Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Sports Report (Out Of The Blue)
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2009
- This is Out Of The Blue, by Hubert bath, it has been used for the BBC Sports report radio programme for many years, This is a re-recording by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Sports Report is one of the longest-running programmes on British radio. It started in the first week of 1948, and has always been aired from 5.00 to 6.00 p.m. on Saturday evenings during the football season,
It went out on the BBC Light Programme, where it stayed until 25 April 1964. On 22 August 1964 it became part of Sports Service and moved to the wavelengths of the BBC Third Programme (used for other purposes during daytime hours), where it initially started at the earlier time of 4.42 p.m.. On 4 April 1970, however, it moved back to what had by then become BBC Radio 2, where it stayed until 25 August 1990 (throughout this time it was part of Sport on 2). From 1 September 1990 to 26 March1994 it was on the original BBC Radio 5, and since 2 April 1994 it has been heard on BBC Radio 5 Live (on both of these networks it has been part of Sport on 5 then renamed 5 Live Sport in 2006).
Oh this is so my Dad's tune. I can see him now, sat close to the radio, rushing his dinner so he could on the bus to White Hart Lane, transistor in one pocket, flask in the other! Bless you Dad.
Yes it reminded me of my Dad.Sitting in his armchair tapping his fingers to the rhythm of the music. Such happy memories.Miss him lots.
This reminds me of traveling home from away matches, if we'd managed to get back to the car in time! Quality.
Yep. I used to attend Sunderland way games through the 70s, 80s and 90's always back in the car in time for this.
I can still see my dad turning up the wireless to hear the sports results .... wish I could go back to those happy days ... RiP Dad x
When your theme song is so good it stays with you for 75 years
They wouldn't dare change this. There would be demos outside BH and questions in Parliament if they ever did !
Oh how nostalgic; I’m transported back to my childhood with my beloved parents. Dad whistling along with this memorable lovely tune. Such marvellous times.
believe it or not this tune was‘t just heard and loved in the UK but also by many Germans who were following British football. I always thought I was the only one tuning into BFBS or BBC at 6 pm german time, but later I discovered there were many others. James Alexander Gordon was nothing short of an English teacher for us abroad when it came to how to pronounce all those english places correctly. He will never be forgotten!
It's five o' clock, and this, is Sports Report!
I heard the first broadcast of Sports Report in 1948. The result I was interested in was New Brighton 1 Barrow 1
In the present circumstances I've decided to play this from my window every Saturday at 5pm !
Greatest idea I've heard during lockdown!
And in all circumstances!
Goosebumps! RIP James Alexander Gordon! Never to be forgotten!
James Alexander Gordon
My son and his wife had this played as they left the church on their wedding day.
Made a happy day even better.
When I hear this I'm 5 years old again, my mother is doing a fry and asking my father how many sausages he wants. He has his ear up to the crackly radio listening to Sports Report. A neighbour has called in to listen to the soccer results - his family are posh, play polo and he can't listen to the soccer results in his drawing room. My mother worked in the posh neighbour's house before she got married. When I was 5 I didn't think of him as posh - he was just a nice neighbour.
Its 5 o clock and this is sports report. This has been my saturday routine as long as I can remember, I hear this tune and all is well in the world
I'm not even a football fan, but I still try to tune into 5 Live every Saturday at 5pm to hear this lovely theme in its natural home. Thankyou BBC for keeping with tradition.
Nor me but somehow all seems right with the world when this plays out at 5pm on Saturdays !
I had no idea they still played it.
Louise Ricketts you’re not the only one
That tradition is no more as of August 2022. Classified Results are no longer read on 5 Live.
Oh no !!! 😣😣😣
Quite possibly the greatest piece of music ever written!
How can we forget, it is part of our lives when we were children. Thank you for sharing.
I will always remember this tune when my Dad explained to a much younger version of me that the odd goal in seven, meant we won 4-3. Not that we'd actually scored 7!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can’t believe that the BBC are no longer going to read the classified results at 5pm on Radio 5 live ….this theme is the soundtrack to my childhood…..shame on you BBC.
