WLVI-56 Wake-Up Music - 1985

[tpirman1982]

Of all the songs I've heard in this, my favorite was The Immigrant by Neil Sedaka.

[monkeeman1966]

I heard The John Barry Seven doing Goldfinger on this once, and have it on videotape.

[bostonsportslover1]

Like this is you miss Creature Double Feature!!!!!!!!!!!

[SFICA9]

In addition to What's New, I also remember Herb Alpert's Route 101and the theme to Happy Days...which the station was showing reruns of anyway.

The black and white lines of the test pattern would produce a moire effect that I just loved to watch as a child even if I didn't understand it at the time.

[Pdasilva0324]

I remember these as a kid growing up in Boston. They used the tracks from "Hooked on Classics" for a while. I also remember a few instumental songs which I can still hum to this day but don't know the title.

[mason000]

One has to wonder if there's any station out there anymore that actually signs off instead of just airing infomercials.

[LuigiGodzillaGirl]

@mason000

The ABC station in my area signs off at about 1 AM

[broughham]

I loved this kind of test pattern. wish they were still around. Thanks for posting

[bewarethedecks]

I seem to remember that channel 38 would start their test pattern at 6:30 AM while channel 56 would start theirs at 6:45 AM. Channel 56 would switch from a test tone to music while channel 38 just used a tone.

Now I feel old!

[MSTS1]

@bewarethedecks - Always cool to hear from those who even remember these..)

[bewarethedecks]

I remember one song that was often played during the test pattern, but I, for the life of me, don't know the name of it.

The song as played had no words.

It started off with a flute playing a few notes, and then a bass guitar joined in adding some rhythm. Then a brass section was added, followed by some rhythmic hand clapping and lastly some background voices AH"ing.

The song started off "small", but it swelled to the end.

[ga1999]

They also played Linda Ronstadt - What's New.....

[djwash5]

Oh, my gosh. I heard this on TBN years ago!

Thanks for posting this.

[DragonLord1975]

I remembered they also played MODERN songs on this like England Dan and John Ford Coley's "I Really Love to See You Tonight" as well as Huey Lewis and the News' "If This is It". I woke up listening to those before I went to school back in my day.

[mathiasvolta]

Excellent !!

☆☆☆☆☆ from me !

[tawansweden]

My 7 years old son laughted at this!!

PS:I'm a man and I'm from Poland. I don't want to tell age yet

[K1JWM]

Now show him a record. That will really

A. Make him laugh

B. Or really make him think.

[rmsolympic1]

Wow, this is pretty cool.

[bostonnewsarchives]

Memories, memories. I also remember hearing "Sing, Sing, Sing" (Benny Goodman) during the WLVI wake up music.

[patrickballoonman]

0:28 - Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 0:38 - Flight of the Bumblebee 1:05 - Mozart's Symphony No. 40 1:24 - Rhapsody in Blue 1:48 - Karelia Suite 2:09 - Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 2:23 - Tocatta in D Minor 2:45 - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 2:51 - Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 3:06 - William Tell Overture 3:23 - Marriage of Figaro Aria 3:37 - Romeo & Juliet 3:52 - Trumpet Voluntary 4:05 - Hallelujah Chorus 4:12 - Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor 4:42 - March of the Toreadors

[TinaMask]

Also gotta wonder what the hell they were waiting for to start thier day at say what 6am ...where was everyone in the studio ??

[K1JWM]

Who do you think was pressing the buttons. Bozo? lol

[TinaMask]

I am from Massachusetts and remember this alot... before I went to school .

Great memeory ...Thanks so much !!

Uhh I think ...can't they bring back Creature Feature ???

Love this

[K1JWM]

Agreed... I can remember many saturday Morning's up before the sun. Waiting on Bozo to come on.

[FCDKJ1]

I LOVE THIS MUSIC!!

[7flies4U]

indeed! :D

[WhoKilledDizzy]

There was this one song WLVI used to play as "wake up music" during their test pattern; they used it around 1990.

Partial chorus: "It was a dream come true/and there was so much room/the people, they come from everywhere". Kinda up-tempoish, sounds like early 70's.

Used on WLVI test patterns during the days of the "Kids Club" with Paul Wagner and Elizabeth Dann.

