It is called "Rocket Rhythm" by Nick Milner, from the Parry Album "Elektronix". 1979. Used here on BBC-1 at 12.28pm on Monday, 7th of September, 1981 before the new "News Afternoon" programme with Richard Whitmore and Moira Stuart.
@@ajs41 I don't know if it was used again, but it is possible it could have been in a different interval slot, though it was not one of the "regular" interval pieces heard at the time.
@@malcyb2000uk Thanks. Incidentally, do you know that I found out that they used these 1981 news graphics 2 weeks beyond the official date for switching to the new titles in October 1988? They were still using them for some bulletins into November 1988.
I think VHS tapes were around £12 (Memorex £18) at the time and recorders single speed - three hours and that's your lot. How I actually kept so much stuff shocks me now.
The BBC entered the 80s with quite a few memorable shows. They left the 80s with shows like Fireman Sam, Postman Pat, Only Fools and Horses and Challenge Anneka. I think that the BBC News theme from 1981, in a way, gave us a taster of what to expect in the coming years.
I have seen this opening in the 4th episode of an Italian TV show called "Almost True". The topic of that episode is the connection between Jack the Ripper (1888), the war of the Falkland Islands (1982) and the semi-final of the FIFA World Cup in Mexico (1986).
Breakfast TV came to the UK in 1983. I remember my mum telling me how BBC Breakfast Time would be on from 6.30am until 9am, then half hour of Ceefax pages, then two and a half hours of schools programmes, half hour of Ceefax pages and then News Afternoon at 12.30pm. How things have changed in the space of 30 years on BBC One. During the summer, Breakfast Time would finish at 9am, then nothing until 12.30pm news. I think ITV was the only place where a full daytime line-up was on every day since October 1972. The BBC always lagged behind until their daytime service started in 1986.
+John King The BBC started off having a full day service in 1972 until cutbacks in 1975 began,and if only Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall didn't waste the licence money on entertaining and whining/dining the chldren they abused,the BBC could never have lagged behind.
ITV seemed to have a more American approach to television schedules, running all day from 9.30am until around 12.30am, around 15 hours a day which was good, compared to BBC One.
What you will find is, this came about because ITV had 5 medium-sized and 5 small companies and they felt that they weren't getting enough air-time on the ITV network between them so ITV gave them that opportunity by having this all-day schedule as compensation for not having Channel 4 launched until 1982.
Also the BBC could afford to be lazy, as not airing a regular daytime schedule saved them money, as they had a guaranteed income from the licence fee, whilst ITV would get more advertising income from having longer broadcasting hours. I am amazed at how different the approach to broadcasting hours were in the UK compared to the US. By 1981 CBS, NBC and ABC were on the air with local news from 6.00am each day and would sign off at around 2.00am the next morning. No such thing as morning or afternoon closedowns on US Television.
The very first lunchtime news bulletin on BBC Television was on Monday 2nd May 1960. Called "Lunchtime News" it aired at 2.00pm and last just under 5 minutes. By 1962 the bulletin was moved to 1.25pm and just named "News". For the rest of the 1960s the bulletin never had a set time as such, depending on schools programmes and sports coverage. The length would also vary, between 5, 8 and ten minutes in length. In the early 1972 with the launch of Pebble Mill at One, the lunchtime bulletin moved to a fixed time of 12.55pm. However when Pebble Mill was not on, the news was once again shifted around the schedules. In 1976 the short 5 minute update was extended to 15 minutes and renamed the "Midday News" and once again when Pebble Mill was not on it bounced around the schedules depending on what sports coverage was on. BBC News Afternoon was the first half hour lunchtime news, but once again if Pebble Mill was not on, the BBC would usually move it to 1.00pm start, for example during the summer months. It was only with the start of the One O'Clock News on Monday 27th October 1986 that the main lunchtime bulletin remained in its slot all year round, and still is there now in 2017. Show less REPLY
Clearly an extended hold on the symbol to showcase the new globe. Normally, the welcome over the symbol would be followed by music over a follows shortly slide, then to the clock.
