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Post by Peter Picard on Feb 28, 2021 17:51:09 GMT
In 2009 De Wolfe Music released Top Dog - A Retrospective Of Classic TV And Radio Themes. It's a good album and includes Fruity Flutes along with 25 other tracks.
The liner notes say, Farmhouse Kitchen was a cookery series produced by Yorkshire Television and aired from 1971 to 1989. It was initially hosted by Dorothy Sleightholme, who had previously played a cook in the YTV educational drama How We Used To Live (1968), and then later by food writer Grace Mulligan. The delightful modal waltz theme Fruity Flutes by percussionist Reg Wale, has since become a cult track in the world of British jazz and was originally released on the highly scarce de Wolfe 10" Quintet of Modern Jazz.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2021 16:50:15 GMT
Yes, I have a copy of that on my hard drive somewhere. It's a fab collection of memories.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Mar 4, 2021 19:42:45 GMT
Back in '98 or '99 I bought a CD of "Classic Sixties TV Themes": It wasn't too bad but whilst most of the tracks were the genuine item there were some that didn't quite sound correct and were either variants or covers of the original. Sam.
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Post by Sparky on Mar 4, 2021 20:44:37 GMT
Back in '98 or '99 I bought a CD of "Classic Sixties TV Themes": It wasn't too bad but whilst most of the tracks were the genuine item there were some that didn't quite sound correct and were either variants or covers of the original. Sam. I have this CD. Must dig it out and listen to it properly. I can't recall which themes are genuine and which are covers.
The Crossroads theme was a version recorded by Tony Hatch - possibly for release on 45 (as they did back then) - but it wasn't used on the TV programme. I think the Whickers World theme (Way out West?) was used on TV.
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Post by Sparky on Mar 5, 2021 11:14:30 GMT
Does anyone remember the "Cult TV" magazine that appeared for only a few issues around 1997/1998? I have all of the issues; with one they gave away a "Cult TV Themes" CD.
A couple of the themes sounded like originals, and then there were the obvious re-recordings - most of which were pretty good versions for saying it was a free CD. I'll have to find this CD; but from memory I wasn't set on the version of the "Saint" theme that was on there.
On the whole, I was kind of expecting something like those old "Top Hits" records on Ktel or Ronco in the 70s, which had current hits performed by session singers and musicians. (Musak I think they call it!) "Hobbycraft" still play them!
The magazines were released at the same time of the Channel 5 repeats of the "Sweeney" - and there are some features on that.
From memory, the mags always seemed to concentrate on Star Trek, Buffy, Babylon 5 and the like.
I'll dig those magazines out and get scanning.
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Post by Peter Picard on Jun 1, 2021 21:45:54 GMT
I think some themes were recorded with different arrangements from that used on TV to extend the running time. The original themes were often only 40 seconds or so long. The BBC produced quite a lot of albums of theme music in the 70's and 80's.
This set of albums was released between 1978 and 1981.
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Post by Nightfly on Jun 1, 2021 22:52:08 GMT
This set of albums was released between 1978 and 1981.
Wow - Two Up, Two Down ! A great theme tune by Paul Nicholas and I think, the debut TV role for Su Pollard. I'd almost forgotten about this short lived comedy from the summer of '79.
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Post by Sparky on Jun 2, 2021 7:45:49 GMT
Great albums Peter. "Saturday Night at the Mill" is on there.
Still trying to track down the "BBC 60 years" album from around 1982.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 2, 2021 19:39:06 GMT
Interesting how music can set the tone for a show, 'The Crezz' is a hard to pigeonhole comedy drama cum soap opera from 1976 about the varied residents of a leafy London crescent, no idea why but the funk theme fits the offbeat feel of the programme. It was released on 7" in a very different version.
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Post by Peter Picard on Jun 7, 2021 19:50:56 GMT
That is a very different arrangement Arthur.
This BBC release from 1974 has an interesting version of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads. The intro is different and then leads into the familiar TV theme before continuing into a new passage when the TV theme would have been faded out.
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