What is that soul jazz-ish song played on U.S. public broadcasting stations?

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I've heard this on every public access/PBS TV and radio station at some point(public domain?), usually playing in the background as they read off local community announcements or something. Sounds mid-late 70's, kind of a quiet but bouncy, funky organ riff with bass in the background(using the same organ they use on the 'Taxi' theme song iirc). I've never heard it in any other context where I could find out the name and I don't know enough about that era to even get a foothold but I like the song. George Benson maybe? Help?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 12 March 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Well, the Taxi theme was by the redoubtable Bob James. Most of his CTI stuff sounds much like any other. Bob James, Mike Post, but organ? The taxi theme is an electric piano, n'wahr?

Now, there is an ubiquitous piece of organ mucic going around that has provided the theme music for David Dickinson's "Bargain Hunt" on BBC. It is the very essence of the soul-jazz you are talking about and I too just recently heard it pop up on NPR. I searched some of the bbc boards, but couldn't find any source on it.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

a lead, thanks. piano, duly noted. Also, I might have meant George Duke, I dunno.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 12 March 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

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