Gay Byrne Radio Show - Theme Tune

YeatsCounty

Sorry if this has been posted here recently, but I haven't come across it here on Boards. Does anyone have a recording of the theme tune for the Gay Byrne Radio Show? I'm watching 'Gaybo' on RTE One and that tune is in my head now, and it reminds me of many mornings through my childhood. Any help is greatly appreciated!

sharkman

YeatsCounty wrote:

Sorry if this has been posted here recently, but I haven't come across it here on Boards. Does anyone have a recording of the theme tune for the Gay Byrne Radio Show? I'm watching 'Gaybo' on RTE One and that tune is in my head now, and it reminds me of many mornings through my childhood. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thats funny , I'm watching it myself and was just about to ask !

YeatsCounty

sharkman wrote:

Thats funny , I'm watching it myself and was just about to ask !

Haha, seriously.
It was a memorable tune alright. Of course, I was too busy eating my toast/frosties in the morning to actually listen to the show. Plus, I was only around five when I was around every morning to hear the tune. I had to leave earlier for school a couple of years after that.

celticwarriorjb

damm ye so do i want this, i love my retro stuff. there used to be a website that done a few irish theme tunes i just checked now and it seems to be gone!:(

whiskeyman

anyone remember the one for liveline?
I was sure that could have been remixed into a deadly dance tune!!

sharkman

Anyone ????

FatherTed

It's on one of the Scrap Saturday CDs I have, Morgan and Stembridge did a few skits on Gaybo. I'll have to dig it out. Give me a few days.

YeatsCounty

FatherTed wrote:

It's on one of the Scrap Saturday CDs I have, Morgan and Stembridge did a few skits on Gaybo. I'll have to dig it out. Give me a few days.

That's grand, thanks a million.

sharkman

Any luck with that fatherted ???

CrowdedHouse

whiskeyman wrote:

anyone remember the one for liveline?
I was sure that could have been remixed into a deadly dance tune!!

Over the moors - Stocktons Wing
(Album name - Full Flight (I think)

Silvera

I taped one of the last Gay Byrne radio shows - must dig out the tape sometime.

........also taped a couple of the last Late Late shows (with Gaybo) !

sharkman

Did anyone ever get this ???

KStaford

Guys

I am after the theme tune to the Gay Byrne radio show also, and just for your info, I emailed RTE recently asking them if they could make it available and what it was called etc. They wont make it available but they did tell me whats its called and who composed etc. here goes...

Title: Tico's Tune
Artist: Manuel
Composer: Greene
Publisher: Harvard & Mecolico
Label: Colombia DB 7686

Please someone post this, and any clips of the show itself.
Check out my RTE nostalgia page and my Wanderly Wagon page on my scrapbook here http://www.kieranstafford.com/scrapbook/scrapbook.htm

YeatsCounty

Cheers for the information KStaford!

KStaford

You're welcome Yeats.

Come on guys, someone must have a recording of this music / the show. Please post it. Please Please Please (now getting down on knees)

ooconnor

CrowdedHouse wrote:

Over the moors - Stocktons Wing
(Album name - Full Flight (I think)

Before Joe Duffy took over the show, Marian Finnucane used to use "Atlantic Bridge" by Davy Spillane from the album of the same name. The opening bars were played on dobro by Jerry Douglas.

ooconnor

Does anybody remember Newsnight with Dermot Mullane when RTE2 first began. The theme tune was "Casino" by Al Di Meola. I have it on mp3.

Then of course there was The Riordans. I'd love to get that one because I was born during the Riordans.

Or how about when Questions & Answers first began with Olivia Oleary. They had a nice acoustic guitar tune. Any info?

Hanly's People was a short-lived series of interviews by David Hanly. Another acoustic guitar tune similar to the above. Info please?

But the holy grail for me has to be the theme to Cross Country Quiz - RTE's flagship quiz programme before Quicksiliver blew them out of the water. I think the quizmaster Jim Kearney? Anyway the music was a stacatto tune that sounded almost like it was played on milk bottles (remember those?). The damn thing has been going round in my head for the past 30 years. Somebody help!!

DublinWriter

ooconnor wrote:

RTE's flagship quiz programme before Quicksiliver blew them out of the water.

The mind boggles. How unbelievably bad must it have been to have Quicksilver blow it out of the water.

ooconnor

DublinWriter wrote:

The mind boggles. How unbelievably bad must it have been to have Quicksilver blow it out of the water.

Stop the lights! Quicksilver was a bit like a fairground coconut shy whereas Cross Country Quiz was a more cerebral effort. In the end it was the lure of easy money and Bunny's 60p questions that won out.

Eventually even the mighty Bunny Carr would be scurrying for cover from the technological steamroller that was to be Murphy's Micro Quiz M.

Degsy

ooconnor wrote:

Stop the lights! Quicksilver was a bit like a fairground coconut shy whereas Cross Country Quiz was a more cerebral effort. In the end it was the lure of easy money and Bunny's 60p questions that won out.

