"World In Action" theme tune?
Gary Gadget
documentary programme "World In Action" theme tune?
Cheers
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Mike Whitaker
> Can anybody put me out of my misery and tell me the artist and title of the
> UK documentary programme "World In Action" theme tune?
Mountain, "Nantucket Sleigh Ride": specifically it's the instrumental bit
after both choruses.
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Mike Edmunds
"Mike Whitaker" <mi...@altrion.org> wrote in message
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> Gary Gadget wrote:
>
> > Can anybody put me out of my misery and tell me the artist and title of
the
> > UK documentary programme "World In Action" theme tune?
>
> Mountain, "Nantucket Sleigh Ride": specifically it's the instrumental bit
> after both choruses.
Surely "Nantucket Sleighride" was the theme to Weekend World, not World in
Action.
Sorry, got my pedantic head on tonight.
Mike E.
JNugent
|| Gary Gadget wrote:
||| Can anybody put me out of my misery and tell me the artist and
||| title of the UK documentary programme "World In Action" theme tune?
|| Mountain, "Nantucket Sleigh Ride": specifically it's the
|| instrumental bit after both choruses.
Eee lad, are you sure?
That were the theme tune to LWT's "Weekend World", weren't it?
The classic theme tune to Granada <spit> Television's "World In Action" was
an unavailable-to-the-public recording (read: "library item") composed by
Laurie Johnson (who also wrote the music used for "The Avengers" [the
post-Honor Blackman episodes] and "This Is Your Life", as well as "Animal
Magic").
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Adrian Clark
> Mountain, "Nantucket Sleigh Ride": specifically it's the instrumental bit
> after both choruses.
That was "Weekend World", I think. "World in Action" was all Hammond
organ.
Aah, thank you, Google. The tune is called "Jam for World in Action",
and it's by Jonathan Weston. You can listen to it here...
http://www.the-jps.co.uk/themes/worldinaction.htm
Adrian
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Adrian Clark
> The classic theme tune to Granada <spit> Television's "World In Action" was
> an unavailable-to-the-public recording (read: "library item") composed by
> Laurie Johnson
Ooh! That's different from the one that I found. Maybe my source was
wrong...
Fat Sam
"Mike Whitaker" <mi...@altrion.org> wrote in message
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>
> > Can anybody put me out of my misery and tell me the artist and title of
the
> > UK documentary programme "World In Action" theme tune?
>
> Mountain, "Nantucket Sleigh Ride": specifically it's the instrumental bit
> after both choruses.
You sure?...Wasn't that the name of the theme to the old grey whistle
test?......
Mike Whitaker
> Mike Whitaker <mi...@altrion.org> wrote:
>
>> Mountain, "Nantucket Sleigh Ride": specifically it's the instrumental bit
>> after both choruses.
>
> That was "Weekend World", I think. "World in Action" was all Hammond
> organ.
Eee. Tha's reet. So it was. Oops. Heh.
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Paul Creedy
"David Morton" <dmo...@well.com> wrote in message
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> In article <akjlmt$4lb$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>,
> s...@samandjanet.fslife.co.uk (Fat Sam) wrote:
>
>
> > You sure?...Wasn't that the name of the theme to the old grey whistle
> > test?......
>
>
I thought THAT was the theme to............ etc.etc. ;o)
Paul
Fat Sam
"David Morton" <dmo...@well.com> wrote in message
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> In article <akjlmt$4lb$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>,
> s...@samandjanet.fslife.co.uk (Fat Sam) wrote:
>
>
> > test?......
>
>
Of Cooouuuuuuurse.......Thety mentioned it on telly only a week ago
too.....Shows how poor my memory retention is.....
JNugent
|| JNugent <JNu...@AC30.Freeofspamserve.co.uk> wrote:
||| The classic theme tune to Granada <spit> Television's "World In
||| Action" was an unavailable-to-the-public recording (read: "library
||| item") composed by Laurie Johnson
|| Ooh! That's different from the one that I found. Maybe my source was
|| wrong...
Probably not. I was referring to the original theme used from the
programme's inception in c.1963 (still heard again every seven years when
Granada - or perhaps now the BBC - do the update on "Seven Up").
PS: This "..."Jam for World in Action" by Jonathan Weston" was very
obviously picked by the same process as Weekend World's "Nantucket
[whatever]". I can't remember which one was adopted first, but the original
(and very superior) Laurie Johnson theme for WIA was used for *many* years.
Adrian Clark
> Probably not. I was referring to the original theme used from the
> programme's inception in c.1963
Aaahh... long before my time ;-)
Is the Laurie Johnson piece online (mp3 or whatever) anywhere? A cursory
search only turned up the Jonathan Weston tune and a number of
irrelevant US sites.
JNugent
|| JNugent <JNu...@AC30.Freeofspamserve.co.uk> wrote:
||| I was referring to the original theme used from the
||| programme's inception in c.1963
|| Aaahh... long before my time ;-)
|| Is the Laurie Johnson piece online (mp3 or whatever) anywhere? A
|| cursory search only turned up the Jonathan Weston tune and a number
|| of irrelevant US sites.
Check your mailbox (attachment 65 Kb).
Adrian Clark
> Check your mailbox (attachment 65 Kb).
Thanks Jim! Unfortunately, Hotmail won't let me have the file for some
(probably arbitrary) reason - would you mind sending it to my "proper"
email address? (Anything @ the domain name in the sig below)
JNugent
||| Check your mailbox (attachment 65 Kb).
|| Thanks Jim! Unfortunately, Hotmail won't let me have the file for
|| some (probably arbitrary) reason - would you mind sending it to my
|| "proper" email address? (Anything @ the domain name in the sig below)
No sooner read than done...
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steve_cobham
wrote:
>In article <akjlmt$4lb$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>,
>s...@samandjanet.fslife.co.uk (Fat Sam) wrote:
>
>
>> You sure?...Wasn't that the name of the theme to the old grey whistle
>> test?......
>
>
>OGWT theme is called "Stone Fox Chase".
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