Alan Hawkshaw, Grandstand ( UK- TV Theme )

[XxMCR999MCRxX]

Holy Crap...

Michael MacDonald on Sax xD

[agfagaevart]

@XxMCR999MCRxX

LOL!

That's what I though, for a second or tw0.

[electrickabuki]

His grandchildren better appreciate how cool their grandad is!

[scurrie42]

Just...bloody....superb......T­he quality of this music speaks for itself when a cheer can go up from a crowd like that for a forty year old composition that was originally classed as 'library music'. Pure class.

[4543563]

Play it with 2x speed.

[JingleCreators]

@4543563 or not

[4543563]

@JingleCreators ;_;.

[DJBenniboy]

yeaaa this is magic!!! sounds just the way it does on tv!!

[GooseRain]

awesome

[hofsteveO]

Epic

[shawnphase]

holy shit listen to those crowd pops! this is serious stuff, so much talent up there. thanks for sharing!

[mattcorden95]

woah huge respect for the guy on the keyboard!!! insane

[BeanDentist]

ohhhhh yeeeaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! that makes me feel goooooood

[Tetramastbad]

Library music Gods.

[mqbsspe2]

I am addicted to watching this. Please help. This piece of music must play at my funeral. Sorry to be morbid, but my God what joy.

[tirmey]

Great!!!!!



[MrGoneTroppo]

@tirmey Must be played at my wedding!

[AlexAlcyone]

Legends! This is priceless. Alan Hawkshaw, what a cool dude.

[arff2003]

How can there only be 66000+ view of this? I know that I am responsible for the 257 views...I could watch this, and only this, all night long. And to think a host of untalented twits get million+ views

[drrrink00]

seriously though, mr hawkshaws organ solo at 1.55 is sublime. if not mistaken this musical composed the hit countdown tune as well - simply no end to this mans talents...

[drrrink00]

its such a high quality tune, youve even got elton johns bloody twin on piano. one of the finest themes ever, mean live version as well...

[Ulleskelf]

Now over to the vidi-printer. East Fife 5, Forfar 4

[sherbert500]

wow how great was that ! iconic tune

[Spaceace2001]

Fantastic!!

[lyricistgirl]

Legend. My school band launched into this at a jazz festival one time, the best reception we ever got for any piece ever!

[Demonboy362]

This is at least 17 awesomes

[ajswift]

To covert vids to mp3 go to video 2 mp3 dot net

[CoastForager]

Great track!

[ommm]

I love the fact that his VIP pass matches his shirt

[kensington25]

Absolutely brilliant. I love it :)

[communty]

BUFFSTAND

[Enufo]

Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett: thanks for making all that fantastic music on the label "Bruton Music" thanks for "beautify" the world, I love drinking coffee at night and listen to your music, I hope you are well! I'm excited to see them still playing, eternally through! greetings from Argentina.

[Stevieboy74]

That was awesome..simply awesome. I love the Jazz cafe and would have loved to have been at this. The massive cheer that goes up as the final note is played is extremely fitting for two masters as Hawkshaw and Mansfield are, and the KPM allstars have still got it. Fantastic upload, thanks.

[harryshand]

Like the green shirts, a nice touch!

[chinamilky]

LOVE KPM!!!

Thank you for up-loading it.

[khaadimone]

Wow!!!!!!!!!

Memories are made of this!

[kropotkinify]

incredible..they`re looking like insurance-salesmen, but have been creating these outstanding pieces..thx for recording and posting !

[zingoza]

LEGENDARY....!!!!!!!!of an era....better worse i don,t know...xxxx

[ChrisReardonUK]

WONDERFUL

[fuzzface100]

God, would have loved to have been there - must have been an awesome night. Pity we can't see the legendary Brian Bennett in the vid but I'm not complaining honestly - so grateful that you recorded the gig at all.

[misterchristmas]

great horns! nice.

[robthemod58]

Outstanding! Thanks for posting.

[tskilove]

Kick arse!

[Hallenfors]

Alan Hawkshaw = Hero!!!!!!!

[finchmatt]

Cracking Trumpet playing!

[SydneyBrit]

Best Theme Tune EVER

[shortyktfc]

not many times you can say this and mean it but, I WISH I WAS THERE!

