On The Move (BBC TV theme) - The Dooleys
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2012
- The theme tune from the BBC adult literacy show On the Move c.1975, sung by The Dooleys, composed by Alan Hawkshaw and R. Tempest.
A first starring TV role for Bob Hoskins, with Donald Gee playing his mate who helps him with his reading difficulties.
Whenever this show came on, me and my sister would groan but hearing it now age 55 it makes me yearn for those days.
Ditto. I was 10 and this was always dark Sunday nights in my mind.
Catchiest theme tune ever 40 years later I still remember it!
I met the great Donald Gee at a Doctor Who event a few years back. A lovely guy who spoke with great fondness about Bob Hoskins
Glad to be of help. I've always thought this was a really catchy song that should have been a hit!
I owe a debt of gratitude to this show!
It was on at around the time when I was near the end of Primary School. I went to one of those ‘progressive’ state Primary Schools that had developed during the 1960s where it was believed that teaching children to spell accurately, in a standard and accepted form of written English, wasn’t entirely necessary. 🤣
I learnt more from this show….and Sesame Street…than all my years at Primary School! 😅
I was lucky, my mum taught me to read and write before school
My older brother suffered from that method. ITA I think it was called. He’s an intelligent lad but his spelling always suffered as a result.
@@philgraham5341 Initial Teaching Alphabet, I remember it. I was put in the Junior School where I was learning the normal alphabet in 1965, then the new Primary school was built, so I was placed there in 1966 and learned ITA. Then at 7 years old went back to Junior school and normal teaching again. It was crazy. No wonder they stopped using it!
Written by the composer of the Countdown theme and sung by the Dooleys, what a surprise I never knew this.
Hoskins was so convincing I thought he genuinely had literacy difficulties until he started appearing in other stuff!
me too.
Bye Bob . Part of our history . Thanks pal.
Can't get enough of this song love it so many memories as a child
I would have been about ten years old when this programme was on TV and I never forgotten the theme tune to it and now that I realize it was sung by a professional band (something I didn't know at the time) its clear why the theme was memorable.
A pop band singing the theme tune to an educational programme - now that is something that you certainly wouldn't see today - and the world is worse off because of it. Education for the masses should very much be celebrated. Its what puts the sapiens in homo sapiens.
Not heard this for decades, loved hearing it on the TV. I was 13 at the time (apparantly after a little calculation...).
At the time (1975), The Dooleys had been working mostly clubs and theatres for a number of years. Having won various club awards, they were booked to do a show in Yugoslavia. From that show, they were invited to tour the Soviet Union, becomming the first Western group to tour behind the Iron Curtain. On that tour, their show in Moscow was recorded, and the 'Live' album sold over 2 million copies. All this about 3 years before Elton John's much publicised concert in Russia. It wasn't until the Summer of 1977, that they broke the UK chart.
I would have been 12 in 75 but i'm sure it must have been on before 75 as I remember seeing it when younger. I too loved the tune but had no idea until today that it was The Dooley's. I've also not met anyone who can remember it... i thought i had imagined it, especially as I told people Bob Hoskins was in it :-)
Same here!
Thank you for this song loved the programme absolutely first-class
RIP Bob Hoskins.
Cheerio Bob. Thanks for everything old chum. All the best mate.
Hi guys.
Just looked this up yesterday on UA-cam after a while of umming and ahhing about it.Thanks to all those who uploaded it and other stuff related to it.
Was born in 1960 so was probably too old to be watching a programme like this. But never mind that; I was a telly-watching kid. All I remember about it was Bob (Hoskins) driving a lorry, looking left and right, and of course the theme tune.
A perfect storm really. The right programme, the right theme tune written for it and the right group to sing it. Easy enough for kids to understand and like or love it.What more could you ask for ?
I liked the theme tune then, but now, when I look back I love it. Part of the soundtrack to my life.
As an aside, what a surprise to see Patricia Hayes and Martin Shaw on it, in the same episode too. That’s a pairing you would only see on a programme like this.
RIP Bob and Pat.
I remember the tv series and the theme tune. It used to be shown on a Sunday late afternoon or early evening.
R.I.P. Bob Hoskins you will be missed
I love the Dooleys ...such a great pop act..No prentension whatsoever. ☺
Really? Have you seen the OTT costumes they used to wear, lol?
loved watching this show when pretending to be sick from school
Love this so much.
i also remember this. did`nt realize it was sung by the dooleys.
was looking up this song from not the nine o clock news s1e1, shazam and song lyrics websites were useless, in the end ""on the move" song" worked, so much for giving the actual lyrics!
Like theMEGLETchannel,i have waited 35 years to hear this again.I loved watching the tv series when i was a young child and teenager,and loved singing the theme tune.I never realised until now,that the Dooleys sang it.Thank you for putting the full version up at last!!!!
