'Crossroads' TV Theme - TONY HATCH ORCHESTRA - 1965 45rpm

[RichXbox360]

I can play this on keyboard!

[0FindGlory]

I read that Tony Hatch prefers this one to the proper tv version! not me. Go to the classic version by following the peach colour!

[smhorse]

Cleverly spoofed by Victoria Wood's "Acorn Antiques" sketches.

[TheMasterNo6]

They should relaunch it but make it as ridiculous as the original. AND keep the original theme....What say you lot?

[nickelback1955]

Great stuff !

[djclapham1]

Crossroads theme EM C G D EM C D EM C D G EM C G D FROM Daniel Clapham

[pinnell40]

this tune never ages you know where and whome it belongs

[shepshop]

Man this takes me back to happy times..we all sat with our dinners on our laps and was just ingrossed by this show...shhh happy days....

[DCSIGNR]

Great guitar sound - really earthy. Someone ought to recommend it to Nick Cave.

[leach1527]

... it's the 1960s all over again.. I'm just home from school, my mum's making the tea and on comes Crossroads. Meg, Sandy, Carlos the Chef, the old girl in the village shop (Miss Tatum??), Marilyn et al. Even in those days me and my mates watched it "ironically" laughing at wobbly scenery and Amy Turtle grappling, invariably unsuccessfully, with her lines.

[OrodesIII]

@leach1527

Same here. Reminds me of tea and buttered Marietta biscuits.

[prettyyounggirl1918]

Back in the 80s this music aLWAYS MENT you had to get off your backside to swithch it over to one of the other 3 channels.

[shuhelali]

@prettyyounggirl1918

hahaha, so true !

[samscram1]

Ringtone!

[AUCHINSTARRY]

Brilliant I love to hear vinyl loved the shot of the Sony record deck superb Vinyl shall return to eradicate the mp3 one day.

[MikeyManchester]

actually Vinyl is on its revival its CD's which are disappearing these days

[AUCHINSTARRY]

Totally agree I bought a sealed copy of McCartney first edition from America 10 hours ago for my collextion.

[telkeato]

Tony Hatch Orchestra with a big helping hand from one of the top British guitarists of the sixties, VIC FLICK. Vic was leader of the John Barry Seven (remember the Juke Box Jury theme?), and is famous for playing the James Bond Theme.

[stumpysteven73]

Excellent!

Thanks for uploading this theme tune.

Remembering watching this in the 80's

[duxberry1958]

paul henry

[marketgarden30]

Benny went to get a spanner and failed to come back for 6 months now thats a soap opera story

[themightyrara]

I can't remember any of the cast accept for Benny and the fact that this was always on TV

[harry1552]

miss diane?

[anorak64]

There were at least two different versions of the 1960sCrossroads theme, the original TV version did not have much strings as this one, nor did it step up a semitone (from A Major to B-flat) as this one does. At that time they probably could not release the original as a single for copyright or some other reason, any thoughts?

[ATVNETWORKLIMITED]

@anorak64 Tony Hatch didn't want to release the TV Version as it was recorded in a TV studio at Elstree and didn't "meet" the requirements of a record release, it also - the TV version - falls short of timing, its only 1min 20 seconds. The 1965 Pye record has the filler tune in the middle added to make it 2 mins.

[anorak64]

@ATVNETWORKLIMITED

Thanks for the update, the TV original can in fact be found on the B-side of 'Goodbye' by Shona Lindsay - the vocal theme from Crossroads and released as a single in1988 by BMG/Ariola, when Crossroads finished on ITV. The B side also has the 'Kings Oak Crossroads Theme' by Max Early and Raf Ravenscroft as well as the Tony Hatch version - the latter lengthened by copying, cutting and pasting (if transfer done digitally) or by copying and splicing of 1/4" tape (?).

[turquoisetandemcycle]

@anorak64 The version you mean is by the graham walker sound or something like that,i have it on a cd called swiging london.Its got no strings on just a groovy hammond organ and guitars and drums.Its better than this.

[pierre532008]

im at a crossroads maybe mad dog could help after all he knows everything sandy is sick of being pushed around i so look forward to greece being with mad dog all day

[dramaticguy]

A real iconic theme.love it.Loved the orginal Crossroads.