Cool Hand Luke 'Tar Sequence' / News Theme

[RubicantX]

Almost every news station used this at one time...I think parts of Australia, Samoa and Guam still do....badass!

[zoebryce1]

Theme from NewsWatch of RPN

[Cleftonefan]

I believe I saw Cool Hand Luke on WABC-TV on the Sunday Afternoon movie and it led into the news.

[micmac99]

An earlier comment noted that WABC, the original user of this music for their local news, never broadcast the ''Cool Hand Luke'' film. I thought that at one time in the 1970s, KGO (the ABC-owned sister station to WABC) in San Francisco DID show "Cool Hand Luke" on the 3:30 Movie, but I could be mistaken. Also, did ABC ever broadcast "Cool Hand Luke" nationally on the Sunday Night Movie?

[cwf1701]

This is Channel 7 Action News with Bill Bonds, John Kelly, Marilyn Turner, and Al Ackerman.

[newscaster13]

Opening spiel with Symphonic Sketches (watch?v=5dAKAnJYZx0) and the voice-over from Don LaFontaine.

We Report, You Decide - FOX News Channel - A Unit of FOX Television.

Now, Shepard Smith; chief corresponent Johnathan Hunt; and Trace Gallagher in Los Angeles.

Whenever news breaks, whatever it takes, you're the first to know on THE FOX REPORT with Shepard Smith.

[darrylhaynes]

this was eyewitness news..7...in LOS ANGELES....back in the 80s....ANN MARTIN....JERRY DUMPHRY....

[kiltsonfire164]

This is National Nine News with Brian Henderson.

[lianlaspinas]

This is NewsWatch 9 at 7 with Harry Gasser and Loren Legarda.

[micmac99]

Channel Seven. KGO-TV, San Francisco.

Now, Channel Seven NewsScene. With Van Amburg. Jerry Jensen. Pete Giddings with weather, and Don Sanchez with sports. Now for NewsScene, here's Van Amburg.

[torath69]

@micmac99 I loved Channel 7 NewsScene.

[Aeolis7]

@micmac99 That's the team I grew up watching!

[tvtimetravel]

@micmac99 That's where I first heard it from!

[DanZero77]

Good evening I'm Roger Grimsby HERE NOW THE NEWS

[Callsy92]

This is Nine News with Peter Overton (Sydney); This is Nine News with Peter Hitchener (Melbourne); This is Nine News with Andrew Lofthouse and Melissa Downes (Brisbane); This is Adelaide's Nine News with Michael Smyth and Kate Collins; This is Nine News with Jonathon Uptin (Darwin)

[eastest566]

"Number 1 in Southern California, Channel 7 KABC-TV Los Angeles now Harold Greene, Christine Lund, Dallas Raines Weather, and Todd Donoho Sports, When news happens you'll see it happen on Eyewitness News at 4."

- KABC late 80's-early 90's

[triggerfivestar]

Ahhhh, the comradery of working men... To be young, hot, and at work in the sun is a pleasure.. To see and feel accomplishment with the guys is the icing on the cake..

[jackthehatuk]

There aren't many pies from that era that didn't have one of Lalos fingers in it.

[recto89]

@tvnutboy Caltrans needs Paul Newman to fix the 880 Freeway in Oakland Tonight on Channel 7 news at 11:00pm

[FeiBenZhu]

I watched this for the first time tonight. This and the "What we have here is a failure to communicate..." made me lol inside ;)

[lianlaspinas]

And used the theme music of TV Patrol, The World Tonight and ABS-CBN News Advisory (1987-1993)

[tfosgard]

This is Channel 7 Action News with Bill Bonds, Diana Lewis and Detroit's best news team!

[Baldenlong77]

I'm ten years old again hearing this right after the random James Bond movie they show every six weeks on the ABC Sunday Night Movie before going to bed!

[Godzilla1985]

KTLA theme back in the 1980s

[recto89]

@Godzilla1985 WHat Did you mean KABC in LA

[streetcarjay]

From Montreal, this is Pulse news. For (today's date).

[rileykernaghan]

It always amazes me how they made a news theme out of a few seconds of music from a movie

[SonofthePhantom]

This is Perth's National Nine News

[jmramos0109]

"From Channel Nine Studios in Sydney, This is Nine News with Peter Overton......"

[StukInBuf]

WKBW(also Channel 7, once an ABC O&O) didn't use it here in Buffalo and Western NY, but I'll give it a crack...

(CHL Tar Sequence theme begins)

"This is Channel 7 Eyewitness News, Western New York's #1 TV newscast... with Irv Weinstein, Don Postles, Rick Azar's Sports, Tom Jolls' Accu-Weather, and the Eyewitness News team. Now, for Eyewiness News, Irv Weinstein..."

[dinfg6]

Yes California's Freeways are being repaired by Paul Newman.

[irish89055]

great movie... guess the actors were glad to be slingin sand and not the gravel they really would use...

[dinfg6]

"This Is Channel 7 News scene with Jerry Jensen and VanAmburg"

[ChristianKidsShowFan]

"This is Eyewitness News with Roger Grimsby, Bill Beutel, plus Spencer Christian, Storm Field and the Eyewitness News team."

[dinfg6]

"This Is Channel 7 News with Pete Wilson, Anna Chavez, Pete Giddings, Martin Wyatt and Dr Dean Edell." I wonder what would happen if Van Amburg and Roger Grimsby anchored the KGO news together?

[recto89]

"This is ABC7 News With Dan Ashley, Carolyn Johnson, Spencer Christian with weather, and Larry Beil anwith Sports now ABC7 News at 6pm."

[lianlaspinas]

@recto89 (CHL Tar Sequence theme begins)

Voiced by Peter Musngi: This TV Patrol with Noli de Castro, Mel Tiangco, Frankie Evangelista and Angelique Lazo.

[lianlaspinas]

@ChristianKidsShowFan (CHL Tar Sequence theme begins)

This TV Patrol with Noli de Castro, Mel Tiangco, Frankie Evangelista and Angelique Lazo

[recto89]

It would be Funny if this video is resynched with Ernie Anderson Yelling "This Is Channel 7 News with Pete Wilson and Anna Chavez!" "now Channel 7 news at 6:00"

[cadoorsol]

Lalo Schifrin's guitar solo composition et al to Cool Hand Luke is some of the most beautiful sounds i've ever heard. And i've heard some sounds coming from jungle earth.

[wmbrown6]

The funny thing is that in New York, while this music was used by WABC as the theme for "Eyewitness News," that station never played this film at all - WNBC, in the latter half of the 1970's (after the demise of "Movie 4"), did. Doubtless WNBC viewers were wondering what the "EWN" theme was doing on a competing station . . . ;) (However, in Detroit, WXYZ had this film when owned by ABC.)

[moonshinerman]

I think eyewitness news used it after this movie?

[wmbrown6]

WABC was the first to adopt this music, only one year after "CHL's" release. The edit WABC fashioned was also used by WLS, WXYZ (under the "Action News" banner) and KGO (which called their 'casts "News Scene"); KABC used their own edit.

Oh yes, and "National Nine News" used the WABC edit of this music.

[vc210790]

el tema musical, del que se escucha, se utilizó en el cierre del Noticiero Tele13 entre 1970 y 1972.

[2005dave]

It was first used as a news theme in the late 1960's in the United States, for "Eyewitness News" on ABC-owned stations.

[vedantam2]

Everybody is smiling in the clip and a smile costs nothing.