Being a young teenager in 1970, hearing this made me think the world was a gentle caring place where people spoke honestly and calmly, a lost time which I miss more and more
Agree totally, this tune brings back memories of my Dad watching it. Think it used to be on Sunday morning. I was about. Well I was born in 1973. Born and bred in South London, Roupell Park Estate, yeah a rough reputation but so more innocent, people looked out for each other. I had a very happy childhood, most kids then did, we more or less had the same, working class council Estate, some very good friends and people black, white, yellow who cared. Look now Music encouraging Drugs, Underage sex, Violence, and the dangerous thing is it influences youth so much, like God's. Violent movies Violent Games, some of these idiots especially musicians are scum, also Satanic, I'm 48 but would take pleasure in busting some of there head's. I'm a Christian who loves Jesus, I don't affiliate with church's especially Catholic. Just God's word and Love. Being in place's with certain people, I loved Drugs and Alcohol, turned Heroin Addict when 29 for 15 years, please if your young listen, be careful don't let idiots bring you down, I'm no preacher and a sinner like all of us. When I was getting stoned and drunk God was there with me not that I gave a shite. I am clean and sober 10 years, yeah I'm on medication and methadone, I've took substances all my life. At least the meds don't leave me homeless, smelly, a thief, I'm not in fear anymore of owing Violent people money. I'm not a bible basher, but Satan is for real, and I don't mean horns and spikes and fake blood, like these idiot metal bands.no no Satan is usually a gentleman a business man and he wants you badly, good news so does Jesus Christ, he cured my insanity he loves me and you, he knows how many hairs are on your head, so you can imagine all your little secrets he knows. His office is open 24/7 365 if you're in trouble chat to him, clear out the rubbish, he is still in the miracle business. And to all these walls with their twisted music and wicked messages, beware. OK your a satanist, have you read your bible recently Satan is an angel, an extremely intelligent being he prowls looking for vulnerable people. I'll end it simply. Jesus he is the way the truth and the life.
To you Robert Hayes, I'd bet you're a real gentleman, military maybe. Gentleman are a dying race too. You're words gentle,caring , honest and calm. It's funny actually my Dad is Irish but came for work. Some Pubs do you remember No Dogs No Irish No blacks. Lovely. Your words stirred me. Thank You. Just a fact for you, The biggest commodity on Earth is Drugs. I haven't prayed for 20 years or sang a happy song, since praying went with innocence and the Devil played along. Ronnie Drew the Dubliners from a great Irish song "The Mero" you might like it it's all about old Dublin City characters 😀 nu
I don't know if I'm just looking back through rose tinted spectacles when I hear this stirring piece of music.... probably about 10 or 11 years of age in the early to mid seventies? ....sat round the tv as a family on a Sunday (?) evening watching this gentle old bearded man with pipe and maybe a hat with feather in it, as he talked so clearly and calmly about various countryside things.... I think of my Dad. But as Robert Hayes comments below and I'd have to agree - "this made me think the world was a gentle caring place where people spoke honestly and calmly,"
This programme is currently being repeated on Sunday afternoons. Couldn’t stand it back in the 70s but love it now I’m grown up and can fully appreciate the calm, caring and respectful themes of nature it deals with. An oasis in a desert of modern day cacophony and utter madness
I suddenly missed talking to my dad about fishing. Got a few tears out of me Dad is a Kentish man and always loved fishing. He always loved watching Out of Town. Now I am so far away from him I miss him so much. I can honestly say he is the greatest person that I know.
@@gaysy1stmy dad just passed 2wks ago & his funeral is nxt Tues 20th Dec. He was 84. Loved watching Out of Town in the 70s. Used to watch it as a family also. My dad loved fly fishing & used to tie his own flies. Smoked a pipe as well. This took me down memory lane. God bless U. It is hard to lose a parent 🙏❤️
My dad was a Kentish man also, loved Out of Town, smoked a pipe & tied his own flies. He passed 2wks ago & his funeral is nxt Wed 20th Dec. He was 84. RIP Dad 🙏❤️
I absolutely loved out of town, loved the music, brought memories back from my childhood, I also liked going into the countryside which wasn’t far from me, and I loved going fishing, so it wasn’t a surprise that I liked this programme.
