Post an obscure thing from the past without context

Filmer Paradise · 13-12-2023 11:31PM

The appliance of science.

14-12-2023 12:21AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121492071#Comment_121492071

Grange Hill

Hotblack Desiato · 15-12-2023 12:46AM

Where's Grandad? He just got up a minute ago to turn this off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBzhcgj5kec

spurious · 15-12-2023 09:37AM

IRC.

Hangdogroad · 15-12-2023 12:20PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121497166#Comment_121497166

Nice one, I'd been curious as to what was.

15-12-2023 01:00PM

It’s on the KPM LP Solid Gold which dates from 1976. I have quite a few 1970s library LPs but that one has always proved to be pricey.

https://www.discogs.com/release/2530177-Various-Solid-Gold

Hotblack Desiato · 15-12-2023 01:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121497657#Comment_121497657

Yes you do recall correctly 😉

Hotblack Desiato · 15-12-2023 01:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121498558#Comment_121498558

I wonder what the composer thought if he (a) ever found out that it was part of a cultural icon in Ireland (b) the producers chose it because they wanted a clip of some really annoying music 😁

Google song search brought it up right away

15-12-2023 01:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121498639#Comment_121498639

He (Keith Mansfield) is probably aware of it. Still alive. He was still performing with a number of other KPM heavyweights only a few years back. I saw them (The KPM Allstars) at The Jazz Cafe, London in mid 2000s. There was bedlam when Alan Hawkshaw started playing Chicken Man (which became the Grange Hill theme). Another Mansfield track from the same KPM album was used as the Grandstand theme for many years.

Keith Mansfield also composed Classical Action which was used as theme for RTE’s News & Newstime for years.

https://youtu.be/yDyWuoG4pSE?si=lJbEFF8owHPh-vFu

While Brian Bennett (member of The Shadows and still active) composed Thrilling Spectacle for another KPM LP. This later became the theme to RTE’s Sports Stadium.

https://youtu.be/eEnPzg3BVEo?si=wMxOzDRN2bC-OMFt

Hotblack Desiato · 15-12-2023 03:06PM

Sure while we're at it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjLmroMwjwg

Hotblack Desiato · 16-12-2023 02:05AM

Keith Mansfield also composed Classical Action which was used as theme for RTE’s News & Newstime for years.

In the 80s they moved away from that stuff and started using compositions by Frank "Free Gaff" McNamara, most of which sounded like they were played out by a BBC Micro [*]

[*] to be fair, the Music 500 peripheral for the BBC Micro https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Hybrid-Music-5000-Synthesiser/ but he seemed to stick to the default sounds/voices and it all sounded very samey. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRDthvSBjs4 which is all built-in sounds, this guy was being paid a fortune to produce crap.