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  • It is a gorgeous theme tune. Absolutely lovely.

  • Don,t get me wrong but black beauty sounds like a good title for a porn mag

  • @paul4608 Of course, Perhaps you were pretty wrecked when you wrote your comment. Of course, Black Beauty would be a good title for a porn film. Spongebob Squarepants could also be a good ttile for a skinny flick, too.

  • @pix046 Oh, no nothing of mine was wrecked its just sometimes you,ve got to wounder if some one wasn,t trying to sell porn litrature on the side it was illegal back then. the title is a bit racist as well blue peter was a bit that way as well they where all at it.

  • Airwolf nananana airwolf

  • Always loved this programme because i adored horses, sadly my mum died when I was thirteen; I think this series was out in 1971 around the same time. Let me know if I am wrong. But even now at age 53 this tune makes me want to cry.................Its a haunting tune for me but still beautiful in so many ways times of innocence and wondering. Kids dont know the meaning of that now sadly.

    Thanks for putting this video on.

    Its scary realising that Stacy Dorning is around my age now!! (

  • BRILLIANT!!!! Stacey Dorning...HUBBA HUBBA...!!!!!

  • a horse is majestic... a car is a machine.

  • I knew there was a reason I preferred horses to cars. At the price petrols going it wont be long before we're all using them again X)

  • gawd the minute you hear that dun dun at the start.

  • those were the the days,were it was safe for us kids to play out all day and just nip home for a quick bite to eat,no bills and no worries!!now its all bills to pay and big worries :O(

  • @musicmanoo en alles wordt maar duurder het ziekenfonds echt elk jaar hoe moet het nu als het ooit niet meer kunnen betalen ja dat was een zorgen loze tijd he

  • @sehsilver me english,me not understand??????????????

  • @sehsilver mejor en los viejos tiempos! Supongo que

  • @musicmanoo herbert the pervert waits in the bushes now

  • The original War Horse ;D

  • 1970s England...the place to be for sure!!!!!!

  • Saxonwench1: That is such a driving theme song is appropriate for me as I sit here looking at this galloping horsie through the pasture...yes, it is uplifting darling and timely, especially this evening...thank you my Saxonwench1 !!!!

  • Great English series from the 1970s, beautiful tune for my darling Apache in Arizona!

  • @Felfy39 England's not an island!! Fuck, you're from this country, how don't you even know that? Did Wales and Scotland suddenly vanish into thin air? Im sure you'd like that too! And fyi, the English aren't the original inhabitants either - you only go back to the 5th century!

  • CAN YOU PLEEEEEEEASE GIVE ME THE MP3 LINK FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

  • omg i loved this show so much

  • No, me too. Brings back memories. I always shed a tear at this.

  • does any1 get emotional when this comes on or is it just me?

  • The most beautiful theme ever! Thanks for posting :o)

  • Have just added a couple of series of this to my rental list - can't wait to see it again!

  • there still isn't a better theme tune than this one

  • This music is by Lionel Bart, who also composed the music for the musical "Oliver!", as well as "Living Doll" sung by Cliff Richard and the theme to "From Russia With Love"., amongst many others.

  • if you're all wondering why the hell they're all saying "alan partridge", search "Alan Partridge 2.6.6 Goodbye Staff" in youtube lmao

  • please bring programs like this back and get rid of some of the tripe we have on the box now.

  • Thanks very much for sharing this classic theme - brings back nostalgic childhood memories - and I completely agree with tudgefunnel's comment!

  • Just found the complete series on Amazon, 24.99 had to be done.

  • now it's time for lister breaking news as used by Chris Evans breakfast show.

  • @truckerboy93 I KNEW I knew it from somewhere! Thanks! I was watching I'm Alan Partridge yesterday and it was on that but I recognised it from somewhere else that wasn't that and wasn't Black Beauty.

  • At 44 years of age this theme tune still melts my heart, it's absolutely brilliant as was the programme all those years ago !