Jack Hargreaves. He was my life's mentor. As a young teenager, Jack once did a set on cultivating water cress. He cut a circular area approx 3ft in diameter into the bank of a river. That created a swirl within. He planted some at the far back of the cutting. His words, were, or something like "This will give the cress it's moving water requirement. Jump a few weeks later, the amount of cress was just staggering. Jump even further, I was now a family man. We built a pond and I wanted water cress. I acquired some from a local grocer, just one small bunch. I planted it in my pond and it was successful. I've had water cress ever since. What an amazing man he was. Fred Dibnah with a garden fork.
we would all like to get back to the 70s before grab and greed but to do that you need to stop voting for main stream parties who will sell you down river at the first available chance while at the same time feathering their nest.
You must remember though that jack was simply a presenter, he was a technology freak and had an editing studio in his own house, multiple television sets vcrs etc. He told us about the old ways but the inside of his house looked futuristc at the time. He even had electronically opening curtains that were operated by a remote control and that was in the late 70s.
Been searching for this tune for literally years. Used to be a theme tune to a TV show from the 70's when i was a kid. Loved the tune. So glad i finally found it..
Recuerdos de la Alhambra is a famous guitar piece by Tarregas. This tv theme version waa put together by a group of musicians organised by John Hargreaves ..the arrangement was specially commissioned for the Out of Town series ....many other classical versions exist without the rhythmic element
This soundtrack beautifully captures British television culture in its finest post-war years, the mid 70s. We didn't know it at the time but everything we held on to so dearly was about to be bulldozed aside in the 1980s. My mum worked as a typist for Jack in the 1960s when he was a copywriter for JWT - she still remembered the smoke in the office from that pipe 50 years later. If you watch Reginald Perrin for example [David Nobbs] 1976 - you're watching very fine tragedy acting set against the rising tide of consumerism. Nobbs was almost anticipating 1979 and the sweeping aside of so many curious old things that Jack Hargreaves was making programmes about.
What an interesting comment. Jack - my stepfather - was headhunted by most of the big agencies, including Colman, P & V and Hobson Bates & Partners where I , dropping into his office, used to be fascinated by the world of advertising as explained to me by Jack and colleagues. Yes, the aroma of Gallagers Golden Honeydew ran through my childhood, though I also recall the era when smoking began to be denigrated and JH had to move away from directly smoking his pipe on camera, taking a puff as the 'on air' light came on and then putting his pipe away in a pocket. Story goes his pipe wasn't always fully extinguished and, noticing smoke from Jack's pocket, a floor manager would have to crawl over to Jack below cameras and tip a jug of water into his pocket while J, consummate professional, continued his musings to camera.
A beautiful bit of music, I wish I had a copy of it. The origional song, "OUT OF TOWN" was sung by the late and, GREAT!....MAX BYGRAVES, who, without knowing it, got me into "SHOW BIZ!!!!!" At the age of, about six, my mum took me to The London Palladium, to see "THE MAX BYGRAVES SHOW" We we're in the front stalls, on the right facing the stage, and, all through the show, Max kept coming in front of me, smiling, at that tender age, now 68, I KNEW I wanted to be like Max. Not enough time to tell my story, but, after leaving The Royal Navy as a multi-instrumentalist, trained by The Royal Marines Bandmaster, I joined a "POP" group. Fast forward, I recorded over 8 albums, and 3 double albums. My radio show had "SUPERSTARS" doing "Phone Ins" I had a listenership of.....OVER...FIFTEEN MILLION LISTENERS...WORLDWIDE....PROVEN BY LOG INS. I did "The Ken Dodd, The Elvis Presley AND MAX BYGRAVES tribute shows" THANK YOU MAX!
