Graham Shaw - Pentatus (City Pulse News Theme from the 80's!)

[PopsDizzy]

Thanks for finding this!!! Brings back memories.

[jjpmstd]

IN CONCERT: Graham Shaw & The Sincere Serenaders

w/ guest Jennifer Hanson @ McPhillips St. Station

484 McPhillips, Wpg

July 22, 2010 - 8pm - tix: Ticketmaster

This shall be epic !!

[freetobefreddy]

Hey, this is awsome!

[JSnowfall]

He is also a prolific writer of music that one hears on television and other media. Check it out at his web site shawbiz. com

[tvlondon]

So now, we have names for a number of Toronto-area news themes over the years...

CITY - Pentatus (1984-1995), Rocky (1977-1990), Masterpiece (1977?-1984)

CBLT - Pulstar (early 80s)

CHCH - Pride Inside (1990-1995)

Now we need names for what CFTO used.

[mangdannyboy]

they used this track for 11 years on "the big show" (what mark dailey calls their late-night news at city)? wow...that was long...

the guys who did audio for city at the time "pentatus" was used for "citypulse tonight" did a good job editing and rearranging parts of the song into one coherent track...

btw, was "masterpiece" used only on "citypulse tonight" or also on the 6:00pm hour?

[tvlondon]

Masterpiece was only ever used on CityPulse Tonight. Rocky was used on CityPulse at 6 from 1977 right up until September 1990.

I have a tape somewhere of a CityPulse Tonight open from 1993 with this theme. I *think* they switched when they moved from 10 to 11 PM in 1995.

[mangdannyboy]

got it... :)

i bought some old GTA TV guide mags from around '77 off ebay..."citypulse" was still new then--it was 1.5 hours long starting at 6pm (and replayed the next morning at 10:00), and they didn't have the late edition yet...

and gord was credited on the program description as "GORDON martineau".

[tvlondon]

If you listened carefully to CityPulse in the 80s, you may have noticed Glen Cole ALWAYS called Gord "Gordon", except in the 'cast open.

[mangdannyboy]

oh, yeah, i remember that...i think glen cole (God bless him) was the only one who actually called gord "gordon" on the air... :)

[ZoneCountry]

Pentatus was still used after they did the revamp in 90-91? Interesting, didn't knew it.

[Retrontario]

The version City used of "Gotta Fly Now (Rocky's Theme)" is *not* the Bill Conti version... Has anyone identified which cover version it is?

[mangdannyboy]

in that case, that would've been maynard ferguson's version, right?

although in the retrospective clips city aired during the week before their move to dundas square, they showed one old "citypulse" intro (probably from the late '70s) that used the slower "gotta fly now" (which i assume--and please correct me if i'm wrong--would be the bill conti version)...

[tvlondon]

Most definitely was Maynard Ferguson's version.

That open you saw was from 1975, and likely was dubbed over. Most likely Citytv no longer has the rights to play the Ferguson version and just uses the Conti version.

[Channel79productions]

@Retrontario The version they used was Maynard Ferguson's which is far superior (in my opinion) to Conti's version. For "masterpiece" they used Grover Washington Jr's cover for the opening. For the closing I seem to vaguely remember them sampling the instrumental parts of the Temptation's version. Thanks to this video I know the name of this piece of music. The only one I am missing is the disco-y cover of (what sounds like to me) Bill Conti's "Redemption." If anyone has it let me know!

[streetcarjay]

CFTO was known for using a drum theme back in the 60's, 70's and 80's.

[Retrontario]

AWESOME! Great find!!

[mangdannyboy]

the "citypulse tonight" theme from the mid-'80s/early '90s (after they used "masterpiece")...finally, the full track...and now, we know the artist behind it too! cool! thanks for sharing!