John Craven's Newsround - The full length music

[monokromatique]

Hmm, could be the Alan Tew Orchestra or Sounds Orchestral. Definitely some mid-sixties loungecore there. Groovelicious.

[StoneageDinosaurs]

John Baker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop wrote the music.

[RERBO76]

Sounds like an arrangement from the great Ted Heath band!

[nickpackham]

@RERBO76 It is Ted Heath - It's his arrangement of Johnny One Note :)

[Kriss364]

Think the theme tune was written by Mr John Baker at the BBC Radiophonics Workshop. and they just used a bit of it on John Craven's newsround.

[mrspivvy]

where the hell did that middle 8 come from???

[stashcode]

fucking awesome.

[Cheeseford]

It's Johnny One-Note by Rodgers & Hart from the 1937 musical Babes in Arms. The version used here was recorded by Ted Heath & his Music for a BBC broadcast in 1967 and released on a Decca LP that year - '21st Anniversary Album'. It's on CD now on the Vocalion label.

[sussexmews]

The beginning bit before the bongos was played by myself using 2 Felt tip pens with lids on on by Brothers teeth

[fatpizzaman]

Does anyone have the credits to the original Newsround Extra from the mid-70's? I remember it had a great rocking guitar and brass piece as the credits with a green 'N' spinning around on a white background.

[DjaiSkjellerup]

It wasn't The Krankies either. Neither of 'em

[GrandDizzy]

What was the name of the guy who used to present John Craven's Newstound again?

I forgot.

[RebelVoDKa]

Roger Finn.

[GrandDizzy]

Hmm. I feel you have missed the humour in my comment.

[RebelVoDKa]

No, I didn't.

[mrspivvy]

@GrandDizzy Paul Macdowell

[hombrerelents]

Check out those fuckin' bongos motherfuckeeeeeeersssss!

[GrandDizzy]

Wasn't that John Craven's original catchphrase, but then they had to change it due to complaints from parents?

[hombrerelents]

Yeah, Mary Whitehouse calmed down after it was changed to 'suck on my djembe drums bitches!'.

[kodkodkod]

nice one mate, like it alot, had a right chuckle at that comment!!!

[JFredUK]

@hombrerelents Isn't that what John Craven used to say about Lucy Mathen? (0;}

[etlcstn]

Did you know that Newsround was a new broadcast for Children on the BBC and has been running for over 30 years and is still going strong today and in it's original title of "John Craven's Newsround" was the only news broadcast news in the world to have been named after its presenter.

[malismad]

Aye you're fuckin' class.

[etlcstn]

Theirs no need to be rude is their

[mack89464]

Is their what?

[StevieVenus]

Just to clear up any confusion: This was the opening theme to John Craven's Newsround, and as drudegsy said, it's called "Johnny One Note", performed by the Ted Heath Orchestra. I don't know who composed it but don't think it was John Baker. The closing theme during the same period was "New Worlds", composed and recorded by John Baker at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

[Perranporth]

Brilliant - it sounds so exotically 60s!

[DANWOODHOUSE1]

has it got a proper name?

[ghaladgwaith]

New Worlds by John Baker. It's sampled on Spare Parts Express, a track by Orbital.

[IIIIIlIIIIIlIIIIlIlI]

When i played this video my dog started going mental chasing it's tail when it heard the bit at 0:22

[AnthonyUK]

The complete electronic score leading up to the familiar ending is called New Worlds composed by John Baker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and was issued on the (defunct) BBC Records' BBC Radiophonic Music album.

[74HC138]

Also it's played almost every week as the intro tune to the 7:30pm news bulletin on Sundays on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC Six Music. (The entire tune, not just the final 2 seconds as played on Newsround).

[fatpizzaman]

I remember this tune when I was a kid - John Craven was the only newsreader on British TV that I had any time to listen to. BTW, does anyone have the Newsround Extra theme music from the 70's which I remember was quite a hard rocking tune with some neat guitar riffs and a good pounding bass and drumbeat?

[drudegsy]

Johnny One Note performed by Ted Heath and his orchestra.

A right royal classic

[johnmartin1097]

Sorry drofmats1969, I couldn't tell you who wrote the tune. I know it wasn't Ronnie Hazlehurst though.

[tinaturntable]

Jon Baker, I he composed this.

[tinaturntable]

I mean I think he composed this. I can't type!

[robinoi]

no you can't

if you came to our office with those typing skills you'd be nailed to the wall and typed to death

[drofmats1969]

Outstanding. Who composed this? Ronnie Hazelehurst by any chance? The outro is similar to Blankety Blank's, which he composed.

[tinaturntable]

I think it's jon Baker. Check out the bbc4 doc called The Alchemists of Sound.