"The Devil's Gallop" by Charles Williams
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Better known on radio as the theme music for "Dick Barton - Special Agent," here played by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by John Wilson and led by Cynthia Fleming, from a special televised edition of "Friday Night is Music Night."
How many harmless narcotics must Ginger and I consume before the empire is safe?
Misread as narcissists instead of narcotics..
"As usual, Ginger and I are engaged on our quest to find out what the hell is going on and to save humanity from my nemesis, some bastard who is presumably responsible." - Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
Join me next time in the surprising adventures of me Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.
Come, Ginger!
+Mike Moresi In a world that is freezing to death because there's a hole in its left sock and its trainers got stolen, who is left to fight for all that is good and right and belonging to that kid who looks like he can't handle himself all that well?
YES! It's the surprising adventures of me: SIR DIGBY CHICKEN CAESAR!!!
Haha. Yes!
"The story so far: Me and Ginger have been searching high and low amongst the tattered streets in order to find my Nemesis: Some Bastard who is presumably responsible."
"In a world spinning rapidly off its hinges, on streets cluttered with hood-wielding thugs peddling disco biscuits and cheap fireworks, who is left to fight for honour, justice and enough loose change for a bottle of happy shopper ouzo? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!"
I wasn't expecting this
Ha! Nobody expects the Devil's Galop!
In a world spinning as fast as the inside of Homebase when you've just had a go at a four-pack of Dulux tester cans, who is left to fight for all that is right and proper and good and leather and full of money and belonging to that teenager who doesn't look like he can handle himself? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!
This is probably the best classical song ever.
"Why don't kids' parties have real booze anymore like they did when I was a dwarf? Find out in the next enthralling installment of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!" dundadadundadadun... and so on and so forth.
Run, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!
A genius melody made even more so by the geniuses on That Mitchell and Webb Look.
Sir, I'm pissin blood again!
"Look sir, they've started the credits!"
Fun fact: Rob Hubbard, composer of theme music for the C64 game, Monty on the Run, was greatly inspired by this masterfully orchestrated piece.
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Play this on your portable music player of choice, and your life becomes instantly epic!
I vividly remember running at top speed through the manicured lawns of the Avenue I lived on to get home by 6:45 to hear Dick Barton on the BBC.
We all owe so much to the BBC who not only entertained us but who also taught us SO much about ourselves and the land we lived in and loved.
"In a world spinning as fast as the inside of Homebase when you've just had a go inside a 4-pack of deluxe tester cans, who is left to fight for all that is right, proper, good, made of leather and belonging to that teenager who doesn't know how to handle himself? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me: Sir Digby Chicken Caeser."
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inqui.... Oh bugger..."
As a Classical Musician, the Devil’s Gallop is 100+ seconds or so of riveting playing. From today, I shall listen to it each day to encourage my efforts until I can find an alternative that gives me 100 seconds daily of Classical pleasure. If anyone can suggest a similar delight, I’ll be glad to hear of it.
great tune, but sounds even more brilliant when played with big orchestra like this!
also Sir Digby Chicken Caesar is ace lol
Dick Barton had his adventures in his day, but even though I'm 76, today my adventure starts.
How did the adventure go?
I grew up listening to this as the theme tune to 'Dick Barton - Special Agent ' on the radio but it's only now that I have seriuosly heard it as a complete piece of music. I never knew what the piece was called or the composer.
It's still really exciting!
My dad used to love that - in the old days of the wireless 😂
"Nobody expects the Spanish... Oh bugger."
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms...oh, damn!
In a society whose toothy fake smile is ravaged by the plaque of death, and the vodka burp of sub-prime mortgages, who will floss into the darkest cavities of our despair and see if there are any gold fillings you can swap for a can of peppermint-flavoured antifreeze? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!
"Nobody expects the Spa...oh, bugger!"
Was also used at the end of the Monty Python "Spanish Inquisition" episode.
Yes. (y)
and also in the Dr Who serial 'Delta and the Bannerman'
I was not expecting someone to point that out
@@DemonWarp65 NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
In a time future historians will one day call the past, at a place I wish I could name but it's been a confusing week, who is left to look out for the man on the street in case he wants his mobile back? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!
Mitchell & Webb rule. I cant listen to this without cracking up
Great music by the brilliant composer Charles Williams 👍
The guy shouting "YES" at 1:45 got a bit carried away I think :)
And yes, Sir Digby Chicken Caeser ftw!
