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BBC and sports music how did they manage to get it so right ?
Posted by MrRadio on 15 September 2009 - 11:25am.
The music the BBC uses for sports events seems to be perfect how do they do it just one examples below, two more in the comments.
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The snooker theme...
could even make the prospect of a Cliff Thorburn vs Eddie Charlton match seem appealing. Some feat.
These
heres another two classics
Superstars
Wasn't the first one the theme for that too ?
Very similar
Now that's brought some memories back
Brian Jacks doing sqaut thrusts and dips, Kevin Keegan falling off his bike and Ed Moses leaping the 10 ft wall without using the rope!
I was there!
In the front row when Brian Jacks beat the squat thrust record at Cwmbran Stadium in 1978. I had very long hair at the time. When the show was screened, my next door neighbour told my mother that he'd been trying to work out where he knew the girl in the crowd from (I was a pretty youth). A severe short back and sides followed soon after.
Grand National
Carl Davis I think
Two of my favourite programmes and themes
Not just a great theme
The title sequence is beautifully done too. The music and visuals add up to create something exciting.
Yep
Isn't Sportsnight a Tony Hatch?
And as for Grandstand: top timpani!
London Marathon...
It's the theme from The Trap, by Ron Goodwin.
This...
...and the Grand National one above are absolutely spot on. Incidentally, has anyone ever seen the Trap?
Also, ITV got it right sometimes too...
Not sure why this is good, but it is.
Yeah, but
this is better, isn't it?
Brings back memories of ticker tape and Mario Kempes to me, not to mention Archie Gemmill against Holland
Riptide
They don't always get it right
For example they bizarrely used Riptide by Robert Palmer - music that sounds like a parade of elephants - for some sporting occasion- was it the Commonwealth Games?
I remember it well
It was the World Games of 1989 in Karlsruhe (had to look that up). Great song but it didn't go at all.
This one's right up there
It's the theme from BBC's one-frame snooker programme Pot Black, played by Winifred Atwell. Couldn't have been better chosen could it?
As is this
As is this
Ted Lowe
"And for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green."
Ted Lowe and 'Not Dark Yet'-era Bob Dylan...
are the only two impressions I can do reasonably well.
Lowe was a bloody legend.
Never liked yer man
that much. Always much preferred the late Jack Karnehm and Clive Everton.
This is pretty crap really
They could have done with a bit of Undertones or something...
God No!
This is quality stuff. Definite reminders of a Saturday lunchtime afore World of Sport, which is another classic one (evidence included). In fact, theme beter than programme most times....
Darts
Is it me or does this theme promise a lot but go nowhere? Strangely hypnotic at 1am in the morning though..
the chain
by fleetwood mac on the F1 programme is surely worth a mention.
Clearly not enough effort
is made with TV theme tunes generally any more - I think we can safely say that, can't we?
Think of two of the greatest comedies in the past 10 years and they've both used 'popular music': The Office and The Royle Family.
Now rewind 30 years - you couldn't imagine Terry & June to the sound of The Carpenters, could you?
A collection of BBC World Cup Themes
The first one was (possibly shamefully!) the first single I remember actually buying myself. Sadly also bought This Time (England 82 World Cup Song) as well.
Oh, and loads of other crap football singles. Don't know why - just like football and music (the two never seemed to go together that well though)
The 1970s, 8.02pm, Radio Two, Tuesday
Peter Jones, Alan Parry, Burnley v Leeds in the League Cup, and this :
A musical madeleine dipped in the tea of my youth.