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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26575
    #1

    Nostalgic Children's TV and other themes from childhood....

    The following posts elsewhere made me think that this subject could take a thread of its own!

    Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
    The 'cow-keepers tune' from the Two Nordic Melodies may have been the first piece of classical music that I came into contact with that I can remember through its use as the title music for The Woodentops on BBCTV.
    Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
    I never knew this!! After nearly 60 years I finally find this out! I used to like the Woodentops, probably because it was Friday. (Monday was Picture Book, Tuesday was Andy Pandy, Wednesday was Bill and Ben and Thursday was Tales from the Riverbank) Sorry about the off-topic nostalgia.

    I'd forgotten that there was a regular daily pattern like that (or perhaps I only saw the repeats )

    Some bloke has put together an account giving them in day order on YouTube, though he claims that Thursday was 'Rag Tag and Bobtail'

    A Week of Watch with Mother - Monday - Picture Book
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3P49n5m8bw&index=1&list=PL8C1710A8CDFD183D
    Picture Book was a Children's BBC TV series that first appeared in 1955. It was the Monday programme for weekday episodes of Watch with Mother.


    I don't remember 'Rag Tag' or 'Picture Book' really (ours was obviously an "Andy-Bill-'Tops" household!) - but I do remember the Bach-themed titles of the latter.

    I had no idea that the Woodentops theme was Grieg either!

    Here is the 'Riverbank' theme

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgUeWec-Aew
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    ....hugely nostalgic too !!

    Youtube is an amazing resource for fuelling nostalgia - and how potent the effect of some of that music heard when one was in single figures!

    So what are other members' most nostalgic themes etc from childhood?
    Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 27-05-14, 21:43.
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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  • teamsaint
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    • Nov 2010
    • 25231
    #2
    this is classic gold.
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26575
      #3
      Oh man, you've hit the bull's eye there, from a few years later. Right up there!

      Along, in similar vein, with

      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • teamsaint
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        • Nov 2010
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        #4
        never saw the show, but a great choon.
        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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        • Nick Armstrong
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          • Nov 2010
          • 26575
          #5
          A favourite of Alan Partridge!!

          The equine one I remember most distantly is this classic 60s number - haunting song or what?!
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Beef Oven!
            Ex-member
            • Sep 2013
            • 18147
            #6
            This did much to form my music listening preferences for later years.

            Then a few years later, the Clangers came along and I was pretty much sorted!

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            • Nick Armstrong
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              • Nov 2010
              • 26575
              #7
              .... Along with these other European classics which rendered the infant Caliban a permanent sucker for 60s French stuff:


              Totally classic music !!!!


              ps - Singing Ringing Tree freaked me out too much, the kids watched it at my godmother's house and I fled screaming.... Not into that Eastern European expressionist weird-fest! I think it formed my tastes too - in the opposite direction from yours, Beefo!
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • Nick Armstrong
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                • Nov 2010
                • 26575
                #8





                I wanted to BE Sebastien when I was that age!
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • Beef Oven!
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                  • Sep 2013
                  • 18147
                  #9
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  .... Along with these other European classics which rendered the infant Caliban a permanent sucker for 60s French stuff:


                  Totally classic music !!!!
                  That tune has never really left my head. The most catchy tune ever?

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25231
                    #10
                    at a certain age, just couldn't wait for this to fire up every week .....


                    and yes, the Robinson Crusoe is so evocative and brilliant.(not least cos it got endlessly repeated !!) Can imagine Echo and the Bunnymen doing it as a B side.
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • Beef Oven!
                      Ex-member
                      • Sep 2013
                      • 18147
                      #11
                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                      I wanted to BE Sebastien when I was that age!
                      Wasn't Sebastien the dog?

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26575
                        #12
                        Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                        That tune has never really left my head. The most catchy tune ever?
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26575
                          #13
                          Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                          Wasn't Sebastien the dog?
                          naaaa.... duh !

                          Belle is hardly a boy's name...




                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163
                            #14
                            I was always captivated by the wind quintet Music that accompanied Noggin the Nog:

                            - YouTube
                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vomnTQ113WQ
                            Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.


                            ... and anything from Gerry & Sylvia Anderson (Barry Gray, IIRC).
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • Beef Oven!
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                              • Sep 2013
                              • 18147
                              #15
                              A bit of class now......

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