Comments on: Is the BP theme broken? http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088 Contemporary and classic British TV Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Mike http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088&cpage=1#comment-2297 Mike Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:16:14 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088#comment-2297 The current Blue Peter theme tun eis amazing! After it was made more Barnacle Bill-like in October last year, it is really great, modern and teenage! Well done Blue Peter!

]]> By: sH http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088&cpage=1#comment-348 sH Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:03:49 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088#comment-348 That’s very possibly the worst sounding mess I’ve ever heard. I can only assume the guitar part was scored using some sort of random chord generating system. Horrific.

]]> By: Ken Shinn http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088&cpage=1#comment-324 Ken Shinn Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:07:12 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088#comment-324 Oops, sorry Ian, but no it isn’t. Turkey In The Straw sort of goes:

Diddle-iddle-iddle-um,
Diddle-iddle-iddle-um,
Diddle-um-dum-diddle
Diddle-um-dum-dum…

…etc.

A rather nice crude electronic version was to be heard on early 80s arcade game Bagman.

]]> By: Ian Jones http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088&cpage=1#comment-322 Ian Jones Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:25:02 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088#comment-322 Oh, and a slight return on Steve’s comment. The tune to Do You Balls Hang Low is actually Turkey In The Straw, a traditional American country number.

]]> By: Rob Williams http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088&cpage=1#comment-320 Rob Williams Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:01:09 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088#comment-320 Talk about the worst of a bad job! Why not get Simon Groom to do a DJ version!

]]> By: Michael Hoskin http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088&cpage=1#comment-319 Michael Hoskin Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:43:51 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088#comment-319 Yes, I agree with Ian. It starts off as the Sailor’s Hornpipe, but then they have added a bit of Barnacle Bill at the end. What a mess. But it is a sort of admission that it *was* wrong to begin with!

]]> By: Ian Jones http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088&cpage=1#comment-318 Ian Jones Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:24:38 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088#comment-318 That’s three quarters of the Sailor’s Hornpipe with a dash of Barnacle Bill badly edited onto the end.

]]> By: Graham Kibble-White http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088&cpage=1#comment-317 Graham Kibble-White Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:15:44 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088#comment-317 And it looks – well, sounds – like the BP tune has now been tweaked, and Barnacle Bill is back. Have a look at the latest episode: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00f2f3v/Blue_Peter_14102008/

]]> By: Steve Williams http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088&cpage=1#comment-289 Steve Williams Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:46:20 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088#comment-289 I remember in the Radio Times in 1993, their feature on the 35th anniversary of BP was headlined “DIDDLE OM POM POM DIDDLE IDDLE IDDLE IDDLE”, and someone wrote in to point out this was wrong, and it should have been “DIDDLE OM POM *DIDDLE* IDDLE OM POM POM”. The former tune is, of course, best known under its other name, Do Your Balls Hang Low.

]]> By: Matthew Kilburn http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088&cpage=1#comment-284 Matthew Kilburn Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:02:59 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3088#comment-284 I’m astonished that Levell can’t tell the difference…

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