[78-L] QUESTION FOR dl

Mon Dec 7 19:29:39 PST 2020

 Theme records always interested me for some reason. Lots of them came from Chappell and Boosey & Hawkes libraries. "Alpine Pastures" was used by the BBC on "My Word" and it was also the theme of the CBC's "Plouffe Family" (not part of this discussion since that was tv, not radio).

A Sunday radio feature on the CBC called "Ask the Weatherman" used "Runaway Rocking Horse" (Boosey).

CFRB used a hunting horn to open the 8AM news with Jack Dennett, but that was a carryover from Jim Hunter (get it?) and it's the opening part of "Savoy Hunting Medley" by the New Mayfair Orchestra.

And for the National School Broadcasts, it was Gaudeamus Igitur..which IS heard in the Brahms Academic Festival Overture.

I'll leave now.

dl
     On Monday, December 7, 2020, 10:23:55 p.m. EST, dlennick dlennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:  

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Date: December 7, 2020 at 10:10 PM
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The part that Lone Ranger used of “Les Preludes”was where side 3 starts on the Ormandy PO recording on Victor. I admired whoever delved that deeply into a piece of music to find such an appropriate passage. I knew it was “Sambre et Meuse” but I always get those two mixed up; when I was in Grade one at Danforth Park School in Toronto, they always played “Sabre and Spurs” in the hallway as we were coming and going. 

I know dl could run circles around me in this discussion as he was far more involved in that world than I was in the early years. My involvement didn’t amount to much more than squatting in front of the large Westinghouse radio, (as I recall it was around nine feet tall), listening to the shows we’ve mentioned. 

Another one that’s just come to mind is an FBI drama that used the March from “Love of three Oranges”

db

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> On Dec 7, 2020, at 14:36, Ron Roscoe <jamesw.henryb at gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
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> Besides the William Tell Overture, the Lone Ranger used music from Lizst's "Les Preludes"!
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> Ron Rosoce
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> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
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> (Ron..please get my name recognized by 78-L so I don't have to keep forwarding things to my Yahoo address so I can respond!)
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> Corrections. Musical March Past's theme was LE REGIMENT DU SAMBRE ET MEUSE on Green Columbia (we had an old discarded copy). Originally English Columbia. 
> Rawhide used Clarinet Polka but not Les Paul, multi-tracked a la Les by George Barnes on Decca. I posted a link to it earlier.
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> Mein Lebenslauf (und so weiter) was used by WALTER KANITZ on RB and CKFM. I know, I had to play it every night.
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> dl
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> From: BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com.invalid>
> Date: December 6, 2020 at 10:05 PM
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> Here’s a couple - on CJBC at 9 AM, “Music in the Morning” used Brahms’ 1st Symphony, at 8:30 on CBL, “ Musical March Past” used “Sabre and Spurs”, school broadcasts used “Academic Festival Overture”. As was mentioned a few weeks ago, “Sargent Preston” used “Donna Diana Overture” and the “Lone Ranger” used - (now what WAS the name of that piece?). I think the Lux Radio Theatre used the finale of Swan Lake. In the late ‘50s, CFRB had a program called “Music in HiFi at 10PM that played the end of “Marche Slav” as a theme, and either CHFI or CFRB had a classical show that used “My life is Love and Joy”. Later, CHFI’s overnight classics show used Rachmaninoff’s second Symphony slow mvt.
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>> On Dec 6, 2020, at 18:31, David Lennick <dplennick at yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
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>> 'Smiles' was used only in the early years..here's the Happy Gang's regular theme from a late 40s program (CBC and for a while picked up in the States by Mutual).
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>> https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZXV267ZBcQzWr744UJF4GNnlFsfV8nFEgp7
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>> dl
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>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>> From: kil at roadrunner.com.invalid
>> Date: December 6, 2020 at 5:59 PM
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>> Great David, just what I was looking for.
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>> And thanks also to Graham and Donna. I take it that "The Happy Gang"
>> used SMILES as their theme with special lyrics. Did that hold true for
>> most of the years they were on the air?
>> 
>> RayK
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>> -----------------------------------------From: "David Lennick"
>> "Just Mary" used In A Clock Store. "Maggie Muggins" used The Kerry
>> Dance. Daily farm broadcasts used Country Gardens. A short-lived
>> program c. 1949 called Alan 'n' Me used The Grasshopper's Dance. Young
>> deejay Peter Jennings used "The Beachcomber" (Boosey & Hawkes 78) on
>> "Peter's Program. Max Ferguson (as himself and as old Rawhide) used
>> this great George Barnes version of Clarinet Polka.
>> 
>> David,
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>> Are you still out there?
>> 
>> Can you think of any themes from early Canadian radio programs? I
>> would say 1950s and back. They can be songs or classical or
>> semi-classical pieces. The more familiar, the better. Drama or comedy
>> programs would be best, but perhaps also music programs, if the
>> themes
>> were long-running and familiar. I figured you would know a couple
>> just
>> from memory. Thanks.
>> 
>> RayK
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