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I'm not sure The Blue Nile or Paul Buchanan are/is but after this I'll have to check out their own work. His voice sounds so much like John Cale's that it's uncanny. Joel

It does sound like 'Master Bates'.

Beautiful ❤

Very touching. Wonderfully to the point: " We know Major Tom's a junkie !

Stunning.

Find the ship's what? >_>

Roger the cabin boy 😮

40 years ago I discovered The Blue Nile. 40 years later I Love this Life.

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.

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.

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! 🤨

But captain pugwash is sexual as pugwash is an old naval term for oral sex fact

That her niece was under the trapeze seems unwise. I hope she wasn’t badly hurt.

Sublime. 💫

Stunning vocals.....up there with Brian ferry and David sylvian

Dad ist ja aus meiner Kindheit von Spaß am Montag 😂😭.

Stunning. Words cannot express the pain and beauty in this song,the sadness and the joy......beautiful.

I was watching it on the Internet Archive just now and I genuinely thought that was his name

One of the rare, few men, who can bring you to the verge of tears, with his voice, words, melodies and music.

A beautiful singer. I could listen to him read the phone book.

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.

This is a beautiful version of this classic song

I love Paul Buchanan: great performer

Simply brilliant.

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.

Paul added more pathos.

Leave it out pal it is bullshit cover

Genius song sung by a voice of gold

Espetáculo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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.

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.

To be blessed with such a voice!

It’s Master Mate. “Master Bates” is part of an urban legend.

"Who left their breeches in my cabin ??" "Seaman Staines, cap'n "

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.

He really dropped the ball on this night. Paul was one of my faves.

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 ?"

Master Bates was a Seaman

sheer vocal power

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.

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Just absolutely beautiful yet so simple. The greatest voice to come out of Scotland.

Was this show really for kids? XD

Huh?? Ive had it wrong all these years.....Master Mate?? But there the other one aswell, seaman staines isnt there??

WOW! I am knocked out by this. Excellent.

Nahh

This brings my extroverted, caring, crazy mum to me... Not shoulder to shoulder, but her cradled in my arms. In my heart ❤️ forever

So when does Seaman Staines make an appearance?

This is beautiful. You can tell he is an awesome guy too.

How lovely this was ....thankyou