The reason why CBS used it is that orchestra conductor/arranger/composer Mort Stevens was actually on staff at CBS, and they owned all the publishing and all the master rights to this recording. So basically, they got a cool "Special Presentation" fanfare for free.
1973 was the first year this bumper was seen and heard. That was nearly 51 years ago. The first time I heard it was on the premiere episode of "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown", a 1973 special that had a storyline of Linus running for school president.
@@LindaMerchant-bq2hp "The Wizard Of Oz" was broadcasted on NBC in 1969 and had the NBC "Laramie" peacock opening. It returned to CBS in 1976. Surely you mean you saw it in 1979? That airing would have the "CBS Special Presentation" bumper.
As someone who grew up with not just this promo, but also listening to and loving all the music that pioneered the sampling trend, from hip-hop of the ‘80s to rave of the ‘90s and beyond, learning that this iconic snippet of memory is itself sampled… MIND BLOWN, to say the least 🤯 😄
The fact this is a piece of music from Hawaii Five-O makes it, if possible, even more awesome. My brother and I would hear this track from our bedrooms around 8 p.m. during the holidays, and come FLYING into the living room, top speed. (This message sponsored by York Peppermint Patties. Get the sensation.)
Thankyou for this. Being a drummer I had to know who played the congas on this. Had no idea it was from a Hawaii 50 song. But it makes so much sense now. Very cool.
I just have to say I am amazed at the time and patience it took to figure this out and put it together. Also, yes, this musical piece takes me back to my childhood. Whenever you heard this you knew something special was about to come on. 😁
I used to do editing like this when I interned at a public radio station, but I was editing interviews. It's not quite as hard as you might think, but you do have to be very careful because, once you make that cut with your blade, there's no going back. What you'd do is listen to the tape at normal speed several times and get an idea of where you wanted to make your edit, then you'd stop the tape as close to that as you could. Then you'd turn the reels by hand to get to exactly where you'd want to cut. Then you'd take a white grease pencil and mark the place on the tape where it was touching the playback head on the machine. That was where you'd start your edit. Then you needed to find the end of the edit, so you'd run the tape forward until you found your exact spot and marked it. Then roll the tape back to the first edit point. You'd then pull the tape up off the head and onto the cover over the heads. There'd be a guide that you'd lay the tape into. Right in the middle, it had a diagonal groove, which is where you'd insert your razor blade. You'd put the part of the tape with the mark right over the groove and slice it with your blade. Then find the second mark and slice that one. After that, you'd use splicing tape to splice the tape together. The main thing you needed was patience. With interviews, it wasn't enough to edit extraneous words; you had to get the breath sounds just right. If you didn't, it'd sound wrong. Not only that, but you wanted nice clean cuts, since they were easier to splice and didn't sound weird during playback. This meant you only got a few uses out of each blade. It was amazing how quickly tape would make those things dull.
Well done. I studied communications in college and worked at radio station to help pay tuition. Loved radio production and would spend hours with a razor blade and splicing tape to come up with all kinds of fun creations. This would have been a dream to put something like this together with the original Hawaii Five O soundtrack.
Dude thank you!! I tried explaining the significance of that intro and that music to my kids. They of course cannot appreciate how exiting it was as a child when you only had like 5 channels and these specials were only a few times a year.
Fantastic! This was like the precursor to sampling and beatmaking. The musical talent in Hollywood/TV studios back then was no joke, both in the orchestra and in the editing room, but almost no one knew their names!
I just watched this video and I was blown away! I have the Hawaii 5-0 soundtrack on vinyl and never did I match that up to the CBS track. The fact that someone did that editing tape is pretty amazing. Thanks for putting this video together. It totally made my day!!
i feel like i'm the only one who first knew this jingle because of homestar runner (keep in mind, i got into homestar runner at the beginning of 2023 (last year as of the time i typed this comment)
That and the intro to The CBS Friday Night Movie and The ABC Tuesday Movie of The Week - which was written by Burt Bacharach - are ingrained in my brain❤❤ Thank you for posting this!!
Thank You for explaining a soundtrack that was my childhood Im a 1980 kid so that intro told you fun was coming rather charlie Brown , Rudolph, Frosty, or Dr, Suess looney tunes special
Wow, I thought I was into finding this again. Thanks for the info! I made the original Special Presentation a text tone on my phone. It's a bit long for that, but super cool. It does very much jive with Hawaii 5-0 stuff now that I consider this.
I like the old one better. The first time I ever saw it was technically October of 1984 with "Garfield in the Rough" and "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown." Good stuff.
You mentioned how it was done with cutting and splicing audio tape. I've done that kind of editing before. I've spliced together many edits with a little bit of blood from cutting my fingers.
