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ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE CHARTS - 1969
Song that entered the charts : " Theme from Midnight Cowboy"
Performed By : Ferrante and Teicher
HCP = 8
This song was from the movie "Midnight Cowboy." The music was written by John Barry.
SYD DALE
Syd Dale was an English self-taught composer and arranger of funk, easy listening and library music. His music played an important role on TV, radio and advertising media of the 1960s and 1970s.
Dale started as an apprentice engineer at Rowntree's chocolate factory at 16. Soon big band music, very popular in the 1940s, became his passion. He spent as much time as possible listening to the Big Bands and studying the arrangements. Three years later, in 1945, he left the factory and joined several local bands as pianist and arranger.
His music, which emphasized melody and harmony with intricate arrangements, was composed for many television and radio projects. He was musical director on Oh Boy, Six-Five Special and Braden's Week. He had also co-arranged and co-produced some 007 themes as many other commercial successes. Another of his many production music pieces, the bongo drum and harpsichord-driven "Cuban Presto" was used by WPIX (Channel 11) in New York City as the theme for its late-night movie show, The Channel 11 Film Festival, from the late 1960s to the 1980s.
In 1971, he founded the Amphonic Music record label, with the purpose of recording and producing his compositions and supplying music to the TV, film and radio business.
In the mid-1970s, he released a track for the disco/teen market called "The Flasher", creating a dance craze of skipping backwards and forwards on the dance floor widely demonstrated at Spenborough Youth Club, West Yorkshire.
Through the 1970s and 1980s his "The Hellraisers" composition was used as the theme music to the BBC World Service Outlook topical programme.
In the 1970s, another composition of Dale's, "Walk and Talk", was used as the introductory music to the BBC's transmitter information, usually broadcast on BBC 2 in the mornings.
His music is still used in productions today. For example, his "Beauty Parade" was used in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Spy Buddies" . In the TV comedy series Episodes, the tune "Two Time" is the ringtone on Matt Leblanc's iPhone. "Man Friday" was used as the theme tune to LWT's Tarrant on TV; and in the episode of "Speed 3" with Milkman Pat Mustard, in Father Ted.
FOOLS RUSH IN
"Fools Rush In" (1940) is a popular standard. The lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer with music by Rube Bloom.
The song proved popular with 1960s pop and rhythm and blues artists, resulting in charted remakes in 1960-61 (Brook Benton), 1962 (Etta James), and Ricky Nelson (in 1963).
MHO
Original and warm sounding arrangement of the 1940 classic. Though the instrumentation is limited, the sound is rich and full bodied with the organ providing a sense of warmth and "cosyness". It is interesting to see that one and the same song can have quite different arrangements while sounding terribly good each and every time again. (See also : version by Andre Kostelanetz on this channel).
A warm sounding tune for the cold winterdays here in the northern hemisphere but .... we wish our friends in Australia and elsewhere on the Southern hemisphere an equal amount of listening pleasure ;-) ! Enjoy.
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE CHARTS - 1969
Song that entered the charts : " Theme from Midnight Cowboy"
Performed By : Ferrante and Teicher
HCP = 8
This song was from the movie "Midnight Cowboy." The music was written by John Barry.
SYD DALE
Syd Dale was an English self-taught composer and arranger of funk, easy listening and library music. His music played an important role on TV, radio and advertising media of the 1960s and 1970s.
Dale started as an apprentice engineer at Rowntree's chocolate factory at 16. Soon big band music, very popular in the 1940s, became his passion. He spent as much time as possible listening to the Big Bands and studying the arrangements. Three years later, in 1945, he left the factory and joined several local bands as pianist and arranger.
His music, which emphasized melody and harmony with intricate arrangements, was composed for many television and radio projects. He was musical director on Oh Boy, Six-Five Special and Braden's Week. He had also co-arranged and co-produced some 007 themes as many other commercial successes. Another of his many production music pieces, the bongo drum and harpsichord-driven "Cuban Presto" was used by WPIX (Channel 11) in New York City as the theme for its late-night movie show, The Channel 11 Film Festival, from the late 1960s to the 1980s.
In 1971, he founded the Amphonic Music record label, with the purpose of recording and producing his compositions and supplying music to the TV, film and radio business.
In the mid-1970s, he released a track for the disco/teen market called "The Flasher", creating a dance craze of skipping backwards and forwards on the dance floor widely demonstrated at Spenborough Youth Club, West Yorkshire.
Through the 1970s and 1980s his "The Hellraisers" composition was used as the theme music to the BBC World Service Outlook topical programme.
In the 1970s, another composition of Dale's, "Walk and Talk", was used as the introductory music to the BBC's transmitter information, usually broadcast on BBC 2 in the mornings.
His music is still used in productions today. For example, his "Beauty Parade" was used in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Spy Buddies" . In the TV comedy series Episodes, the tune "Two Time" is the ringtone on Matt Leblanc's iPhone. "Man Friday" was used as the theme tune to LWT's Tarrant on TV; and in the episode of "Speed 3" with Milkman Pat Mustard, in Father Ted.
FOOLS RUSH IN
"Fools Rush In" (1940) is a popular standard. The lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer with music by Rube Bloom.
The song proved popular with 1960s pop and rhythm and blues artists, resulting in charted remakes in 1960-61 (Brook Benton), 1962 (Etta James), and Ricky Nelson (in 1963).
MHO
Original and warm sounding arrangement of the 1940 classic. Though the instrumentation is limited, the sound is rich and full bodied with the organ providing a sense of warmth and "cosyness". It is interesting to see that one and the same song can have quite different arrangements while sounding terribly good each and every time again. (See also : version by Andre Kostelanetz on this channel).
A warm sounding tune for the cold winterdays here in the northern hemisphere but .... we wish our friends in Australia and elsewhere on the Southern hemisphere an equal amount of listening pleasure ;-) ! Enjoy.
