This original version HAS to be brought back, with the chimes or "bong"s between the headlioes. It grabs you with so much more gravitas to it than the puny synth version of nowadays. Please ITV, it IS the soundtrack of the TV news.
I always thought this piece of music was written for News at Ten, until I noticed it in the score Filipino/US horror flick "Beyond Atlantis" (1973). Similar, the theme for "Mastermind" shows up in "Psycho Puppet" (1979). Seems likely both were stock pieces that the programme makers used.
yeh it was so serious hearing this drift up from downstairs when in bed, it was like they were going to announce that global thermonuclear war was definately gonna happen any minute now.
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When you heard this, you were either up to late or you knew you had to be in bed for school next morning! It made staying up late as a child rather sinful.
So, If I'm the "one" that she herself had me pull muself, I am indeed the one I pulled out of space.
:o
And over to you, NHS...
Where's the fucking SUPERMODEL and the "doubled up" grand prize?
Down with the OTHER guy's ship?
I intend to be THIS insulting, as BJ and me are the same, but have definately miid-homicde attempts proven there is an agenda for me to fail. Even apparently at spending the day at home with a girlfriend, that posthumously needed a pimp and me a bill.
So rounding off today's top story of the 1970's, "EVERYBODY" is STILL full of chicken shit from the Coup. Join us tomorrow evening for Princess Gate. It's not for another 10 years or so, but you KNOW you've seen it already.
Urm... there were some "ownership" discrepancies with that Don guy, and some card. Trump cards, I believe they were. Back to the studio.
Thanks, didn't Colin actually call the Queen of Hearts. Right, but it was "Trumped" after Donal went insane and started murdering everyone again. That's right, and Colin, after the impossible swishes sent the ace of spades through a video camera and 10 years backwards through time and space via satellite, live, with an NSA audience yet no "Miss America". WTF?
Right, well I thought that SHE said that WAG was a basketball event where her number one TRUELY HONEST crush sank a swish and they had sex in the locker room and something in a 67 mustang with a guy named Dave? Right, back to you then as the story agian changes like a diaper.
Wait, what about Colin. Didn't he sink the two "impossible" trick shots with all net, all the time in the last 10 seconds of play?
First on the news this evening, OLD FAITHFUL. The geyser that never made it past the stump. Over to you, Althorpe..
Right, thankyou London. It's a lovely day here today...just a sec... I"m getting something here. JESUS FUCK, EVIDENCE?
Someone copy that, see if you get tip money, send it to six and see if BJ lives through the night again.
(Music fades to Bon Jovi, Thankyou for loving me). WAH MUMMY!Don't worry , WAG's assurance that "when she is ready, she will arise from the ashes like pheonix
Super Bowl III highlight film used this music, probably before ITN: "Baltimore's power, so evident on the icy turf of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, seemed to be melting away in the warm Florida sun." - the great voice of John Facenda.
When men could smoke a Park Drive without flinching, drive home safely after a night of heavy drinking, and knew how to fill out a Littlewoods pools coupon.
Just the theme music, no period headlines? I remember this theme well. The beats of the music at the end always made me think of a Tom & Jerry cartoon where a telegraph pole falls on Tom and hammers him into the ground.
@qgloscit Not to mention the voice-overs along the lines of 'We interupt this newsflash for a programme' or 'We interupt this newsflash for yet another newsflash'. Happy times indeed...
It used to make me laugh in the Seventies that the 'News At Ten' was often at 10.10, 10.15 etc if some film or football match delayed it! It should often have been called the Late News; maybe 10 minutes late, sometimes 15 minutes late...
I was also in fear of this intro!! If I heard it, through the walls, as I lay in bed, I knew it was getting late and I had to get up for school in the morning and do it all again!!
This music always used to scare the crap out of me when I was 8 closely followed by my Mum saying GO TO BED & I used to hear the outro through the floorboards.......ah the nightmares I had.
YEP! u see back then, when the news came on, u KNEW the news was on! there was something authorative in the theme tune and ident. just like jonnyE and chookter1 said, u KNEW it was time to go to bed (if u were a child). not like todays version. feels like some kinda substitute teacher compared to the 70s and 80s!
Yes, it always teached kids to go to bed before ten o'clock! Haha. I really don't like the new opening. It's almost too modern...and the melody sounds cheap.
This exact recording of the theme music was used for Benny Hill's Dec. 22, 1971 parody (which he called "NIT 'News at Ten'"). I'm sure y'all remember that one . . . the one where Hill, as "Reginald Boozenquet," was reading a news item and the film shown was of the prior story.
