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The Music

posted 20 years ago by smithybloke
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The description above, so eruditely written, rings alot of bells. I saw this ( repeatedly!) on the BBC during school holidays as part of the morning kiddies broadcast - it must have been early 1970's. This series, along with others like "The Flashing Blade" ( which must have had in excess of 235 episodes!) and The Singing Ringing tree (still gives me nightmares- AARGH! The Dwarf!), also featured. I'm looking those up next.

THE MUSIC - I heard an excerpt of one of the two themes dubbed over another TV piece and found it highly evocative. So much so that I feel the compulsion to pull on a Viscose/wool roll top pullover, hop of my Rayleigh Tomahawk bike & go to play footy at the 'Rec!! Just kidding.

I am surprised to read the BBC music was a dub - Does anyone know what the music is ?

Theme Tune " Da di-dit da da-daaah, Dedede, da da-de-da-da daaa"

Incidental Music "de-de de-doo doo, da-de de deeee"

Andrew Lloyd-Webber, eat your heart out.

[–] toxfly 20 years ago

It's been widely available for many years:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000025MR8/ref=pd_sr_ec_ir_aps/202-1582939-3904660

It seems to trigger off warm emotions in everyone who hears it. Worth the cost!

[–] britten_mark 19 years ago

Smithybloke - The Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe, Raleigh Tomahawks, ah the memories. I know it was a bit girly, and I probably never admitted it to my macho 7 year old mates, but I used to like the White Horses series too. Went looking for that here too, listed under "Ferien in Lipizza". Turns out the BBC trashed all the copies of that too about the same time. Makes you proud to be British eh?

[–] Jumbajookiba 17 years ago

Those bods at the BBC who trashed so much treasure and got paid for it too, it's a near damn miracle that the English language version survived (in France) and thank god it did. Kids don't know they're born today, I don't think Raven and all that other crap will be a warm fuzzy memory to them in 30 years.

I am a four eyed evil genius.