  • Brings flooding back memories of a girlfriend I let go, somehow. She gave me so many signals but I just didn't see them This was, is I guess, her favourite tune. Can't live in the past but a visit is ok.

  • Verdammt!!!Meine Kindheit!!!Nur durch nen Blöden Gedanken drauf gekommen.Alter Lombardi!!!

    

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  • @GOKAN68;me to;everytime ;Black Beauty;The littlest Hobo and Mysterious cities of gold are the ones that always get me ;those were the days!!!

  • I'm forty now and consider myself a man but by god this music brings tears to my eyes,very beautiful.great memories of this as a kid.

  • I'm sure that we'd all like to be young again, but if we're stuck with the age we are, then I'm so glad that I was a youngster in the 70's. Marc Bolan, Kung Fu, On The Buses, and Black Beauty! Happy days!!!!

  • I'm just 14 but i have the Black beauty movie (: it sure dose bring back memories when i used to sit there and watch it and every time i watched it i would cry over the sad parts :( i still do cry ! this movie made me want a horse for such along time and my dream came true :) i now have a beautiful horse named Storm-Lee <3

  • My favourite theme tune of all time. Watching that beautiful horse running wild and free still gives me goose pimples xxx

  • im only 12 and when i was little my mum used to show me all these and i love it so much x

  • @strathearn100 Im only 51 and love this, Your Mum did well, enjoy.

  • Alan Partridge running across the field to this song, classic!!!!

  • looked this up for one reason..... It's a classic !......at nearly 35, this fills me with complete nostalgia, great times,  this and huckleberry finn.....and worzel gummidge..that was it didn't need any other programmes, didnt need 999 channels of SKY !!.... back then! ha ha..

  • A reminder of carefree, more innocent times, love it

  • "What's this Lynne?"

    "It's the theme tune to Black Beauty"

    "It's brilliant!"

    Indeed Alan.

  • I'm withGOKAN68 the 43 year old blubber- makes me grin and go teary and at 40 I am still waiting for my black horse

  • What you hear is not what was featured in the TV series. There was different music which played over the snippets of an episode, a sort of "coming up" sequence. The theme tune kicked in when you see the titles, but it a different recording to the one you hear, which is the version released as a single, I imagine.

  • Winter Sundays in the 1970s: The Big Match, Kung Fu, and Black Beauty with the yummy Judy Bowker and the yummier Stacy Dorning (I was 15 so having the hots for 14 year old Stacy was OK).

  • IF your all emigrating....can me and my daughter come too?

  • like if Alan Partridge brought you here

  • @springheeledtito IT'S BRILLIANT!

  • Why does YOUTUBE have to stop the play every 10 seconds? It's really pissing me off!

  • I AM DAVE! YOGNAUGHT AND I HAVE THE BALLS!

  • this music still brings a lump in my throat and a tear to my eye i wanted a horse like beauty for ever and now i can say i have one his name is Mr.Darcy and i love him so much :D

  • Stirring soundtrack!

  • I AM DAVE! YOGNAUGHT AND I HAVE THE BALLS

  • Alan Partridge!!

    

  • crying what memories and music love that horse

  • airwolf na na na na na na na airwolf... thumbs up if you're a yognaught and understand

  • @puffcock Airwolf gave me ADHD !!

  • I' 13, but I also have great memories. Where's the time I was playing I running in the streets, pretending I had a horse like her.

  • I used to watch. But only because I had a huge crush on Stacy Dorning.

  • I always assumed that Black Beauty was a female then when I read the books I realised it was male.

  • Did you see the way the girl was bouncing on the horse at the start of the clip? Cawwwwwww

  • I was only a little boy back then but boy did I hate and despise this series and will do so for all eternity.

    Mind you, I later read a comic-book version of the original story and that wasn't half as bad. But then that was dramatic while the tv-series was reset to zero again every week. No dramatic development and just pandering to the braindead horse adoration of most girls.

