A real treat for Schools fans - watch out for the trail for "Rosemary and Thyme" on ITV1. The music is none other than Frivolity - an ITV Schools favourite between 1979-83! Proof great music never goes out of fashion; its return to the channel that made it famous is the icing on the cake.
A real treat for Schools fans - watch out for the trail for "Rosemary and Thyme" on ITV1. The music is none other than Frivolity - an ITV Schools favourite between 1979-83! Proof great music never goes out of fashion; its return to the channel that made it famous is the icing on the cake.
They seem to have a running theme with children's stuff in the promos. I think that a recent trailer for The Bill had music linked to Trumpton (?)
The use of a piece of library music between schools programmes doesn't automatically make it "children's stuff". Though Frivolity (which comes from the Bruton LP "Heritage/Panorama") was also used in Rainbow/Get Up and Go in the 1980s. Likewise another schools track "The Fledgeling" appeared in a David Bellamy children's show, Bellamy's Bugle, in 1986.
Glad you spotted the Trumpton music in The Bill trails. ITV went to great lengths to obtain clearance from Freddie Phillips (who composed it, and the BBCtv startup music "Blue Part Invention")...and the NPU worried no-one would notice!
I remember a few years ago in Coronation Street when I heard the music that used to accompany the Itv schools interludes on Granada.{86 era}One of the cast switched the telly on and the music was used to pretend a programme was on!!!!!!!It was only a few years back!I was quite surprised
Another ITV Schools classic 'Handelian Harp' - a clock tune from the late 70s and early 80s - was used on a regionally-branded trailer for a Tyne Tees programme 'The Secret Garden' very recently. Nice to see these classics are still around!