RTE radio 1 pre-broadcast 1980's

mobrienct

Hi all,
I'm not sure if the answer is on here somewhere, so I apologies. My question is this and I hope someone out there can answer it for me. Back in the 80's I used to listen to RTE1 in the morning, but the broadcast didn't start till around 5:30 or 6:00, can't remember which. Anyway, there was a piece of music played over and over again in a couple of seconds intervals. It was about 23 notes in all and would be followed by pips, then back to the music and so forth. Anyway, I want to find that piece of music if anyone knows what it's called or if you have a link to it somewhere you could post. I haven't lived in Ireland for the last 20 years so it's a bit of a nostalgic thing I would love to find. Thank you all.

P. Breathnach

The tune was O'Donnell Abu.

A different version from that played on RTÉ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzuRuW_mqwo

Fuzzy Clam

Can be found here http://www.intervalsignals.net/

Losty Dublin

P. Breathnach wrote: »

The tune was O'Donnell Abu.

A different version from that played on RTÉ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzuRuW_mqwo

OP, O'Donnell Abú still is played daily at 5:30AM weekdays and 6AM on Sunday Mornings. If you are interested, here is a good link to a MP3 of same.

http://www.kieranmurray.com/audio/radio_eireann_callsign_o_donnell_abu_original.mp3

http://www.kieranmurray.com/audio/radio_eireann_callsign_o_donnell_abu_original.mp3

Greenman

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Can be found here http://www.intervalsignals.net/

Great find thanks.:)

Bard

... and of course a brief bit of it is still used at the beginning of the RTÉ television news.