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Rhywun Fel Ti

£ 6 

Albwm Elusennol. Elw tuag at Gymdeithas Alzheimer.

Charity Album in aid of the Alzheimer's Society.

  1. Danny Boy
  2. Dagrau'r Glaw
  3. Warwick Avenue
  4. Defying Gravity
  5. Merch y Melinydd
  6. Make You Feel My Love
  7. Pan Fo'r Nos yn Hir
  8. Maybe I Like It This Way
  9. I Only Wanna Be With You
  10. Tyfodd y Bachgen Yn Ddyn
  11. Someone Like You

Cyfeilydd / Accompanist: Lyn Mackay
Ffotograffydd / Photography: John Fry
Recordiad / Recorded: Huw Rees, Rhondda Street Studio

£6 including UK postage & packaging.

Pam ddewisais y Gymdeithas Alzheimer?

Penderfynais recordio albwm er cof am fy Nhad-cu (Gwynfor Jones) yn wreiddiol o Lanaman cyn symud i fyw i Fetws am nifer o flynyddoedd ac yn ddiweddarach ym Mhontarddulais, a fy Mam-gu (Morfydd Dilys Davies) o Bontarddulais. Dioddefodd y ddau gyda Alzheimer / Dementia. Buodd Dad-cu yn ysbyty Cefn Coed am chwe mlynedd a mynychodd Mam-gu canolfan dyddiol Garngoch yn rheolaidd. Roedd y ddau yn ymddiddori yng ngherddoriaeth ac fe wnes i ddewis ambell gân yn benodol ar eu cyfer. Credaf y byddai recordio albwm yn datblygu ymwybyddiaeth o'r clefyd yn ogystal â chodi arian ar gyfer yr elusen. 

Dewisais dynnu lluniau i roi ar y CD yn Mwmbwls, oherwydd yn ystod taith deuluol i'r ardal fe ddwedodd fy nhad-cu rhywbeth rhyfedd ''Dwi heb fod yn Mwmbwls ers o’n i yn India'- odd hwnna yn ystod yr ail ryfel Byd. Yna ddwedodd 'Wn i os taw hwnna odd y llong o’n i arno’, wrth edrych ar y môr ar long. Sylweddolon fod rhywbeth mawr o'i le ac ychydig o amser wedi'r digwyddiad yma fe aeth Dad-cu mewn i Ysbyty Cefn Coed.

 

Why I chose the Alzheimer's Society?

I decided to record a CD in memory of my Dadcu (Gwynfor Jones) from Glanamman who lived in Betws for many years before moving to Pontarddulais and Mamgu (Morfydd Dilys Davies) from Pontarddulais. They both suffered from Alzheimer's / Dementia. My Dadcu was in Cefn Coed Hospital for 6 years and my Mamgu regularly visited Garngoch Day Centre. They both had a love for music and some of the tracks were chosen specifically for them. By recording a CD I believed that it would help to develop the awareness of Alzheimer's and would be a great way to raise money for the charity.

 

I chose to have the photographs for the CD taken in Mumbles, because during a family trip there we realised that there was something seriously wrong with my Grandfather when he said something strange. 'I haven't been here since I was in India' - that was during the Second World War. Then looking out to the sea at a ship he came out with 'I wonder if that was the ship I was on.' A few months later he was admitted to Cefn Coed Hospital.