Luton Girls Choir - Dream of Olwen

[DasKindespiel]

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[saxon954]

I remember my Mother listening to this on Housewives Choise as she did the ironing in the late 1940's.

The world seemed a better and safer place then.

[musicmindedclaire62]

My first time to hear this song. Dream of Olwen is my first difficult piano piece...was then a beginner in piano...was able to survive the ordeal. Nothing is impossible if one likes to learn something that will challenge one's ability. God bless.

[DorothyShelley]

htis brungsmemories for me hy daughter was in this chior long asfter thewaarher name was jean shelley any one out there still around who was init at that time ?on the forties mythras90 x

[Glinkaism1]

There is no mention at all in the texts I've read and back of record jackets that this song had lyrics! Now having heard the song with lyrics, it was surely made to be sung. Although there are wonderful versions out there with orchestra and piano and solo piano, clearly the piece is best heard and sung together . However the lyrics themselves are rather dreary and bleary. But just hearing voices is marvelous!

[nancyfloressantos]

Forever treasured and cherished...........very nostalgic!!.....feeling a kind of longingness.........

[Lymehouse]

I never tire of hearing this wonderful melody.......just beautiful. So glad I checked in YouTube to hear it again.

Olwen

[cockynob]

I,m 64 and i remember this as a child, my parents had it on old 78 they are both gone now and i recently found the record and whenever i play it I cry

[runupahill1]

My God, bterchin, you're right. I'd forgotten. It was a theme song. I used to go to sleep hearing this playing as my parents watched the show. Do you remember what show? Was it I Remember Mama? The Voice of Firestone? I still hear it in my sleep.Thank you, rumwa10.

[foxyzzzzz]

@runupahill1 I've been haunted by it for years (I'm 64) because I had heard it as a child. It was indeed the theme song of a radio show or early TV anthology series. 60 years later I found it here at YT. Does anyone know which program used it as a theme?

[runupahill1]

@foxyzzzzz i remember now! It was on a 78 rpm record belonging to my parents. I used to watch the disc go round and round in our old Motorola cabinet, as I raptured in the dreamy music. I think it was by Mantovani and his Orchestra. It was also the theme song to a Saturday afternoon matinee of old Hollywood movies. I still dream of the Dream of Olwen, though I don't know the story.

[CurzonRoad]

@runupahill1

Beautiful! Thank you rumwa10 for posting, and thank YOU runupahill1 for sharing!

[Blonde7362]

Does anyone have a recording of 'I hear your voice' by these girls? I would love to hear it again.

[charade97]

@Blonde7362 Do you remember Nymphs and Shepherds by the girls? Lovely

[nancyfloressantos]

EUREKA!!!! At last...........I have heard it again......this beautiful music which I have been longing to hear. Thanks so much for having it shared.

[elvidinck]

a lovely song...I had not heard before...but very lovely

[luizcarlos1943]

que coisa mais linda...elas ainda estão gravando? what a beatutiful thing for the ears, are they still recording?

[bterchin]

I remember this song from my childhood, and I loved it then when it was the theme song from a TV program, though there were no words. I cry listening to the gorgeous melody and reading the poem of love for a lost sister. My love for my sisters are in the words. The Luton Girls Choir sings this song (and all their others) in the sweetest, purest notes I've ever heard. I've listened to it a hundred times, and it still has the same effect on me--I cry every time..

[dorothyma77]

so lovely

[stupat3]

wonderful music from an age,unfortunately gone, and i'm only 61.

Memories flood back when you hear these pieces of music. Thanks to whoever uploaded it.I'll just sit here and wallow in these days.

[charade97]

@stupat3 Yes, at least we have this beautiful music to listen to in our advancing years.. The poor younger generation will only have Lady Gaga!

[PureSoapCleans]

@stupat3 , I am a young man and enjoy this music very much, I have been looking for the movie, but it is unavailable. I understand what you mean, and wonder myself why we as human race have taken such a wrong path. i think that misery has been present in every generation, but at least some decency was kept in the arts, in the way people dressed and spoke. Not anymore. Good taste is almost gone forever. I am glad that we can share these thoughts and music like this. So much beauty!

[BlackRoseForTheDevil]

My Grandmas name...a beautiful song taken form the film while I live..an old and bittersweet film this makes me tearful...beautiful..is this this choral version..thanks for the nostalgia..

[DaisyandTess]

Angels rarely fly this low...I hope if I get to heaven that the Luton Girls choir will be there to welcome me.

[charade97]

@DaisyandTess Beautifully expressed.

[MrKenKrone]

This was the theme song on WGN radio in Chicago in the 1950s, but the piano version. I think the show was called "The Magic of Music", with John Duremus.

[yorksshirepud]

I would love to but have no idea how to do it.

[yorksshirepud]

I first heard this song in the movie "While I Live" Have it on video, found it on the internet When I was young I would play the song over and over. The Luton Girls Choir do a great rendition of this beautiful song.

[rumwa10]

Would you like to post the video to the pre 1960 film group, so that everyone can enjoy it.

Thanks

[hmcovert]

I have loved this wonderful song since I was a boy. I first heard it as it was used on the Hallmark Theater TV program in the US in 1952. I enjoy it and play it almost daily because of its soothing pleasant sound.

[madero111]

This is so soothing to listen to every now and then, my being a heavy Wagner fan......

Snoop Dogg too! RUMWA10 thank you.

[hengistbury]

I didn't realize Luton had a famous girls choir!! It's a beautiful rendition of a great piece of music. Timeless classic, which is never heard any more.

Does anyone know where the lyrics come from?

[radint]

The lyrics were written by Winifred May, a Londoner, who was better known for her poetry which she wrote under her pen name, Patience Strong. Her poems, which were usually short, simple and sentimental, appeared regularly in such British publications as the Sunday Mirror and Woman's Own. Her best known song was the hit, 'Jealousy', which was recorded by such artists as Gracie Fields and Billy Fury. She died in 1990 at the age of 83.

[1951morrisdancer]

This post war drama with metaphysical overtones and haunting music is probably one of the best of films to take you back to the simplistic rural English way of life where food rationing did not exist as we in London had to contend with. Also the rarity of telephones in those days where the Lady of the house answered the phone with "Hello; Pentargon seven." Nowadays, she would be quoting an eleven digit number. The local copper addressed the Lady of the house as Ma'am.

[Vielvb]

AWESOME ... T.T i wanna cry

[madero111]

While I Live is the Movie that this beautiful music is scored. I will try to find this at the Carnegie Library

Thanx to Morris Dancer and Rumwa10 for bringing this music and info' to me.

Late 60's in high school we played this and i haven't heard this Dream since then.

I live in Pittsburgh and '43 is my birth date

[1951morrisdancer]

I don't think the original piece by Charles Williams had lyrics. They were made up later and added to the Luton Girls Choir repertoire. I used to have the film on video tape when I managed to record it from Channel 4 when they had films on in the afternoons. Unfortunately, the tape broke and I have never been able to get another copy. The story is rather like the film, A Matter of Life and Death where psychiatry borders onto the psychic.

[rnchy]

I didn't realize that one of my favorite piano pieces had lyrics. Many thanks. I wish "While I Live" was available.

[1951morrisdancer]

A wonderful film about a woman who has a nervous breakdown and is convinced she is the reincarnation of Olwen Trevelyan of whom, had died 25 years previously whilst trying to finish her tone poem. She visits Olwen's home and attempts to finish the music. The film was set in a fictional Cornish village called Pentargon which, in real life was Boscastle. Today, there is an estate of houses at the top of Boscastle with a Pentargon Road attributed to the film.