Just watched an episode of THe Two Ronnies where she played this in the music section of the show. Very impressive, but cant find her appearance on the show anywhere on youtube?
It also gave it some respectability. I played snooker back in the late 1950's and kept quiet about it. The game was frowned upon, and seen as a waster's passtime.
A piano classic and a TV classic. Snooker was full of characters in the good old days. The interaction with the audience so often associated with Ray Reardon, John Virgo and others, is sadly lost from the sport now. Perhaps it is because of the money involved and the levels of focus required while playing at tournaments. It would be great to see something like Pro-Celebrity Golf (with Peter Allis) where a two snooker players join two celebrities in a doubles match and they talk about their lives etc
When my dad was alive he could play this on Piano. I used to watch Pop Black & it's one frame format with group stages of 4 snooker players. Ie a group A with John Spencer, Graeme Miles, Dennis Taylor & Rex Williams & Group B: Ray Reardon, Alex Higgins, Doug Mountjoy & John Pulman. Referee Sidney Lee & commentary by whispering Ted Lowe introduced by Alec Weekes.
Pot Black was a great show we had this in New Zealand it played on TV One for many years until it came to and end I think in 1988 not sure when -The theme is by Winifred Atwell it was a good theme.
I ended up here from Grandstand, I've never heard this theme and all I can imagine is black and white silent movie shenanigans going on while this plays lol
great stuff, memories of a tuesday evening on BBC2 at 8.30, 1981-2 ish. weird hearing the whole piece, in those days it was the first & last 30 seconds for the theme tune. and god bless alan weeks!
It would be great to see something like Pro-Celebrity Golf (with Peter Allis) where a two snooker players join two celebrities in a doubles match and they talk about their lives etc
Yes, I do still remember this Pot Black TV-Show of Snooker from our (ABCTV Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in Australia and especially seeing Eddie Charlton both the Australian & World Champion who was playing & winning his number of snooker games against all &/or any of his opponents of course.
I don't know if someone else has got there before me, but what's always made me laugh was the line ' ... and for those watching in black and white, he's just hit the pink (substitute other colours)'
Or ".. going for the one behind the brown", or similar. Though this is often quoted as being funny, it actually wasn't that daft: anyone who _followed_ snooker would actually know where the various colours were. (In the same way you have no trouble knowing which traffic light is which when they're shown in black-and-white films.)
Just a game-related fact for you, this song was recently used in Superior Interactive's Repton 1 game (and possibly in the original BBC Micro versions as well!) as the background music.
The sound heard by millions of British men while lying on black fake leather sofas drinking cans of Light Ale and smoking Players Number Six cigarettes.
I remember those! They were 'plain' rather than 'tipped' as I recall. Usually smoked by old fellows in flat caps round my way, either that or Capstan, Woodbine or Player's Navy Cut.
@@chrisnorton4382 as living standards plummet, it won't be long before we start hearing that the likes of the black plague has returned to deprived areas...😟
Supposedly the original idea behind _Pot Black_ was to use snooker to sell the public on the merits of colour TV, so maybe the choice of a theme song with this title was a joke ...
+reksub Not a problem. It was strange - I had the same question and had to find the answer yesterday, as my Mum just passed away. I found out she loved it too when she noticed me watching Pot Black as a kid. We’re gunna play it at her funeral - good memories!
You're thinking of "The Entertainer", which was used for the _film_ "The Sting". (There is at least one piece of music called The Sting, but different from both of these!)
I'd had my own small-size table for a year or so when I first watched it with my family as a 7-year-old in 1972. The players I remember being on it then were John Spencer,Ray Reardon,Eddie Charlton,John Pulman,Fred Davis and Rex Williams.
It was Winnie's "other piano" - which depending on who you believe either _was_ a detuned Steinway, or the junk-shop upright she toured the world with.
Takes me back to when my dad was alive . Pot Black and Premier League were a MUST watch in our family.
“For those of you watching in black and white … the pink is behind the blue”
BBC used to have great, memorable theme tunes for their various sports.
To the Unknown Man & Ski Sunday themes are great.
This used to air on Friday nights in Australia on the ABC - I grew up watching Eddie Charlton and Steve Davis.
Steady Eddie!
He was always steadier than Eddie the Eagle.
Classic hit. God Bless Winifred Atwell.
