@@Whippy99 that's silliest statement of the day . Prefex it with in my opinion nobody sings better than Welsh.. instead of saying Welsh are best singers .. 👌
My Family & i have just moved back home to our beloved WALES 🏴 ❤️ Lived in Malta for over 6years, people say we are mad, because we had beautiful weather in Malta, but we have endless green hills and mountains...in Wales 🏴❤️🏴
Cymru am byth - You may prefer a Welsh voice choir singing this in English. Bread of heaven feed me 'til I want no more! We sing this before Welsh Rugby games. Great reaction, all the best from Blaenavon.
A Brilliant film, The youngest of the Brothers, who was not shown in this clip, was a very young Roddy Mcdowall, who went on to play Cornelius in the very first Planet of the Apes. The Film by the way, was not done in Wales. The Whole village was recreated on an 80 Acre site in The Santa Monica Mountains in California.
I remember several years ago when the Welsh Rugby (union) team were playing France in the final of the Six Nations Cup at Cardiff Arms Park. I'm talking about the days of Phil Bennet, Gareth Edwards, JPR Williams, JJ Williams etc. It was the Welsh glory days with a wonderful team that was, literally, unbeatable. The crowd was singing all manner of Welsh songs including their national anthem and this hymn. There is nothing like hearing a Welsh rugby crowd in full voice, it's so powerful. The French team admitted afterwards that they knew, hearing the crowd singing, they were going to lose. I've never forgotten that day. You really should hear this hymn sung by a Welsh choir not a Hollywood mash-up.
Those were the days! Back when rugby was still an amateur sport, and Max Boyce first sang Hymns and Arias. Hey, EB, that's a song that really expresses the Welsh culture!
You know what that made me cry....it's a beautiful book and a beautiful.film. I read it when I was young. I have never ever forgotten the last words of the book - " How green was my valley then and the valley of them who have gone"........never forgotten it in 50 years. It's the hymn Bread of Heaven.
There's a good reason for Wales being called the "Land of Song"! Seeing all the men remove their caps as they cross the threshold takes me back to my school days when the any boys were told to do the same as they came into school. Still irks me now to see a man or boy wearing a hat indoors!
A movie full of nostalgia made in California 😀from the novel by Richard LLewellyn. The tune is also used in the Hymn "Guide me O thou great redeemer" As a English comedian once remarked, more than 3 Welshmen and you have a poxy choir or in Blackadder "Welsh where you have to have half a pint of phlegm in your throat to say anything" Whereas the Yorkshire miners were famous for their brass bands, see the movie Brassed Off or videos of the Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band, the Welsh were famous for their choirs and lack of vowels in their words ( Y is a vowel but same as I, as in Ysbyty that is hospital 😉)
I remember asking my grandad if he sang when he left the pit at the end of his shift like in the film. He said no "You'd be too tired after a shift underground to sing". He was in a Male voice Choir though
A lot of people are unaware that this film was originally planned, by the studio, to be an epic in the ‘Gone with the Wind’ scale. It was to be filmed in Wales, in colour. However, the start of WWII ruined the plans, so it was made on a set created in California, and filmed in black and white because there was no way they could replicate the greenery of South Wales. It won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, (John Ford), Best Actor in a Supporting Role, (Donald Crisp), Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction in 1942. John Ford said it was his favourite movie of those he made.
How Green Was My Valley was a 1940s movie starring Roddie McDowell and based on the great Richard Llywelyn book of the same name. They were about the coalfield communities of South Wales and their social strains, largely through the eyes of a young boy. Both the book and the film are classics and are among the best to be published or produced in Britain in the 20th century. A sequel called Green Green My Valley Now and two earlier books, were also written by Llywelyn and continue the story of the young man into adulthood and old age, ending up in the Welsh colony in Patagonia.
My ex boss was one of the writers on it and also went on to make "a bit of Tom Jones" amongst other things. I was one of one of the first people to get to watch these films and gave my feedback
Beautiful movie by John Ford depting the poverty of the Welch mining community and the exploitation by the owners who had little regard for safety or wellbeing of its workers. Forced to join the workforce from an early age due to starvation wages. Big star cast and beautifully filmed on location in Wales.
Rhondda : In Welsh 'dd' is pronounced like a hard 'th' so 'the' or 'with'. For the soft 'th' ('thin' or 'path') 'th' is used. So Rontha. Cwm is pronounced 'come' meaning 'Valley'. Cwm Rhondda is therefore just Rhondda valley.