This original version HAS to be brought back, with the chimes or "bong"s between the headlioes. It grabs you with so much more gravitas to it than the puny synth version of nowadays. Please ITV, it IS the soundtrack of the TV news.
rjjcms1 3 days ago
@ossymos I associate it with Dad coming home from work, and being told off for staying up too late. LOL.
Writeowl 3 weeks ago
I always thought this piece of music was written for News at Ten, until I noticed it in the score Filipino/US horror flick "Beyond Atlantis" (1973). Similar, the theme for "Mastermind" shows up in "Psycho Puppet" (1979). Seems likely both were stock pieces that the programme makers used.
darkwebonline 3 weeks ago
You just get the impression that after each "bong" some kid is getting a clip round the ear !
chapleeds 2 months ago
@chapleeds LOL XD
Writeowl 3 weeks ago
i want this as my ringtone lol
TheWolfinspirit 2 months ago
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this is good, but you wanna check out: youtube.com/watch?v=qH-Za5FxqVo
DevonWalters1981 3 months ago
Sit up straight, get your hair cut, do a bit of National Service - this is the NEWS! (Copyright Bill Bailey)
kisbie 4 months ago
yeh it was so serious hearing this drift up from downstairs when in bed, it was like they were going to announce that global thermonuclear war was definately gonna happen any minute now.
peterpeterxxo 4 months ago
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AbsoluteZeroMusic 5 months ago
When you heard this, you were either up to late or you knew you had to be in bed for school next morning! It made staying up late as a child rather sinful.
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makes you feel like they're about to tell you the reigning monarch has died
Selinor578 5 months ago
makes you feel like they're about to tell you the reigning monarch has died
Selinor578 5 months ago
This is a hard core opening to a program. You Brits don't mess around with your news, do you?
dcbandnerd 7 months ago 2
As a young boy it used to scare the crap out of me
rowleyandtheboyz 9 months ago
@rowleyandtheboyz Same here!
Writeowl 3 weeks ago
roy west
2008Sameoldfitup 9 months ago
My dad used to leave for night shift just before the News at ten came on and my mum watched it. I used to find the theme quite freaky at that time.
Springamatul 11 months ago
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sunshinemags 1 year ago
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sunshinemags 1 year ago
So, If I'm the "one" that she herself had me pull muself, I am indeed the one I pulled out of space.
:o
And over to you, NHS...
Where's the fucking SUPERMODEL and the "doubled up" grand prize?
Down with the OTHER guy's ship?
I intend to be THIS insulting, as BJ and me are the same, but have definately miid-homicde attempts proven there is an agenda for me to fail. Even apparently at spending the day at home with a girlfriend, that posthumously needed a pimp and me a bill.
Run it tru BOGGIN
TheBillyJimish 1 year ago
Which WAG event horizon? I'm confused again. The fiery pheonix or the Baskbo championships befo she wo calaimed by murerin ho?
Miss America? Don has aan exclusive? Which Don now? One of them is dead.
Again, to top off tonights story, WHAT A LOAD OF FUCKING HORSEHIT from the Palace, there's your TV, there's your PAL, Ace.. a system of scan lines.
Oh, and NSA, there's you "song lyrics" as promised from real time Colin slaughter and urm, the "impossible" CSIS surveiallnace camera Card trick.
TheBillyJimish 1 year ago
So rounding off today's top story of the 1970's, "EVERYBODY" is STILL full of chicken shit from the Coup. Join us tomorrow evening for Princess Gate. It's not for another 10 years or so, but you KNOW you've seen it already.
Thankyou and goodnight.
TIM? SAM" OMFG...SAY SAMTIM!!! PLEASE!
SAY SAMTIM, MASSA!
TheBillyJimish 1 year ago
Urm... there were some "ownership" discrepancies with that Don guy, and some card. Trump cards, I believe they were. Back to the studio.
Thanks, didn't Colin actually call the Queen of Hearts. Right, but it was "Trumped" after Donal went insane and started murdering everyone again. That's right, and Colin, after the impossible swishes sent the ace of spades through a video camera and 10 years backwards through time and space via satellite, live, with an NSA audience yet no "Miss America". WTF?
TheBillyJimish 1 year ago
Back to you in London, take us though this.
Right, well I thought that SHE said that WAG was a basketball event where her number one TRUELY HONEST crush sank a swish and they had sex in the locker room and something in a 67 mustang with a guy named Dave? Right, back to you then as the story agian changes like a diaper.
