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TJB had nothing but a fab sound and brilliant musicianship, ably aided by the late Larry Levine, their sound engineer at LA's Gold Star Studios.

Great to hear it in stereo at last, thanks for posting it

'It's a Knockout' was a fun show, 'Bean Bag' is a real catchy tune. The BBC always seemed to have the knack of choosing memorable theme tunes for so many radio and TV shows down the years

BBC4 showed a documentary on HA about a year ago. When he composed 'Rise' he had been going to set it at the standard disco beat of c.120 beats/minute but decided that it sounded far better at the slower tempo (80 beats/min, calculated it with a stopwatch) and it's fab!

Of its time, pretty terrible song but not the kid's fault

Good version,transposed to F major

Brilliant!

A CD called 'Salve Regina', originally recorded by the St Maurice monks in 1959 is well worth checking out , still available as far as I know. Gregorian chant is peaceful music for the soul.

Brilliant...They don't make 'em like that no more!

When the English service of Radio Luxembourg closed c.0400 CET during the late 1970s/early '80s this was played after the pre-recorded closedown announcement by Bob Stewart. A little radio memory, Sunny Leslie's MTM is still not that well known

'Lobert den Herrn' is the most joyous of his motets (they are ALL superb!), our choir will be recording 230 later this year as part of the programme for our first CD. The Harnoncourt recording is excellent, another very good one was made by the choir of Trinity College Cambridge under Richard Mar...

Great old tune, currently used by Ronan Collins to open his RTE Radio 1 music show - it was also used by RTE many years ago to introduce some sponsored radio programme, someone on BBC Radio used it as a theme as well in years gone by. 'Imogene' seems to have a strong Mexican or Spanish feel, Les ...

Great video, 'Left Bank Two' takes us back to the fuzzy old black and white TV (early '70s, BBC1 was on both 405 and 625 line standard by that time) and Tony Hart's Gallery sequence on 'Vision On'. LBT was used more recently for a VW car advert if I'm correct, any thoughts?

I will be visiting Krakow in May and so looking forward to it. Like myself the background music is Irish, Enya goes well with the slide show.

Having read most of differerent people's comments on this piece (with a few exceptions which are about Krakow itself), too many are about anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazism, bigotry and hatred.....May I suggest that people with those views (not saying that they're not entitled to them) go elsewhere and n...

Thanks for this one NJ3 and for your other videos of the Beatles in session (not in court but in the studios!). 'Revolver' was a milestone in what the Beatles, George Martin and Geoff Emerick (plus the EMI maintenance engineers) managed to do with putting John Lennon's voice through a Leslie spe...

'Look for a Star' was very effective during the circus sequences in 'Circus of Horrors'. Of its time but still a very good story - they used a real circus for those scenes (the famous BIlly Smart's, who staged Christmas and Easter circuses on BBC Tv in the 1970s) . This song was written (or at le...

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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 Ma...

What a brilliant track and catchy tune.

When it was recorded at Pye Studios (London) in 1965 they used two studios simultaneously, linked by CCTV and with percussion sited in the smaller studio to achieve total separation from brass, strings, voices and the rest in the other studio. 40 musicians...

From around 1957, also shown throughout the 1960s maybe later. More childhood TV memories,thanks for posting this one.

Gilian Blake was a very attractive young woman ( I was only about 8 when I got those feelings). The theme song, 'The Lightning Tree' was a small hit for The Settlers, heavily influenced by Bach methinks...Nice memories, thanks for posting it.

I don't think we ever saw the Double Deckers in colour (we didn't get our first colour set until mid 1970s), how it takes me back!!

Those relay systems facilitated 'drop-in' recording so that any musical fluffs could be repaired without having to record a whole track, or part, again. It could be remote controlled from the mixing console, very advanced for 1969 when this particular machine was built. Fascinating, thanks for po...

Listen carefully @approx. 2'56", Paul Mc Cartney 'hit a clunker' on the piano and says 'Oh....F***ing hell!'

Not bad at all, but the 1999 version is still a lot better

What a gem!!, thanks for posting this one.

For one's interest, the background music (0'14" - 1'48") is 'Madrid' by the Les Reed Orchestra, sometime B-side of 'Man of Action' (Chapter One Records CH126, c.1970), in turn the signature tune of Radio North Sea International from 40+ years ago.