I totally get that, and I'm not the emotional type, I was 12 when this came out, nearly 62 now and it seems like yesterday, how the years pass without you even realising......
@@benmalone6139 The theme to the 1964 movie "Zulu" was his Masterpiece in my opinion . Pull up that song on your cellphone especially , The 7min. version , l think you will truly like it 😉 .
@@clementjohnson2666 Mate I bought the movie on DVD about 10 years ago and there's a great feature the on how he was inspired music from local tribes of Zulus. Glad to talk to a fellow fan and Yes Zulu still makes me feel oh so mighty hahaha brilliant piece Take care my friend
Milano, middle 70's years...10 yo...sunday evening...when I come back home from S. Siro stadium with my dad...opening door...my mam...on tv....❤ always inside my heart❤
I agree. I remember very little of the series of itself, but the theme immediately haunted me ever since, even though I must've been like five years old. A masterpiece.
So it must have been at the time of the Sha. This TV series owes a lot of its creation to France and the SHA of Iran was a friend of France until a French government betrayed it by welcoming the madman Khomeini who did so much harm to his great country that is Iran.
One of the greatest pieces of music in history,enhanced by some of the best visuals ever committed to screen. An elegy to a lost time.RIP Roger Moore,Tony Curtis,and John Barry.
Think of all the stylings Barry introduced us to, in movie an TV film music (even the stuff for the Andersen's SUPERMARIONATION shows). Reminds you of Ron Grainer's work with the BBC'S Radiophonic Workshop (from DR WHO, to the PRISONER to....)
@@nealbradleigh5069 The great Barry Gray, Gerry Anderson's composer from Fireball XL5 to the first series of Space 1999. "Thunderbirds" if a generation could have a national anthem, that would be ours. Don't forget Delia Derbyshire, Ron Grainer wanted her to have equal credit for Dr Who, but the BBC refused.
@@nealbradleigh5069 Yeah, apparently Ron just composed the basic tune with no harmonies etc, as he knew it was going to be realised electronically. He annotated the score with notes about having the sounds of clouds, and other abstract thoughts. He was thrilled when he heard what Delia had done with it and said "Did I really write that?" BBC had some charming rules. Raymond Cruikshank who actually designed the Daleks got only the standard one off payment and not a penny of royalties from the show, films or merchandise.
I agree!!! I have all this TV-series on tape!!!! And this is the best theme. And of course I love the actors Tony Curtis and Roger Moore!!! Where are you from, if I may ask? I´m from Finland.
***** Hi! Where are you from? I´m from Finland. Tony Curtis and Roger Moore are perfect together, but in their other movies and series they weren´t so good, because they didn´t act together. What do you think about Miami Vice? I love it, especially the music and Don Johnson´s hair :), but it was a good series, together Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas were so good and so cool :) ! But Don Johnson wasn´t very good in movies, and his movies were....what can I say? They weren´t good, Manuscripts were miserable. And then Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy - 48 hours. I love Nick Nolte, he is one of my favorite actors :) !!! And Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in their series...what was the name in English? Do you know and do you like these pairs :??
A John Barry masterpiece...this music is timeless and so beautifully crafted. I remember hearing this theme when i was a child....the show was on later at night around my bedtime, I'd only get to see the introduction and listen to the theme song...treasured and loved memories.
The Persuaders... A look back at times long gone (reference: 1971), but in my opinion much better times than now (reference: 2023). The contrast is enormous...! Thank you Roger MOORE (Lord Brett Sinclair) and Tony CURTIS (Danny Wilde) for this wonderful TV series and of course your excellent acting. R.I.P. legends...! The memory remains...! Greetings from Belgium (Europe) and Florida (USA).
@@jekjarimaatta-kampman3457 If vowels were fossil fuels, Finland would have a serious carbon footprint! I love the look of your words, but I have no idea how to pronounce them!
I was 15 & not long left school when this first appeared on tv back in 1971. Oh how I wish I could go back. No money, no car , no grey hair & no worries.👍👍🤣🤣
Nostalgic great music.I have never heard like that used to watch this series anxiously in my child hood.Music generates a surge in body and i always feel it in my head i watched it now after 50 years what a feeling you never explain.
