SAILING BY

[interlinecar1]

It still is the signing off tune on BBC radio 4. After picking up all the idiots out of the pubs and clubs and I hear this at 12.45am I know its time to go home and I'm smiling from ear to ear. Thank you radio 4 for playing it every night :)

[Darkestcompass]

Mum loved this. We cremated her in Bangor on Wednesday. Especially poignant are the images that this poster has submitted. Thank You.

[TheMimifur]

Where is Charlotte Green

[artfacts]

Some One's Taking the Piss, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest springs to mind,

[profhum]

In April 2009 the BBC reported that, in a poll, this was one of the songs which people would most like to have played at their funeral. Apparently it came on at bedtime and for kids has lovely nostalgic feel. I'm American, I never heard it before-- yet somehow it reminds even me of my childhood. It's so Fifties and Early Sixties, in its arrangement. If you like this, try Art Mooney's I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover, NYC radio played it ever morning as a wake-up song. This one's for bed.

[cynic150]

All these pieces make me remember the past and make me feel old :-(

[argyll1854]

Used to listen to the shipping reports when i was a nipper whilst my late father was at sea, wondering if he would be ok and when his ship would be back in dock in Greenock. Great tune.

[Tyinkiaro]

When I was a little child my father was a lighthouse keeper and when he was away on duty I would often listen to Radio 4 late at night for the shipping forecast, it made me feel closer to him and I knew he was safe.  By the time I had herd this piece of music I was fast asleep. To this day I still get that pleasant lullaby feeling. Now my own children listen to radio 4. Coincidently I chose a career in the Navy. I often wonder if Ronald Binge had an influence in my decisions.

[TheBitterWeed]

Perfik.

[paulakareg]

'In a moment, we have the Shipping Forecast. But first..'Sailing By'. God bless BBC Radio 4...

[119944778]

This music which I listen to every night before the forecast for the sailors...and before I go to sleep...usually I am in bed..and hope for a colourful dream...which I do dream it...yes..it makes my soul to travel somewhere of whose name and shape I cannot describe,,,cos I don`t know it!!!!

Coskun Toktamis/Cambridge...

[mattyha4]

This is so soothing. I listen to it when my bf is away. Just before the shipping forecast. It makes me feel safe, I can then sleep so well.

[TheBitterWeed]

@mattyha4

Aw, same as when my gf is away...

[BARNEYLOUGHREY]

Beautiful beautiful tune. Listen to my lyrics and tell me what you think.THANKS FOR POST

[sohaliatalitha]

must be 1am.....

[bigsailboatproject]

Living the dream..

[argyll1854]

Alright faither, i hope all is well up there and you are looking after Betty, every weekend we are having a beer or 2 fore ye, just tell ma maw we allo said hello please dad xxxx

[argyll1854]

Happy Birthday Dad, the family are thinking of you always, RIP

[Psyonicwombat]

Loved it but it cut out at the end. grrrr! I was lulling to sleep and the sudden stop woke me. Bugger!

[forsk4u]

brings a tear to my eye. Sounds of blighty

[Jagdtoq]

Very relaxing, just what the doctor ordered

[twizzlemonkey]

This piece of music is absolutely transcendental - I heard it once, half asleep, and it's haunted me (in a good way) ever since. Just found it on youtube - lush!!

[NilSatis1983]

@twizzlemonkey I agree totally I only ever heard it half drunk or half asleep, its ace

[hollyfive]

I think that I've done a sequence dance to this music known as the "Crystal Waltz" It was quite a while ago and I've only just discovered the music. Please can someone tell me if this would be correct?

[rfwebster]

@hollyfive This music is not the crystal waltz, that is something different. try searching crystal waltz on youtube.

[hollyfive]

@rfwebster Thank you very much for replying to my query.  I'm sorry it isn't the Crystal Waltz, I don't know many sequence dances but it struck me that this very beautiful music would be ideal for that dance - aah well!

[jimlagos]

When I bought my first boat I heard this and nearly cried! Ever since this music has been SO important to me. I'm now a pensioner living on my boat in Portugal (not my first boat) It is still so beautiful to me. Times I've been halfway across the Atlantic, struggling to hear the first shipping forecast as I pass the Azores heading for Britain, just before that forecast on long wave, after midnight, I've heard this and felt nearly home! Unless you've been there, it's probably hard to understand.

[agghtee]

....hello children.... is the only way Radio 4 should prefix this

[freakdied]

What at twelve thirty at night?

[joyofsix]

Better than horlicks. Viva Mr Binge

[agghtee]

Fu@#ing Insomnia

[akaabhayarun]

Stunning, lilting, soul-soothing....what a magical composition by Ronald Binge!!!

