BBC TV Cricket Theme Tune???
Piers Allison
Tune.
I think that it may have something to do with Calypso??
Thanks.
Jackie Hewitt
I think it is called Cricket Calypso by Booker T and the MG's ???
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Piers Allison
Booker T and the MGs "Soul Limbo"
With RealPlayer you can hear it at
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1354780294/pagename=/share/ensotrac
k2.html/UPC=2521844242/disc=02/track=01/ra.ram
Piers Allison <piers....@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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Graham Kendrick
Jackie Hewitt wrote in message <373C0CB4...@oucs.ox.ac.uk>...
>Piers Allison wrote:
>
>> Can anyone remember the name and artist of BBC TV Test Match Cricket
Theme
>> Tune.
>
>
thought the choice of this song might have been responsible for England's
poor performance for the lasf few decades, given the fact that the bass
player on it is Donald 'Duck' Dunn !
Cheers ... Graham
Damien Cahill
Remember, only 5 weeks to go until it is heard for the last time ever.
Sad.
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Piers Allison wrote...
:Can anyone remember the name and artist of BBC TV Test Match Cricket Theme
:Tune.
:
:I think that it may have something to do with Calypso??
:
:Thanks.
:
:
John Hall
Damien Cahill <nilspam-...@iol.ie> writes:
>Best God-damn sports theme tune in the world.
>
>Remember, only 5 weeks to go until it is heard for the last time ever.
>
>Sad.
It would be, but I think I saw that Channel 4 had had the good sense to
decide that they would use the same tune.
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Jacapo
plays in the steel band at school. Even though it's a wonderful piece
of music, it does get boring in the end !!
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Damien Cahill
:It would be, but I think I saw that Channel 4 had had the good sense to
:decide that they would use the same tune.
Have they?! Then It'll be a case of trying to spot the difference between the 2
presentation styles.
It's just for familiarity for migrating viewers then.
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Mr. Malcolm Grant
Piers Allison wrote in message <7hh1u9$o2d$1...@uranium.btinternet.com>...
Jacapo
riddled with them.
Damien Cahill wrote in message <7hk2kp$9pd$1...@news1.news.iol.ie>...
Damien Cahill
:The difference will be easy to spot - one had no adverts - and one will be
:riddled with them.
That's what I'm afraid of.
I wonder will Channel 4 do what they have done to American Football, basketball,
and athletics over the past couple of years and dump them as they aren't working
well for them? Does anyone else think that way?
Jacapo
better cricket coverage anywhere in the world. It was strange
watching on BBC2 today - my husband kept saying he'll make the
drinks when the adverts are on ! Now I'm dehydrated !!!!! Doh!
Jacapo
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peter p
Martin Dixon
<URL:mailto:J...@jacapo.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> The difference will be easy to spot - one had no adverts - and one will be
> riddled with them.
If its anything like Formula 1 we will miss most of the interesting action
whilst the adverts are on.
For example, I can imagine returning from a commercial break to find two
different batsmen at the crease and no explanation as to how their
predecessors got out.
It doesn't bear thinking about.
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Peter Halliwell
<martin...@diamond.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <7hke7l$mdi$2...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>, Jacapo
><URL:mailto:J...@jacapo.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>> The difference will be easy to spot - one had no adverts - and one will be
>> riddled with them.
>
>If its anything like Formula 1 we will miss most of the interesting action
>whilst the adverts are on.
>
>For example, I can imagine returning from a commercial break to find two
>different batsmen at the crease and no explanation as to how their
>predecessors got out.
>
>It doesn't bear thinking about.
Why should it be any different to Sky?
Find something worthwhile to worry about.
Peter Halliwell
Peter Halliwell
<jackie...@oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>For those who don't have Sky and therefore suppose that there is an ad between
>every over, well, there isn't. There is one about every 4-5 overs. And if the ad
>is still running when the action recommenses, then they cut the ad short. The
>later you watch, the less ads there are. For istance, when I did some nocturnal
>Ashes watching in the summer and they only had ads every 20 mins or so.
>
>Don't forget that the dear old Beeb, when they used to show Tests (as recently as
>last summer...) used to feel that for some reason when there was a Test on, we
>needed a news and weather update every hour, thus we lost 5 mins play every hour.
>And would frequently go across to, for instance, the 2.15 from Ascot, and show us
>10 mins of the horses parading round before the actual race began. I find ads
>irritating, but I am prepared to put up with them for the level of coverage that
>you get on Sky- not forgetting highlights at reasonable hours most of the time,
>and the excellent 2 hour World Cup Centre they have each evening during the
>tournament.
These are the points I would have made had I been more courteous, and
taken the trouble. Thank you.
Peter Halliwell
Jackie Hewitt
IanBurt
<jackie...@oucs.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>but I am prepared to put up with them for the level of coverage that
>you get on Sky- not forgetting highlights at reasonable hours most of the
>time,
>and the excellent 2 hour World Cup Centre they have each evening during the
>tournament.
I have to say that I am hooked on this programme, not normally one who can
watch highlights I have actually been impressed with the mix of action and
banter, some good other cricket articles as well. The main thing is that we
seem to get less Colville than we had first thought, Sky Sports answer to
Julian Clary is much better, Mike Wedderburn is it?
Ian Diddams (Contractor)
>
> I wonder will Channel 4 do what they have done to American Football, basketball,
> and athletics over the past couple of years and dump them as they aren't working
> well for them? Does anyone else think that way?
Naturally. Channel 4 is a commercial enterprise. If any of its
programming becomes less than effective for the selling of advertising
then said program is surplus to requirements, and is likely to be axed.
Channel 4 has no interest per se in promoting cricket (or racing, or
football, or one-legged-lesbian-bus-shelters-in-Wales, or whatever
program content) particularly, other than the advertising revenue it
hopes to attract by showing it.
Why should we think otherwise? Do me really all go to work because we
enjoy it?
Of course not!!
Didds.
Andy Johnson
<J...@jacapo.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>Hopefully - then the Beeb can pick it up again - you just can't get
>better cricket coverage anywhere in the world.
Well, apart from on Sky.
Loathe as I am to praise Murdoch, Sky have done a brilliant job in
improving the technical side of televising cricket. Added to that, they
cover most important test matches from around the world. In comparison,
the BBC can't even come up with decent radio coverage any more, they are
dinosaurs and deserved to lose the test matches.
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Gregor Duncan McIntyre
Soul Limbo - by Booker T and the MGs
Gregor
lawrenc...@wallstreetsystems.com
> Can anyone remember the name and artist of BBC TV Test Match Cricket Theme
> Tune.
>
>
> Thanks.
Richard Dixon
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Limbo
I wonder what happened of all these posters?
Richard
John Hall
lawrenc...@wallstreetsystems.com writes
his question 17 years later!
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David North
> In message <1e6247cd-3314-480c...@googlegroups.com>,
> lawrenc...@wallstreetsystems.com writes
>> On Friday, May 14, 1999 at 8:00:00 AM UTC+1, Piers Allison wrote:
>>> Can anyone remember the name and artist of BBC TV Test Match Cricket
>>> Theme
>>> Tune.
>>>
>>> I think that it may have something to do with Calypso??
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Limbo
>
> Sadly, I doubt that Piers Allison will still be waiting for an answer to
> his question 17 years later!
probably just set some kind of record.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/uk.sport.cricket/BksXZ_37i9s/yE7ZOrBUKgIJ
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John Hall
writes
>didn't write it.
days, I doubt that I would have forgotten that.