Totally agree with that. Just add Space 1999, The Sweeney, Starsky and Hutch, The New Avengers, Return of the Saint and The Professionals to the endless list. Sadly great themes and action shows no longer exist, just boring crap like Vera and Midsummer murders. Better watching paint dry!
When television was great. Two wonderful actors. The Yank and the Brit coming together to save the world. And boy did they have class ! Great actors. Sadly missed by all.
I was 8 years old and was not allowed by my parents to see the program on TV, because I had to go to bed before it came on. But so many times I stood secretly in the hallway of our house, listening to this magic tune and the mesmerizing pictures that went along with it on the screen that I could see from a distance. I was so intrigued by it.
I have the exact same memory as you ..I must of been about 5 or 6 and used to watch from the hallway where my parents couldn't see ..I distinctly remember being mesmerised by the theme and the spinning roulette wheel lol ...now mid 50s and love how you tube can be used as a time machine of sorts to sharpen those old memories up 😀
Illustrating the dichotomy of their social stations from the cradle to working together as gentlemen playboy "good-deed-doers" (with a tip of the hat to our movie great FRANK MORGAN in his role as the Wizard of Oz)!
Transports me back to my childhood.....when anything seemed possible. Fantastic memory of that time......and those times....Thanks Tony Roger and the great Mr Barry.
Loved the theme music and the show . This is the first single record Theme From The Persuaders by John Barry that my parents bought me as I enjoyed the music and the show so much when I was young and still do . Still have that first record in my collection
This is my current ringtone... This is also one of my childhood favs. I was about 7 years old at the time - I just adore the series and John Barry has composed yet another masterpiece...
John Barry, my word that man had everything. Brilliant at film scores, tv themes and songwriting. His Somewhere in Time theme was used in parallel with Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini and was as good, if not even better.
I remembered this theme song when in 1970 my father was watching the series on TV and I heard this theme music in our children's bed. We were too young to watch the series. I was 6 years old then. Minulle jäi mieleen tämä tunnuskappale kun vuonna 1970 isä katsoi sarjaa televisiosta ja kuulin tämän tunnusmusiikin meidän lasten nukkumapaikalle. Olimme liian nuoria katsomaan sarjaa. Minä olin 6 vuotias silloin.
I remember this programme from the early 1970,s. I was a primary school boy at the time. It is great to remember this wonderful programme. R.i.p. Tony and Roger.
The whole introduction to this is a masterpiece and stroke of genius. The amazing music plus the way the credits tell their story from birth. Absolutely brilliant.
Very haunting, foreboding piece of music...and one of the best. Was 12 when this came out (1972) and I remember a great america when kids had no computers and life did not move so fast. God bless america and it's constitution.
This is one of the best shows I've ever watched, and definitely one of the best themes I've ever heard. Every time I hear it, it literally stirs my blood, lol. As I watched this video, I was saying to myself that the video was playing too slowly for the music...I didn't know that this was the French(?) version, and didn't expect the music to start playing from the beginning again and then end that way. Fascinating.
My childhood comes to my mind when I listen to this music. I remember my parents watching the persuaders on tv back in those days. Good times back then. And 2 fantastic actors in a fantastic show.
John Barry had 'the Midas touch'. Many other great British composers were Barry Gray (The Thunderbirds), Laurie Johnson (The Avengers), Edwin Astley (The Saint/Dangerman),
Eind ‘71 en ‘72 kijken op zaterdag naar BRT. Zondags werd de reeks op Nederland gespeeld. Werd veel bekeken. Was ook een top reeks destijds. En dan deze mooie muziek erbij. Was 13 jaar oud maar kan mij er nog veel van herinneren. Mijn moeder had het singeltje gekocht, en speelde het grijs.
