Same age, same memories. The Corries to me are a huge part of our heritage, goes straight to the heart.

I'm 45, as a teenager in a youth group we'd sing along to the Corrie's. I wish I'd seen them live, but I'd have been about 13 when Roy died. At least we can enjoy them for eternity through video etc, they were always far better when playing live than in a recording studio. Real FOLK singers, they got FOLK involved, as folk music should do

@@jumbodoug I'm 65 and was lucky enough to see them live a couple of times in the mid 70s.

im 36 and my dad used to take me to the highland games in new hampshire when i was a kid i may be spanish by blood but my heart belongs in scotland

My dads favourite too.... I remember drives with his tape recorded from record playing in the car from Aberdeen my dads birth and death place and from and to glasgow my mums birthplace as is mine when mum moved up to aberdeen. I wonder if he watched these live corries on TV back when he was on his 20s and 30s. I'm 35 and lost him when I was 18 on valentines day with my grandad 4 days later.

Me too.. Got too see them in 1975 at the Usher Hall.. My Mum and Dad loved them and brought myself and my brother up on their music... I get that sense of pride and nostalgia when I listen to them.. It also reminds me of my father who we sadly lost in 1977...

I was a wee laddie in '87 but come from a folk family... love it.

Didn't know the ever played there I literally work and live around the corner from the town hall

I saw them there in the 90s.

🤝👊

Amen

Stayed in Banff with a good friend of mine fell in love with the place and it's people came back on a few more occasions Love the corries music I believe Ronnie was great friends with our own finbar fury . Greetings from Dublin .

Part of his sentence was for "The crime of being egyptian". Of course, for being a traveller, at that point you could just get sentenced for that

@@tarnuin58 But was he not a MacPherson?

@@janetmackinnon3411 Yup! Born to a gypsy traveller family and lived the majority of his life as a traveller, which the law at that point saw as "An Egyptian" since "Gypsy" seemed to be derived from Egyptian. His main crimes were things like robbery (though he was a robin hood type and stood by a code of not stealing from the poor, the widowed or those who couldn't do without), carrying weapons in a market and "Being Egyptian".

​@@tarnuin58 his father was the son of a McPherson laird and is mother was a traveller who he met at a wedding

Jealous o yi!

there is a verse referring to this outrage, they should have hung the guilty parties after it was discovered.

The rotten fuckin maggot! MacPherson would have kicked all your asses!

Never will be a ever

Aye, legends.

Even the Scottish ones.

My big bro aka “Big P”, is the patriarch of our McPherson family.

Notice the Celtic Irish are wanting Scotland free now...ALBA/ERIN GO BRAGH...SLAINTE

Ronnie Browne was 50 years old in this video, but looks around 60-70 with his snowy hair. He's still living at the ripe old age of 82! Imagine being an old man for that long

lucky you, we have lots more...……..

That makes you one of "US" , God bless from across the water in the auld country, take care of you and yer kin.

Amen, may it happen.

May it indeed!

Let’s keep it so laddie 💕🙏🏻

That what the water of life dis fur ye. SLANTE

Tomorrow We Live Fellow MacPherson!

heres to us wha s like us...

Susan Littlejohn Damn few and they're a' deid!

Tomorrow We Live that’s the Macintosh / motto also. Go on love the corries, great recording great sentiment .

Family rivalries you mean. Read Bryan Cunningham's comment above that tells the story.

This or rosin the beau. 👍

Morag MacGregor ❤️

As a piper .. I would rather play this than AG.

Did just that in a little pub in Elie, Fife. Still gives me a thrill thinking about it.

"If we knew then what we know now....bahahahaha mammy i cannae stoap greetin" ya big p00f. Beyond belief. Ye'd be of no use to anyone in a crisis lol

Awa and bile yer head.@@cmcc3721

Ronnie brown is still alive

Hahaha it's a hooded orkney chair

@@kafa925 Great; thanks!

Kafa92 What is a hooded Orkney chair?

Can't swear to it but it looks like The Pleasance in Edinburgh to me.

It was recorded in a BBC Scotland studio in Edinburgh, with some of videos made in other (outdoor) locations! See my comment below.

@@Arkybark I believe what you say, but I can't help noting that some of the videos show such elaborately furnished rooms that they don't resemble a BBC Scotland studio. Also, you recall your & my discussion of Roy's big guitar. It may be the guitar he plays in "Rehabilitation Blues."

All I can tell you is what I said before (below), Gavin Browne, Ronnie's son, told me that the series was filmed in a BBC studio (as I think all their BBC productions were); in this case, he said, UK folk club members could buy tickets to be in the studio audience as pubgoers. Some of the video insets contain scenes probably filmed at least partly outside the studios, but the BBC's camera operators may have so genially mixed shots taken elsewhere with studio shots that you can't really tell where they are. Look at the Loch Tay Boat Song. It looks like Roy is rowing a boat on Loch Tay, but is he really? Not while singing and playing the comboliin, of course. Maybe he's actually on the pond in Inverleith Park , or maybe someone else is rowing a boat somewhere else - you don't see his face and you can't see where the boat is. Such is studio magic. 'The videos were all brilliantly done, anyway, I think.

@@Arkybark Well, presumably it is Roy. I have read about that on one or another Community Forum about the Loch Tay Boat Song. You are correct in observing that the videos 'were all brilliantly done'.