It was pretty brave of the BBC to use this new kind of electronic music for programme intros, although it sounds a lot like Jean Michel Jarre from the '70's - you'll notice that the actual theme for the news is much more of a traditional dramatic theme. Nice view of the mechanical mirror globe too. Incidently, the clock is mechanical in 1981, not computerised as other viewers have said, although it is contained within a box for filming purposes.
It was very rare the globe symbol and clock appeared together because of the change in font size (as here). Got more fluid with computers but something was missing
I presume that this was after Test Card F-or G-had been shown up until this at the time. Unless it was Pages from Ceefax, although that did not really start I guess until May 1983 onwards as we know. But thank you anyway!
When BBC moved their news to 1pm simultaneously as ITN News at 1 in 1986 a year later ITV moved theirs to 12.30pm. BBC still to this day is 1pm but ITV kept changing from 12.30 then back to 1.00pm from time to time. Now ITV Lunchtime News is 1.30pm. I as a child liked it as ITN News at 1 when either Peter Sissons or Leonard Parkin were presenting
+Raj Nirvan when i was a little boy BBC had their lunchtime news at 1pm and itv had theirs at 12.30 (it hasn't felt the same from late 2006 when itv moved it to 1.30pm
Apparently the globe looks very small! You can see images and video of it on TV Ark. But very clever piece of technology to show the ident and the clours were made on the NOODY camera
Very nice footage! Was this the very first appearance of the green globe and clock (with its new, rounded hands)? Some sources say it was 1-Sep-1981 and others claim 5-Sep-1981.
My wording confused things. The new globe had appeared the previous Saturday with terrible lighting all over that weekend. I presume they weren't allowed to tinker with anything until Monday the 7th when the colour improved but the size on screen altered daily for days afterwards.
Intro/outro by George Fenton, some comments mentioned synth in this track, if it was used, the it’s possible that composer Ken Freeman was used, as Freeman May have used synth on his Casualty theme tune.
The news was exciting back then. There was no other way to find out what was happening in the world. You would wait with trepid excitement for the announcer to tell you what is going on. It was more fact based too. None of the righteous 'moral outrage' you get now. Back then a presenter was just a presenter, not a 'social activist' with an agenda.
I had one and it was nothing to write home about. It kept breaking down, and to fix it I used to drop it from about half a metre onto a solid table. It gave a loud beep, then began working again.
I remember the older testcard D as a kid that kept me occupied for ages especially with the letter box at the top out of reach. Then they changed it for the colour F card. Someone told me that the old BBC Parliament ident with the wheels and cogs was better that anything you could buy to keep her child quiet... guess what they changed it.
I thought it looked like total crap once they got rid of the original black and blue COLOUR variant used up to 1974 or so. That looked good and it served a purpose of reminding people that COLOUR was now available. I have no idea why they kept it for so long afterwards and how they somehow made it look worse over the years. Used to have a VHS tape which had this final 'striped' variant and it honestly looked dreadful in real life too. It's all stretched due to the mirror and there's no contrast, so it just bleeds into one. Should have been replaced completely in the 1970s when colour took off and the original variant was no longer required.
Looking at You Tube clips around this time, the BBC were still using the overlapping blue circles for news bulletins in late August. So did the introduction of these new stripy BBC News titles coincide with the refreshed BBC1 globe and clock on the Saturday?
I don't think we'll ever know exactly what happened that day. It was usual to put up a 'follows shortly' slide between the globe and the clock. Just a stroke of luck on this day it never happened.