Eventually even the mighty Bunny Carr would be scurrying for cover from the technological steamroller that was to be Murphy's Micro Quiz M.

Indeed."Sylvester..see vous plais!"..*beeeoing!"

AND runners up prizes consisted of such space age technology as a plastic ruler with integrated calculator..*gasp*

DublinWriter

ooconnor wrote:

Eventually even the mighty Bunny Carr would be scurrying for cover from the technological steamroller that was to be Murphy's Micro Quiz M.

Yes, QUAKE! before the awe-inspiring graphic reality produced by the state of the art BBC B micro!

Even at the time I remember it being pretty cheesy. All the software for the show was written by Glanmire of Cork...who haven't gone away you know.

nlgbbbblth

I have it on vinyl

The RTE Concert Orchestra - Greatest Themes LP (K-Tel/RTE, 1987)
Side 1 is television themes, side 2 radio themes

The Gay Byrne Show - Tico's Theme

The Orchestra play it pretty well.

My standalone CD burner (which I use for burning vinyl) is on the blink. If I get it fixed I'll try and make a copy and convert to mp3.

YeatsCounty

Nice one nlgbbbblth, hope you get your CD burner working again. Thanks!

crosstownk

nlgbbbblth wrote:

I have it on vinyl

The RTE Concert Orchestra - Greatest Themes LP (K-Tel/RTE, 1987)
Side 1 is television themes, side 2 radio themes

The Gay Byrne Show - Tico's Theme

The Orchestra play it pretty well.

My standalone CD burner (which I use for burning vinyl) is on the blink. If I get it fixed I'll try and make a copy and convert to mp3.

I have this too. You're right the RTE CO do a good job of it. If I remember correctly it also has others like the "Today Tonight" theme, Glenroe, the old News theme, Dallas, Hill Street Blues, The Riordans and loads more - I'm gonna have to dig this out and set up my turntable to my laptop...........ahhh nostalgia:D

sharkman

Did anyone ever get this tune ????

sharkman

Bump !!!!!!:(

viking

From "Scrap, The Collection"

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I've just read the "trading MP3's" sticky at the top of this forum and I'm not sure whether me posting a snippet of the GB theme tune from a copyrighted CD is breaking the rules. Perhaps WhiteWashMan can clarify?

WhiteWashMan

indeed.

id rather people didnt start posting up links to copyrighted material.

thanks

viking

Thanks for the clairfication.

crosstownk

Email RTÉ and ask them how you can source this material. The album is an RTÉ publication so they should have all relevant info.

KStaford

Sorry to revamp an old thread but I found a link to the RTE archive site. On there are clips form various RTE output etc.

On this page - http://www.rte.ie/laweb/brc/brc_1970s.html
There is a clip from the gay Byrne Radio show from 1977 includign the intro (Tico's Tune).

Direct link to smil here
http://www.rte.ie/laweb/smil/brc/brc70s_gbhour_radio.smil

viking

Nice find...

Hilarious to listen to again....

"NNNyeesss, I have grave doubts myself about the righteousness of that thing in thats happening in Cork..."

"...never thought of the noise quotient, did you no, neither did I..."

The scrap saturday guys had Gay and his ways down to a "T".

Deacon Blues

First thought was did RTE search for an example of Uncle Gaybo at his most patronising, but then I remembered that no, this was just an example of an ordinary GB Show. This was him as he was.

RayM

I actually thought that was just a clip from Scrap Saturday. Jesus, I'd forgotten that he was that bad.

hybreasal

Has anyone any ideas / explanations about this.

I've been trying for years to obtain a copy of the original (not the RTE Orchestra version) theme music from The Gay Byrne Show.

(As described previously in this thread- it was
Title: Tico's Tune
Artist: Manuel
Composer: Greene
Publisher: Harvard & Mecolico
Label: Colombia DB 7686)

I eventually tracked down and bought a rare 45 vinyl on ebay of the above single but when I listened to it, it wasn't the tune at all although it did sound like something from the same artist. All the above details matched.

I double checked with RTE on a number of occasions and even spoke to Gay Byrne himself recently about it (a very nice man I must say) & they still maintain that this is the correct title of the tune despite me having a 45 single which isn't it.

Has anyone obtained a copy of the music themselves or can shed anylight on my experience?

KStaford

RayM wrote: »

I actually thought that was just a clip from Scrap Saturday. Jesus, I'd forgotten that he was that bad.

I have to say, I absolutely loved and Gay as a broadcaster. His radio show was with me from childhood and I was a hige fan of his late late on TV. He does a winter slot now on Lyric FM on Sunday afternoons. Usually 6-8 weeks in the middle of winter and it's a classic.
Brilliant beautiful radio at a slow natural interesting pace. That's one of the things I loved about him, he was always interesting, conversations were natural and progressed organically, not reading off a goddam cue card. We never had it so good when he was around. He was a one in a million broadcaster.