Pen Calvaria translates as the Hill of Calvary. Pen turns up in hill names wherever the original Britons settled from what is now Wales as far north as Central Scotland.
@@JohnPantoOops, sorry, yes quite correct. Corrected. One reads what one expectes to read, what one thinks one has written, so I never spotted the typo. Sorry, and thank you.
@@ftumschk That's interesting because my step daughters are fluent Welsh speakers (bi-lingual), and they say 'come' rather than 'coom'. My 86yo mother also speaks some Welsh, and she too says "come". Maybe that's just a regional pronunciation though as we are in the south Wales valleys.
@steve parker got there before me, but check out any Welsh Male Voice Choir sing Bread of Heaven, especially at a Wales rugby match. The film however is pure Hollywood, miners didn't walk home singing in unison and harmony, they were knackered after 12 hours underground
Da iawn ti, you should combine your new found love of rugby and Welsh singing, both things run deep in Welsh history, especially when sung in the church of the Millenium Stadium on game day. Loving your content, dal ati.
I love How Green Was My Valley, especially being from the South Wales Valleys, but I really struggle with the fact the characters speak with Irish accents
my farther born 1954 was already in the coal mines at 15, hes a thick skin man, and still is. He wont say "son i love you" but he shows it through actions. I respect that, he went through harder times than us these days. But i still show him love so he holds onto my connection
The hymn is Cym Rhondda - the English language version of the hymn is called Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer and colloqually known as Bread of Heaven - you should check out one of the great Male Voice Choirs singing it - check out the Morriston Orpheus Choir or the Treochy Male voice Choir - I think most would agree they are two of the best
All the Welsh were good singers, they had to be.. they never had any locks on their bathroom doors. Even to this day mobs of welshmen wander the countryside terrorising tourists with their close harmony singing
Our Welsh brethren have the best best male voice groups in the UK, this is the hymn 'Bread of Heaven, feed me now or never more', sung by coal miners returning home from the pit. This was unlikely to happen in reality as they were probably too knackered to sing, but the legend grew up around these hard working men and boys and the choirs were very real and still are. The Welsh anthem is Men of Harlech, Harlech being a Welsh Castle of quite substance near my home, defended by the Welsh in a very long siege by Henry 5th in the 1300's.
Couldn't be filmed in Cymru during the War for obvious safety reasons and expenditure too wouldhavebeenaserious mitigatingfavourif War hadn't broken out. Cymru Am Byth Yma O Hyd.
The wives and mothers collecting the wages before their men got cleaned up and headed to the pub was commonplace then. If the wages were paid in a pay-packet, God help the man who gave his wife a broached packet.
This is how it should be sung especially in.the Welsh Language Too, but if You want to listen to it sung in English, look up Guide Me O' Thy Great Jehovah/ Reedemer. The BBC Songs Of Praise Television Programme In the UK, have beautiful videos of this song.
Hi alan, I know this is way off topic, but any chance of reacting to the opening scene from the film SCUM 1979 it sets the tone for the rest of the movie. Or the best scene from the same film. The full film is available on youtube at FLICK VAULT FULL MOVIES 😉
Wales are playing Ukraine for our chance at first World Cup place in 64 years tomorrow, I’d recommend having a watch of dafydd iwan- yma o hyd, or the welsh national anthem from the Wales v Austria game about 2 months ago . Cymru 🏴 🏴 viva Gareth bale, viva Gareth bale, said he had a bad back, f..k the Union Jack 🇬🇧, viva Gareth bale
![GEEK TIMË [OFFICIAL AUDIO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ry-6RvkH880/mqdefault.jpg)
I love hearing the Welsh fans singing this when we play them at Rugby. Goosebumps! 🏉
The Welsh are the best singers in the world. Nothing gives me goosebumps like a Male Welsh Voice Choir. They sing from their souls. 🏴❤️
Have you checked out the Welsh rugby crowd singing their national anthem - Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau ..... spine-tingling !
It makes me emotional every time and I’m not even Welsh. No other country in the world sings more beautifully than the Welsh. 🏴❤️
@@Whippy99 that's silliest statement of the day . Prefex it with in my opinion nobody sings better than Welsh.. instead of saying Welsh are best singers .. 👌
Much better with the football crowd I think, these days anyway.