  • Horses - stay in your fields and stop shitting on my road.

    Stop giving me your little waves as I pass

    Stay in your fields

    Or I will drive

    In your fields

  • Ahh this really took me back I felt like an 8 year again and like GOKAN68 it brought tears to my eyes :) wonderful

  • I remember this well from childhood. Childrens TV drama in the 70's was 1000 times better than the crap we get nowadays. Kids these days really don't know what they missed out on. Thanks for the nostalgia.

  • Oh do bring back my childhood once more

  • It would be funny if the horse ran into the cameraman!

  • You can tell this was from a generation ago. If it were on television today the closing credits would be squeezed to one side and a patroniser (sorry - T.V. announcer) would not allow you to hear this classic music by waffling over it stating the blooming obvious about what is coming up next.

    T.V. producers today are hiring second rate composers because their output won't be heard anyway. Maybe that's why most of todays themes are not as memorable. That's my middle-aged waffle over.

  • @tudgefunnel Well said. Even the sports programmes had great themes back then. I'd be hard pushed to think of many modern themes I'd rate.

  • @jafeica Here! Here!

  • @tudgefunnel Sentimental five-part adaptation of Anna Sewell's novel, set in 19th-century England. Buoyed by a cast of TV and film veterans, the lavish miniseries tracks the noble steed's adventures over a 13-year period, beginning with a separation from loving owners Luke Gray and Joe Green.

  • @tudgefunnel you sir/madam are right.

  • i bet lloyds bank wishede they had owned this footage

  • It's a little known fact that when you film a horse it doesn't come out on film looking like a horse. This opening sequence is actually Nerys Hughes naked sellotaped to a sheepdog. It's true!

  • @kaferere Very good - a little over these punters' heads, but nevertheless tres drool.

  • I loved that series!:) and of course the book!!!

  • this tune makes me wet

  • Flipper, The Littlest Hobo, Black Beauty, Gentle Ben, Lassie.... were there any other incredibly clever animals in the 80s I forgot about?

  • @rapideyeproductions are you kidding me?? what about Skippy the bush Kangaroo! how can you have forgotten him, as far as kangaroo's go he was well clued up!

  • LIVE AND LET LIVE DIE AND LET DIE

  • lol @ YesterdaysNewspaper

  • Crackin' horse!

  • @Imperator1300 my lovley horse

  • Now that's what you call a real tv series opener ! Loved it then love it now ! bring back the Beauty !

  • I honest-to-god modded left 4 dead 2 so that this is the tank music

  • I love the music

  • LOOK AT THAT MAJESTIC CUNT RUN

  • Great theme music and Yes, it does bring back happy memories of a young

    childhood, and am now 50. By the way the black horse was used in that great bank

    advent all those years ago. Of course those older enough to remember it.

    Thank You for posting it

  • Oh, wow! I am in my late 40's and this theme track to the ‘Black Beauty’ episodes is embedded into my childhood psyche.

    I always loved this piece of music as a kid, and I also loved the theme song, (Called 'The Lightning Tree') - I think, to a similar drama around the same time, which was called, 'Follyfoot'.

    Anyone remember 'Follyfoot'?

    Anyway, thanks for the upload :>)

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  • On school hoildays (70s) use to get up early

    watch Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers,Flashing blade,a Harold Lloyd clip.warner cartoons,Lone Ranger or Champion the wonder horse,Laural and Hardy and it all started with the Banana Splits.

    Then off out to play....

    but if it was poor weather I'd stay in and thats when the girls programmes stared,Black Beauty,White Horses,Little horse and The Monkeys.

    In the afternoon a Charlie chan movie and cliff or elis movie for the girls.

    Great times

  • Seems like, as it stands, 7 people need to get a soul ;0)

  • In off the Red!

  • Back of the Net!