I remembered this tune and programme all this time, since it was on tv, but last time I searched for it there was nothing, thanks for uploading it. I think the programme was about teaching adults to read.
It was the theme to an adult literacy programme. Lot of people were illiterate back then by today's standards. The main charactors in the 'show' drove around in a lorry with a big arrow on the side. 'On the move' I suppose.
Same !
The Adventures of Parsley did this on their Top TV Themes LP. Both are great.
I been looking on tv themes; an everywhere I really want it
Liked this show, has a kid...Great days..70's.
Just remembered this tune and couldn`t figure out were i`d heard it, 40 years later and voila.
Remember this program from the early 70's. Good days and less greed about.
From the days when the BBC was a public service broadcaster....
thank you for putting this up.
RIP Bob
The front cover of the 'On the Move' book can be seen at 1:44. It cost only £1.00 back in 1975. I wonder how much a mint-condition copy would be worth now...
+avidviewer67 50p
I used to have a copy but can't see any around on Amazon or ebay.
Went out on a Sunday afternoon if I remember correctly!
"On the Moov" = Not The Nine O'clock News!
So funny
I lurned all the liriks at mi *_Lokul Lurning Disubillitees Sentur_*
In the playground, I was called *_'Spina-Biff'_* bye all the uvver kids - and also sumtimes a spaz. But syngin this on the skule bus - always sumhow mayd me pheel bettur abowt miself aftur.
On the moov. On the muve. Weir on the moohv agen...
Lukin gud, pheelyn fyne. In the gruve agen…
Liphizan... opun buk. If u opun yor... iiis an luk..
Butcha gotter keype moovin. Yes yu gotter keype moovin…
On the moov. On the muve. Weir on hour whey agen…
Evri dae, sumfin nu. Lotz tu sea agen...
Thear iz so... mutch tu du. Thadive gott the... thyme four yu
Buttwee gotter keype moovin… yes wii gotter keype moovin…
Doo doo du…. do, doo, du… doo du do do du du
Doo du…. do, doo, du… doo du do do du du.....
So funny
Good tune too.
I had the book
ha!.. can't believe I spent the last 45 years not knowing this was the Dooleys, Ta Wiki
Ah better times!
I had the "On the Move" book but I had never seen the programme. Does anyone have the ISBN number as I couldn't find it on Amazon.
as i remember it it was quite a thick book and for some reason I got a copy of it from the BBC Shop in London and I loved all the exercises in it. I think I gave it away in the 90's to my cousin. I've no idea why the book held so much interest.
:( he was a good'n
All we need now,are the lyrics to sing along to.
I hear a little paul McCartney influence there
from the 1st episode;
bert - "then the romans came here and influenced the present english language."
alf - "what! the italians! we haven't got any of their stuff in our language have we?"
bert - "no alf - they spoke latin."
alf - "oh ok - that's alright then."
(actually i think that means english is still linked to modern italian - but don't tell alf).
Anyone else reckon that bloke at 0:27 looks like Jay from 'The Inbetweeners'? 🤭
there is an official fan page for the dooleys on facebook
Forever Dooleys (Only The Musics Changed) also The Dooleys - Chosen Few. Both groups have great info for Dooleys fans.
Was Matthew Kelly involved in this programme? I recall an adult literacy programme with him and Bob Hoskins involved, as well as others. It was screened an a Sunday. Don't remember the theme tune, so don't know if this is it.
Martin Shaw was in it. With a beard, he doesn't look too dissimilar to Matthew Kelly
This has spooked me out, I remember the lyrics and the actual real intro reel/film. Yet it says, 1975. I was only born, 1973 Feb. Gwangi, is it really 1975, as per your typing ? Cheers BTW, nobody I knew has ever remembered this. The halcyon days of yesteryear, things seemed more innocent.
Yes Paul, the programme was shown on the BBC in 1975 and 1976. I'm older than you and have clear memories of watching it as a teenager and loving the theme tune. Maybe it's the later episodes from 1976 you remember!
I remember ths programme when I was a kid....someone told me years later it was Bob Hoskins that was in it...I didn't realise !
Always loved the theme tune
Search for "bob hoskins on the move" in the UA-cam search box and you should see it at the top. Or just copy this and paste it after the slash at the end of 'com': watch?v=sEn17kT1L8Y
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were can I get song from on cd
theotherone
I'm trying to work out the piano chords to it
theotherone
the melody is pretty simple though
karan boland got this on a 45
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RIP Bob... x
I have the sheet music SOMEWHERE :-)
Get it out and play this theme on the piano
What, the poor man's Tom Baker?
Fun learning to read and write
Hahaa!
Donald Gee didn't sit right with me as a kid.. think it was just one of those scare a child faces lol
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