NBC MONDAY NIGHT BASEBALL (DON'T TURN AWAY) - Kevin Gavin
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- Kevin Gavin's theme for NBC Sports, used here in its Monday Night Baseball, MLB All-Star and postseason game version.
(c) 1974 Kevin Gavin Music (c) NBCUniversal Music Licensing - Sport
This brings back great memories of the 1970's when NBC was THE network for baseball, and the Gillette Trac II was THE razor for a close shave.
This the same theme song for Bryant Gumbel and The NFL ON NBC pregame show
This is a terrific theme for baseball during the 1970s,when NBC was THE network. The Baltimore Orioles were my team, and the decade
had stars such Reggie Jackson, Carl Yastrzemski,Jim Palmer,
Tom Seaver,George Brett,Willie Stargell,Brooks Robinson,Steve Garvey,Lou Brock,Bobby Murcer,Mike Schmidt,Steve Carlton,
Johnny Bench,Frank Howard,Ruppert Jones,Carlton Fisk,Paul
Splittorff,
Dave McNally and Eddie Murray.
Wow this takes me back! Greatness
I love this sound with my whole inner body, makes my heart flutter 🌟🤩
Best baseball theme, period!!!
The best intro theme ever! I liked the video for NFL that went with around '74 as well.
Please bring this back NBC!!
Ditto brother!
Awesome. Gives me chills to hear this again. Thanks for posting!
And those french horns playing fast in unison as well, love it!
The best theme
I miss those great years of baseball on NBC, especially when Vin Scully made his broadcast debut in early 80s! I enjoyed him calling Dodger games in those early years on radio!
It was also used for the 1975 World Series too!
Holy crap, first time hearing this in over 40 years yet i remember it. This is a really cool theme. There was some really good tv music from the 60s and 70s. Thanks for posting.
NBC Major League Baseball theme (1974-1977).
just slightly different than the NFL opener from '74. My favorite all-time network sports theme!
Used by NBC for all their sports in 1974. Eddie Giacomin on the NHL, The Dolphins with the NFL this was the best song ever to open the game.
As a HUGE Dolphin fan this was tops!
I have been searching for who made the music to my childhood baseball nbc game of the week , and i finally found it! thanks.
Beginning in the 1973 AFC Championship Game.
NBC sports should go back to using this intro. especially for Sunday night 🏈
That's great! I would always fall asleep during game....
Ah, I remember it well.
NBC used this through the 1977 All Star Game but it was gone from their 1977 LCS broadcasts as far as I've been able to determine. But this version is the one they were using on the NFL by the late 70s and through the 1981 season.
There is actually a great disco version of this tune in the last 2 minutes of NBC's broadcast of the 6th and final game of the 1980 World Series with vocals. Been trying to find a copy of it for years but no luck.
This is it:
czcams.com/video/Kz8sJnzlrh8/video.html
+Cathode Ray 60 You are awesome, friend. Thanks so much.
I only wish NBC Sports used this theme for all its sports. Alas, this was for a time gone by and would be outdated in today's time (as of Sunday, February 25, 2018).
It looks like they did though. They used it for football and someone mentioned they used it for their brief NHL coverage in the 70s. I agree with you in it sounding outdated and it even sounds too dated for the 80s. I really grew to love NBC's themes in more recent years, especially the NBA on NBC in the 90s, and their Olympic Coverage theme music which for 2 years from 1996-97 was their baseball theme music too (The Adventures of Brisco County Jr theme also).
bdaddyn678 I think if rebooted, this would work quite well.
When themes had soul
I’m 58 years old, and this just have me chills
Also used during nfl games during the in game highlights
Another Quinn Martin-caliber hit!
Hell of a reference!! I can hear "CANNON: A Quinn Martin Production. Starring William Conrad" in my head.
They should’ve used this cue for the “Price Is Right” pricing game called “Triple Play” to win all three cars using the baseball motif.
Some cool keyboard comping I'm hearing for the first time, at 0:49 and 0:54 .
0:13 Love that funky clavinet!
also the music for the NFL on NBC... big guys getting suited up in the locker room!!!!
So that's the author, eh? Wonderful copy...spent many a Sunday afternoon watching NBC's AFC package back in those days...
Kind of sums up NBC in the 1970s that they thought, “Hey let’s promote these preseason football games being played over a month from now, our viewers will definitely remember these dates and times”
Wow where did this come from? a nice clean version.. thanks!
Love it
Also, Did You Know It Was Also The Opening Theme 4 The Game Where Hank Aaron Hits His 715th Home Run.
I wish someone had a copy of that Aaron at-bat with the original NBC audio. I usually hear it with Milo Hamilton's call, sometimes Vin Scully's. Seems hard to find the original moment in its live tv coverage glory.
The All Star Game used to mean something back then
Nobody covered Major League Baseball like NBC, Nobody called baseball like Curt Gowdy Joe Garragiola and Tony Kubek.
Saxophone action
What came first, the disco version w/lyrics or this?
This. The disco version came along with Fred Silverman.
That is overwith.
So did NBC license this to Midnite Flight for "Don't Turn Away"?? Because that song has the same melody as this theme.
I found out what happened...
Gavin wrote this as a sports theme for NBC (they used it for NFL, NHL, and MLB) in 1973.
In 1976 he re-arranged it into a disco song and put together a one-off group of musicians named Midnite Flite and recorded it as "Don't Turn Away".
Then he re-arranged the original 1973 theme for marching band (which NBC used for the NFL in the late 1970s).
And finally in 1980-81 NBC used the disco theme with the vocals stripped out as their NFL theme.
NBC had the best sports themes, Between this theme and NBC's NBA on NBC theme it's a toss up.
Theme music has all but disappeared. One reason that I watch the CBS evening new is for its strong theme.
Is the composer still alive
how long did Monday night baseball on NBC?
1967-1975
In 1972, "The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola" was a pregame feature prior to its "Monday Night Baseball" telecasts. Joe would interview players and people associated with baseball.
1974: The year the Los Angeles Dodgers won the N.L. Pennant.
+Jiltedin2007 ...yeah, and lost in the World Series in '74 to those goddamn Oakland A's and that Dynasty of theirs, featuring Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue, Joe Rudi, and Rollie Fingers among other great legends who donned the Gold and Green they made famous.
+Ray Jackson That Dodgers Team was young and inexperienced (As told by Vin Scully on the radio after the A's won Game 5 and The World Series). As time passed The Dodgers got better and better until they finally won in 1981, by then they got old and sent elsewhere.
+Jiltedin2007 Oh I knew that they got better, having gone on from then (under Tommy Lasorda) to win the N.L. Pennant in both 1977 and again in '78 (both times against the Phillies) and losing both times to the Yankees in the World Series, and then in 1981, FernandoMania hit Dodger Stadium in the form of left-handed phenom-now legend Fernando Valenzuela, who (in that strike-shortened '81 season) beat the Montreal Expos in the NLCS and picked the Yankees apart in the World Series in that year. Fernando Valenzuela was the MVP of the WS and went on to a great career after that. The rest, is history. GO DODGERS!!!
+Ray Jackson Sorry to say, The World Series MVP went to 3 Different Players on the Dodgers, and Fernando Valenzuela was not one of them. But "El Toro" won both The Cy Young and Rookie of the Year Awards that year. I was in College back then and I brought A Transistor with me during Class when Rick Monday hit that Home Run in Montreal to win the N.L. Pennant. Loving it all the way! GO DODGERS!
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