My cousin prepared and drove Roger Moore’s Aston Martin down to the south of France. He stayed there for several weeks looking after it and also the Ferrari as there was a strike on in Italy. I’ll never forget him arriving at our house before going to France in the Aston and taking the six year old me for a ride
Was born 1955 London UK. loved the Persuaders especially Roger. I grew up with it, I so admired and looked up to him. He was the Gentleman's Gentleman. I met him once at a night club in Soho called La Valle Bon, posh spot it was. Probably 1972, the year of beige roll necks and double breasted blazers. Well that got me into the club anyway. Jensen Interceptor, no I didnt have one but Roger may have. Oh them were the days.
In the eighties i have watched these series, and the theme was implanted in my memory i still occasionaly listen to it. Brilliant haunting theme. Thanks to the great mr John Barry !! RIP
I love all sorts of music and many themes stick in mind but not many have the magic, the creepiness, the mistery, the magic, the eastern block feel of this wonderful piece by our beloved composer John Barry. I shall never forget it as long as I live and have not as yet and it was on tv back in the 70s around 40 years ago and I need no prompt to play it back in my head. When you play this with good base and the volume raised a bit it's so rich and delicious when that base line of longer notes comes in as the solid backing. Real magic from a music magician of whom I am so proud was of our Island nation. The world loves music and 'I love yours, John'. The inimitable John Barry, may God bless him. When was a gift, ever more sadly lost than when the world loses a musician / composer. Burt Bacharach and Queen's Freddie Mercury were other great losses, the world's Michael Jackson too and when Elton John and Bernie Taubin are a news item, or our wonderful George Michael, or Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, I'll cry like a baby as they are all iconic to an era we all shared, and musically it was a 'damned fine' era too, maybe the best. There will always be some good ones I hope, but they don't make them like this any more.
I was just a kid watching reruns but loved loved loved this show and music ! =] Thank you thank you thank you Mr Tony Curtis Sir Roger Moore and Maestro John Barry - True Gentlemen & Sirs one and all .... what a wonderful place you made the world to be :)
i sit here listening to this , being reminded of so many childhood memories, whilst at the same time now watching my father. slowly ebb away before my eyes towards his death. How transient is life and so terribly short..
The composers and writers to tv themes in the late 60's and 70's had some sort of magic for making tv shows work like Persuaders, Department S, Jason King, The Saint and so on. These were the generation of innovators those born between 1910 and 1955. That magic has long gone and this is shown in to-day's rubbish tv show and films.
Don't forget the theme tunes to 'The Prisoner' too., 'Hammer House of Horror', 'Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense', 'The Lightning Tree' and many more.
@@timcolder2789 Add to the list (what's the guy's first name) ASTLEY who gave you the themes to THE SAINT, THE BARON, etc. Include RON GRAINER for DR WHO, THE PRISONER and other BBC titles
Today is 11 Nov.2023
I am 66 years old.
This music takes me back to my golden old days....
This even works if you are "only" 52 years old but had the luck to watch this show on German television in the early 80s... :)
I am agree with you! Iam 65 0ld from Finland! I like very much this tv serie! Roger Moore and Tony Curtis!
Not only ours golden years, that time was "Golden" and will be forever.
You're lucky ! You lived beautiful old days !
❤
Always makes me emotional. Reminds me of when I was a young boy back in the 70s. How I wish I could go back.
I totally get that, and I'm not the emotional type, I was 12 when this came out, nearly 62 now and it seems like yesterday, how the years pass without you even realising......
Me too. Love these old themes. When everybody I loved was still alive. Sorry, feeling nostalgic.
Me too.....I agree with you
I agrew with you .....
Me too. We can dream of our salad days. Loved the Persuaders with Roger and Tony.
John Barry really excelled himself with this one, it's an absolute masterpiece.
Yes, this is an EXCELLENT theme!!!
He is my all time favourite TV/Film composer. Always so classy and sophisticated
@@benmalone6139 The theme to the 1964 movie "Zulu" was his Masterpiece in my opinion . Pull up that song on your cellphone especially , The 7min. version , l think you will truly like it 😉 .