Wait, what about Colin. Didn't he sink the two "impossible" trick shots with all net, all the time in the last 10 seconds of play?
Yes, he did..urm, where's "Miss America" then?
TheBillyJimish 1 year ago
First on the news this evening, OLD FAITHFUL. The geyser that never made it past the stump. Over to you, Althorpe..
Right, thankyou London. It's a lovely day here today...just a sec... I"m getting something here. JESUS FUCK, EVIDENCE?
Someone copy that, see if you get tip money, send it to six and see if BJ lives through the night again.
(Music fades to Bon Jovi, Thankyou for loving me). WAH MUMMY!Don't worry , WAG's assurance that "when she is ready, she will arise from the ashes like pheonix
TheBillyJimish 1 year ago
Super Bowl III highlight film used this music, probably before ITN: "Baltimore's power, so evident on the icy turf of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, seemed to be melting away in the warm Florida sun." - the great voice of John Facenda.
marquettefootball 1 year ago
When men could smoke a Park Drive without flinching, drive home safely after a night of heavy drinking, and knew how to fill out a Littlewoods pools coupon.
97channel 1 year ago 3
This theme was used from 1982.
nakedmambo 1 year ago
Just the theme music, no period headlines? I remember this theme well. The beats of the music at the end always made me think of a Tom & Jerry cartoon where a telegraph pole falls on Tom and hammers him into the ground.
Cool2BCeltic 1 year ago
1970's News at Ten, adults only! ......seemed like serious shit if you were young at the time.
jurrasiccoast 1 year ago 2
Scary!
shauny202 1 year ago
Love the kettle drums!
thefrecklepuny 1 year ago
Im using this for a vid im going to put on here
ch4r13 1 year ago
Scares the living crap outta me that did.... DUN DUN DUn DUNDHUN...
Help!
VainEldritch 1 year ago
@VainEldritch
Dont be daft, Sandy Gall on the other hand used to scare me shitless.
Thetellurianvortex 1 year ago
When I was growing up, if you heard this piece of music, you knew you were up late!!
pab70 1 year ago 6
this video is a good one haahah
bethanbach 1 year ago
0:10 Creepy..~~~~~
NoFaceChannel 1 year ago
If you listen to the startup today there is a extra drum beat before for bongs!
Voxac100b 1 year ago
They are still using this theme tune.
alslevie1986 1 year ago
@alslevie1986 Yeah but too freshened up!
AnthonyUK 1 year ago
I remember the backward News At Ten Tiswas spoof too!
AnthonyUK 2 years ago
This title reminds me of the 90's titles when mostly Trevor McDonald is newscaster
SI3DFilms 2 years ago
Anybody remember the "Tiswas" Spoofs
"Nosey Parkin"
"Angela Ripoff"
"Sandy Gallbladder"
"Trevor McDonut"
Fun times!
qgloscit 2 years ago 3
@qgloscit Not to mention the voice-overs along the lines of 'We interupt this newsflash for a programme' or 'We interupt this newsflash for yet another newsflash'. Happy times indeed...
0AndyC0 2 years ago
tell me the crazy names that they put the Benny Hill show.
Prolia13 2 years ago
I remember it fondly in living BLACK & WHITE in our house !! (till summer '74 when we had our colour t.v.) ; this show started in '67
kenfig 2 years ago
the sweeney has just finished and my mum and dad were watching,i was listening from bedroom lol.
uglybus7 2 years ago 2
It used to make me laugh in the Seventies that the 'News At Ten' was often at 10.10, 10.15 etc if some film or football match delayed it! It should often have been called the Late News; maybe 10 minutes late, sometimes 15 minutes late...
jdb47games 2 years ago
This theme tune was serious, authoritarian and right in that it told you
(a)the news was about to begin,
(b)kids should be in bed
and (c)it let you know in the intro that this was a damned serious news programme
Today the pisspoor reimaging and brightened up sigtune sound more like jolly Disney on acid!
AnthonyUK 2 years ago 61
So funny,
I was also in fear of this intro!! If I heard it, through the walls, as I lay in bed, I knew it was getting late and I had to get up for school in the morning and do it all again!!
hobsonjs 2 years ago 3
people used to set their clocks by those bongs assuming it was live , probably wasent though lol
morganscunt 2 years ago
This music always used to scare the crap out of me when I was 8 closely followed by my Mum saying GO TO BED & I used to hear the outro through the floorboards.......ah the nightmares I had.
kingofpunk1967 2 years ago 3
Dude, me too! Through the floorboards and everything. It's some seriously scary music ... well, that and the Yorkshire Television chevron.
vashtijoy 2 years ago
Thanks.......Man the 70's was some kinda dark age
kingofpunk1967 2 years ago 4
So true. I had the same experience. If you heard that music and you weren't in bed all hell broke loose...LOL
budapestactive 2 years ago 3
@budapestactive Yup LOL.