Listening to the full track makes me wonder if "Playing With Danger" from Valve Software's Team Fortress 2 soundtrack is a nod/homage to "Call to Danger"
Kids today don't know... and BTW you had to be right on the money with the splicing block and razor blade... there was no "undo" lol - just deadlines to get stuff done. normally the animation would come first and then it's a timed thing were you need 7 secs of music or the like... crude timing back then as well... clunky, but we lived though it :-)
Nicely detailed and nicely explained; network TV.... those were the days. cue "All in the Family." Am I in the RUclips rabbit hole or the CBS rabbit hole? Hmmm
This brought back all kinds of childhood memories
The reason why CBS used it is that orchestra conductor/arranger/composer Mort Stevens was actually on staff at CBS, and they owned all the publishing and all the master rights to this recording. So basically, they got a cool "Special Presentation" fanfare for free.
Amazing how many memories can be packed in less than ten seconds.
Wow. There was some serious razor blade magic going on here in 1973.
1973 was the first year this bumper was seen and heard. That was nearly 51 years ago. The first time I heard it was on the premiere episode of "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown", a 1973 special that had a storyline of Linus running for school president.
The first time i saw this classic was wizard of oz 1969 the music was same yet video of 5,6 CBS logoes in Pac-Man line😂
@@LindaMerchant-bq2hp "The Wizard Of Oz" was broadcasted on NBC in 1969 and had the NBC "Laramie" peacock opening. It returned to CBS in 1976. Surely you mean you saw it in 1979? That airing would have the "CBS Special Presentation" bumper.
As someone who grew up with not just this promo, but also listening to and loving all the music that pioneered the sampling trend, from hip-hop of the ‘80s to rave of the ‘90s and beyond, learning that this iconic snippet of memory is itself sampled… MIND BLOWN, to say the least 🤯 😄
This is the ultimate in nostalgia nerdery and I love it! I grew up with this animation!
This video is such a service to GenX nerds everywhere. Thank you!
Prefer to be referred to as Geek not Nerd...Nerds are folks that are academically inclined, Geek however is likely
One space after punctuation, old fart.
The fact this is a piece of music from Hawaii Five-O makes it, if possible, even more awesome. My brother and I would hear this track from our bedrooms around 8 p.m. during the holidays, and come FLYING into the living room, top speed.
(This message sponsored by York Peppermint Patties. Get the sensation.)
Sometimes you feel like a nut! Sometimes you don't!
Thankyou for this. Being a drummer I had to know who played the congas on this. Had no idea it was from a Hawaii 50 song. But it makes so much sense now. Very cool.
You just did the Lord’s work on this one - thanks a million!!
Jack Lord’s work??? 🤨🤪
I just have to say I am amazed at the time and patience it took to figure this out and put it together. Also, yes, this musical piece takes me back to my childhood. Whenever you heard this you knew something special was about to come on. 😁
Wow I really miss these days
I've not heard this in decades, and I still get that little stomach flutter I did as a kid. Great video, thanks for doing this!
Me too. 😁
WOW! This is so cool, and amazing that someone did this 50 years ago with analog tape!
I used to do editing like this when I interned at a public radio station, but I was editing interviews. It's not quite as hard as you might think, but you do have to be very careful because, once you make that cut with your blade, there's no going back.
What you'd do is listen to the tape at normal speed several times and get an idea of where you wanted to make your edit, then you'd stop the tape as close to that as you could. Then you'd turn the reels by hand to get to exactly where you'd want to cut. Then you'd take a white grease pencil and mark the place on the tape where it was touching the playback head on the machine. That was where you'd start your edit. Then you needed to find the end of the edit, so you'd run the tape forward until you found your exact spot and marked it. Then roll the tape back to the first edit point. You'd then pull the tape up off the head and onto the cover over the heads. There'd be a guide that you'd lay the tape into. Right in the middle, it had a diagonal groove, which is where you'd insert your razor blade. You'd put the part of the tape with the mark right over the groove and slice it with your blade. Then find the second mark and slice that one. After that, you'd use splicing tape to splice the tape together.
The main thing you needed was patience. With interviews, it wasn't enough to edit extraneous words; you had to get the breath sounds just right. If you didn't, it'd sound wrong. Not only that, but you wanted nice clean cuts, since they were easier to splice and didn't sound weird during playback. This meant you only got a few uses out of each blade. It was amazing how quickly tape would make those things dull.
Well done. I studied communications in college and worked at radio station to help pay tuition. Loved radio production and would spend hours with a razor blade and splicing tape to come up with all kinds of fun creations. This would have been a dream to put something like this together with the original Hawaii Five O soundtrack.
Dude thank you!! I tried explaining the significance of that intro and that music to my kids. They of course cannot appreciate how exiting it was as a child when you only had like 5 channels and these specials were only a few times a year.
I don't say this lightly -- this just blew my mind. Fantastic work, Rob!