Such great memories of leaving the football with my dad, getting in the car and Sports Report coming on to catch up on all the other results.
Same
I just played this during isolation so I can remember football again, to be fair though this music normally reminds me of Mark Chapman telling me my team has lost again
absolute CLASS this, one of the greatest.
I can't believe that the Beeb have dropped this tune and more importantly Sports Report that followed it at 5pm on saturdays. It's a national institution. Won't be long before they drop the Queens speech on Xmas day!
This will.be the end of the BBC. They have gone too far now.
Disgraceful by the bbc# whoevers decision this was should be shot
They've only stopped doing the classified football results. This masterpiece of a song is still there.
They're still playing the tune but if you want the classified results - LBC News have continued the tradition !
"And now the classified football results, read by James Alexander Gordon..."
The death of JAG has been announced, a sad day for sports broadcasting
Very sad news :-(
Indeed very sad. The like of him will never be heard again.
Loved how his voice used to go up and down when saying the teams wether they had won or lost. He turned announcing the results into an art. What a legend.
Remembering my beautiful DAD listening to this waiting for the results in our happy home God Be With Him 😢
Hi Ell how are you. Greetings from Ireland. This signature tune brings me back to Saturday evenings when I listened to Sports Report presented by the great Eamon Andrews. Oh happy days. I knew teams and grounds and managers. Glad you remember your lovely Dad with such affection. Best wishes for a lovely weekend 😊🙏 Michael
From being a child going with my Dad to the game, to taking my son, a constant, unmistakable, unmissable part of game day!
This is so beautiful, from an era that seems so long along ago now.
Reminds me of being dragged out on a Saturday when I was little with my mom
& dad shopping then coming back and my dad always having this on the radio…happy times
James Alexander Gorden R.I.P
Forfar 4 East Fife 5
East Fife, fife, Forfar, so far four!
Forfar, so far, 4, East Fife 5.
such a classic, no questions
What a classic and what a tune
From the age of 10 onwards I have heard this tune most winterSaturdays in a car. First coming home from a match with my dad and then driving myself home. I don’t go much these days but will contrive an excuse to have to be out at 5pm.
This music is so comforting. Here come the football results.........
Goosebumps galore, Peter jones quote 'Liverpool were finally beaten today but only by the rain, a waterlogged pitch put paid to their game at Derby county'
My memories of this are as a toddler driving back through Cemetery Junction in Reading listening to the scores come in after watching my Dad play football at Palmer Park. Such nostalgia.
goosebumps, every time i hear this
Takes me back to the days when Dad would go to the shop to get his 'Sports Argus' and I'd get a bag of sweets. Wonderful memories *tears* - and Harry Carpenter lived up the road on the 'other side'. Thank you for the memories BBC ❤
Brings back a lot of beautiful memories
This is one of my favourite bits of nostalgia. It takes me right back to very familiar times and locations, as well as that wave of excitement wanting to hear how all the other teams in your league had got on, then mentally doing the math to figure out where you were in the table. A very sad loss yesterday with the passing of JAG: I think a piece of my childhood from 35 years ago went at the same time.
Who is JAG?
James alexander gordon the original announcer on sports report when it first started
@@jamescypler4599 Thank you. JAG was a legend!
Just lost my Dad and he wanted this played at his funeral.
We’d share a bath tub after our own game and listen to the real football results coming in together. The smell of Radox, deep heat and grass/mud… ❤
James Alexander Gordon gave the results away with the tone of his voice. Up for win, flat for draw, down for a defeat.
Thx for posting.
sat evening. sitting by the coal fire, 'wireless' switched on, dad checks his 'littlewoods'. never won anything. oh for 1960 again
Love it love it ….. Saturday scores and waiting for the Saturday classified evening paper. Wonderful
Like the Shipping Forecast, Sports Report is part of the fabric of British broadcasting. Long may it continue - with this tune at its head naturally !
But first the classified football results, read by James Alexander Gordon....
