PE
especially with Allo Allo where I believe the writer wrote the theme tune too.
course it could be just a ploy by 2entertain to "cheapen" them so you buy the proper stuff
Pete
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Brekkie Boy posted:
Slightly off topic, but why in some of these free DVDs with newspapers are the theme tunes not included? Surely if they pay for the rights for the programme, the theme tune gets thrown in too!
especially with Allo Allo where I believe the writer wrote the theme tune too.
course it could be just a ploy by 2entertain to "cheapen" them so you buy the proper stuff
SO
It was the end bit of Donna Summer's "Macarthur Park" that was used for Reporting Scotland in 1979. The following year another tune was used which was the same as that used by LWT for "The Big Match". And for a few years after that, Reporting Scotland used part of the opening from Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Fanfare for the Common Man" as the theme tune.
True Scottishness, instead of having their own music written for them,. Reporting Scotland used excerpts of then-current chart hits and library pieces. Presumably to save money on hiring a composer!!
Spencer For Hire posted:
Just browsing TV Ark, and wondering if anyone can tell me where else I might have heard the Reporting Scotland theme from c.1979 (the first clip on this page).
I've definitely heard the music somewhere else, but can't place it at the moment.
I've definitely heard the music somewhere else, but can't place it at the moment.
It was the end bit of Donna Summer's "Macarthur Park" that was used for Reporting Scotland in 1979. The following year another tune was used which was the same as that used by LWT for "The Big Match". And for a few years after that, Reporting Scotland used part of the opening from Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Fanfare for the Common Man" as the theme tune.
True Scottishness, instead of having their own music written for them,. Reporting Scotland used excerpts of then-current chart hits and library pieces. Presumably to save money on hiring a composer!!
SP
It was the end bit of Donna Summer's "Macarthur Park" that was used for Reporting Scotland in 1979.
Wow - of course it is! Seems so obvious now you mention it. Thanks for solving that one!
In a similar vein, I have vague recollections of Granada Reports using Mason Williams' Classical Gas as its theme tune in the early 80s - although I've yet to find any clips on-line to verify that.
Steven O posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
Just browsing TV Ark, and wondering if anyone can tell me where else I might have heard the Reporting Scotland theme from c.1979 (the first clip on this page).
I've definitely heard the music somewhere else, but can't place it at the moment.
I've definitely heard the music somewhere else, but can't place it at the moment.
It was the end bit of Donna Summer's "Macarthur Park" that was used for Reporting Scotland in 1979.
Wow - of course it is! Seems so obvious now you mention it. Thanks for solving that one!
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The following year another tune was used which was the same as that used by LWT for "The Big Match". And for a few years after that, Reporting Scotland used part of the opening from Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Fanfare for the Common Man" as the theme tune.
True Scottishness, instead of having their own music written for them,. Reporting Scotland used excerpts of then-current chart hits and library pieces. Presumably to save money on hiring a composer!!
True Scottishness, instead of having their own music written for them,. Reporting Scotland used excerpts of then-current chart hits and library pieces. Presumably to save money on hiring a composer!!
In a similar vein, I have vague recollections of Granada Reports using Mason Williams' Classical Gas as its theme tune in the early 80s - although I've yet to find any clips on-line to verify that.
TV
The original Grange Hill theme tune (by Alan Hawkshaw) was also used (albeit with a totally different musical arrangement) for an early series of Give Us a Clue!
I hadn't noticed the resemblance to Cagney And Lacey until Charlie Brooker made the same observation in his book "Screen Burn"!
But yes, the versions of Chicken Man used for Grange Hill and Give Us A Clue were different. I'm actually surprised we don't have GUAC on the Ark.
deejay posted:
Pootle5 posted:
The Grange Hill theme tune (the one used since the 90's) always reminds me of Cagney and Lacey.
The original Grange Hill theme tune (by Alan Hawkshaw) was also used (albeit with a totally different musical arrangement) for an early series of Give Us a Clue!
I hadn't noticed the resemblance to Cagney And Lacey until Charlie Brooker made the same observation in his book "Screen Burn"!
But yes, the versions of Chicken Man used for Grange Hill and Give Us A Clue were different. I'm actually surprised we don't have GUAC on the Ark.
ST
here's a quote from the bbc comedy website about the upper hand which refers to the music being from knots Landing
A virtually identical set was utilised too, the settee facing the audience as it does in so many US sitcoms, and the kitchen/lounge being accessed by a swing door, and US theme music was used - not from Who's The Boss? though, but, curiously, from Knots Landing.
A virtually identical set was utilised too, the settee facing the audience as it does in so many US sitcoms, and the kitchen/lounge being accessed by a swing door, and US theme music was used - not from Who's The Boss? though, but, curiously, from Knots Landing.
TT
Fanfare for the Common Man was also used as a theme tune for the TVS programme 'Enterprise' as well.
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And for a few years after that, Reporting Scotland used part of the opening from Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Fanfare for the Common Man" as the theme tune.
True Scottishness, instead of having their own music written for them,. Reporting Scotland used excerpts of then-current chart hits and library pieces. Presumably to save money on hiring a composer!!
True Scottishness, instead of having their own music written for them,. Reporting Scotland used excerpts of then-current chart hits and library pieces. Presumably to save money on hiring a composer!!
Fanfare for the Common Man was also used as a theme tune for the TVS programme 'Enterprise' as well.
ST
The BBC North of England regions were very fond of sharing their theme tune for the local news programme (and indeed the name "Look North" for all 3 areas until the early 80s). The North West & North East even shared the same logo for a while.
They were all variations of the same music. I've tracked down the "short versions" from 1998/99 for all three:
North West Tonight (Manchester) 1998
Look North (Newcastle) 1998
Look North (Leeds) 1999
The Leeds version was abit more "jazzy", but Newcastle and Manchester were similar even in the style of the title sequence.
Did any of the southern english regions have similar theme tunes?
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They were all variations of the same music. I've tracked down the "short versions" from 1998/99 for all three:
North West Tonight (Manchester) 1998
Look North (Newcastle) 1998
Look North (Leeds) 1999
The Leeds version was abit more "jazzy", but Newcastle and Manchester were similar even in the style of the title sequence.
Did any of the southern english regions have similar theme tunes?
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SO
It was the end bit of Donna Summer's "Macarthur Park" that was used for Reporting Scotland in 1979.
Wow - of course it is! Seems so obvious now you mention it. Thanks for solving that one!
No problem.
Spencer For Hire posted:
Steven O posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
Just browsing TV Ark, and wondering if anyone can tell me where else I might have heard the Reporting Scotland theme from c.1979 (the first clip on this page).
I've definitely heard the music somewhere else, but can't place it at the moment.
I've definitely heard the music somewhere else, but can't place it at the moment.
It was the end bit of Donna Summer's "Macarthur Park" that was used for Reporting Scotland in 1979.
Wow - of course it is! Seems so obvious now you mention it. Thanks for solving that one!
No problem.
SC
The only other programmes I can think of at the moment which had the same theme were Grange Hill and Give Us A Clue.
The schools programme Stop, Look and Listen used the same theme tune, too.
Did it? I remember both the tunes used on the ITV version, and neither of them were Chicken Man.
Paul02 posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
The only other programmes I can think of at the moment which had the same theme were Grange Hill and Give Us A Clue.
The schools programme Stop, Look and Listen used the same theme tune, too.
Did it? I remember both the tunes used on the ITV version, and neither of them were Chicken Man.