Do you remember this Glenroe-based song?

simu

It was sung by Miley in Glenroe (Mick Lally) and the lines went something like this:

I was walking one day in the very heart of christmas
Bringing sheep from the hills to the quieter fields below
???
And her hair shone red like the berries in the winter

???
...on the by-road to Glenroe.

byte

OMG! I vaguely remember that alright! God, it was terrible. The bit that sticks out is the "her hair shoooonnnee red.." part

RuggieBear

The creator of Glenroe lives next door to my family home....i was talking to him a few months back about writer's royalties and he told me he still receives a royalty cheque of a couple of hundred euro every year from songs he wrote for Glenroe... :eek:

simu

Amazing!

No one has the full lyrics, do they?

aidan_dunne

Sweet mother of Jaysus (or should I say "Well Holy God!" ), I remember that as well. I even vaguely remember the video for it. Yes, believe it or not, they actually *did* make a video for it! Can you imagine Miley in his wellies singing it on-stage on "Top Of The Pops"? Scary thought, indeed.

If I recall, though, it did reasonably well in the charts here. Must have been all the old grannies and housewifes who had a secret fetish for a big, smelly, mad-haired Wickla (s.i.c.!) farmer who went out and bought it!

aidan_dunne

RuggieBear wrote:

The creator of Glenroe lives next door to my family home.

That would be Wesley Burrows, wouldn't it? For some unknown reason, when I was reading that the old title sequence for "Glenroe" popped into my mind and the name of Wesley Burrows came to mind. Am I right?

simu

aidan_dunne wrote:

That would be Wesley Burrows, wouldn't it? For some unknown reason, when I was reading that the old title sequence for "Glenroe" popped into my mind and the name of Wesley Burrows came to mind. Am I right?

Yes, fair play!

Lets make this into a Glenroe reminiscence thread. For some inexplicable reason, it was my favourite TV show when I was about 9. I used to watch it religiously every Sunday after "Where in the World".
Why? Why would a 9 yr old do that???

Tiriel

> The Ballad of Biddy and Miley: "And her hair shone red like the valley
> of the Rho-one, Her skin was white as the light upon the snow. How can
> I forget the morning that I met her, Where the side of the hill meets
> the by-road to Glenroe"

In the sticky link of In the 1980's in this forum.. but that's all I could find!!!

simu

The Rhone? How sophisticated!

That should be released - RERELEASE! RERELEASE! RERELEASE!

aidan_dunne

simu wrote:

I used to watch it religiously every Sunday after "Where in the World".

"Glenroe" was a regular feature in our house as well. I stopped watching it in the early '90's, though, when I was about 12 or 13, I reckon. Still though, does anybody remember the uproar there was later on about Miley and Fidelma's "roll in the hay"? God, those were the days, RTE's early attempts at sexing-up Glenroe!

And where in the world did "Where In The World" go to? In particular, Theresa Lowe? Last I heard, she went back to university to study to become a solicitor or a barrister or something. That was another regular show of a Sunday night in our house. Everytime I watch the film "The Van" I have to laugh at the bit where Larry and Bimbo are settling down to watch it. Larry: "Your one's a ride, isn't she?" And she was, and all!

Sunday nights in the Dunne household - Glenroe followed by Where In The World followed by London's Burning on UTV. Sunday night telly just isn't the same, is it?

BolBill

Glenroe was terrible, the music in particular, it always reminded me that we had school the next day !!!!

used to think Mary McDermott was deadly for her age......

sanncoo

I remeber learning the words to the theme tune in 4th class and then learning it on tin whistle.....eeek!!!

used to love glenroe...remember at the very beginning when Mary was hit. Everyone thought it was Dick and then we found out it was her husband who had hit her....

Oh the scandal!

S

billy the squid

Actually remember seeing the episode where miley went into the studio to refcord the song as a gift to Biddy. then they released the single.

they were all snobs in that program,

simu

billy the squid wrote:

Actually remember seeing the episode where miley went into the studio to refcord the song as a gift to Biddy. then they released the single.

they were all snobs in that program,

Yeah, with their designer wellies and ferrari tractors...

BolBill

billy the squid wrote:

Actually remember seeing the episode where miley went into the studio to refcord the song as a gift to Biddy. then they released the single.

they were all snobs in that program,

WTF ????? snobs ?????? yeah right !!!!!

MrJoeSoap

Glenroe - The stuff dreams are made of.

Anyone remember Biddy and Miley turned their farm into an attraction in the show and it actually happened in real life too? God those RTE Head Execs are some entrepreneurs!

RuggieBear

aidan_dunne wrote:

That would be Wesley Burrows, wouldn't it? For some unknown reason, when I was reading that the old title sequence for "Glenroe" popped into my mind and the name of Wesley Burrows came to mind. Am I right?

yep....

simu

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Glenroe - The stuff dreams are made of.

Anyone remember Biddy and Miley turned their farm into an attraction in the show and it actually happened in real life too? God those RTE Head Execs are some entrepreneurs!

Glenroe Open Farum? Yes!

mallynthemiddle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOpDtHr4f5c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

worded

Who needs you tube .... here it is

Deh deh deh do do do do do do do do do ....

darkdubh

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Glenroe - The stuff dreams are made of.

Anyone remember Biddy and Miley turned their farm into an attraction in the show and it actually happened in real life too? God those RTE Head Execs are some entrepreneurs!

I remember that on the show, one time Dinny comes home to find a bunch of tourists are inside his house taking pictures and he lost the rag with them.

Does anyone remember the episode when Biddy And Miley brought their kids to Celtworld (now there's another ATR thread in that)? It felt like an extended advertisment for the place, didn't do much good as that place was only open a couple of years before going bust.

George White

darkdubh wrote: »

I remember that on the show, one time Dinny comes home to find a bunch of tourists are inside his house taking pictures and he lost the rag with them.

"it's like a shagging zoo in here!"