The man of a thousand BBC sitcom themes, passed away from complications of a stroke yesterday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7023501.stm
The composer said he always tried to make the music fit the title of the programme - using a piccolo to spell out the title to Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em in Morse code.
That's pretty bad-ass.
― stevie, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:24 (seventeen years ago)
Blankey Blank, Blankety Blank dum dum Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank dum dum Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank Blankety Blank!
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago)
Where is the love for Ronnie Hazlehurst
The man deserves threads here and there for sure.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago)
And I really wish I'd put a question mark on that thread title.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago)
"To The Manor Born" was THE classic. Like a kind of mellowed-out Dambusters theme.
It certainly captured the essence of Peter Bowles in musical form.
― PhilK, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago)
ho ho ho http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/wikipedia_obituary_cut_and_paste/
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 4 October 2007 09:46 (seventeen years ago)
Haha, I saw that on the BBC News and was all NO WAY DID HE WRITE S CLUB 7 songs!
― ailsa, Thursday, 4 October 2007 09:50 (seventeen years ago)
(apologies for incorrect shoutiness)
― ailsa, Thursday, 4 October 2007 09:51 (seventeen years ago)
How did that other verse of "Blankety Blank" go again? Something about a "supermatch game"? That was a good verse.
― everything, Thursday, 4 October 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago)
i always heard it as "come on and supermatch game, supermatch game, supermatch game....SUPERMATCH GAME" but can that be right?
the clever bit was the note change for the third "supermatch game"
― blueski, Thursday, 4 October 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago)
lol BBC pwned
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 4 October 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago)
Any mileage in discussing "Are You Being Served" as early example of sampling or as an influence on Pink Floyd's "Money"?
― everything, Thursday, 4 October 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago)
Covered by Coil, too.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 4 October 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago)
Me pwned also. I totally fell for that - i thought it seemed unlikely, but then I thought it unlikely enough that Cathy Dennis was the writer of hit songs also (what little did I know) so why wouldn't she have taken advice from a master songsmith like Hazlehurst!
I prefer to live in the made up wikipedia world.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 4 October 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago)