{"id":9369,"date":"2011-05-16T00:08:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T04:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9369"},"modified":"2011-05-16T08:39:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:39:06","slug":"ear-worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/ear-worms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ear worms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve had a musical track bothering me: I knew it very well, but didn&#8217;t know what it was called or where I&#8217;d encountered it. An unexpected earworm from the past. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, I finally managed to track it down &mdash; it&#8217;s the theme music to a British TV show that I don&#8217;t remember watching (yet I know the theme music very well):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UmUOee7fRRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very distinctive late-60s to early 70s sound. I have no idea why I know it so well: perhaps my dad used to watch the show and I just heard the music in the background. Actually, that&#8217;s the only thing I could come up with to explain why I&#8217;d know the theme music, yet not remember ever having watched the TV show.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d exorcise the earworm demon and buy a copy from iTunes. But no, they&#8217;ve got several covers of the music by various artists (including an interesting version by the Band of the 1st Battalion, the Duke of Wellington&#8217;s Regiment &mdash; currently classified as &#8220;Rock&#8221; by iTunes), but not the original. HMVDirect has a similar selection (covers, but no original performance). &#8220;Curses, foiled again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I found out more about the TV show from <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/The_Sweeney\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesweeney.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unofficial <em>Sweeney<\/em> website<\/a>, and a true labour of love, a page devoted to sleuthing up all the many musical tracks used in the original series named for the only album of music released: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mark-1.co.uk\/Sweeney%20tracks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shut it! The Music of &#8220;The Sweeney&#8221;<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This page is an ongoing development to identify the 300 different pieces of music used in the 1970s British television series <em>The Sweeney<\/em>. As is common practice with many television shows, other than the specially-comissioned title theme, Harry South&#8217;s unforgettable, rousing actioner, &#8220;ready-made&#8221; music was mostly used to provide incidental themes to the action. These came from specialist &#8220;Production Music&#8221; houses, the most well-known being De Wolfe, KPM (Keith Prowse Music), Chappell and Bruton. The years 1971 to 1978 arguably represented the genre&#8217;s most creative era (before competition and corporatism took over and strangled much artistic creativity), serendipitously co-inciding with production of <em>The Sweeney<\/em> itself.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001 Sanctuary Records issued a <em>Sweeney<\/em> CD compilation with 25 tracks used in the show. As good as it was, it really only scratched the surface and sadly no further volumes have been forthcoming. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But unless I happen across a physical copy of the CD, I&#8217;m stuck with my persistent earworm. Here&#8217;s the closing credits, in hopes it&#8217;ll help banish it from my mind temporarily:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fspz4PTEpy0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few weeks, I&#8217;ve had a musical track bothering me: I knew it very well, but didn&#8217;t know what it was called or where I&#8217;d encountered it. An unexpected earworm from the past. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, I finally managed to track it down &mdash; it&#8217;s the theme music to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[200,101],"class_list":["post-9369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","tag-music","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2r7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9369"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9371,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions\/9371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}