@@clementjohnson2666 Mate I bought the movie on DVD about 10 years ago and there's a great feature the on how he was inspired music from local tribes of Zulus. Glad to talk to a fellow fan and Yes Zulu still makes me feel oh so mighty hahaha brilliant piece
Take care my friend
He also wrote the James Bond theme.
Milano, middle 70's years...10 yo...sunday evening...when I come back home from S. Siro stadium with my dad...opening door...my mam...on tv....❤ always inside my heart❤
I was only six years old, when I heard this melody for the very first time. For me it's still among one of the most beautiful melodies written. 🥰🎶
Me too
YES!!!
Similarly. The theme is a far stronger memory than the actual show.
I agree. I remember very little of the series of itself, but the theme immediately haunted me ever since, even though I must've been like five years old. A masterpiece.
I am Iranian, and I used to watch this TV series during my high school days in Iran, and every time I see it, I remember the past again.
So it must have been at the time of the Sha. This TV series owes a lot of its creation to France and the SHA of Iran was a friend of France until a French government betrayed it by welcoming the madman Khomeini who did so much harm to his great country that is Iran.
Vive l'Iran
@@ThePontiacgto65 you must be over 60 years old now? I was 5 years old by the time.
@@lepessimiste3548 J'espère que dans l'avenir de l'Iran, la liberté du cinéma, du cinéma et de l'art sera à nouveau assurée comme elle l'était avant!
@@plranisch9509
Prions pour plus de liberté et moins d'ignorance
love the persuades theme, so evocative of its time, so melancholy, mysterious and just really good to listen to
Mind blowing ..nostalgic theme music
@Steve A Fuckin A
little bit scary music
Neil Power One of my all time favorites. Just haunting.
Won't disagree, only one that comes close is Twin Peaks.
One of the greatest pieces of music in history,enhanced by some of the best visuals ever committed to screen.
An elegy to a lost time.RIP Roger Moore,Tony Curtis,and John Barry.
Everything and everybody at the top of their game.
I am Swedish 64 years old now. I just love this series. Let my memory come back and remember all that never happened..
John Barry... Boy did he know how to write tunes! The memories...
While I am listening to this music, my childhood comes to my mind
+Zita Menyhárt same here :-)
so do I
Tell me about it , love it till now
Yes....same me....🤗
One of the best themes ever recorded
They just can't write them like this anymore. A haunting theme.
Think of all the stylings Barry introduced us to, in movie an TV film music (even the stuff for the Andersen's SUPERMARIONATION shows).
Reminds you of Ron Grainer's work with the BBC'S Radiophonic Workshop (from DR WHO, to the PRISONER to....)
Think of today's TV theme for SHERLOCK. Notice the similarities with the hammer instrument (similar to our dulcimer)?
@@nealbradleigh5069 The great Barry Gray, Gerry Anderson's composer from Fireball XL5 to the first series of Space 1999. "Thunderbirds" if a generation could have a national anthem, that would be ours.
Don't forget Delia Derbyshire, Ron Grainer wanted her to have equal credit for Dr Who, but the BBC refused.
@@chrisparkes2179 News to me. Thank you, for the insight. Your inputs helps to set the record straight for history!
@@nealbradleigh5069 Yeah, apparently Ron just composed the basic tune with no harmonies etc, as he knew it was going to be realised electronically. He annotated the score with notes about having the sounds of clouds, and other abstract thoughts. He was thrilled when he heard what Delia had done with it and said "Did I really write that?"
BBC had some charming rules. Raymond Cruikshank who actually designed the Daleks got only the standard one off payment and not a penny of royalties from the show, films or merchandise.
Best theme, best intro and most fun crime series in all of television. Period. Thank you Roger, Tony and John Barry.
I agree!!! I have all this TV-series on tape!!!! And this is the best theme. And of course I love the actors Tony Curtis and Roger Moore!!! Where are you from, if I may ask? I´m from Finland.
Their acting skills and charachterizations jelled perfectly!!!!