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPA -- oh bugger.
This certainly takes me back to my childhood in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE England. "Dick Barton -- Special Agent" was a weekly BBC broadcast on the old Light Programme, on a Thursday around 8 p.m., if my memory serves me well. That was, for me as a child of about 8, around 1944-45 " and beyond, until we left for Spain in summer 1947. Dick", "Jock" and "Snowy" were the main characters. I used to look forward not only to the great plots that would ensue, but to the theme music. You can really feel that 'gallop', and it's almost as if the horses are crashing through your walls!This is a fantastic performance by the BBC Concert Orchestra. What energy must these superb musicians have!!! It has inspired my to look for my old triangle, and perhaps? some solid practice, to see if I can join their ranks.Best wishes. Joe Silmon-Monerri
+Joe A A SILMON-MONERRI Dick Barton was brpadcast daily, for 1 minutes, in a slot later replaced by The Archers. I was always amazed at the wayamy father could guedss the plots. How's the clarinet?
+Keith Edgerley Hello Keith. Nice to hear from your. Your father must have been a very brainy man, to work out those plots. I suppose for the grown-ups, some of the plots were predictable, a bit like the Paul Temple episodes nowadays. The man who plays "David Archer", by a mere coincidence, was kind enough to write the 'foreword' for my forthcoming book [which got published in January this year, but I had to withdraw the paperback and the Kindle, because my book files had picked up bugs over the decades and the corruption affected page and footnote numbering and even page sequences severely; it's all being fixed now, and I'll try again shortly]. Anyway, "David" as you will know, is the actor "Tim Bentinck" (who also happens to be the 12th Earl of Portland, as well as a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire). He's distantly related to the subject of my present book, a 19th century earl of the House of Seymour. I'm amazed that you know I play the clarinet; maybe we've played together. I seem to know the name from the Jazz world. When I play nowadays, I would feel naked without the other reed instruments I play, although I do enjoy playing the clarinet. Tim Bentinck is a fine Jazz guitarist and vocalist. Very best wishes. Joe S-M (a.k.a. "Joe Silmon")
+Joe A A SILMON-MONERRI Dick Barton was played by Noel Johnson. Memories of my childhood! His companions were Jock and Snowy. I was in Newcastle also, aged 10 in 1945
ChristopherSyn1 Good for you Christopher. Land of "stotty-cakes"! I love going back there, too infrequently for my liking. I was born in High Heaton in 1937. Two when the bombs started to drop all around, and mines on parachutes. Pity we didn't meet back then; we could have shared the "Dandy" and the "Beano". Later those fantastic American comics. "Commander Steel", "Doctor Destine", "Freelance", etc., all over a tall glass of Tizer. No cocktails at that age!!! Best wishes. Joe S-M.
You must have been our next door neighbours Joe! At that time ( '44 '48) we lived along Westmoreland Road not far from the Savoy Cinema and Elswick Park Happy days! :-)
"Nobody expects the..OH BUGGER!"
This piece was used as the background music at the end of Monty Python's unforgettable "Spanish Inquisition" episode.
NOBODY Expects the Spanish Inquisition!
"In a world going to hell in a hansom cab, where all the batteries and paracetamol are kept behind the counter where you can't reach them, who is there left to fight for decency, honesty, and 3-liter bottle of cider-style drink for an amazing 59p. Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar." 😀😁😂😃😄😅😆😆
The infamous from Monty Python!! *Intense running* Nobody expects the Spa- OH BUGGER
This was featured in a Hellman's mayonnaise advert (somewhat tongue in cheek) back in the early 90s.
It was also the Spanish Inquisition's music at the end of one of the Monty Python episodes.
"Nobody expects the-- oh, BUGGER..."
On a lonely planet spinning it's way toward damnation amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken-Caeser!
You sound some thing like an egotist and with a name like that could you get any body to listen as we did with dick barton and co
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPAINISH INQUISITION!!!
Nobody expects the Sp- Oh, bugger!
"In a time future historians will one day call the past and a place I wish I could name but it's been a confusing week, who is left to look out for the man in the street in case he wants his mobile back? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!"
I smell sausage rolls!
You mean 'something fishy'?
FUCKING WHAT?
The greatest chase music ever....!
On a lonely planet spinning its way toward damnation amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar!
Ah bloody hell and here I was hoping to make that joke.