Writeowl 3 weeks ago
This was the best bombastic ews intro of all time. It was so dramatic it made the hairs go up on your neck!
shakercoola 2 years ago 6
HELP! I'm scared of this ;-) seriously though, this is when you knew the news was on.
LIVERNIL723 2 years ago 3
See the way the crash-zoom to the clock-face was edited?
There was an earlier version without the "still" at the end, that suffered from camera shake when the clock was in in close-up.
rambo1152 3 years ago 4
Agreed.There was something "harder" about this version, much more serious than the feeble re-imaging that you see and hear today.
jadenet05081891 3 years ago
YEP! u see back then, when the news came on, u KNEW the news was on! there was something authorative in the theme tune and ident. just like jonnyE and chookter1 said, u KNEW it was time to go to bed (if u were a child). not like todays version. feels like some kinda substitute teacher compared to the 70s and 80s!
creeball 3 years ago 5
Ellie Crisell and the 90 second update - say it all really nowadays - how annoying is she!!
LIVERNIL723 2 years ago
jeezus, bwonngg.
that it?no news
breid1981 3 years ago
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The theme tune to News at Ten had lyrics... they went:
"I.... love you so... Oh please dont let me go, I love you so, oh please dont tell me no. BECAUSE! YOU'RE! SO! SEXY!
BONG - I'm just a giglo, girl
BONG - youre such a special lady
BONG - papa's got a brand new bag... Sandy?
[from the Mary Whitehouse Experiment]
shakeyphil 3 years ago
You just put a disturbing song into my mind...
OTownNews 2 years ago
I don't know why this was down voted - it is a only quote from a BBC TV comedy show.
shakeyphil 2 years ago
Tell that to those N@T purists!
OTownNews 2 years ago
Anybody got the Benny Hill parody one?
donjabroni 3 years ago
I do . . . on DVD, from A&E Video. And that's where you can get it.
wmbrown6 3 years ago
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JohnnieWright3 3 years ago
Very rare to get a clean version as this...excellent!!
billboy 3 years ago
Ask not for whom the bell tolls...
imperative1 4 years ago
Im still disturbed by this. It made staying up beyond ten seem like a sinful thing! lol
chookter1 4 years ago 31
@chookter1 That's so funny but SO TRUE! Anyone not British or who grew up in the 1970s/80s probably wouldn't understand!
RoadCone411 1 year ago
@chookter1 Too right it did! LOL. I was four when I used to hear that. It was like the chimes of doom! LOL.
Writeowl 3 weeks ago
OMG Bill Bailey was right!!!
TotallyBursar 4 years ago
Why? What did he say?
Phrenny 4 years ago
Okay, not only did News at Ten boast the scariest news opening (not a word of a lie), but it's even scarier without the voiceover.
And they want to bring it back!
vashtijoy 4 years ago 3
Glad they have done; it's great.
DavidTL 4 years ago 5
Yes, it always teached kids to go to bed before ten o'clock! Haha. I really don't like the new opening. It's almost too modern...and the melody sounds cheap.
JonnyE 4 years ago 4
@vashtijoy OOOO, that's gonna warp a whole new generation of kids! LOL.
Writeowl 3 weeks ago
This exact recording of the theme music was used for Benny Hill's Dec. 22, 1971 parody (which he called "NIT 'News at Ten'"). I'm sure y'all remember that one . . . the one where Hill, as "Reginald Boozenquet," was reading a news item and the film shown was of the prior story.
wmbrown6 4 years ago 2
The news at ten is the same title used on KTLA in the LA area during the Hal Fishman years
sky1beam 4 years ago
Also used on and off over the years by WPIX-11 in New York . . . first in the late 1960's/early '70's, then from the early 1990's to the present day.
wmbrown6 4 years ago
@wmbrown6 Now the News at ten title is used on KTLA again since Micah Olman was taken out of KABC to do the KTLA News at 10
dinfg6 1 year ago
Greatest news theme for tv newscast in my opinion!!!!
luttecatch88k 4 years ago 7
cant wait fot it on blu ray. any 1 got the french version ?? news at dis???
ghettofunk71 4 years ago
who recorded all of this and kept it???!!!
LeamingtonSteve 4 years ago