked a better name that didn't sound rude if you misheard it, like Ben Dover.
@anthonybailey1966 Жыл бұрын
@@Nakeethus_Hunter I think he successfully sued 2 newspapers....dunno which ones they were...a student rag was also blamed for upsetting John Ryan intensely!
@mistofoles2 жыл бұрын
"Who left their breeches in my cabin ??" "Seaman Staines, cap'n "
@rogerjackson73182 жыл бұрын
I clearly remember "Master Bates". It may have been written as Mates in the script, but who has never heard narrators having a little fun. Roger the Cabin boy (not Tom) appeared in more than one episode. Shag the Dog, and Flay Sho the Cunning Linguist (captain of a Chinese junk) also appeared over the years, but these reels can't be found. Lost in the fire, or floods, of 1966 or whenever.
@jmichael4002 Жыл бұрын
Not true. Urban myth. It was never ever Master Bates or Roger
@grog35146 ай бұрын
Why is Roger the cabin boy dirty?
@stuartwaller91382 ай бұрын
@@grog3514well mate, to “roger the cabin boy “, is a double entendres, a bit like, first mate, seaman stains, and master bates, does this help
@stuartwaller91382 ай бұрын
I love those other characters that I have never heard of but I’m chuckling at the thought of them now especially Fla Sho, and Shag the Dog is just brilliant lol thanks for making me laugh my bag off
@sophiafake-virus24562 жыл бұрын
He really dropped the ball on this night. Paul was one of my faves.
@mistofoles2 жыл бұрын
I'm sure this was deliberate - In one episode, a character says ( In reference to a large sea creature they caught ) "Cor, what a whopper ! Can we handle that ?"
@lennyweb3178 Жыл бұрын
And? What is your point? Any fisherman would say something like that.
@anthonywhelan4506 Жыл бұрын
@@lennyweb3178all my lovers must have been fisherman so lol😂😂
@hamman_samuel2 жыл бұрын
Master Bates was a Seaman
@lessismore44702 жыл бұрын
sheer vocal power
@drdalewisely2 жыл бұрын
For everything that life was worth the fallen snow, the virgin birth yes, I can see you standing in mid-air. I can see you standing in mid-air.
@vasileiosfilis92842 жыл бұрын
!
@robpreston69582 жыл бұрын
Just absolutely beautiful yet so simple. The greatest voice to come out of Scotland.
@GS1952 жыл бұрын
Was this show really for kids? XD
@francisohare32992 жыл бұрын
Yes, the show was real. However, many of the names i.e 'Roger the Cabin Boy', 'Seaman Stains' were either changed or simply urban myths. There is a sexual term that uses 'Pugwash', but it's also 'a shoal', in reference to a reef near the mouth of the harbour. You can see how this might attract double entendre's.
@Nakeethus_Hunter2 жыл бұрын
@@francisohare3299 They were urban myths as John Ryan successfully sued the Sunday Correspondent and The Guardian in a liable case in 1991
@SA778882 жыл бұрын
Huh?? Ive had it wrong all these years.....Master Mate?? But there the other one aswell, seaman staines isnt there??
@lennyweb3178 Жыл бұрын
No. It was all a myth. Master Mates was the only one. Seaman Stains, Roger the cabin boy and all the other made up names did not exist.
@SA77888 Жыл бұрын
@@lennyweb3178 I see!!! Thank you for the clarification........I had believed that myth for decades lol
@BillyJango Жыл бұрын
@@SA77888 If you look into it ,it actually kind of ruined the writers life. It was totally innocent, yes it had a character called Master Mates but he didn't intend it to sound like Masterbates. It was some comedian in the 70's who started it, I have forgotten his name now but he was doing stand up and because one of the characters was called Master Mates he made up the rest of the names and it just caught on. That is how it started.
@Wishesfeb292 жыл бұрын
WOW! I am knocked out by this. Excellent.
@onealspence85482 жыл бұрын
Nahh
@trw56532 жыл бұрын
This brings my extroverted, caring, crazy mum to me... Not shoulder to shoulder, but her cradled in my arms. In my heart ❤️ forever
@1969maxxos2 жыл бұрын
The same for mine
@andrewsmactips2 жыл бұрын
So when does Seaman Staines make an appearance?
@lennyweb3178 Жыл бұрын
He doesn't it was all a myth. Made up nonsense.
@jmichael4002 Жыл бұрын
He never did
@Lord_Skeptic8 ай бұрын
Usually after Master Bates
@stuartwaller91382 ай бұрын
@@Lord_Skepticrogered the cabin boy lol
@JohnKuridala3 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful. You can tell he is an awesome guy too.
@jimhooper42523 жыл бұрын
How lovely this was ....thankyou
@francisohare32993 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@simplyclem3 жыл бұрын
that gives me goosebumps
@219woodburn3 жыл бұрын
Lovely. There is nothing but good about this song.