@Runrome Thing is though, if they did away with Breakfast, started at noon and had an afternoon interval, closed at midnight, everyone would be up in arms that their licence fee wasn't being spent to it's full potential. "They take our money and can't even be bothered to show programmes during the day!"
voice is SO painfully posh.It REALLY IS a shock to be reminded of how things used to be.YES, these gaps are now indeed FILLED with endless crud about new BBC programmes....I.E. you will be PUMMELLED with images of black men, mixed race women and white women.The white woman will be in an ACTION pose or be seen talking down to a white, male underling.The black man will be doing NOTHING, perhaps glaring at the screen but that's about it. The mixed race female will be talking down to EVERYBODY, perhaps making an anti rascist or anti sexist comment.To finish there will be an image of a black MAN in bed with a white WOMAN.ALWAYS that way round NEVER the other!.
Ahh of course, the same with programmes for schools and colleges as it was over their summer holiday period! BBC1/2 must have been so bleak during daytimes back then. Surely on Saturdays and Sundays there was daytime tele on both channels tho, but there were probably still the odd testcards and pages from Ceefax thrown in here and there! ;)
This aired Monday 7th September 1981 on BBC One, where the day's programming before this was 6.40am-7.55am Open University, then nothing until News Afternoon at 12.30pm. It wouldn't be until Monday 21st September 1981 when Schools Programmes would fill the time from around 9.05am until Midday. What laziness at the BBC. Over on ITV programming was on the air each day from 9.30am no matter whether schools were on or not.
John King Surprisingly enough, at least up until about 1987, when they brought out the service that is on now - well, a rough approximation, anyway -- what you got varied from region to region - but every programme that was shown on ITV in the morning during holiday time was shown without ads - if there was about five minutes between programmes, they would put a public information film on - sometimes about two or three - same if a programme actually had END OF PART ONE and PART TWO - they would slot a public information film on! Sometimes, you would, in some areas, get a morning movie - usually of the type shown on Monday and - when there was no racing - Friday afternoons - and the odd Sunday, after the football - seemed weird, watching a movie on ITV with no ad breaks!
I admire ITV back then for providing a full service and when the schools were off they did not fall into the BBC laziness of showing nothing. Huge gaps I have seen when schools were off.
+Joseph Wright Somewhere someone mentioned it was written by Freddie Phillips more famous for the music on Camberwick Green and Trumpton. Apparently he used to compose short pieces for the BBC for this type of use.
(From Wikipedia) Mainly a classical guitarist, Phillips worked and performed in the fields of opera and ballet, including with The Royal Ballet, and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. His television career began with providing musical scores for a pair of short films by Lotte Reiniger, and composing short pieces for use in television continuity.
oh not the old "I taped over it with a 1983 newsnight" line again, that's what they all say..lol. excellent clip, 2 mins of that classic globe ident. was it moira stuarts debut on the main national news, could be.
Rest of it is like a cwilliams1976!! Except the continuity man hasn't got enough mucus in his sinuses, and there isnt a slide that says 'Follows Shortly'. And it only lasts 2 minutes.
Aged 87 now so I suppose he’s not doing a lot. He was doing a bit a stage acting during the later period of news reading (hence the moustache on some bulletins) also several books to his name.
It is called "Rocket Rhythm" by Nick Milner, from the Parry Album "Elektronix". 1979. Used here on BBC-1 at 12.28pm on Monday, 7th of September, 1981 before the new "News Afternoon" programme with Richard Whitmore and Moira Stuart.
Do you know if they used this music again, and if so how often?
@@ajs41 I don't know if it was used again, but it is possible it could have been in a different interval slot, though it was not one of the "regular" interval pieces heard at the time.
@@malcyb2000uk Thanks. Incidentally, do you know that I found out that they used these 1981 news graphics 2 weeks beyond the official date for switching to the new titles in October 1988? They were still using them for some bulletins into November 1988.
Brilliant information, thanks.
awfully nostalgic had me weeping silently all afternoon
The theme music *was* the 80s - miners strike, asassination of Sadat, Falklands, death of Eric Morecambe, all to the soundtrack of this news music.
Remember those events well - going from junior school to starting work (between the ages of ten and nineteen!)
Before the days of fitting about 500 BBC adverts in between programmes.
That synth music is truly epic.
Somebody enjoying themselves in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, they did all the inhouse music & effects sounds.