Morton Stevens also wrote the music to the CBS Movie nights.
Fantastic! This was like the precursor to sampling and beatmaking. The musical talent in Hollywood/TV studios back then was no joke, both in the orchestra and in the editing room, but almost no one knew their names!
I just watched this video and I was blown away! I have the Hawaii 5-0 soundtrack on vinyl and never did I match that up to the CBS track. The fact that someone did that editing tape is pretty amazing. Thanks for putting this video together. It totally made my day!!
I've heard of this being done the way you said, but never saw how it was put together. This was excellent...thanks!!!
I heard it in the early 70s. Loved it since.
Brilliant! THANK YOU for creating / sharing!!!
This was an AWESOME watch. Thank you.
Yessssss. That is an epic score of music.
Admit it. We all put our arms out and swung them in pace with the spinning letters like a fool as kids…and we loved it!
You are doing the Lord's work my friend...Thank you!
i feel like i'm the only one who first knew this jingle because of homestar runner (keep in mind, i got into homestar runner at the beginning of 2023 (last year as of the time i typed this comment)
That and the intro to The CBS Friday Night Movie and The ABC Tuesday Movie of The Week - which was written by Burt Bacharach - are ingrained in my brain❤❤ Thank you for posting this!!
My friend, those bumpers are on RUclips too! Go do a search 😊
good work sound quality is terrific
I always wondered who wrote the music, too.
This logo popped up when before I saw Star Wars episode 4 for the first time back in 1986. So it has a special place in my heart.
Thank You for explaining a soundtrack that was my childhood Im a 1980 kid so that intro told you fun was coming rather charlie Brown , Rudolph, Frosty, or Dr, Suess looney tunes special
Knew whatever was coming on was gonna be straight 🔥🔥
Excellent!!! Nostalgia city for me.
Pbs theme intro is another one i love too. Especially in the 70s
I’ve been obsessed with this music and logo animation for years! Thank you for sharing this! 😎🎉💜👏🏽
This logo used to scare me as a child, but this is great research!
I understand that because it startles people because it just comes on with no warning
Thank you for putting this together. Very informative!
Wow, I thought I was into finding this again. Thanks for the info! I made the original Special Presentation a text tone on my phone. It's a bit long for that, but super cool. It does very much jive with Hawaii 5-0 stuff now that I consider this.
So many awesome memories!! Thanks for this😍
I like the old one better. The first time I ever saw it was technically October of 1984 with "Garfield in the Rough" and "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown." Good stuff.
Very cool! Thanks for this one.
Very cool!
I just saw the new CBS Special logo at the start of the Tony Awards! It looked just like the classic logo!
Wow this is so cool. Im guessing you are some kind of editor or engineer? It's nice to know about this video's origin.
This is awesome! Thank you!
Absolutely fascinating. I had no idea.
There was nothing like it.
You can also hear bits of The Brady Bunch in that horn section. All produced by CBS.
Nice job!
I'm a DJ, and was looking at the wave form to see if I could visualize the correct sections. Happy to say .. yup. lol
GREAT piece of research!
This guy would love the MPCLive2
You mentioned how it was done with cutting and splicing audio tape. I've done that kind of editing before. I've spliced together many edits with a little bit of blood from cutting my fingers.
Nice!! =) Thanks!
So Cool!!
Lol this sounds like the soundtrack to a real exciting high action cop show or something lol
I assume the graphics were done on a Scanimate.
It could all be hand-animated, too; I wish I could get my hands on a Scanimate.
@@Robtvla I think I remember reading somewhere that there are only four Scanimate machines left in the world.
How did they do that CBS Special Presentation logo and the percussion part?
Very informative!!!!!!!!!!!
Great work!
Neat!
thats interesting they gotta do the old one again
I have turned this intro into a dance.
The original song sounds great, too!
the original music from Hawaii Five-0 reminds me of the johnny quest theme in some parts
AWESOME!!!
And that’s the end of the song (w/ light switch sounds like a….)
Everything is complete
Listening to the full track makes me wonder if "Playing With Danger" from Valve Software's Team Fortress 2 soundtrack is a nod/homage to "Call to Danger"
How does one acquire these soundtracks with all the multiple channels ?
Kids today don't know... and BTW you had to be right on the money with the splicing block and razor blade... there was no "undo" lol - just deadlines to get stuff done. normally the animation would come first and then it's a timed thing were you need 7 secs of music or the like... crude timing back then as well... clunky, but we lived though it :-)
Where could I download Audacity?
check out the MARVEL Studios Special Presentation animation. Its very similar to CBS.
Intro to wizard of oz
👍👍👍🤎👍👍👍
Nicely detailed and nicely explained; network TV.... those were the days. cue "All in the Family." Am I in the RUclips rabbit hole or the CBS rabbit hole? Hmmm