Super dooper

[boundsgreentiger]

@shortyktfc - i was there mate and it was bloody brilliant. Saw them again the next year (or was it the year after?) at the South Bank Centre and they were even better - it was part of the Meltdown festival and all the morons were across the road watching Pete Bloody Doherty singing songs from the Jungle Book instead. If they ever get together again & you're anywhere near I can't reccomend it highly enough :-)

[BillyTheFish33]

Interestingly according to the info above, the KPM Allstars include Brian Bennett on drums who was responsible for another classic BBC sports theme, that of the Golf coverage. I think it's called "Chase Side Shoot Up"

[BORROVAN26]

Bennett and Hawkshaw have worked together for a long time, most notably of course in the Shadows, who Dave Richmond also played with.

[matelot95]

Brian Bennett also did Holy Mackerel, the Rugby Special theme

[gordyboy18]

That's brilliant!

One of the all time best theme tunes, right up there with The Professionals, Magnum, Hawaii 5-O and Space: 1999.

[quantumfoamnow]

Thanks for putting this up absolutepat, wish i could have seen it live !

does alan hawkshaw still do stuff live or was that a one of thing ?

[markrskinner]

Excellent!

[kalanilockdown]

alan hawkshaw is my dads uncle no joke i swear

[happybill636]

I have a young family i wished they could look at this and be inspired its just so good.

[mistofoles]

Alan looks as though he's constipated!

[wideernie]

So good it's ridiculous

[DJGrenola]

That chord at 0:52 floors me every time.

[mistofoles]

Alan Hawkshaw also wrote the "Grange Hill" theme which was actually called "Chicken Run" or something like that, I think. A slightly re-mixed version was used as the theme tune for the original series of "GIVE US A CLUE"

[solidbronze]

'Chicken Man' :)

[mistofoles]

Yeah, that's it!

[lyricistgirl]

I begged my music teacher at high school to have the Big Band play this! Sounds great, I love this tune

[kevt31]

Nnnnniiiiicccceeee

[garbutt2710]

absolutly fandaby doesy

[TvLatte]

Awesome!!

Is there anywhere where a good quality copy of the audio could be obtained?

[happybill636]

tryed for three months cant find it

[absolutpat]

go to moviegrooves and search for KPM ;-) quote: "This is an officially licenced CD release of a live recording of the KPM All Stars when they played at the Jazz Cafe in London, October 2006"

[Nunsweepit421]

I have the CD which I purchased from moviegrooves and noted that the CD is has some edits. Grandstand for example is heavily edited when compared to the live version you kindly posted. I'm actually annoyed by these CD edits. What were the CD producers thinking of?

[craigybus1]

@TvLatte

I have an Mp3 of the original that is about 3 mins long, complete with guitar riff in the middle. If you want it, pm me your details, and I will e-mail you it

[mistofoles]

Not bad, but were they ad-libbing in the middle? Seemed to lose it a bit there..

[azzychazzy]

This is pretty much what the full track sounds like on the BBC Sport soundtrack LP.

The geezer on organ is called Alan Hawkshaw and he worked for the KPM music library at the same time as Keith Mansfield who wrote the tune. Between them they wrote loads of tracks that eventually became BBC theme tunes....The Beeb went to companies like KPM to buy library music for their shows because they didn't want to use chart music and have to pay royalties.

[tonymontana1974]

wow

DADADADA BBOOOIINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG

[wideheadofknowledge]

Exactly.

[stumbledsniffadog]

tetra-hydro-cannibol of the keyboard

[tommyk77]

Awesome. I met Keith last weekend. Interesting guy

[bixy72]

I'd love to meet Keith - He's a legend. He's done loads you know? Wimbledon, BBC Athletics & loads of other stuff, which is avaialble on obscure CD's, for example: "Pop Package, World Cup, Sporting Highlight's, Grandstand (alternative version) etc. etc. .....amazing!

[hellsnangel]

Did he let you get a word in though, that's what i want to know? He's my dad and will forgive me for pointing out that he likes to talk!

[thevirtuozo]

Really! Cool. Yes, he was great. Very friendly and enthusiastic

[EggBagg26]

This is the fucking bollocks.

Girls Aloud, N-Sync, Boyzone, Take That - eat my fucking shit you talentless cunts.

This is music.

Deal with it.

[gonk85]

Obviously some old bloke who is bitter with new music

[Dreadsouljah]

couldn't agree with you more! these guys are musical artists in every sense of the word. loved this kind of music as a kid, still loving now. i never thought i'd see an old geezer get so funky!

[bonny147]

Des Lynam's last day they should have got this lot in. Make it a bit special.

[CristoMaze]

Awesome!

[mostspecialagent]

Just fantastic. Wish I'd have been there.

[bphstanley]

QUALITY...

[clavdig]

Alan is THE library musician/composer, such great Hammond playing, his family must be very proud of him.