94henry aaaah I remember this so well leaving Craven cottage, getting back to the car just in time for this and Mr Alexander Gordon!
But first the classified football results, AS ALWAYS read by James Alexander Gordon.
Lee this was the same for me. My dad use to drive us to Fulham's home games and then I would love getting back to the car and listening to Sports report on Radio 2 this was back in the late 70's. And because there where no mobile phones then to see the latest scores when James Alexander Gordon reado0ut the results each one was s surprise. Happy Days
Sadly, since they have extended the length of the halftime interval it makes it almost impossible to get back to your car in time.
For some reason it was a habit you had to listen to EVERY score, queen of the south, stenhousemuir etc..
Iconic & Nostalgic Sound!,
used to Listen to it in the Car after watching Football Games/Matches!.i believe it used to be on radio 2.
Still is - 5pm every Saturday!
'And this is Sports Report with James Alexander Gordon'
Music Begins 'De de deh'
Good times
1:29 to 2:36 is an extremely underrated part of this piece - it's never played nearly at all on Sports Report!
Most military band versions I've heard finish at that 2:36 point.
Love hearing it in the car on Saturdays when we travel down and this is on.
classic, driving home from a game listening to 5 live, can't beat it
If this was the sound of sport, everybody would be much happier
TIME MACHINE PLEASE TAKE BACK AND STAY THERE
Golden Memories
Disaster! The BBC are discontinuing Sports Report. A criminal act if ever there was one!
In fact Sports Report continues in a shortened form & without the classified results at the start. They still play thus theme though !
This is a cracking piece of music, and really well written.
I can see my brother and I, ready for bed, sitting and drinking our cocoa while this played. We were very small then. I think The Archers came before or after it. Happy times.
R.I.P JAMES ALEXANDER GORDON BEST SCORER I WILL REMEMBER ALWAYS HEARD IT ON MY WAY HOME
Wolverhampton Wandererererererers - one team he could never read out correctly,
Great tune...happy memories! Being sent out by my dad at 6.30 to wait outside the local newsagents for the Liverpool Pink to be thrown out of the Bedford van as it swept past!
pure bliss.
Sports Report with James Alexander Gordon R.I.P.
I love this I remember being in the car with my grandad picking me up outside Stamford Bridge then listening to the results on radio 5 at 5 in the late 80s and 90s oh happy tears I get
They'll be playing this at my funeral. Track One on my life's soundtrack album
Good evening, it's 5 o'clock, I'm Mark Pougatch and this is Sports Report...
sports report on radio 5 live, 4.55pm on a saturday....
also reminds me of the teddybears picnic lmao
The theme to my life! Still recognise it along with Sport on 2 theme ! can remember hearing it on my dad's radio at tea-time on Saturday's. I was waiting for the football results to see how Spurs had done!
Rainy saturday's in the 90s listening to the scores in the car with my dad. :)
When 5 live was a proper station with excellent reporters and hosts
Indeed. Talksport, Times Radio & LBC are now my 'go to' stations for news & sport.
---but before that it was on the BBC Light Programme.
@@davidockley2987 Actually the old Light Programme morphed into Radio 2 in 1967. Radio 5 (later 5LIVE) was added on the 90s.
@@paulputnam8211 yes I know. The sports report theme was heard on the light programme long before Radio five came along.
@@davidockley2987 Yes, I misread your original comment. You're quite right - the Light Prog originally !
Sports Report out of the blue
If I hadn't gone to a match i always listened to Radio 2 commentaries followed by Soorts Report. An extract from the theme tune was used in the film Kes during the football match scene
i can't believe someone posted this, i love this song i always turn on five live at five to hear it (and the football scores obviously)
Saturdays @ 5pm. Beautiful.
This tune used to be whistled by everyone in the warehouse I used to work in.
9 o'clock every morning except sat sun
Reminds me of sitting on the 53 bus, on my way home from Maine Road in the 70s-80s, somebody always had a transistor radio, always a huge cheer if United had lost! 🤣
It's 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon!