@@Chillmax A fair amount of music used like this was also taken from music libraries such as Bruton Music, KPM, De Wolfe and other sources.
Whopper.
@@Chillmax It is called "Rocket Rhythm" by Nick Milner, from the Parry Album "Elektronix". 1979.
@@malcyb2000uk Well it only took 9 years to find that out, but hey, I'm pretty patient ;-). Thanks Malcy.
i miss the rolling BBC globe - those were certainly the days!
When this came out I would have just started senior school. I was eleven and remember the tune well.
I think VHS tapes were around £12 (Memorex £18) at the time and recorders single speed - three hours and that's your lot. How I actually kept so much stuff shocks me now.
You’ve done a fantastic job David. Really appreciate your efforts. Tapes were way out of my affordability range at that time, unfortunately.
The quality is really good too for such an old recording.
@@zetametallic My big mistake was to buy a dual speed VHS later. The sound quality on those tapes has really dropped over the years.
I want this on my iPod for every time I walk into a room.
The BBC entered the 80s with quite a few memorable shows. They left the 80s with shows like Fireman Sam, Postman Pat, Only Fools and Horses and Challenge Anneka. I think that the BBC News theme from 1981, in a way, gave us a taster of what to expect in the coming years.
Television was so slow but better in those days.
no, it wasn't.
This music was performed on something that came with its own burglar alarm.
I have seen this opening in the 4th episode of an Italian TV show called "Almost True". The topic of that episode is the connection between Jack the Ripper (1888), the war of the Falkland Islands (1982) and the semi-final of the FIFA World Cup in Mexico (1986).
Breakfast TV came to the UK in 1983. I remember my mum telling me how BBC Breakfast Time would be on from 6.30am until 9am, then half hour of Ceefax pages, then two and a half hours of schools programmes, half hour of Ceefax pages and then News Afternoon at 12.30pm. How things have changed in the space of 30 years on BBC One.
During the summer, Breakfast Time would finish at 9am, then nothing until 12.30pm news. I think ITV was the only place where a full daytime line-up was on every day since October 1972. The BBC always lagged behind until their daytime service started in 1986.
+John King The BBC started off having a full day service in 1972 until cutbacks in 1975 began,and if only Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall didn't waste the licence money on entertaining and whining/dining the chldren they abused,the BBC could never have lagged behind.
ITV seemed to have a more American approach to television schedules, running all day from 9.30am until around 12.30am, around 15 hours a day which was good, compared to BBC One.
What you will find is, this came about because ITV had 5 medium-sized and 5 small companies and they felt that they weren't getting enough air-time on the ITV network between them so ITV gave them that opportunity by having this all-day schedule as compensation for not having Channel 4 launched until 1982.
Also the BBC could afford to be lazy, as not airing a regular daytime schedule saved them money, as they had a guaranteed income from the licence fee, whilst ITV would get more advertising income from having longer broadcasting hours. I am amazed at how different the approach to broadcasting hours were in the UK compared to the US. By 1981 CBS, NBC and ABC were on the air with local news from 6.00am each day and would sign off at around 2.00am the next morning. No such thing as morning or afternoon closedowns on US Television.
That is just it. ITV were based on American commercial television, so it's no surprise there
Just waiting for pebble mill to come on next.
The very first lunchtime news bulletin on BBC Television was on Monday 2nd May 1960. Called "Lunchtime News" it aired at 2.00pm and last just under 5 minutes.
By 1962 the bulletin was moved to 1.25pm and just named "News". For the rest of the 1960s the bulletin never had a set time as such, depending on schools programmes and sports coverage. The length would also vary, between 5, 8 and ten minutes in length.
In the early 1972 with the launch of Pebble Mill at One, the lunchtime bulletin moved to a fixed time of 12.55pm. However when Pebble Mill was not on, the news was once again shifted around the schedules.
In 1976 the short 5 minute update was extended to 15 minutes and renamed the "Midday News" and once again when Pebble Mill was not on it bounced around the schedules depending on what sports coverage was on.