IAN PAYNE I agree. Where are you from? I´m from Finland. And I love Tony Curtis and Roger Moore - together they are PERFECT!!!!
***** Hi! Where are you from? I´m from Finland. Tony Curtis and Roger Moore are perfect together, but in their other movies and series they weren´t so good, because they didn´t act together. What do you think about Miami Vice? I love it, especially the music and Don Johnson´s hair :), but it was a good series, together Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas were so good and so cool :) ! But Don Johnson wasn´t very good in movies, and his movies were....what can I say? They weren´t good, Manuscripts were miserable. And then Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy - 48 hours. I love Nick Nolte, he is one of my favorite actors :) !!! And Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in their series...what was the name in English? Do you know and do you like these pairs :??
Well said :)
The most unusual, haunting and 70's style of music, tv series music I've ever heard, even since. Absolutely superb.
I was about 12 when this show aired in the USA. I've never forgotten the theme song.
A John Barry masterpiece...this music is timeless and so beautifully crafted. I remember hearing this theme when i was a child....the show was on later at night around my bedtime, I'd only get to see the introduction and listen to the theme song...treasured and loved memories.
Did Barry composed anything than masterpieces ?
The Persuaders... A look back at times long gone (reference: 1971), but in my opinion much better times than now (reference: 2023). The contrast is enormous...! Thank you Roger MOORE (Lord Brett Sinclair) and Tony CURTIS (Danny Wilde) for this wonderful TV series and of course your excellent acting. R.I.P. legends...! The memory remains...! Greetings from Belgium (Europe) and Florida (USA).
The best theme tune in TV history.
Jees juu ja huhhahhei, maito leipä voi kuvan kunnon toi. Meijän puoli voitti höömmmm...
@@jekjarimaatta-kampman3457 If vowels were fossil fuels, Finland would have a serious carbon footprint! I love the look of your words, but I have no idea how to pronounce them!
The great John Barry.
I'll never disagree with that!🤗
@@jekjarimaatta-kampman3457 Er------
Jesus drinking and huhhahhei, milk bread can picture a decent brought. Meijä's side won more ...
Love how they're billed simply as "Curtis And Moore" We all knew who they were! haha
I was 15 & not long left school when this first appeared on tv back in 1971. Oh how I wish I could go back. No money, no car , no grey hair & no worries.👍👍🤣🤣
Is there any better theme tune? Stunning for a 9 year old back then with aspirations, stunningly good still for a 56 year old now ... love it
Totally agree...I'm also 56yrs...
Where did the time go !!!!
Absolutely spot on! I was 56 yesterday, but not today;
Best theme tune ever…I’m also same vintage.
Yes there is: christophe, castelli di sabbia
Those of us born in the 60s were brought up on TV with great themes. This,the champions,Department S,the Avengers,Thunderbirds the list is endless.
Nostalgic great music.I have never heard like that used to watch this series anxiously in my child hood.Music generates a surge in body and i always feel it in my head i watched it now after 50 years what a feeling you never explain.
Totally agree with that. Just add Space 1999, The Sweeney, Starsky and Hutch, The New Avengers, Return of the Saint and The Professionals to the endless list. Sadly great themes and action shows no longer exist, just boring crap like Vera and Midsummer murders. Better watching paint dry!
Don't forget UFO!
And man in a suitcase, the baron, the champions as well
Absolutely agree with you....those great series were golden times that back to us through these memorable clips and intros. Pure nostalgia.
It's a quite sad, emotional and tragic theme. Remember the series fondly from my youth.
Brilliant series on a Sunday afternoon brings back great memories of the good old days
Best actors, best cars and best soundtrack of the sixties
seventies
And stp march 701 of siffert!!
It was early 1970s
best theme tune ever john Barrymore bless you
Just a stunning piece of music
When television was great. Two wonderful actors. The Yank and the Brit coming together to save the world. And boy did they have class ! Great actors. Sadly missed by all.
I was 8 years old and was not allowed by my parents to see the program on TV, because I had to go to bed before it came on. But so many times I stood secretly in the hallway of our house, listening to this magic tune and the mesmerizing pictures that went along with it on the screen that I could see from a distance. I was so intrigued by it.