[ewaf88]

By the way I hope every knows that Tony Hatch of Mrs and Mrs theme music also wrote the theme to Sposrtnight. I wish I could see these guys perform that live.

[clavdig]

Mrs and Mrs? Hmmm, interesting show, I think Derek Batey might get a bit flustered though

[ewaf88]

Well he wouldn't be able to comprehend it having only ever heard 'Family favourites' from radio three. Enjoyed your jam on the Clav

[clavdig]

Cheers fella

[ewaf88]

This really is super duper - love it 10/10

[scorpiosview]

god im so sad i missed this

[towerfilm]

Wow, what a show, Keith Manshaw and James Clarke, wish I could of been there! just needed Alan Hawkshaw!

[Scorby1965]

I LOVED this theme tune every Saturday.... *sigh*... the memories!

[Praclik22]

I just love it! So happy, so awesome!

[stillceaser]

Hard pressed to find two harder working musicians back in the 60's. KPM 1000 series contains the best library music ever. It helped etch a massive form in the british 60's TV music style. Not forgetting Brian Bennett, Syd Dale, John Cameron, Duncan Lamont, Johnny Pearson, Dave Lindup & Johnny Hawksworth. Sensational.

[thurstons]

Brilliant, so full of joy and part of British heritage! Love it!!!

[jonnyb2222]

how cool was that!

[johnalantheofficial]

loved every second of that

[alphapasta123]

Wonderful music.

[murrymint1976]

brian bennet is my great uncle. if your out there brian. contact me. Only just found out.. My dad is dave.

[bixy72]

Mansfield is a legend - he also composed Wimbledon, The Athletics theme (BBC) and The Big Match (ITV), as well as many other 60's/70's instrumental classics.

[alphapasta123]

Good for you

[charliedrakes]

What a tune! and he wrote the Grange Hill Theme, as well as many others and was in The Shadows for a spell. Great Talent.

[hellsnangel]

Keith (or Dad as i like to call him) didn't write Grange Hill, i think it was Alan Hawkshaw. But Grandstand rocks!!

[charliedrakes]

I am not quite sure if he did or not write Grange Hill but he did or i was told he did Tucker's Luck. Alan is a very good song writter and has writtern many good themes and songs and also had a short spell in The Shadows.

[joenebula]

Just a piece of music that will live forever. Love it! Takes me back to Saturday afternoons in the summer knowing all kids TV has finished for the day and is time to go out and have some fun....! Without playing the XBOX etc......! Real life real music!

RESPECT DUE for this creation!

[joenebula]

My word what a piece of music. Just as said by "staglerstyle" this is a piece of music that will live in my heart for a very very long time. Just takes me back to Saturday afternoon in the summer months thinking its time to go out after all the kids stuff on TV. JUST RESPECT DUE for this creation.......!

[carhandle]

Clint Boon circa 2 mins :-) Cool as F@@k

[patpat070]

legendary

[kieranfletch]

this is good id love an mp3 or other conversion of this, i suppose i could extract the sound from this video but its a hassle

its actually quite good this tune and i think they should bring back sunday grandstand

[staglerstyle]

Stunning stuff!

It's strange, but having grown up with this wonderful tune from such a young age I've never thought of it as a piece of normal music played with instruments by people, so seeing it recreated like this is a curious and vaguely magical pleasure.

[bonny147]

You've expressed it much better than I ever could have. It's lovely to find it is "normal" music.

[Edwardo83]

lol listen to Roisin Murphy's unreleased track "Off and On" and hear why she scrapped the song from her album "Overpowered" saying it sounded like the theme of Grandstand.

[tammyjc15]

Just heard "Off and On", does sound vaguely similar lol, was that the real reason she scrapped it?

[ThwartedEfforts]

Fantastic.

Question... is this not Keith Mansfield's composition rather than Alan Hawkshaw's (as suggested by the title)?

[absolutpat]

yes you're right! mansfield is the composer of this tune, but alan is on the keys...and i think this is more important;)cheers!

[bAzTNM]

This is great!

[tino1972]

Absolute class - Bring back Des Lynham. Saturdays have never been the same without him. What the hell is on on a Saturday afternoon anyway? it's ususally sport isn't it so why ruin an institute!

[prontford]

Shurely shome mishtake? Do you mean 'institution'?

[tino1972]

dammit, I was hoping no-one spotted my typo - I should be locked up in an institute for that schoolboy error!

[TvLatte]

Love it love it love it! Top sound.