[moose10697]

Terrific music ... I love it and listen to often, last thing at night. It reminds me of years ago living with parents, they would listen to this after the shipping forecast on Radio Four.

[TheGreylag6]

before the forecast moose

[nankygemma]

wonderful music where can i buy it, my man loves it too well done !!

[cryingonion2]

You can download it free on Frostwire

[agghtee]

@cryingonion2

Thank you! I'm and expat and was hunting around for this. They've not got a "closing" track on the ABC so I'm forced to listen to talk .... this was always a good break, and a signal that you should turn off your radio and listen to Auntie and go to sleep!

[omllycthrn]

Thank you, its so relaxing, i just love it.

[mp2lon]

If there's an afterlife, this is what I suspect (and hope) will be playing in the waiting room when we die.

[sirrius8]

I work in a hospice and i would love this music to be playing softly as our patients peacefully slip away.

[TheGreylag6]

i would too being an ex fisherman

[TheBitterWeed]

@mp2lon

Force Ten... xxx

[TowerBlockWorkshop]

and Pachelbel Canon in D hopefully....

[davedude2040]

How long have they been playing this on radio 4 before/after the shipping forecast?

It's grown on me.

[argyll1854]

Lovely tune, played for my late father. Ex Merchant Navy man.

Thankyou for puting it on here.

[crgrog4373]

i love this tune ?is it still played before sipping forecast?

[slightlymooshed]

no its played after the shipping forecast which is usually on at about 00:45, bit late for most tho obviously not to late fisher men....

[dondonp12004]

"Sailing By" is played before BBC Radio 4's late night shipping forecast. After that late night shipping forcast, BBC Radio 4 ends its broadcast day with the playing of your national anthem "God Save the Queen". Self-explanatory, eh?

[PhilToTheMax]

yes and i fall asleep to it nearly every night...

[landymancan]

I worked as a DJ for years and never got tired of listening to this on my way home in the small hours.

[richio44]

Lovely and evocative of a gentler time. Thanks for posting.

[montydendron]

A great four-masted schooner would be a better subject for this music, rather than a tiddly yacht.

[Singingbear]

Lovely, evocative British classic. So utterly comforting and nostalgia filled. Actually written to accompany a film about hot air balloons. Thanks for posting.

[RU63N94]

played at my grandmas funeral makes me sad and happy at the same time

[deltaevo48]

Tucked up in bed in the small hours of the morning i've listed to this piece shortly before the shippig forecast on Radio 4. With the words there are warnings of gales in Cromarty , Forth, Dogger etc. In the cozyness of the bed i've often imagined ships in the dark sea's swell around Britain being tossed around and lashed by waves. This mucis fits the scene perfectly for me .

[godsbrotherinlaw]

totally do the same thing love it

[Missymiss75]

I love feeding my baby at 12:30 now, it's wonderful, this music and then the shipping forecast, makes you proud to be a coastal British dweller

[catshaveteats]

Me too :D

[TDOCB]

my grandad chose it to be played at his funeral. as if things weren't nostalgically sad enough! lovely tune.

[alanor76]

Well I'm sorry to say that I have grown to be very tired of this piece. I used to sail a lot and have spent many hundreds of mornings before 0530 listening to it prior to the mandatory recording of the forecast for our area.

[kellaparker]

Except that it doesn't get played at 05.30. It is on before the forecast at 00.45.

[JackM2409]

when the flutes come in, it gives you the picture of the waves crashing across the water, a love this peice

[Westsound191]

Very uplifting piece of music.

Just thinking of my father. He used to play viola in the BBC symphony orchestra, then went freelance. He also used to make some superb instruments. Now at 83 he doesn't do any of that, but still enjoys listening to music. Let's just say this piece brings tears and some happy memories....

[BagofSpite]

A wonderful, nostalgic piece of music. As already implied, and certainly true for me, simplicity is the the purest (and the most difficult to competantly achieve) form of art, in any form. Just a shame the video made me feel seasick.

[vishy]

Beautiful piece of music... how many times has this dreamy piece sent me asleep. Thank you for uploading!

[alimacross]

cromarty,low to high, falling slightly, easterly to westerly up and down,good...dogger fisher german bight, side to side, up and down, possible vomiting, bad to worse 11,lundy fastnet, westerly 4 rising to 7,clear,good...nite nite

[wardropalma]

brings a tear to my eye, and a lump to my throat, 40 yrs old but can appreciate great, simple music. Reminds me of great past times, great friends and sitting in plastic chairs in pub gardens on barmy hot BRITISH summer days, wishing i could be back there right now....superb

[j1o2h3n4n5y]

This rain sums up Britain 2008. It never rained in the 70's! Gordon Brown,go now,before we all need boats!