Just watched an episode of THe Two Ronnies where she played this in the music section of the show. Very impressive, but cant find her appearance on the show anywhere on youtube?
BBC never credited her did they ?
@@mcfcguvnors She didn't compose it
God bless Winifred Atwell.
The Queen of the Ivories.
I **loved** watching Pot Black here in New Zealand back in the 70s!
Great players like Ray Reardon and Steve Davis! Great times!
It was popular on the other side of the ditch as well, Eddie Charlton was a favorite of ours 🎱
This takes me straight back to my grandparents' living room. Sublime!
great to hear the pot black theme again,one of my favourites thanx
The highlight of my childhood Friday evenings :)
My Dad and me; every Friday evening; happy memories
Pot Black bought snooker to the mass tv audience. Great entertainment with the big stars of the sport showing their skills every week. Great stuff !
It also gave it some respectability. I played snooker back in the late 1950's and kept quiet about it. The game was frowned upon, and seen as a waster's passtime.
A piano classic and a TV classic. Snooker was full of characters in the good old days. The interaction with the audience so often associated with Ray Reardon, John Virgo and others, is sadly lost from the sport now. Perhaps it is because of the money involved and the levels of focus required while playing at tournaments. It would be great to see something like Pro-Celebrity Golf (with Peter Allis) where a two snooker players join two celebrities in a doubles match and they talk about their lives etc
Ray Reardon went mental outside my house one night and bit my dog.
Is that what he was doing with his TV?
Yes, pro-am snooker is an interesting idea.
When my dad was alive he could play this on Piano. I used to watch Pop Black & it's one frame format with group stages of 4 snooker players. Ie a group A with John Spencer, Graeme Miles, Dennis Taylor & Rex Williams & Group B: Ray Reardon, Alex Higgins, Doug Mountjoy & John Pulman. Referee Sidney Lee & commentary by whispering Ted Lowe introduced by Alec Weekes.
& also don't forget Eddie Charlton the Australian & the World Champion as well too of course.
Pot Black was a great show we had this in New Zealand it played on TV One for many years until it came to and end I think in 1988 not sure when -The theme is by Winifred Atwell it was a good theme.
As a kid I use to watch this show with my Dad ,who was a huge snooker fan ,in New Zealand as well... my favourite player was Jimmy White
And to think, when snooker was first televised, it was in black and white!! :-D
And colour TV actually caused snooker to change the colours of the balls: the brown, for example, was originally a much redder brown.
I ended up here from Grandstand, I've never heard this theme and all I can imagine is black and white silent movie shenanigans going on while this plays lol
great stuff, memories of a tuesday evening on BBC2 at 8.30, 1981-2 ish. weird hearing the whole piece, in those days it was the first & last 30 seconds for the theme tune. and god bless alan weeks!
BBC SHOULD BRING BACK POT BLACK📺 ON TV💻
ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S IT WOULD BE A HIT 🎱🎱🎱
SUPER THEME SONG
It would be great to see something like Pro-Celebrity Golf (with Peter Allis) where a two snooker players join two celebrities in a doubles match and they talk about their lives etc
" Fred Davies having trouble getting his leg over ", purred 'Whispering ' Ted Lowe, as Fred attempted a shot down the rail. Happy days.
"For those viewers watching in black & white, the green is behind the yellow...."
Happy Days,never fails to cheer me up.Classic,many thanks for posting.
A cover of this was includes on the Wham! album "Fantastic" as a hidden track at the end of "Young Guns (Go For It)".
Yes, I do still remember this Pot Black TV-Show of Snooker from our (ABCTV Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in Australia and especially seeing Eddie Charlton both the Australian & World Champion who was playing & winning his number of snooker games against all &/or any of his opponents of course.
It certainly brightens' me up any day in the week.
The mother of British boogie woogie
Ideal music to encourage your dogs to play billiards
I don't know if someone else has got there before me, but what's always made me laugh was the line ' ... and for those watching in black and white, he's just hit the pink (substitute other colours)'
Or ".. going for the one behind the brown", or similar. Though this is often quoted as being funny, it actually wasn't that daft: anyone who _followed_ snooker would actually know where the various colours were. (In the same way you have no trouble knowing which traffic light is which when they're shown in black-and-white films.)
Ah, poor Willie Thorne.
God, that is good.
Toe tapping brilliant ❤
Great memories.