Thanks I have been looking for this for ages. Brings back great Saturday sporting memories.
saddened by the news R.I.P James Alexander Gordon
Love it!
Very pleased to hear Sports Roundup's full jingle tune. The actual version played was much shorter and is featured quite subtly in this music. The Soprano in the jingle was not exactly what is heard here. Anyway, the point I want to make here is that the BBC World Service has been very naughty to have dropped all the historical jingles. Many people had been extremely delighted by these tunes. Let's hope that the BBC will put it back when it moves to Broadcasting House in 2012.
so glad someone put this up
Rip sir one of a kind!
Anyone else play the game that would try and guess the result based around how ames Alexander Gordon's intonation would change? Memoriesssss
Jumpers for goalposts. Marvelous.
Ah... memories! Listening to match commentary on a pocket radio stuck to your ear, during a game to get updates, and reports, from other games and best of all, after a game listening to the scores as they came in, on your way home.
And then...
"It's 5'o'clock and it's time for Sports Report wiith JAGO"
..... 'appy days.
All instant, and continuos updates, same thing for when the FA Cup draw was made on a Monday (if I recall correctly) everyone huddled around a radio to hear the draw as it was read out!
Different times now.
Absolutely!!!
Thank you so much. It is down on You tube as BBC Wimbledon Theme now but its only the short version, Wierdly the full version is under the title "Phantasialand - Alt Berlin Soundtrack (Sporting Occasion)" with a picture of the Berlin Gate !!!
This music was originally commissioned for the 1938 RAF Hendon AIr Pageant. Some time later it was adopted for the Sports Report.
Ian McGreevy do you know what the music is called and who wrote it, please?
This tune brings tears to my eyes. How I long for that world of my childhood .So safe and beautiful until I grew up and saw what the world was really like:
My thoughts too. Beautifully put.
January 3 2018 will be 70 years since Sports Report began
'I'm Mark Pougatch and this is Sports Report' - one of the great lines in radio :D
Sadly Mark & several other more senior BBC sports presenters have been told that their services are no longer required by Radio 5Live. The Corporation is drafting in new presenters in order to attract a younger audience. Experience ditched in pursuit of youth.
And Mark P & others can now be heard covering sport on Times Radio !
Running back to the car after an afternoons entertainment at WHL as a child, teen and then an adult. Some things in life will always stay with you, Peter Jones' intro then James Alexander Gordon with the classified results.
Brilliant
My Grandad listening to the football results and entering the results in the Daily Herald so he could check his pools, Happy days!!
Great tune
There was one time they didn't play fhis, and there were tbat many tweets in the first ten minutes of the show that they had to clarify that they hadn't axed it! It's never not been played since that day.
Ciaran Lynch It wasn’t played the day of Hillsborough. At five o’clock they handed over to Peter Jones, who spoke unscripted about the awful events he had witnessed. It was one of the most moving and most brilliant pieces of broadcasting I’ve ever heard, especially given that he would never have wanted nor expected to do that.
Reminds me of my partner Chris when he has five live on on a Saturday 😊
I couldn't have cared less about what followed, but this piece of music from Sport Report I really enjoyed, same as for all Grandstand was a chore, I loved the music to it.
The tradition is no more on BBC Radio 5 Live. The Classified Results are no longer read out on Sports Report.
Those who want tradition will flock over to Talksport (who will still do the Classified Scores)
And this, is sports report, with Charlotte Green...
Yes, I do love the Charlotte Green style. Sensibly she has not attempted to copy the late James Alexander Gordon & does it in 'Radio Four continuity announcer' style.
Some BBC local radio stations at 5pm on Saturdays would join up for Sports Report at 5pm and stay with Radio 2 for the evening, while others would hook up for the classified checks and football pools results and return to the local sports programmes once finished....
absolute claaassssiicccc me likey
All time classic #banger
Instantly reminds me of the gym teacher out of KES.😀😁😂
Liverpool score six to go top while Southampton score a late winner to climb out of the bottom three.
The FA Cup 3rd Round brought me here!