[tinker5k]

farthing, shops closed on sunday, red rover tickets, glass bottles with screw tops, mum working on the farm, rag,tag &....... listen with mother,torchie the battery boy, tugboat annie, lassie, i love lucy, saturday morning cinema, flash,no traffic at weekends,hop picking, the crazy gang,christmas at nan,s,putting half the school dinner in my pocket.[could,nt leave the table untill the plate was cleared]. reading janet & john with the sailing boat on the cover. Mum & Dad young and still alive...

[FrancisRidley]

What a fine piece of British tradition. Lovely! Thank you! :)

[sommie1111]

this was my grans favourite song...it was played when her coffin was being carried from the church...i still love listening to it, it brings back all the good times! love u gran xxx

[harebellish]

this be me...lost at sea

[PeterKivorG]

When I hear it at 12:45 am I always wish it would go on and on. This does. Thank you

[mattcol99]

The soothing music doesnt quite go with the image of those people perched on the edge of the boat, trying to stop it capsizing in a force 5!

[gordonl]

Wonderful music, tedious visuals.

[pescepattate]

I dido the last comment I enjoy this music thank you for posting it

[Lanzafan1]

I can't get to sleep if I don't listen to this on Radio 4 every night at 12.45. It's so relaxing it got me off sleeping pills! (No, really) Thanks for posting. Nice vid too.

[mruk1]

Thanks for posting this. My brother was a keen sailor and this was one of his favourites - especially late at night on a choppy force 5! We played it at the start of his memorial service just before Xmas. Rob, this one's for you. Love ya. Rich

[CopyYou]

lovely music ! sadly ron left us at 69 ! liver cancer ! my best tune ! love hearing it at bed time on radio 4 ! now that is good radio ! thank you 4 posting this video ! god bless

[iain65uk]

Sailing By - The Music of Ronald Binge [Import] Amazon uk - £12 squid!

[MineshaftManchester]

It is also available on this CD:

Sailing By.

Performer BBC Concert Orchestra

Composer Ronald Binge

CD Title The Essential British Light Music Collection

Track 8

Label CLASSIC FM PLC

Rec No 75605 57003 2

[cygnet12]

found this on the listen again radio 4 website it was the 5th selection of Michael Ball in Desert Island discs, perhaps you can order it from this info. good luck from another Anglofile

5. Sailing By

Performer BBC Concert Orchestra

Composer Ronald Binge

CD Title The Essential British Light Music Collection

Track 8

Label CLASSIC FM PLC

Rec No 75605 57003 2

[urobu]

'Sailing By' was written by Ronald Binge, who also composed 'Elizabethan Seranade'; and it was he who created the unique string sound which gained the Mantovani Orchestra worldwide fame in the 1950s. 'Sailing By' played by Perry/Gardner Orchestra, published 1963, was available on CD2 of EMI100 CD 7243 5 66676 2 4 Published by EMI RECORDS LTD 1997.

NOTA BENE by Rob Williams of Cemaes Bay.

[TheBitterWeed]

@urobu

What I could have achieved with a name like "Ronald Binge"..

[ss0099218]

@urobu Thank you so much.  I have heard this music many years ago when I was in Britain. If I remember correctly it used to be the signing off tune for one of the BBC channels. I have tried in vain to find its composer and the exact title of this piece of music. I used to drift off to sleep with this music in my ears all those years ago.

[PGMEagle]

Surprisingly enough. A cousin of mine lives in St John's in Newfoundland Canada and she tells me depending on the conditions she can receive radio 4 on long wave. Pretty impressive since she's at least 2.500 miles away. So she listens to sailing by at 9:15 pm her time. They are 2 and a half hours behind us.

[PGMEagle]

Who composed this It's got to be atleast from the early 80s

[dan99099]

ah yes, but i am moving to Norway and thanks to the internet i don't have to miss the shipping forecast or this great tune. i'll be living in south utsire though! even seen them fjords? now there IS a reason to leave good 'ol blighty! :)

[cockneysontour]

Strange how the BBC never saw fit to release this or make it available on any Album! Shows how short-sighted they were and still are.

[vietgrove]

Oh man, you cut off the little bit at the end of the tune, and that's the best bit!

[jimlagos]

Sailing across the Atlantic towards UK, We searched for this on Long wave Radio 4.Just North of Azores, we found it, after midnight. So uplifting.

Wonderful thank you

[HombreSantiago]

Brilliant

[mally1320]

hi got this on a mp3 if anyone wants it

[karina1300]

Hi,

I would love to have it on my MP3 player.

Thanks

[iain65uk]

yes please! is is small enough by email or is there a link?

[VictorianGentlechap]

Same here, thankyou very much. Great piece.

[carolines5696]

trying to find this tune for months sooooooooooo relaxing thank you.

[HUG49]

Wonderful! Thank you Sir!