The words for this romantic ballad of separation were written by Ron Webster, an amateur folk singer and silversmith living in the Solihull area of the Midlands. The inspiration came to him one rainy night when he was returning home from work on the upper deck of a Midland bus with wet and dripping windows. He wished he was somewhere where it was warm, not on a dripping-wet Midland bus. Roger Whittaker was hosting a radio series at the time and he invited his listeners to submit lyrics that he would put to music. Webster sent in "The Last Farewell," which Whittaker liked, and after putting his own music to Webster's words, he recorded it on his 1971 album Special Kind Of Man. Four years later an Atlanta radio station began to play the track after the wife of a programmer heard it on vacation in Canada. It was released as a single in the States, where it became Whittaker's sole Top 40 hit. It went on to become his biggest ever hit, selling over 11 million copies worldwide.
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