Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ In Town Tonight (Knightsbridge March)
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2009
- This is Knightsbridge March composed by Eric Coates and performed by Eric Coates and his symphony orchestra and was used as the theme to In Town tonight.
In Town Tonight was a BBC radio programme broadcast on Saturday evening from 1933 to 1960. It was an early example of the chat show, originally presented by Eric Maschwitz.
Tears - memories - all gone :(
Staunchly British theme tune that reminds you of Standard Vanguards, national service, valve radios, the Coronation.
Only if you’re old enough!
@@folly7533 Some of us are, very much so.
Pure nostalgia.
Once more we stop the mighty roar of London’s traffic.
These melodies just go on forever they bring back so many memories long since forgotten. Saturday Evenings when there was only a couple of TV channels if you where lucky enough to have a TV
Excellent totally British to the core.
Very nostalgic and tuneful and utterly British to the core
So British and so proud of this tune.
That’s what I remember of for - the theme music for “In Town Tonight” on the radio and a London evening news programme (possibly with the same name) where they stopped the music and the film of Piccadilly Circus traffic (I think), with your quoted words, resuming at the end of the programme. 😊
These old theme tunes evoke such a mixture of feelings. On the one hand there is the comforting feeling of nostalgia for times when life was so much simpler and for happy childhood memories and on the other the frustrated feeling I had as a child when actually having to listen to this and finding it all so boring and over my head.
'Mrs. Dale's Diary' would surely fall into that category!?
A fifties radio no doubt tuned to the BBC Light Programme. This piece of music brings up images of valve radios, the early fifties and Standard Vanguards.
This has to be flat out my favorite song.
But I prefer the Dr Finlay's Casebook theme.
Priceless !
Stiff upper lip, British to the core, this is Coates best work, even better than The Dambusters March. It makes you want to stand to attention or buy a black split screen Morris Minor and take a drive along the Great North Rd.
I couldn't agree more.Rule Brittania.
Very British and very rousing.
ahhh, and in Cape Town we listened on Sunday nights on the radio to In Town Tonight, with luminaries visiting South Africa, not realising that the format was imported from London!
Very nostalgic - takes me back to my early life in England
Makes a few decent chaps want to smoke their pipes and wait for their radios to warm up for In Town Tonight.
What a taste of nostalgia a time as a child with nothing to worry a bout
I used to do that--and I was only ten. I can still get 'Hilvesum' on my set
_Rather!_
Delightful tune!
Thank you for the memories BBC ❤
My husband used to watch the program in town tonight he also remembers seeing the actor robert beatty appearing in the program
Ah yes....brings happy scenes of father twiddling with his pipe, mother darning some socks by the fire, the son swotting for the 11-plus at the dining table, and the eldest daughter bringing in her 'young man' just back from National Service in Malaya...
I remember one was asked about the queen expecting a third baby! 💁🏻💁🏻👍
Glorious time's !!!
London is known to the world with this radio broadcast tune in the old days !
We had no idea just how good we had it ...This has been driving me crazy for days, thank you for posting it. All better now LOL
I saw a fifties valve radio similar to this one at a market last week and the Knightsbridge march came to mind.
Here's another BBC radio program Mr's Dales Diary staring jessie matthews who some people might know she was born in the west end of london just off wardour street.
Wasn't it Mrs. Dales Diary?
I recall hearing this as background music in movie theaete newsreels when they showed something from England.
We attempted to play it in HS band.
Rationing still in force. Queuing at the local shops, in war damaged Charlton, London,
A bomb site as a playground. Grandmother still darning and mending clothes. It made us what we are.
Are Humans better today ?, I wonder !. Brilliant Eric Coates.
Carry on London,
The BBC was so important to us and other countries occupied by the Nazis. Long life the BBC
Vive Les Brittaniques!
Makes you feel like getting the Rover P4 out, smoke a pipe and have drive in the country.
I say......what a spiffing idea!! Sounds like a damn good show to me!
@@robertwoodrow9650 Indeed old chap, what.
Perhaps a trip down the bluebell valley railway would be a bit more thematic.
This is the BBC Light Programme.
memories of the Wireless as a child on a Friday and Saturday bisciuts as a treat yummy ha ha
@Edwin99ization
Indeed I always think of Standard Vanguards, valve radios and the BBC Light Programme when I hear this.