  • i love black beauty. as a child me an my brother an sister used to sit down an watch this ever week side by side on the floor .

    must of been one of my best memorys as a child because my first ever tattoo

    was of black beauty

  • Brilliant presentation. I live in Watford now and noticed that this was filmed in Rickmansworth at Stockers farm. Is the place still the same? The music and memories of the '72 series will live long. Great stuff.

  • what a beautiful creature

  • You know, I was 8 when this was made in 1972 and even at that age I knew this was special. I was never a great fan of the programme, but I used to watch it just for these magical titles. The music, and that horse galloping through the water, used to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Absolutely wonderful. If the 60s were the golden age of music, then the 70s were the golden age of kids tv.

  • what's this lynn?

  • @purvesss peephole pringle...

  • My little pony ... I love my little pony ...

  • great !!!

  • Wow. Trying to listen and watch that through tears is not easy!

  • Crying now. That is all.

  • lynn whats that song? its brilliant!

  • I loved Black Beauty. When I got 21 I FINALLY saw my dream come true and bought my first horse. I remember the first time I dare to go faster. The theme of BB went through my head. Black Beauty is gone and sadly so is my first horse. But this music always reminds of her. I had several other horses after her, but never one as friendly and loyal as she was.

  • I think of Alan Partridge when I hear this.

  • The best tv theme music by far.

  • ah memories bliss

  • I am shaking my head when reminding me as a 6yo boy watching my holy Knight Rider and got pissed when my 2 years younger sister came switching channel to Black Beauty Series.... xD

  • @GOKAN68....100 PER CENT AGREE WITH YOU...I JUST DIDNT WANT TO ADMIT IT BEFORE...LOL

  • @TheTaz1999 Yeah, me too.

  • Call me what you like i am 43 now and this song always did and always will bring a big lump to my throat and wonderful memorys. And i'm a bloke

  • @GOKAN68 I'm exactly the same. See when Beauty is cantering through the river.....My heart soars. When I had my first pony (who was black too!) I would be singing the theme tune as we cantered up the side of the field. She's gone now and this happened about 28 years ago. I'm 40!

  • @GOKAN68 Same here, 35 and a bloke - happy memories !!

  • @GOKAN68 i agree some old tv show themes bring some good old memories.

  • @GOKAN68 44 and feel the same way when England was England and not the multicultural shit hole it is now

  • @fastfire97 Cannot agree more All the English Populace that possess Money/Brains/Intelligence/Infl­uence have migrated to Australia/New Zealand There is no 'England' anymore It's just an island full of repressed minorities Yes, that includes me; the original English-Speaking born & bred minority The Human-Rights legislation does not apply to me because I'm 1 - Honest 2 -Law Abiding 3 - A Full Tax-Payer 4 - English 5 - Over-Worked and under-paid 6 - White! (In England, that's a Joke)!!
  • @Felfy39 Bitter....

  • @Felfy39

    It is tossers like you that make this island uninhabitable. Barely competent terminal whingers whose grotesquely inflated sense of self-entitlement gave us everything from Thatcher to the Complaints Culture. You have not one thought or opinion that doesn't come from a Daily Mail headline or BNP leaflet. Australia has an enormous outback for you to play the Great White Man in. You may see some blacks but don't worry, they won't see you. You pathetic little bigoted fuckwit.

  • @fastfire97 Am 40 and couldn't agree more, much of what had been broadcast during that era was very British indeed, and based on many famous British authors for our indigenous population. The UK as a country is finished and is a bland, characterless, shit and hell hole and if i win the lottery i will most definitely emigrate

  • @GOKAN68 ya big girl .;)

  • @GOKAN68

    I feel the same and am not ashamed at all, but I would like to find the CD with the music...;:)

  • belkis

    sorry, I said I feel the same, would like to have this music on a CD, to listen to it in my car ....

    it is our childhood :)

  • @GOKAN68 I'm 33 and it does the same to me. Happier simpler times of when my parents were alive and well, Dad worked, Mum the housewife, Primary School, surprise toys, great home cooking, no worries, no cares, no bills to concern myself with, happy, warm and safe. Oh how I wish I could be 4 again...