I used to live in Hong Kong,I’m Scottish🏴 but when a Welsh mens choir performed, it was wonderful and emotional.🏴💖🏉
My Family & i have just moved back home to our beloved WALES 🏴 ❤️
Lived in Malta for over 6years, people say we are mad, because we had beautiful weather in Malta, but we have endless green hills and mountains...in Wales 🏴❤️🏴
Cymru am byth - You may prefer a Welsh voice choir singing this in English. Bread of heaven feed me 'til I want no more! We sing this before Welsh Rugby games. Great reaction, all the best from Blaenavon.
Try this one it's quite short. ruclips.net/video/KnwbFLTi8wY/видео.html
Just up the road butt, he should check out Big Pit
A Brilliant film, The youngest of the Brothers, who was not shown in this clip, was a very young Roddy Mcdowall, who went on to play Cornelius in the very first Planet of the Apes. The Film by the way, was not done in Wales. The Whole village was recreated on an 80 Acre site in The Santa Monica Mountains in California.
I remember several years ago when the Welsh Rugby (union) team were playing France in the final of the Six Nations Cup at Cardiff Arms Park. I'm talking about the days of Phil Bennet, Gareth Edwards, JPR Williams, JJ Williams etc. It was the Welsh glory days with a wonderful team that was, literally, unbeatable. The crowd was singing all manner of Welsh songs including their national anthem and this hymn. There is nothing like hearing a Welsh rugby crowd in full voice, it's so powerful. The French team admitted afterwards that they knew, hearing the crowd singing, they were going to lose. I've never forgotten that day. You really should hear this hymn sung by a Welsh choir not a Hollywood mash-up.
Those were the days! Back when rugby was still an amateur sport, and Max Boyce first sang Hymns and Arias. Hey, EB, that's a song that really expresses the Welsh culture!
As an Englishman I'm envious of the welsh " land of my father's" .
Makes the hairs stand up everytime
You know what that made me cry....it's a beautiful book and a beautiful.film. I read it when I was young. I have never ever forgotten the last words of the book - " How green was my valley then and the valley of them who have gone"........never forgotten it in 50 years.
It's the hymn Bread of Heaven.
Yup. Curled over, coughing and covered in coal dust - sung with a grace that would honour any Cathedral, were it performed there.
There's a good reason for Wales being called the "Land of Song"!
Seeing all the men remove their caps as they cross the threshold takes me back to my school days when the any boys were told to do the same as they came into school. Still irks me now to see a man or boy wearing a hat indoors!
I saw a teenager wearing a baseball cap at a church funeral last year.
@@smike9884 that is terribly disrespectful
@@james94482 Too Right.
As a very proud Welshman thankyou for playing this, you do need to see this iconic film Best wishes from Swansea, South Wales
Cwm means valley, the same root as Combe.
You should check out Paul Robeson, he sang with and was influenced by Welsh and British coal miners.
I remember the story of him singing to the Scottish miners. There's a video I think. Of course ''Ol' Man River'' shot him to fame, didn't it?
Yes to both of you commenting. There's a brilliant video of Mr Robeson his own documentary.
Men of Harlech in Zulu sends chills. Perfectly beautiful. Check out some Eisteddfods.
One of my all time favourite movies!
I cry every time I Watch this film. Regards from S Wales.
Paul Robson also sang with the Welsh miners. He sang and supported them in the miners strike. Playing at concerts in Wales
for the miners.
He sang our anthem in English, but the translators took a few liberties, still it pleases me to know he loved Wales.
A movie full of nostalgia made in California 😀from the novel by Richard LLewellyn. The tune is also used in the Hymn "Guide me O thou great redeemer"
As a English comedian once remarked, more than 3 Welshmen and you have a poxy choir or in Blackadder "Welsh where you have to have half a pint of phlegm in your throat to say anything"
Whereas the Yorkshire miners were famous for their brass bands, see the movie Brassed Off or videos of the Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band, the Welsh were famous for their choirs and lack of vowels in their words ( Y is a vowel but same as I, as in Ysbyty that is hospital 😉)
Lack of vowels? The Welsh language has seven!
@@arianbyw3819 Lack not absence
The English version is Guide me oh thou great reedemer.
But nobody can sing it like the Welsh male voice choirs.
I remember asking my grandad if he sang when he left the pit at the end of his shift like in the film. He said no "You'd be too tired after a shift underground to sing". He was in a Male voice Choir though
That's what most say - "I don't understand a word of it" and yet it captures the heart :D You can't beat the sound of Welsh singing!