Deacon Blues

I've got to say, that apart from the patronising way he spoke, I do admire him. Many of his interviews were fantastic, and he was capable of getting the best from difficult guests. Compared to the likes of what followed (and I'm not specifically thinking of Kenny) on RTE, there was a huge vacuum created. I caught a bit of Miriam interviewing Jack Charlton last week. I was stunned. Hadn't seen her trying to do that role before. I thought she was completely out of her depth with current affairs, but didn't think that she couldn't even handle entertainment. And then the self congratulatory promos for the show !!! But I digress. If only Gaybo wasn't so patronising, he'd be perfection.

Firetrap

Yeah, he was damn good when he wasn't patronising people. They repeated his Late Late Show interview with Nuala O'Faolain a few weeks ago when she died. There's no way she would have given the same interview to Pat Kenny.

KStaford

I saw the Nuala O'Faolain interview, it was amazing. I remember those Saturday nights in the 70's when I was a kid and then the 80's when the Late Late would be on.
It's amazing that I was a fan all my life, so even as a kid, I wanted to watch the late Late, then as a teenager, then as a 20 something etc. Throughout all the phases of my life, I was a fan.

He was a little patronising sometimes, but so what. Looking back at clips of his interviews and his radio show. he did things at a beautiful slow pace. Everything was natural, during an interview you'd be thinking of a question you'd like to ask and then he would ask it. And because the interview was natural and organic, it could go anywhere and end up anywhere - he wasn't afraid of that, he embraced it. The closest thing to it nowadays is Marianne Finucane on weekend mornings - some great interviews.

RayM

Admittedly, the Late Late Show is crap without him. For all his irritating little faults, Gaybo was a great chatshow host. I like Miriam O'Callaghan on Prime Time, but her Saturday night thing is a bit embarrassing - partly because of the set and choice of guests.

Fozzy

Here's the old Liveline one mentioned earlier. It's a clip from the artist's website: http://www.stocktonswinglive.com/audio/ff01.mp3

Brings back the memories of being over in my granny's house

Dithane

Loved reading thru the above stuff. ..

Anyone know if the Riordan's theme tune might reside on the web ...
(mp2, Midi, whatever... )

The Riordan's clip on the RTE Archive doesn't include the theme music...
And the Concert Orchestra title doesn't appear to be still available - might have to browse the 2nd hand shops...

Any info appreciated...

icdg

Fozzy wrote: »

Here's the old Liveline one mentioned earlier. It's a clip from the artist's website: http://www.stocktonswinglive.com/audio/ff01.mp3

Brings back the memories of being over in my granny's house

That's still the Liveline theme today, as a quick check on RTÉ's Listen Again service tells me. Come to think of, I can't ever remember there being another one, IIRC that was used by Marian Finucane also, at least in later years, but maybe there was.

RTÉ Radio 1 tend to be conservative with changing many of their jungles. Pat Kenny changed his theme sometime in the mid-1990s IIRC. Then again, Morning Ireland has been through several themes in its lifetime (sometimes depending on how RTÉ News is branding in any particular period)

tbh

anyone remember "Harbour Hotel"?

nlgbbbblth

tbh wrote: »

anyone remember "Harbour Hotel"?

yes! always on around 12:45pm - just before lunch

IRISH RAIL

Today tonight was the best
I remember watching it one night they were doing a thing about a robbery in a post office in monahan when all of a sudden three guys with m16s appear from the back of a trailer trying to shoot down a british army helicopter, I just remember seeing that guys face scrunch up when the shots rang out:D

crosstownk

tbh wrote: »

anyone remember "Harbour Hotel"?

Holy sh1t! There's a blast from the past. It used to be on the radio when Dad collected us from school at lunch time.

DublinWriter

tbh wrote: »

anyone remember "Harbour Hotel"?

Yes! Each show usually started with a woman shouting "Gabriel! GABRIEL!" over the sound of clanking dishes.

KC61

DublinWriter wrote: »

Yes! Each show usually started with a woman shouting "Gabriel! GABRIEL!" over the sound of clanking dishes.

That would have been Mrs. Doyle in the kitchen, played by Daphne Carroll!

Speer

KStaford wrote: »

I have to say, I absolutely loved and Gay as a broadcaster. His radio show was with me from childhood and I was a hige fan of his late late on TV. He does a winter slot now on Lyric FM on Sunday afternoons. Usually 6-8 weeks in the middle of winter and it's a classic.
Brilliant beautiful radio at a slow natural interesting pace. That's one of the things I loved about him, he was always interesting, conversations were natural and progressed organically, not reading off a goddam cue card. We never had it so good when he was around. He was a one in a million broadcaster.

I couldn't agree more.He was superb.He's Still badly missed off the daily radio schedule.

Firetrap

I was listening to Rachael English on Saturday. During the show, she had George Lee on a guest going through some old radio clips. One of them was Harbour Hotel Link - the Harbour Hotel bit is about 52 minutes in. Needs Real Player