BBC News Afternoon was the first half hour lunchtime news, but once again if Pebble Mill was not on, the BBC would usually move it to 1.00pm start, for example during the summer months.
It was only with the start of the One O'Clock News on Monday 27th October 1986 that the main lunchtime bulletin remained in its slot all year round, and still is there now in 2017.
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I love the music
The days when they used music and the globe instead of wall-to-wall trailers like today!
I'd hate today's tv
This is still the mechanical clock. You can even see the judder and the shadow.
The following evening (September 8th) was the first ever episode of "Only Fools And Horses" as well.
Clarissa McPigeon There's some footage on CZcams from later on that night which shows a trailer for the first episode of Only Fools And Horses
Back in the days of ultra posh BBC announcers and synth was the thing!
Now they are black men the breath heavy down the microphone I know which I prefer.
Clearly an extended hold on the symbol to showcase the new globe. Normally, the welcome over the symbol would be followed by music over a follows shortly slide, then to the clock.
Very much sounds like it could be a martyn ware/ Ian marsh era human league song (minus the vocals).
It was pretty brave of the BBC to use this new kind of electronic music for programme intros, although it sounds a lot like Jean Michel Jarre from the '70's - you'll notice that the actual theme for the news is much more of a traditional dramatic theme. Nice view of the mechanical mirror globe too. Incidently, the clock is mechanical in 1981, not computerised as other viewers have said, although it is contained within a box for filming purposes.
It was very rare the globe symbol and clock appeared together because of the change in font size (as here). Got more fluid with computers but something was missing
And quite dusty, look at the crazy number of islands in the Pacific!
1982 The Clock Was Changed .
I presume that this was after Test Card F-or G-had been shown up until this at the time. Unless it was Pages from Ceefax, although that did not really start I guess until May 1983 onwards as we know. But thank you anyway!
a modern day (for 1981) start up there, for one day only.
I was a month and a day old when this aired.
I was eleven and in my first year at senior school back then!
When BBC moved their news to 1pm simultaneously as ITN News at 1 in 1986 a year later ITV moved theirs to 12.30pm. BBC still to this day is 1pm but ITV kept changing from 12.30 then back to 1.00pm from time to time. Now ITV Lunchtime News is 1.30pm. I as a child liked it as ITN News at 1 when either Peter Sissons or Leonard Parkin were presenting
+Raj Nirvan when i was a little boy BBC had their lunchtime news at 1pm and itv had theirs at 12.30 (it hasn't felt the same from late 2006 when itv moved it to 1.30pm
Or Robert Kee indeed so too? I know he presented that too at one time of course so too.
That music has a touch of "Electricity" by OMD about it :-)
love the music!!
a site called the TV Room has a TV Room + section which has the widest selection I've come across
Apparently the globe looks very small! You can see images and video of it on TV Ark. But very clever piece of technology to show the ident and the clours were made on the NOODY camera
I can just hear Gary Numan singing over the synth track =)
BBC Scotland did an early opt out at 12.55, before the national weather
wasnt there programmes for schools in the mornings on BBC1 tho, up until 1983 anyway?
I just love this, it brings back some great memories. Just started the 3rd year at Comp when this was aired. But what is that great synth track?
not sure but sounds like something the BBC radiophonic workshop wouls knock up
You are therefore two years older than me, as I was eleven and just started my first year at senior school back then!
@@angelacooper2661thanks for making me feel even more ancient lol
@@spig021Yes, I am just a week away from turning 54. You are therefore the same age as my brother Anthony (now 56!)
@@angelacooper2661not until the end of July!
Very nice footage! Was this the very first appearance of the green globe and clock (with its new, rounded hands)? Some sources say it was 1-Sep-1981 and others claim 5-Sep-1981.
My wording confused things. The new globe had appeared the previous Saturday with terrible lighting all over that weekend. I presume they weren't allowed to tinker with anything until Monday the 7th when the colour improved but the size on screen altered daily for days afterwards.
