| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 801.1 | | SHAPES::FIDDLERM | | Wed Feb 06 1991 08:28 | 6 |
| It called itself Whistle Test for a while, then vanished. Must have
gone around 87 ish? There now seems to be a lack of decent music shows
on TV. SNUB shows videos, and occasional live footage, and The Word is
a good cure for insomnia. Bring back the Tube!
Mikef
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| 801.2 | | RUTILE::MACFADYEN | The beech forests of Antarctica | Wed Feb 06 1991 09:53 | 13 |
| OGWT had a bit of a revamp in the early 80s, must have been around the
time Bob Harris left, surprise surprise. It became, as .1 noted, known
simply as Whistle Test and for two or three years was very good. But
Ch4 and Beeb2 seemed to lose their taste for good pop programmes in the
mid-80s. The Tube disappeared, a sad loss since nothing has ever been
as good again, and the BBC first shortened WT from 50 minutes to 30
minutes, then axed it altogether for no apparent reason. Nowadays
there's Rapido and Snub (not that I get to see them anymore) and,
depressingly, Bob Harris is back on radio 1 playing his favourite
boring old records (great show if you like the, yeeuch, Eagles)
Rod
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| 801.3 | signed, Disgruntled music fan | CHEFS::IMMSA | adrift on the sea of heartbreak | Wed Feb 06 1991 12:55 | 11 |
| It really is about time the media in the UK (and by that I mean TV) got
its act together and put on some decent music.
The exception seems to be CH4, but the beeb must have hours and hours
of great music on tape.....why can't they show some of it instead of
giving us hours of opera on a Saturday night, every boring moment of
the proms, every year etc etc. and all those films which they repeat
over and over again.
andy
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| 801.4 | put some mindsa at ease! | MOEUR8::BOYD | Whatever happened to vanishing cream? | Fri Nov 04 1994 13:01 | 3 |
| Question (and I dont know the answer)
Who played the theme music for the OGWT
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| 801.5 | From the mists of time | UPROAR::WEBSTERM | any old string | Fri Nov 04 1994 16:36 | 6 |
|
Just a guess ;
Focus ?
Mike
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| 801.6 | | UBOHUB::FIDDLER_M | The sense of being dulls my mind | Fri Nov 04 1994 16:40 | 4 |
| Wasn't it 'Just Beats Working', or was that the dance version of a
couple of years ago?
Mikef
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| 801.7 | Not much use but..... | PAKORA::DMILLER | Hello...it's me. | Sun Nov 06 1994 13:21 | 7 |
|
All I remember is that either the tune or the band were called
something like " Stone Fox Chase" or there abouts.
Any help?
Derek.
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| 801.8 | | UBOHUB::FIDDLER_M | The sense of being dulls my mind | Mon Nov 07 1994 10:07 | 5 |
| Hmm
Area Code 651 maybe?
Mikef
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| 801.9 | | MUGGER::BRIBE::HODGES | Crisis, What Crisis? | Wed Nov 16 1994 09:11 | 5 |
|
It was "Stone Fox Chase" by "Area Code 615" freaturing Charlie McCoy on
Harmonica.
Mick
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