Sminky shorts
The appliance of science.
Grange Hill
Where's Grandad? He just got up a minute ago to turn this off
IRC.
Nice one, I'd been curious as to what was.
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
Yes you do recall correctly 😉
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
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.
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.
Sure while we're at it
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.
Yeah Frank was well up the RTE ladder!
Turn your radio on, to 253.
Radiooooo Duuuublinnnnn
Run by a sex pervert.
We're all paying for wánkers like them, insulated from their bad choices.
Young Mr. Grace.
Rob Hubbard.
Wasn't it Ron?
No, definitely Rob.
C64 owners will understand.
Would you by any chance have a copy of Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley?
Ron Hubbard was the Scientology guy, still probably appropriate for here all the same?
"The phrase that pays"
"you are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop"
or
"The drop becomes the ocean." ....... "The ocean becomes a drop."
No way McGarret!
Always the Cyclops.
Not nearly obscure enough, unfortunately...
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Exit stage left, even.
Nanu Nanu
Fetchit and Grabbit
Sergeants Booker and Takeheraway.
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