Intro/outro by George Fenton, some comments mentioned synth in this track, if it was used, the it’s possible that composer Ken Freeman was used, as Freeman May have used synth on his Casualty theme tune.
39 years ago today.
In This Clip, From 2:01 To 2:28, It Was BBC-TV's BBC News After Noon Video Open From Monday Afternoon, September 7, 1981.
The news was exciting back then. There was no other way to find out what was happening in the world. You would wait with trepid excitement for the announcer to tell you what is going on. It was more fact based too. None of the righteous 'moral outrage' you get now. Back then a presenter was just a presenter, not a 'social activist' with an agenda.
I had one and it was nothing to write home about. It kept breaking down, and to fix it I used to drop it from about half a metre onto a solid table. It gave a loud beep, then began working again.
this bloody background music can hypnotize any normal living being....
Love the theme tune to the titles 81 I was 7 from merthyr tydfil south wales
Richard Whitmore.. forgotten about him! Don't all the accents seem old-fashioned now.
that bloody world ident scared hell out of me.as a kid.and it was in.b and w. we didnt have a colour set
I remember the older testcard D as a kid that kept me occupied for ages especially with the letter box at the top out of reach. Then they changed it for the colour F card. Someone told me that the old BBC Parliament ident with the wheels and cogs was better that anything you could buy to keep her child quiet... guess what they changed it.
I thought it looked like total crap once they got rid of the original black and blue COLOUR variant used up to 1974 or so. That looked good and it served a purpose of reminding people that COLOUR was now available. I have no idea why they kept it for so long afterwards and how they somehow made it look worse over the years.
Used to have a VHS tape which had this final 'striped' variant and it honestly looked dreadful in real life too. It's all stretched due to the mirror and there's no contrast, so it just bleeds into one. Should have been replaced completely in the 1970s when colour took off and the original variant was no longer required.
Looking at You Tube clips around this time, the BBC were still using the overlapping blue circles for news bulletins in late August. So did the introduction of these new stripy BBC News titles coincide with the refreshed BBC1 globe and clock on the Saturday?
I'm quite sure it did.
good tune on this! great clip.
Somebody please post the music where the show starts. I want to use it to make my own awesome newscast.
Love it! Just a shame there isn't a full programme on here!
Looking at the instant cut between globe and clock, I would presume that the globe was actually pre-recorded and being played off tape.
I don't think we'll ever know exactly what happened that day. It was usual to put up a 'follows shortly' slide between the globe and the clock. Just a stroke of luck on this day it never happened.
Maybe they were keen to show off the (new look) globe, I presume this would have been the debut appearance.
KEITHMU Also this news intro was brand new that day too, they may not have completed the follows shortly slide
@Runrome Thing is though, if they did away with Breakfast, started at noon and had an afternoon interval, closed at midnight, everyone would be up in arms that their licence fee wasn't being spent to it's full potential.
"They take our money and can't even be bothered to show programmes during the day!"
who needs drugs when you have this glorious video
voice is SO painfully posh.It REALLY IS a shock to be reminded of how things used to be.YES, these gaps are now indeed FILLED with endless crud about new BBC programmes....I.E. you will be PUMMELLED with images of black men, mixed race women and white women.The white woman will be in an ACTION pose or be seen talking down to a white, male underling.The black man will be doing NOTHING, perhaps glaring at the screen but that's about it. The mixed race female will be talking down to EVERYBODY, perhaps making an anti rascist or anti sexist comment.To finish there will be an image of a black MAN in bed with a white WOMAN.ALWAYS that way round NEVER the other!.
Do you have any more of the Bulletin or the ending?