I have the exact same memory as you ..I must of been about 5 or 6 and used to watch from the hallway where my parents couldn't see ..I distinctly remember being mesmerised by the theme and the spinning roulette wheel lol ...now mid 50s and love how you tube can be used as a time machine of sorts to sharpen those old memories up 😀
One of the greatest theme tunes of all time.Simply brilliant.
Almost 40 years old now, and still not surpassed...
The split screen images; Wilde to the left and Sinclair to the right, was a true stroke of genius!
Illustrating the dichotomy of their social stations from the cradle to working together as gentlemen playboy "good-deed-doers" (with a tip of the hat to our movie great FRANK MORGAN in his role as the Wizard of Oz)!
Almost 40? It’s past 50!
As seen, my comment was made 11 years ago, so it was fully correct back then. But now, true, some 50 years has passed. Amazing!
@@BlueberrySwede Ah. I didn’t catch the date that it was posted. Sorry. Sometimes I forget that the UA-cam algorithm throws old stuff at you.
@@BlueberrySwede _tempus fugit:_ how time flies
I was born in 1967 at 10 or 11 years old, I enjoyed that series like never before, on black and white TV, magnificent, excellent, I will never forget
Transports me back to my childhood.....when anything seemed possible.
Fantastic memory of that time......and those times....Thanks Tony Roger and the great Mr Barry.
One of the best theme songs ever
John Barry was genious...so were these actors.
One of the absolute best TV series of all time.
this serie with the music must never die. I was 14 in 1973.
John Barry's skill at writing such an amazing theme.....possibly the best theme music to any TV series ever recorded.
+Martin Platt Agree with you. IMHO the best theme tune ever made..
In die tijd was het een geweldige serie ,echte toppers. En zeker de muziek van Barry.
very sweet memories of my childhood! when i saw this movie, i was only 10 years old boy!! I have still rem. those time !
An absolute masterpiece. This theme is engrained in my childhood memories.
Love it! Born in 1962 and remember all episodes!
We had a small black and white telly in the seventies and we loved this show. The music brings back memories.
Loved the theme music and the show . This is the first single record Theme From The Persuaders by John Barry that my parents bought me as I enjoyed the music and the show so much when I was young and still do . Still have that first record in my collection
J'étais fan de cette série ,c'est dingue comment les années ont défilé à une vitesse folle !
Very true: _tempus fugit_
I guess I'm not alone here. I love this tune and it does take me back to my little boy days.
What a good time this was.
Yes
Love the persuaders a great 1970's Television.
Best TV show theme of all time !!!
Oh the memory it brought tears to my eyes it reminds me of my dad and my 2 brothers who I lost we used to watch it all the time.
Brilliant, this gave me goosebumps!
Sue Condon , i got same, wonder why?
No Internet in 60s 70s 80s more Famliy values in life
Spot on Sue
Me too
A beautiful piece of melancholic music by John Barry. Always made me feel sad. Loved the series. Classic TV.
Shades of The Italian Job.
wonderful program when I was a kid. I watched it on a sunday lunch time as my mom was cooking our sunday roast xx
En Argentina disfrutamos de esta Serie y su tema musical maravillos una obra de arte de Jhon Barry
loved the music and the series - great family entertainment from the 70's
Just came from The Proffesionals theme to this, and a flood of childhood memories. Great stuff.
This is my current ringtone... This is also one of my childhood favs. I was about 7 years old at the time - I just adore the series and John Barry has composed yet another masterpiece...
Best theme , best serie of all time ...
So sad both are now deceased, many happy hours watching this show, DEATH TOOK THEM TO EARLY 😢😢😢
@@andymatthews7617 And the same with The Avengers ...Just perfect
@@lordofglencoe7084 we had the best programmes in those days, total american dress now, very depressing.
John Barry, my word that man had everything. Brilliant at film scores, tv themes and songwriting. His Somewhere in Time theme was used in parallel with Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini and was as good, if not even better.