  • @GOKAN68 Just turned 39 and it does the same to me!

  • @GOKAN68

    I am 40 and i have the same. Those were the days....

  • Call me what you like i am 43 now and this song always did and always will bring a big lump to my throat and wonderful memorys.

  • im here cuz i heard it on that alan partrige show, vote up if you did too?

  • i have the whole collection :D

  • Always loved this music, and can remember the series from when I was very small. It was a huge disappointment when I tried to read the REAL book by Anna Sewell a few years later, and found it was nothing like the series. :(

  • Bij het filmpje: Bolero Mooie Buitenrit heb ik de muziek van Black Beauty gebruikt, dit stukje muziek komt aan het einde van het filmpje. :D

  • @XxXTessaXx It is Dutch

  • I get goosebumps when i hear this, wonder if the kids of today will have the same memories as we do

  • There used to be a little bit on the end of the end credits sometimes where the music would finish and you would hear a whinny and a sort of a horn reprise with a clip of Beauty nodding his head.

    Anyone remember that or is it just me#?

  • @matelot95 I certainly do remember that little bit at the end. I think it was only used for a short while during a particular season of adventures.It ran for two seasons with about 52 episodes.

  • Have just shown this clip to our daughter as she is reading the book Takes me back to the 70s !

  • Yer too right. I loved this tune and always watched Black Beauty. Im 44 now but we danced to van der valk in first school PE. We used to get asked which tune she would play on piano and it was always same answer lol

  • how anyone can actively 'dislke' something so beautiful is beyond me.

  • 6 people were born too late...

  • Brings tears to my eyes again after all these years

  • Copy and paste if Simon, Lewis and Hannah brought you here.

  • "What's this Lynn?"

    "It's the theme from Black Beauty"

    "It's BRILLIANT!"

  • @willscomix It flushed on the first yank!

  • @willscomix ah haaaaa

  • a show based around a horse.. wow they dont make em like they used to! :)

  • this brings back happy memories as a child on a sunday night cheers to chris evans who has it on r2 in a feature gooose bumps every time, bring back proper telly

  • Wonderful i was in love with that horse! Other tunes that take me back are White Horses, Robinson Crusoe, Secret Garden and Picturebox.......great days!

  • the good old days,when you used play out all day and then nip home for a bite to eat and then go back out,no bills to pay and no worries,now its all bills and lots of worries :O( GIVE ME MY CHILDHOOD BACK PLEASE!!!

  • @musicmanoo I understand what you mean for sure, but an adult is only a child who earns money. Maybe that's why we are here. :)

  • @animatetime I think you're right in the context of compassion. As adults we should never lose that.

  • @musicmanoo Oh how i agree with that comment so much.

  • A GREAT SHOW THAT I LOVED WHEN I WAS A BOY ,WHAT A SOUNDTRACK ,A TRULY GREAT SHOW,SHOULD BE RE RUN NOW .

  • A GREA SHOW THAT I LOVED WHEN I WAS A BOY ,WHAT A SOUNDTRACK ,A TRULY GREAT SHOW,SHOULD BE RE RUN NOW .

  • why does this tune always bring tears to my eyes

    but it is tears of joy though but sadness i suppose that this show is no longer on, don't know if it is available though

  • @MYBIGKINDHEART Me too, I remember watching this in the 70's with my late sister. I still get choked when I see that beautiful creature run across that field.

  • @MYBIGKINDHEART I think it's also tears of sadness for days long past - innocence, happy memories etc, never to be recaptured.

  • Wonderful memories of this lovely tune. :)

  • fantastic sound but fury is my coolest horse

  • I actually met one of the horses they used, she was a mare and the marking on the face was real.

  • its so a long time ago, but i still get goosebumps by this Soundtrack

  • love this i am right back to my childhood i was obsessed with black beauty it was escapism for me!

  • I love this so much! Black Beauty is brilliant!