In a city gripped by fear and greed on streets greased with blood and tears, who is left to look out for the little guy and see if he's got any money on him? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!
I love watching orchestras just because all those arms moving at the same times that's so hypnotizing XD
This is so intense, thrilling and beautiful in the most classic way.
Really gives out an adrenenaline rush.
Fabulous!
Dick Barton Special Agent, The Man In Black and then Journey Into Space and Simon Templar, happy days.
I remember paul temple but not simon templar on the radio
Dick Barton Special Agent.
The late 1940s Radio serial 'Dick Baron special Agent' is what made this tune famous of course, for whcih it was the theme tune.
Quick, Ginger, get the copper out of the walls!
Tricky Dicky on Zzzapp, where the kids lift up his hat & he just disappears, ah the wonderful logic of 90's kid's TV.
Never knew that piece of music was called that !!! :)
Wonderful.
Brill Dick Barton Special Agent
I wonder how many of them were thinking of That Mitchell and Webb look while they were playing that
"Oh, bugger!"
i had this played at my funeral.
Do you think you could keep your dogs under control?
@@jerribee1 release the pack!
The surprising adventures of sir digby chicken Caesar
Quick Ginger, we haven't a moment to lose!
Anyone on here, remember Dick Barton ?
WAAAAY too young to remember it first time round, but heard the music many times before I discovered where it was most commonly used. Stirring stuff. Found Dick Barton was really hammy show when it played on BBC7, but I'm sure kids loved it back in the day.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
- Oh, BUGGER!...
This brings back memories of Dick Barton and his trusty assistants Jock and Snowy.
I knew if i came here there would be mentions of sir digby chicken caesar
This is oddly familiar to Monty on the Run.
That's the exact same thing I thought.
It sounds like it has a similar rhythm and tempo, but the melody is very different.
This song inspired it
Mr. Blue Man! You’re going to tell me my feet stink? You don’t even have feet! Blue man! Blue man, where your feet at?!
This would make Sir Digby Chicken Caesar proud.
It's Snowey White, played by John Mann.
30 Rock!
Galop infernal is the official name of that can can tune
@impaxNo7 That is the most awesome idea I've heard this month. And I've heard some pretty awesome ideas. If I might make one minor suggestion, though, the amplifiers should be blasting out the Sir Digby Chicken “a cappella” version. That'll get people outta the way.
Once again, there is nothing that John Wilson can't do.
Have you seen the Tom and Jerry suite from the proms?
The comfy chair!
Dick Barton Special Agent theme
Ok we get it guys! So what if no one expected the Spanish Inquisition?
hahaha. love it. i heard season 3 of that mitchell and webb look is out!!! i'm looking for it now on youtube.
whotube?
yes youtube.
Sorry to disappoint. But let's be honest, it's been done before, and will be done again. :p
MONTY ON THE RUN!
I'm playing this for a music exam, and I'm just hoping the examiner asks me lots of questions about the piece, so I can say "I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!"
Extra win points if the examiner makes the right reply. :D
On a lonely planet spinning its way to damnation amid the fear and despair of a lonely human race, who is left to fight for all that is good, pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver?
Ren and Stimpy chase
GET THE COPPER OUT OF THE WALLS
Had anyone here ever heard of this song before Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar? I don't blame you if you hadn't, I didn't have a clue what the name was :D
dnun-dnun-dnun-dnun-dnun-dnund a dah dah da da da da DAAAA!!
Dick Barton is back on Radio 4 Extra this week!
congratulation villainousoperative, I can see you've infiltrated my nemesis' lair
Nobody expects the Spa-oh, bugger.
@haxel75 You can definitely hear the influences. Especially around 0:56
Used in Danger Mouse, Zzzap! and Victor & Hugo too.
In a world that's someone forgot to put the handbrake on
And is hurtling towards destruction
Who will champion the cause
Of getting blitzed under a railway arch at 11 in the morning?
It's the surprising adventures of me! Sir Digby Chicken Casear!
Stirring Stuff.
@JOEDEAN2008 talking about charade's comment about how applause is as key as the performance and he wanted it longer. I love the music :)
"Dick Barton - special agent!"
..and wearing red outf-DAMN.
today 16-7-10 there was a prog on radio 4 about dick barton special agent.
Tatararartararatara taaaaaa ta ta ta!
Dick Barton special agent.... Mitchell and Webb..... ZZzzzap ( children's TV series of the 90's).....