A lot of people are unaware that this film was originally planned, by the studio, to be an epic in the ‘Gone with the Wind’ scale. It was to be filmed in Wales, in colour. However, the start of WWII ruined the plans, so it was made on a set created in California, and filmed in black and white because there was no way they could replicate the greenery of South Wales. It won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, (John Ford), Best Actor in a Supporting Role, (Donald Crisp), Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction in 1942. John Ford said it was his favourite movie of those he made.
How Green Was My Valley was a 1940s movie starring Roddie McDowell and based on the great Richard Llywelyn book of the same name. They were about the coalfield communities of South Wales and their social strains, largely through the eyes of a young boy. Both the book and the film are classics and are among the best to be published or produced in Britain in the 20th century. A sequel called Green Green My Valley Now and two earlier books, were also written by Llywelyn and continue the story of the young man into adulthood and old age, ending up in the Welsh colony in Patagonia.
"They have a good bass section but no tenors"
React to the whole film. Watched this with my dad back in the 60's.
Isnt that a quote from Zulu??
Yea mate what a film
Full movie is on youtube. Can't believe you viewed this (I'm from Rhonda valley and this film is special to everyone)
A great movie to watch is Twin Town 1997, set in Wales. Funny and tragic as well.
Too right!! “That glue’s for my submarines an not for stickin up your your f…in noses, and don’t think I haven’t noticed. Buy your own f….in glue”
My ex boss was one of the writers on it and also went on to make "a bit of Tom Jones" amongst other things. I was one of one of the first people to get to watch these films and gave my feedback
Greetings from Wales, Alan. Thank you for showing that. Diolch.
Beautiful movie by John Ford depting the poverty of the Welch mining community and the exploitation by the owners who had little regard for safety or wellbeing of its workers. Forced to join the workforce from an early age due to starvation wages. Big star cast and beautifully filmed on location in Wales.
It definitely wasn't filmed on location, not in 1941.
I love this film,
Sitting in The Rhondda right now watching this video...
Rhondda : In Welsh 'dd' is pronounced like a hard 'th' so 'the' or 'with'. For the soft 'th' ('thin' or 'path') 'th' is used. So Rontha. Cwm is pronounced 'come' meaning 'Valley'. Cwm Rhondda is therefore just Rhondda valley.
* The "w" is basically the Welsh alphabet's equivalent of "oo", so Cwm more-or-less rhymes with "zoom", otherwise spot-on :)
Pen Calvaria translates as the Hill of Calvary. Pen turns up in hill names wherever the original Britons settled from what is now Wales as far north as Central Scotland.
It's CWM!!!!
@@JohnPantoOops, sorry, yes quite correct. Corrected. One reads what one expectes to read, what one thinks one has written, so I never spotted the typo. Sorry, and thank you.
@@ftumschk That's interesting because my step daughters are fluent Welsh speakers (bi-lingual), and they say 'come' rather than 'coom'. My 86yo mother also speaks some Welsh, and she too says "come". Maybe that's just a regional pronunciation though as we are in the south Wales valleys.
The baritone descant gets me every time...
I'm from South Wales, U.K. I love this film and the song.
Have a look at the whole film - one of the greatest ever made
@steve parker got there before me, but check out any Welsh Male Voice Choir sing Bread of Heaven, especially at a Wales rugby match. The film however is pure Hollywood, miners didn't walk home singing in unison and harmony, they were knackered after 12 hours underground
The movie itself is well worth checking out a classic .
Another great video. It gives me goose bumps when I hear it and I'm English! On Equal terms with "Rule Britania" , "Land of Hope and Glory"😊👍
The Laddo at the end, beautiful voice !!
I am amazed no one told our great parents about their white privilege and how lucky they were living in semi poverty.
It's a really great film
Da iawn ti, you should combine your new found love of rugby and Welsh singing, both things run deep in Welsh history, especially when sung in the church of the Millenium Stadium on game day. Loving your content, dal ati.
🏴🏴🏴🏴 We are natural singers...thankyou for your reaction to this...love your content xx
One of the greatest films every made in my book!
I love How Green Was My Valley, especially being from the South Wales Valleys, but I really struggle with the fact the characters speak with Irish accents
Really? I Don't think so !!
my farther born 1954 was already in the coal mines at 15, hes a thick skin man, and still is. He wont say "son i love you" but he shows it through actions. I respect that, he went through harder times than us these days. But i still show him love so he holds onto my connection
The whole movie is available on RUclips. It’s full of great songs like this one.