Totally agree with that. Just bought compilation cd with his music on. Somewhere in time and Zulu are absolute classics.
Thank you. I'll look that up.
I was just an adolescent watching this show and many of those around me are gone forever. :(
I miss these two fellas...
Awesome memories for me as a young boy, beautiful music and fun tv series
I've just listened to the theme tunes to White Horses , Robinson crusoe , casey jones now this I'm 53 and I want to cry !
steve starling I know the feeling, 55 mate
56 where did my life go lol loved this and Robinson Crusoe in black and white
DITTO!
1960's and 1970's produced some of the best TV theme tunes ever and most of them were British.
steve starling yeah plus the banana splits HR Pufnstuf and the double deckers, great times
I remembered this theme song when in 1970 my father was watching the series on TV and I heard this theme music in our children's bed. We were too young to watch the series. I was 6 years old then.
Minulle jäi mieleen tämä tunnuskappale kun vuonna 1970 isä katsoi sarjaa televisiosta ja kuulin tämän tunnusmusiikin meidän lasten nukkumapaikalle. Olimme liian nuoria katsomaan sarjaa. Minä olin 6 vuotias silloin.
Brings me back to my childhood. I feel like I've grown up with them since I've known them when I was little. Sad to know they're gone. *:(*
I remember this programme from the early 1970,s. I was a primary school boy at the time. It is great to remember this wonderful programme. R.i.p. Tony and Roger.
The whole introduction to this is a masterpiece and stroke of genius. The amazing music plus the way the credits tell their story from birth.
Absolutely brilliant.
Very haunting, foreboding piece of music...and one of the best. Was 12 when this came out (1972) and I remember a great america when kids had no computers and life did not move so fast. God bless america and it's constitution.
This is one of the best shows I've ever watched, and definitely one of the best themes I've ever heard. Every time I hear it, it literally stirs my blood, lol. As I watched this video, I was saying to myself that the video was playing too slowly for the music...I didn't know that this was the French(?) version, and didn't expect the music to start playing from the beginning again and then end that way. Fascinating.
I used to only watch this show for the haunting theme song.
My childhood comes to my mind when I listen to this music. I remember my parents watching the persuaders on tv back in those days. Good times back then. And 2 fantastic actors in a fantastic show.
John Barry had 'the Midas touch'. Many other great British composers were Barry Gray (The Thunderbirds), Laurie Johnson (The Avengers), Edwin Astley (The Saint/Dangerman),
Eind ‘71 en ‘72 kijken op zaterdag naar BRT. Zondags werd de reeks op Nederland gespeeld. Werd veel bekeken. Was ook een top reeks destijds. En dan deze mooie muziek erbij. Was 13 jaar oud maar kan mij er nog veel van herinneren. Mijn moeder had het singeltje gekocht, en speelde het grijs.
Brilliant theme and great program.
I watched this in the early eighties as a kid. Best time of my life while at grandparents house.
loved this show then and now great theme again as were most 60and 70 shows.
I wasnt born in the 60s but i used to watch this show when i was like 5-10 years old. I loved it
Still sends shivers down my spine after 30+ years! This was a must watch program with a world beating theme ♡
My cousin prepared and drove Roger Moore’s Aston Martin down to the south of France. He stayed there for several weeks looking after it and also the Ferrari as there was a strike on in Italy. I’ll never forget him arriving at our house before going to France in the Aston and taking the six year old me for a ride
Early 1970s classic tv show and haunting theme music.Moore and Curtis had such a close chemistry which was the basis of such a great tv drama series.
no idea why this wasn't shown on repeat in the mid to later 1970s (my time) like a lot of other shows from the 60s which I grew up with.
Great theme tune.my favourite.thanks john Barry.great track.
Agreed This is a brilliant Theme!
Was born 1955 London UK. loved the Persuaders especially Roger. I grew up with it, I so admired and looked up to him. He was the Gentleman's Gentleman. I met him once at a night club in Soho called La Valle Bon, posh spot it was. Probably 1972, the year of beige roll necks and double breasted blazers. Well that got me into the club anyway. Jensen Interceptor, no I didnt have one but Roger may have. Oh them were the days.
