The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum » That time when TV used records...

ig · March 17, 2017 1:37 pm

I was going to post this in the Global Night Ride thread, but it might make an interesting one on it's own. I've always thought this would make a great BlogTO article, but never put the time into it.

There was a period where TV rather than paying for stock themes would just grab whatever record the producer liked and use it as a theme. Here's a bunch from the late 70's and early 80's that you might remember. Feel free to add any other you can think of..

CityPulse @6
Maynard Ferguson - Rocky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV5vwFbn2aM

CityPulse @10
Temptations - Masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZD3z7hbDKs

CityPulse @10
Graham Shaw - Pentatus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keBUlJdEzyM

CBC Toronto news
Maynard Ferguson - Soar Like an Eagle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXpcbEjFbuI

CTV W5
Supertramp - Fools Overture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLbYL10c1zo

Global NewsWeek
Silvetti - Spring Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMb2vm80R1s

Every sports show (especially tennis) at some point in the early 80's..
Dave Grusin - Electrophantasma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ZpzQkM52w

Can't remember who used this. (Another global show, but don't remember which one.)
Space - Magic Fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Y7ESqe6lM

ig · March 17, 2017 1:42 pm

Okay this wasn't an album, but you can't have a Toronto TV Music thread without it..

Al Ham - Move closer to your world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zbz2a3YFE
(At the correct speed

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ig · March 17, 2017 1:44 pm

Let me be the first to hijack my own thread...

Radio news themes..

CHFI Chronicle - Tim Weisberg - Moonchild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmnozZclC4Q

Fitz · March 17, 2017 3:38 pm

Here Come the 70's. Used Tillicum by Syrinx:

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Glen Warren · March 17, 2017 4:59 pm

CTV Can AM - 70s thru 80s
Ride My See Saw - The Moody Blues (instrumental cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIavaAdzNK0

CTV National News (The Harvey and Lloyd era)
Ballet 'Homage To The Athletes' Rock Movement - Victor Vogel (Montreal 1976 Olympics Music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_91Dw8XSY

24 Hours (CBC Toronto 6pm newscast during the 70s with Sharon Dunn)
Love's Theme - Barry White and Love Unlimited Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YS7sWCG_ZE

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ig · March 17, 2017 5:03 pm

Great catch !! (I now have a new ringtone )
Keep expecting to hear Len Carlson

Glen Warren wrote:
CTV National News (The Harvey and Lloyd era)
[size=200]Ballet 'Homage To The Athletes' Rock Movement - Victor Vogel (Montreal 1976 Olympics Music)[/size]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_91Dw8XSY

Since we're stuck on CTV how about Joyce Davidson..

George Benson - Breezin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pitnJlcv4

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ig · March 17, 2017 5:21 pm

Dunno if this should count or not, but this was another Global NewsWeek theme.. Can't remember what it was called, all I remember is it was a piece of DeWolfe stock music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPAWAQ0OMq8

Just a Radio Fan · March 17, 2017 7:08 pm

Many years ago at a Television station I worked for I looped the intro of Night Train by Steve Winwood and played it underneath highlights of the weekend in Sports. Too good not to use, although we did not have the rights. Don't ask, Don't tell.

BTW-Love Eminence Front by The Who playing underneath the new Chevrolet commercials. Perhaps the most underrated song by the band.

ig · March 17, 2017 7:11 pm

Just a Radio Fan wrote:
BTW-Love Eminence Front by The Who playing underneath the new Chevrolet commercials. Perhaps the most underrated song by the band.

I wish this board had a like button .

ig · March 17, 2017 7:15 pm

It always made me laugh how CityTV would use Neil Diamonds 'America' as it's sign on music. with lots of shots of sunrises over Toronto n' the like. It was either someone with my sense of humour or a bizarre choice.

Can't mention all that without this ofcourse
Tommy Ambrose - People City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJXAavGpi4

And the CityTV version used for their Sign Off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcBU2Yv4Nwo

Paul Jeffries · March 17, 2017 7:28 pm

I remember back in the early '80s CHCH News used music from The J.Geils Band for bumpers going into commercials, usually to promote what was coming up in sports. "Come Back" and "Freeze Frame" were commonly used. (I think they may have used "Centerfold" as well, if my memory serves correct). For a while they also used the Talking Heads' "Cross Eyed and Painless", and for the longest time "Once In a Lifetime" was the closing theme for CHCH news.

There was also a talk show on CFTO that used George Benson's "Breezin'" for their theme, but I can't remember which show that was.

PJ

ig · March 17, 2017 7:55 pm

Couple of CityTV classics..

You're Beautiful w/Micki Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y77HwJzOv0o

City Lights
Tom Scott - Street Beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuP_Y_itfiI
Lalo Schifrin - Flamingo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjwbT7Ti_Cc

Straight Talk - Tom Cherington (CHCH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx_2KkKnLyw
Alan Parsons Project - Mammagamma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZdvgpZyFiw

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ig · March 17, 2017 7:59 pm

Paul Jeffries wrote:
There was also a talk show on CFTO that used George Benson's "Breezin'" for their theme, but I can't remember which show that was.

Queen Elizabeth II's favourite program.. The Joyce Davidson Show.