Love it ;-) If there was ever tune I wish I could play it would be this ;-) )
I actually learned to play this piece many years ago when I was doing my A.Mus.A and I can attest that it is murderously hard.
This is incomplete ; it's missing the sound of 2 snooker balls colliding at the end
Thought I was the only person who noticed that ! The balls can be heard on the BBC sports theme LP/CD that was released many years ago.
The album version has the balls ! !
Aw, no plop plop at the end 😢
Just a game-related fact for you, this song was recently used in Superior Interactive's Repton 1 game (and possibly in the original BBC Micro versions as well!) as the background music.
Soundtrack to my youth.
A big sorry to George Botsford, I thought this was Joplin for 40 years. :-(
All stand for the national anthem
The sound heard by millions of British men while lying on black fake leather sofas drinking cans of Light Ale and smoking Players Number Six cigarettes.
Park Drive in The Midlands.
I remember those! They were 'plain' rather than 'tipped' as I recall. Usually smoked by old fellows in flat caps round my way, either that or Capstan, Woodbine or Player's Navy Cut.
Winifred atwell is this version and someone else called pop black recorded this as well
It aired on Friday nights here in the UK too. Oh happy days! (Sigh...)
Was your family Catholic, eating fish on Friday? That's probably why.
And for those of you watching in black and white...the pink is next to the green
I can actually remember that it totally happened :D
How come I know this theme without ever having heard it before? It's so familiar for some reason
Who's on here after hearing they have put a black plague in Brixton to honour Winifred Atwell?? May she rest in peace 🙏🏾
-- plaque :)
@@chrisnorton4382 thanks Chris 😊 sorry
@@chrisnorton4382 as living standards plummet, it won't be long before we start hearing that the likes of the black plague has returned to deprived areas...😟
ahh the pot black rag
Trippy.
Supposedly the original idea behind _Pot Black_ was to use snooker to sell the public on the merits of colour TV, so maybe the choice of a theme song with this title was a joke ...
You use the WHITE cue ball to pot the BLACK eight ball. Black and White.
I wish they'd bring it back
If your watching in black and white its the one behind blue :-)
classic
RIP Willy Thorne
Scott Joplin ROCKS! vote 1 for Winifred Atwell as honourary Queen of Australia for ever.
does anyone know the name of the other piece of music that was used during the segment with the trick shots and bloopers?that was a cool theme tune.
+reksub Pretty sure it was 'The Entertainer", originally by Scott Joplin. But Atwell did a version, probably the one used on the show
Adam Gietzelt cheers mate,couldn't remember the name for the life of me.thanks again.
+reksub
Not a problem. It was strange - I had the same question and had to find the answer yesterday, as my Mum just passed away. I found out she loved it too when she noticed me watching Pot Black as a kid. We’re gunna play it at her funeral - good memories!
it was "smack my bitch up" done ragtime by charles schmuch the 4th in 1928
Richard Upton lol.
well I've be fucked I used to watch pot black as a kid and thought the theme songs was the sting.
Brett
Neither did I.
You're thinking of "The Entertainer", which was used for the _film_ "The Sting". (There is at least one piece of music called The Sting, but different from both of these!)
Brill Alan weeks used to do swimming as well
We all miss Alan.
I didn't know about either snooker or swimming; I associate him with figure skating, around the time of Torvill and Dean.
lol you couldent make it up! watching pot black on a b/w tv set different times
I'd had my own small-size table for a year or so when I first watched it with my family as a 7-year-old in 1972. The players I remember being on it then were John Spencer,Ray Reardon,Eddie Charlton,John Pulman,Fred Davis and Rex Williams.
'And that's a lovely shot...he's potted the dark grey, just missing the slate grey and the mid grey, in a lovely rebound past the light grey...'
Bring back pot black
What's the name of this song again?? been racking mee mind trying to remember. lol :)
Sounds like chickens running around inside a de-tuned piano
Cluckin' ell! :O
That’s no yolk...
It was Winnie's "other piano" - which depending on who you believe either _was_ a detuned Steinway, or the junk-shop upright she toured the world with.
snooker loopy anyone? lol
Who watching 2020 and for ringtone
Alan Weeks lol
Almost as good as yakkety sax!
Fingers like a centipede.
And wasn't Len Ganley a referee?
" Big " Len Ganley, as he was referred to.
Ronnie would have won this comp lots of time
gay
Probably Russ Conway on the piano 🎹