[GrahamGooner]

Coolio, brought some much needed nostalgia cheer to my Monday morning

[jaluuk]

02:52 the main keyboard man - Alan Hawkshaw? - seems to hesitate before running his hand along the keyboard, but it happens anyway. The credits say there are two keyboard players - can anyone explain what they both do? I'm unfamiliar with this type of setup and don't know if one is just a backup?!

[soulpower72]

One guy is playing the piano and the other is playing Hammond organ

[absolutpat]

on Hammond organ is alan at work;)

[Chumpsky]

Newsnight, Grandstand, Top Gear; All shows that promised so much with their theme tunes, yet delivered so much dad-oriented disappointment.

[AusMigster]

Re: Top Gear. Do you often find your thinking at odds with the rest of the world ? That show is a striking example of bringing a niche interest to a wider audience. For the record, I am not a dad.

[Chumpsky]

I bet you are, with a sweater and a collection of classic rock records gathering dust in the garage.

[AusMigster]

Ha, no I have a small movie post-production company and the only thing in my garage is my Supra.

[Chumpsky]

I don't know what a Supra is, because I don't watch Top Gear. I'd like to imagine it's some sort of soup-making machine.

[coolcato]

haha

[argylenet]

That is truly awesome

[paulyblun]

i'm guessing you might be american...not all music has to have big guitars and drums....and, yes, you're right..it is from the uk

That is all

[bocuster]

I think you are just trying to lure us into a false sense of security before launching a Second British Invasion, this time with twice the big guitars and drums as before.

[KaiserPro]

fucking scandal! something on the interwebs that isn't about ron paul, 9/11 or George bush.

[blobcatuk]

The grandstand/bbc sports themes were and still are awsome. Check out Bill Bailey's version of The Snooker Song and Ski Sunday

[spaceswitch]

Needs more xylophone!!!!!!

But quite fantastic

[flibblesan]

Quite possibly the best thing ever!

[Patbuchanan]

nice!

[cockneyjack]

ROCK AND ROLL!

[dgmills2000]

No timpani drum! Boo!

[supervillainbow]

was that famous steve sidwell? when i say famous i mean the average chelsea player with no ambition other than to pick up his wages?

[chromious]

Ha ha - yes I spotted his name amongst the trumpeters too. He has obviously found something to do with all the extra time on his hands.

[robterrace]

Wow.

That is all.

[paulyblun]

Now that demands respect!!!! Awesome!!!

[martin181]

Terrific. Loved it!

[RedlineAngel]

Oh, the prog keyboards at 2 minutes are amazing!

[paudical]

when it comes back in at the end... amazing!!

[yaffle]

great.

[Cheeseford]

I know, 'cos I was there. A brilliant night.

[losgatoscal]

What is the background on this event? looks like everyone had a great time.

[backinatracksuit]

AWESOME!!! What a great rendition!! Man a hope Hawkshaw and friends are playing shows again soon....I for one will definetly cross the Irish sea to be there! Sound quality amazing absolutpat! Cheers

[cub005]

superbio !

[Zephyrtron]

Shit me, that's awesome

[BdolfVanNille]

BRILLIANT!!!!

[Spangle1975]

his mate Brian Bennet has done some cracking tv tunes aswell!

[NFXA113]

top class

[tammyjc15]

Absolutely fantastic! One of, if not THE best theme tunes ever written for television.

RIP Grandstand!

[BdolfVanNille]

SO true!!!

[thegentlebens]

what great hammond playing

[royaldrummer32]

beautiful drumming as usual from Ralph!

[rjhglover]

Brilliant arrangement!

[gnolt]

I seem to remember an american tv network using this theme in the 70'sor 80's.

[kensington25]

Best theme ever

[dibby2007]

omg this is good where did you get this video i love it alot best theme ever

[pbirney]

Superb. Thanks for the upload.

[spicytekkie]

I'm from the U.S. and the Grandstand theme clips, like this one, is most addicting theme to listen to!

[1tardising]

Did you know that Alan Hawkshaw is also the composer of the Countdown theme and music to the countdown clock?

[1tardising]

I've got tears in my eyes just watching this because of how beautifully played the Grandstand theme is by Alan Hawkshaw. Thanks for uploading this absolutpat!

[absolutpat]

great to see people love this stuff too! thank you, cheers pat

[Tone4Tony]

That was a great tune Elder Hawkshaw!!!!

[johnsmillie1]

Ave it!!! Sorely missed from our TV's....

[THELEICESTERFOX]

Best tune on UK TV not longer with us

[skodas]

one of the best know tv in the uk