Speaking of J. Geils, Chum-FM flooded local media with this one year promoting the Chum summer Midway:

J. Geils Band - I Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5h0A1u-XsE

Glen Warren · March 17, 2017 10:29 pm

CFTO The Family Finder, with Helen Allen and Dave Devall - Sunday afternoons at 1:00pm 60s to early 70s
All You Need is Love - The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsxtImDVMig

City TV - City Lights with Brian Linehan - 2nd theme used from late70s thru to the mid 80s
Flamingo - Lalo Schifrin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjwbT7Ti_Cc

Glen Warren · March 17, 2017 10:38 pm

CITV Edmonton, but aired on CHCH-TV in this market
Disco Daze from the Disco Palace late 70s
Machine Gun - The Commodores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-sLIX95ka4

Glen Warren · March 17, 2017 10:43 pm

CFTO Signoff - late 70s thru 80s, voiced over by Dave Devall
The Whale - ELO (scrub into 1:38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h7sA83BOZM

ig · March 17, 2017 10:44 pm

Glen Warren · March 17, 2017 10:45 pm

I'll give everyone a rest and take a break now......

Glen Warren · March 17, 2017 10:58 pm

I lied... short break.....

Global News
"The World Tonight"
11pm late cast with Robert Fisher (80s thru to mid 90s) used for bumps, bridges, and end credits/copyright.
Love on a Real Train - Tangerine Dream (from the Risky Business soundtrack)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9wo0cqq_Mk

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ig · March 17, 2017 10:58 pm

Glen Warren wrote:
I'll give everyone a rest and take a break now......

You n' me both. Some great eclectic stuff there though.

Glen Warren · March 18, 2017 12:44 am

Found it!!!

CFTO TV Hour Long with Isabel Bassett and Bill Rogers / Fraser Kelley / Tom Clarke 80s public affairs show
Rock That - Earth, Wind and Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmjPSusZ9zY

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Glen Warren · March 18, 2017 1:10 am

one more...

CHCH TV "Party Game" 70s to early 80s
Bond Street - Burt Bacharach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Vm2KoPsQE

Glen Warren · March 19, 2017 1:40 am

a couple of more that had airings on CHCH

The Leafs on 11 (mid week home game, typically Wednesday evenings) starting in fall 1978
(produced by Canadian Sport Network CSN and later successors)
Game summary / Next telecast bumper - isolated cue from within track (2:45)
Getaway - The Salsoul Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdbn0bzYWf8

The Original Six - Hockey series - early 80s
(produced by S.E.T. Special Event Television Inc. of which, a young Kevin O'Leary was a part owner)
Virage à gauche / Left Turn - Andre Gagnon (theme and end credits)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shl67fdL6pA

Don Cherry's Grapevine - 1983
(produced by S.E.T. Special Event Television Inc. of which, a young Kevin O'Leary was a part owner)
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn2-b_opVTo

Davester · March 22, 2017 3:31 pm

Awesome post... definitely brought back some memories!
But, who is going to find this one... The theme that Maple Leaf Wrestling used to use back in the early 70's on CHCH.
I also believe they used this musical cue on a couple of Gilligan Island episodes too!
Anyone?

Peter the K · March 22, 2017 4:04 pm

Davester wrote:
Awesome post... definitely brought back some memories!
But, who is going to find this one... The theme that Maple Leaf Wrestling used to use back in the early 70's on CHCH.
I also believe they used this musical cue on a couple of Gilligan Island episodes too!
Anyone?

You don't mean Herb Alpert's A Banda, do you?

Paul Jeffries · March 22, 2017 4:07 pm

ig wrote:
The New Music
Rush - 2012 temples of syrinx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCj3oBHSA5M

Didn't they use "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag" by Pigbag, or was that before or after Rush?

PJ

Peter the K · March 22, 2017 4:16 pm

Pigbag was used for a while on the new Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omYKI8RJaIg&ab_channel=Playthisagain

Also, The theme to the hilarious house of frightenstein.
From the Album, The Happy Moog by Jean Jacques Perrey and Harry Breuer.
I could only find the find whole album. The song starts at 20:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuGuQSpVOcg&t=1242s

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Glen Warren · March 22, 2017 5:05 pm

CBC news magazine geared to kids / youth

What's New - CBC early 70s
MacArthur's Park - Richard Harris (instrumental cue pulled at 4:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY

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Davester · March 22, 2017 9:21 pm

Peter the K wrote:
Davester wrote:
Awesome post... definitely brought back some memories!
But, who is going to find this one... The theme that Maple Leaf Wrestling used to use back in the early 70's on CHCH.
I also believe they used this musical cue on a couple of Gilligan Island episodes too!
Anyone?
You don't mean Herb Alpert's A Banda, do you?

'That's it! I guess it wasn't the same sound cue that they used for Gilligan lifting weights.
Thanks for posting it! Brings back good times watching wrestling with my Grandfather back in the early 70's.

Davester.

ssimpson · March 30, 2017 11:30 am

Can't forget the CityPulse News Test song: Warren Zevon - Night Time In The Switching Yard -- https://youtu.be/cJn39Tt8EJo