Does anyone out there remember this song? What it's called, who recorded it?

[gandalfthewhite]

"The Immigrant" by Neil Sedaka. From LAUGHING IN THE RAIN, 1974.

"It was a SWEETER TUNE/and there was so much room/the people, they come from everywhere".

Good luck finding it!

[broughham]

do any stations in the U.S. still use this kind of test pattern? I loved seeing this test pattern back in the 70's and 80's. Haven't seen this in years. The last station I remember using this pattern is KGO-TV channel 7 in San Francisco CA. back in the mid to late 90's.

[wmbrown6]

@broughham - KGO's use of this particular TP design (with the fabled "circle 7" in the center dated to at least the mid-1970's (probably 1975 at the earliest). One other station, or entity, west of the Mississippi used this TP design, albeit turned upside-down, later in the '70's: the stations of South Dakota Public Television, including KUSD Channel 2. Any other stations on the West Coast or with "K" calls you know of that used this TP design?

[broughham]

@wmbrown6 hey wmbrown6 the PBS stations in Hawaii used this TP design before they went on the air every day back in the 1980's. KHET were the call letters for the PBS station in Honolulu. Don't remember the call letters for the other PBS stations in Hawaii but I know there's more than one.  Haven't lived in Hawaii. Have been there just for vacation. Thanks for replying.

[wmbrown6]

@broughham - From what I've seen, that TP would have mentioned KHET at the top part - and KMEB in Wailuku at the bottom.

[lpbgtr]

Hooked On Classics!! I LOVE IT!!!

[terrybrass]

Huh? I remember them playing "Good Day Sunshine"

[DarkColdDaze]

Holy crap....being a young kid at the the time.....I

[DarkColdDaze]

...I loved the colors. I remember watching this every morning.

wow..I'm old

[wmbrown6]

Would anyone know if other Boston stations besides WLVI (and those in the area besides WSMW and WMUR) used this color pattern design?

[robkb1fjr]

This must have been on to at least the Early 90s I remember seeing it.

[utube9000]

There are two kinds of people in this world.

Those who used to watch this earning in the morning.

And those who used to watch the "sign off" late at night.

[mtc2300]

I'm born in 1977, and we had one stateowned tv-station until 1988 and three state operated radiostations until 1987. Our tv started at 6:00pm and signed-off at no later than 11:15 pm. Sometimes 11:30pm on Saturdays.

[utube9000]

Nowadays we have 1000 digital channels and it's ALL SHIT.

I miss the good ol daze....

[Jstruzz]

this is truly wonderful, I really get some personal responses on thism, but who has kids parade stuff, I'm intrested in all of dale dormans stuff, perhaps meet the guy, which i can

[Pdasilva0324]

Besides the Hooked on Classics, I also remember hearing 'The Way it Is" by Bruce Hornsby and some elevator type instrumental that I liked as a 10-year-old kid.

[crypticreign]

Thank you for this! Brings back child-hood memories.

[mca1218]

Wow. This is lovely. I never saw/heard test patterns played with actual music before, only tone. I'd much rather have listened to "Hooked on Classics," followed by Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle orchestra any day...Sort of like video radio. Thank you for this.

[mediadude08]

Well, nowadays these test patterns and wakeup music are replaced by boring informercials that nobody likes.

[jake1004]

Love these videos. How about a WBZ sign on from the 70s? I remember there being a prayer with a shot of the Boston sky line from the late 60s early 70s. Or anything from WCVB with Five All Night Live at Night with George Fennel?

[TBird100636]

A rare time when they didn't play real off the radio music or songs.

[TBird100636]

Well "You haven't changed a bit" was a real song but I remember they had soft rock allot to the test pattern. I think the first time I saw these test patterns originally was 1986... when I was 4 years old!!! I think they used the pattern into the late 80's. I'd wake up before 6AM and I went in and turned on the TV, and watched the pattern and listen to the music while I waited for the programs to come on.

[hkfreak]

That was...ummm...yeah...THIS IS WHAT THEY CALLED "WAKE UP" MUSIC?

[wmbrown6]

The "Hooked on Classics" number, perhaps.