@MattWindsor91 wouldn't be at all surprised if they were done using traditional animation in those days. Anyway, this is a great clip.
brilliant thank u
Ahh of course, the same with programmes for schools and colleges as it was over their summer holiday period! BBC1/2 must have been so bleak during daytimes back then. Surely on Saturdays and Sundays there was daytime tele on both channels tho, but there were probably still the odd testcards and pages from Ceefax thrown in here and there! ;)
The synth music sounds like a post production music fot a training video. unusual
first news of the day at lunch time
mmm, some sexy bbc1 globe ident and clock action...nice.
This aired Monday 7th September 1981 on BBC One, where the day's programming before this was 6.40am-7.55am Open University, then nothing until News Afternoon at 12.30pm. It wouldn't be until Monday 21st September 1981 when Schools Programmes would fill the time from around 9.05am until Midday. What laziness at the BBC. Over on ITV programming was on the air each day from 9.30am no matter whether schools were on or not.
John King Surprisingly enough, at least up until about 1987, when they brought out the service that is on now - well, a rough approximation, anyway -- what you got varied from region to region - but every programme that was shown on ITV in the morning during holiday time was shown without ads - if there was about five minutes between programmes, they would put a public information film on - sometimes about two or three - same if a programme actually had END OF PART ONE and PART TWO - they would slot a public information film on!
Sometimes, you would, in some areas, get a morning movie - usually of the type shown on Monday and - when there was no racing - Friday afternoons - and the odd Sunday, after the football - seemed weird, watching a movie on ITV with no ad breaks!
I admire ITV back then for providing a full service and when the schools were off they did not fall into the BBC laziness of showing nothing. Huge gaps I have seen when schools were off.
ITV had some issues with its testcard music and in 1975 the Regional Centres had changed hands to remote operation.
Does anyone know the title of the music being used?
It is called "Rocket Rhythm" by Nick Milner, from the Parry Album "Elektronix". 1979.
classic old news formal and familiar
Thats interesting to know and thanx for that info. Where was Pebble Mill At One back in 1981 then as I heard that started in the
70s ?! ;-)
Someone PLEASE give the name of the song!!!!!
+Joseph Wright Somewhere someone mentioned it was written by Freddie Phillips more famous for the music on Camberwick Green and Trumpton. Apparently he used to compose short pieces for the BBC for this type of use.
+David Baldwin I had always assumed that the music was a composition of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop...
(From Wikipedia) Mainly a classical guitarist, Phillips worked and performed in the fields of opera and ballet, including with The Royal Ballet, and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. His television career began with providing musical scores for a pair of short films by Lotte Reiniger, and composing short pieces for use in television continuity.
Might be something from the KPM library. They have produced some good synth tracks.
It is called "Rocket Rhythm" by Nick Milner, from the Parry Album "Elektronix". 1979.
What's the name of that song?
It is called "Rocket Rhythm" by Nick Milner, from the Parry Album "Elektronix". 1979.
I'm sure they've used this clip in the new Anchorman trailer :)
Sorry over-taped it with a 1983 newsnight
I use to watch news at one
oh not the old "I taped over it with a 1983 newsnight" line again, that's what they all say..lol.
excellent clip, 2 mins of that classic globe ident. was it moira stuarts debut on the main national news, could be.
Rest of it is like a cwilliams1976!! Except the continuity man hasn't got enough mucus in his sinuses, and there isnt a slide that says 'Follows Shortly'. And it only lasts 2 minutes.
All because BBC1 did not have a slide ready in time!!!!
You sure it wasn't Test Card G?
I.wonder did Patrick Moore do the wee bit at 2.09 lol
What happened to Richard Whitmore
Aged 87 now so I suppose he’s not doing a lot. He was doing a bit a stage acting during the later period of news reading (hence the moustache on some bulletins) also several books to his name.
This music must be from a synthesizer
Brilliant
There’s another Freddie Philips number on BBC interludes Blue Part Invention
didn't you go to work ?
12:30pm
globe of doom ?..lol it could be I suppose.
The BBC globe of doom.
as you do..lol.
In This Clip, From 2:01 To 2:28, It Was BBC-TV's BBC News After Noon Video Open From Monday Afternoon, September 7, 1981.