It's the same as Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland we'll support you evermore sang at football matches
The hymn is Cym Rhondda - the English language version of the hymn is called Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer and colloqually known as Bread of Heaven - you should check out one of the great Male Voice Choirs singing it - check out the Morriston Orpheus Choir or the Treochy Male voice Choir - I think most would agree they are two of the best
This has turned on to the wedding song for my family....
Harry Seccombe sings it in English and Welsh.
All the Welsh were good singers, they had to be.. they never had any locks on their bathroom doors. Even to this day mobs of welshmen wander the countryside terrorising tourists with their close harmony singing
'Blackadder' quote 😏
@@cymro6537 aye!😉
diolch yn fawr 👍🙏🏴
Check out the full movie. It won best movie Oscar beating Citizen Kane in 1941, I think it is on RUclips.
It's pronounced Coom Ronda. A wonderful hymn, and even better sung at Rugby games. Look up Bread of Heaven.
Great Welsh Rugby song and featured in the Film Zulu IIRC.
Thought that was men of Harlech in zulu? Although my memory isn't what it was so I may be talking claptrap 👍
@@ezza9578 You are correct sir.
Our Welsh brethren have the best best male voice groups in the UK, this is the hymn 'Bread of Heaven, feed me now or never more', sung by coal miners returning home from the pit. This was unlikely to happen in reality as they were probably too knackered to sing, but the legend grew up around these hard working men and boys and the choirs were very real and still are. The Welsh anthem is Men of Harlech, Harlech being a Welsh Castle of quite substance near my home, defended by the Welsh in a very long siege by Henry 5th in the 1300's.
"The Welsh anthem is Men of Harlech" uhum I beg to differ. Good song but not the Anthem
@@ricdontap1 fair call, I'm not Welsh so assumed by the constant singing of Men of Harlech this was some kind of Welsh Anthem, it's lovely anyway.
@@Hairnicks no problem
Hen wlad fy nhadau, but we do sing men of harlech down the football aswell like
This was actualy filmed in the USA. They built a replica Welsh village in the hills of Santa Monica.
Couldn't be filmed in Cymru during the War for obvious safety reasons and expenditure too wouldhavebeenaserious mitigatingfavourif War hadn't broken out. Cymru Am Byth Yma O Hyd.
The DVD is less than £3 on eBay and the Book less than £6, postage free on both. I just checked for those who want to know.
Watch football game wales v Belgium and the crowd singing the welsh national anthem it spine tingling .
The wives and mothers collecting the wages before their men got cleaned up and headed to the pub was commonplace then. If the wages were paid in a pay-packet, God help the man who gave his wife a broached packet.
This is how it should be sung especially in.the Welsh Language Too, but if You want to listen to it sung in English, look up Guide Me O' Thy Great Jehovah/ Reedemer. The BBC Songs Of Praise Television Programme In the UK, have beautiful videos of this song.
If anyone wants to listen to a great Welsh song please listen to Yma O Hyd & also Michael Sheen's Yma O Hyd Speech.
I hope you listen to myffanwy from the same film. Beautiful
That’s not Wales, the sun is shining!
Americans know this song as Guide me o thou great redeemer
Rhon-dda valley. Rhondda valley.
Alan listen too the Welsh national anthem before a rugby game and also yma o hyd by dafydd I wan and the red wall .
Red to listen this in English…Bread of Heaven
I'm quite partial to this rendition from "One Foot In The Grave"🙂
ruclips.net/video/W4icMkZkAeQ/видео.html
Hi alan, I know this is way off topic, but any chance of reacting to the opening scene from the film SCUM 1979 it sets the tone for the rest of the movie. Or the best scene from the same film. The full film is available on youtube at FLICK VAULT FULL MOVIES 😉
cymru am byth
Check out max boyce he is a welsh legend
White men blacking up ?!
I'm offended !!
🤭
It's Men of men harlech.
Wales are playing Ukraine for our chance at first World Cup place in 64 years tomorrow, I’d recommend having a watch of dafydd iwan- yma o hyd, or the welsh national anthem from the Wales v Austria game about 2 months ago . Cymru 🏴 🏴 viva Gareth bale, viva Gareth bale, said he had a bad back, f..k the Union Jack 🇬🇧, viva Gareth bale
All those men dropping money into the ladies lap would have been her husband and their boys.For their weekly keep.
2015 the game was
Myfanwy
Welsh hymn.
Please have a listen to David Alexander singing myfanwy I promise you won't be disappointed