Uma das melhores séries passada na década de 70...Sensacional pode recorda esses dois, monstros..Curtis e Moore....
In the eighties i have watched these series, and the theme was implanted in my memory i still occasionaly listen to it. Brilliant haunting theme. Thanks to the great mr John Barry !! RIP
Ah yes, such memories!!
This have been voted best Film series-Track ever!!
I love all sorts of music and many themes stick in mind but not many have the magic, the creepiness, the mistery, the magic, the eastern block feel of this wonderful piece by our beloved composer John Barry. I shall never forget it as long as I live and have not as yet and it was on tv back in the 70s around 40 years ago and I need no prompt to play it back in my head. When you play this with good base and the volume raised a bit it's so rich and delicious when that base line of longer notes comes in as the solid backing. Real magic from a music magician of whom I am so proud was of our Island nation. The world loves music and 'I love yours, John'. The inimitable John Barry, may God bless him. When was a gift, ever more sadly lost than when the world loses a musician / composer. Burt Bacharach and Queen's Freddie Mercury were other great losses, the world's Michael Jackson too and when Elton John and Bernie Taubin are a news item, or our wonderful George Michael, or Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, I'll cry like a baby as they are all iconic to an era we all shared, and musically it was a 'damned fine' era too, maybe the best. There will always be some good ones I hope, but they don't make them like this any more.
R Martin
His theme for Ipcress File captured some of that sultry magic too.
I was just a kid watching reruns but loved loved loved this show and music ! =]
Thank you thank you thank you Mr Tony Curtis Sir Roger Moore and Maestro John Barry - True Gentlemen & Sirs one and all .... what a wonderful place you made the world to be :)
Absolute genius - in my opinion, the greatest soundtrack composer ever - followed closely by Ennio Morricone and Lalo Schifrin.
Ennio Morricone is italian just like me!
+LULUBELLE III Not only in your opinion, believe me.He is the best.
LULUBELLE III
Don't forget Henry Mancini
Indeed
Lalo- Dirty Harry and Bullet! Respect. Mind You Bond!!?? Then Spaghetti Westerns and Untouchables! !?? Yeah you're right. All superb.
Roger was gorgeous even as a child...and Tony cute. R.I.P. gents and thanks for a feel-good series.
I'm Japanese, 23 years old.
But this is my favorite drama!
The best theme tune ever written.
The theme of my life. John Barry rules!
What an excellent piece of music !
i sit here listening to this , being reminded of so many childhood memories, whilst at the same time now watching my father. slowly ebb away before my eyes towards his death. How transient is life and so terribly short..
Are you still there, Lee Walker?
Wow! This piece of excellent music bring instant memories of the 70’s when I was a kid. I loved this show, it was a classic to say the least. 😃
The composers and writers to tv themes in the late 60's and 70's had some sort of magic for making tv shows work like Persuaders, Department S, Jason King, The Saint and so on. These were the generation of innovators those born between 1910 and 1955. That magic has long gone and this is shown in to-day's rubbish tv show and films.
Don't forget the theme tunes to 'The Prisoner' too., 'Hammer House of Horror', 'Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense', 'The Lightning Tree' and many more.
The Avengers was another terrific show and theme song/music with Laurie Johnson a few year before this.
Van der vaulk too.
Laurie Johnson also did The Professionals theme to add to the list.
@@timcolder2789 Add to the list (what's the guy's first name) ASTLEY who gave you the themes to THE SAINT, THE BARON, etc. Include RON GRAINER for DR WHO, THE PRISONER and other BBC titles
1972 and...BAM! I’m eight years old again.
Still sounds as brilliant today as it did back then and that is saying something,best theme song for a TV series ever,by a mile..
Grande telefilm e grande colonna sonora, peccato che non facciano più telefilm di questo genere.
Magnificent Theme ... John Barry ... a Great Composer ...