@Glenn1967ful
Yes Glenn, couldn't agree more !.It is undoubtedly a masterpiece, I never tire of hearing it, in my all time Top 10 ' tunes '.Apparently it holds another ' record ', when first used before the war on ' In Town Tonight ', the BBC were inundated with identity enquiries as to what it was called, nothing like ever the numbers again !.
All so very "ENGLISH" reminds me of coming home from school on a Friday night weekend to look forward to, listening to the Radio light programme ,after tea and home work done in then lovely "Old England"
They were great times, more communal, spirited , and friendly except that for Older Boy round the Corner LOL ! good ol'Bristol good ol'England !
@flammasherman
Indeed I was in town last weekend and couldn't help but think of this tune while walking through Hyde Park.
Reminds me of "The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker".
Also Eric Idle approaching the weird Department Store to buy an Ant.
How does that link to a fast march ?
I love this particular recording from 1933. I have it on a compilation CD, On the cover it explains why this one is a little faster paced than usual. After several frustrated failures----and with Studio hire time running out, Sir Eric tried one last time, and just made it. Watch him being interviewed in the studio, during this actual recording session---it's on a 'Pathe News' film on You tube.
I saw a Standard 10 last week and it reminded me of how we were.
Carry on London!
Good cars and thousands still exist today, of course, if you had the money, a Rover P4.
How very splendid to hear this again! Didn't a disembodied voice shout "Stop!"- and all the traffic 'froze' instantly in the opening credits to this programme?
The voice that shouted STOP! was that of Fred Yule, an English character actor (with us unitl 1982)
When the BBC could actually be trusted.
@davyboyism
Very much of its time and a shame we don't have television and radio themes like this now. The only vintage theme that survives is Sporting Occasions that is still occasionally played at the end of Wimbledon.
No doubt this would be playing on the radio in the background. I wonder if the family were saving up for a television.
Wasn't this used briefly as startup music for Rediffusion in the early days?
" Carry on London !!"
Carry on, London!
Superb march but not easy to play! Took me ages to learn this one but it was worth it! It's actually a bit faster than what I play it so I'm guessing I play it too slowly.
@WilliamstownTim That's a good story!
Monty Python also used this in some of their sketches.
and was'nt it a TV programme too, early 50's? traffic going around picadilly circus?
'Standard Vanguard' memories seem to dominate the car nostalgia comments - and I would agree with that. But why no Morris Oxfords, Sunbeam Talbots, and Wolseley 4/44s, etc..?
Not to mention Austin Devons and Somersets, Morris Minors and Wolseley Straight Eight police cars with Winkworth bells.
Nobody back then would have believed that within 70 years English-speaking British people would be in the minority 'In Town', and that the capital city of our country was now predominantly mozlem, and desperately filthy. People would not have believed that the modern cockney accent would more accurately be described as 'Bangladeshi'.
Even more sadly received would have been the fact that it was now illegal to even speak negatively of this disaster, and that this tyranny had been gladly assisted in its diabolical path by the mozlem 'Mayor' of London. Also, that along with this insanity it had become severely frowned upon to be patriotic.
Thank goodness my dear old parents and grandparents aren't alive to see the hellhole London now is. The Luftwaffe didn't do anywhere near as much damage to our capital as successive leftist governments have, and at least the damage Hermann Goering's lads did could be rebuilt, unlike the horrors wrought on London by Blair, Brown, Livingstone et al.
I 100%+ agree with every word of this.
Apparently the Columbia producer in charge of this recording wanted other stuff recorded first so the orchestra had to keep going beyond the scheduled end of the session to have one more go at this.
Very British
@Glenn1967ful WELL SAID //// RULE BRITTANIA
Introduced a deferential programme about celebrities-white, male, upper class and wearing dinner jackets.
and now there is jeremey kyle for you to enjoy ,good luck with that
Interestingly enough, most people who whine on about white middle class things are white and middle class themselves. Britain in 1953 was a different place to now.
White? That's unsurprising -- the percentage of whites was a lot nearer 100% back then. Male? Are you saying no women were on the radio or TV back then? And upper class? What, like dukes and earls and other nobility? Really?
@@rosiefay7283 The glorious, beautiful, fragrant, Sylvia Peters. Wonderful, delightful, cut-class accent. A treat for my ears - I have a little clip saved to remind me how spoken English should sound...
Yeah that's right and we loved it.
Stop!