Of Max Bygraves, my stepfather, Jack Hargreaves, once said "Max could walk onto a stage before an audience of 1000s and say 'Hullo' and everyone in the theatre felt he was talking to them."
I used to watch this every Sunday on Granada and it showed traditional country crafts and activities your mum knew well as a little girl. Always had Jack Hargreaves on screen wearing a quilted Barbour shooting vest with patches on the top and wellies presenting it It also got repeated on the free to air Pan European Astra 1A satellite channel Lifestyle.
This is Tarrega's music but it isn't the arrangement recorded for Southern's 'Out of Town'. The person who arranged this tune for Jack Hargreaves (my stepfather) is Jonathon Xavier Coudrille. who says it's 'certainly based on my arrangement, but not my playing. Sounds like the early John Williams recording, slower, mechanically perfect, slightly relentless, (lacks the lilt and the late Mick Hawksworth' s magical bass), with my counter-melodies inserted and, somebody's very competent string parts over the top. Beautifully produced, lovely in it's way... I don't disown it, but neither can I take the credit for the whole.' The tune here plays in the background of the 'Out of Town' and 'Old Country' DVDs issued by Network on Air in 2017/18, but once anyone opens any specific episode they will hear Jonathon Coudrille's unique arrangement of 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra', which was commissioned by Jack Hargreaves from Jonathon, one of Southern TV's musical directors. Strolling a corridor at the Southern TV HQ at Northam in Southampton, Jack Hargreaves overheard the multi-instrumentalist Coudrille playing his own arrangement of Francisco Tárrega's piece and decided to use it in place of Max Bygraves' song 'Out of Town'. He commissioned Coudrille's group 'Late November' comprising Coudrille, the late Mick Hawksworth, Steve Smith, Tony Fernandez, Peter Barraclough and Jonathan Handlesman to play it especially for OOT. It's clearly different from this version on RUclips loaded by Johnny Cassettes. As Jonathon says, still a lovely piece however arranged. .
I fondly remember 'Out of Town' in shown in the Granada TV region in the 1970's and early 80's (and probably before but I'm too young to remember being born in 1964). I got into fishing when I was a teenager partly because of watching Jack Hargreaves on 'Out of Town' from about 1978-80 in particular. I also remember Jack on the original 'How' in about 1970 when I was about 6.
There is a recent trend called 'slow TV'. It is really soul food TV. Just something slow and interesting to watch. There is a quite famous one of sheep dogs bringing sheep in for the winter from the high hills. It has a camera on the dogs and the shepherd, no commentary, just the voice and whistle of the shepherd, sheep, birds and wind. Jack Hargreaves 'Old Country' was a lot like that. His later programmes actually documented what my life was like up until age 24 when I worked on my father's farm into the mid 1980s. That was over 1/3 of a century ago but that was a life that still linked back to old farming methods of my father and grandfather before they were swept away by EU subsidies and technology.
It's a very fine recording of the scree-used recording which was specially recorded at a session recording for Southern Television, only real thoughts that the intro was 50scs long, then the track restarted, and no had no orchestra. This recording was slightly slower, and a very good attempt to replicate Out Of Town.
NO, NO, NO!!! The tune I’m after goes “ say what you will, the countryside is still the only place I could settle down. Life is fairer, so much rarer out of town.” Or some such. But then I’m remembering it from 60 years ago. What a great program that was indeed.
This appears to be the only version of the Song, to which You refer, on RUclips unfortunately. I would also like to hear it again, the version that was used on the 'Out Of Town' Tv series. It starts at 0':20" in !! 😀 ruclips.net/video/xZetTcpe700/видео.html
@@antonyconnolly2738 Much appreciate you sending that. That’s the one ! Took me right back and Max Bygraves too. Hadn’t thought of him in years. Made my day 👍
Such a favourite of mine, Jack reminded me a lot of a family friend, another proper countryman, and so similar in outlook and manner to Jack, I felt a great affinity with the lovely man even though I only knew him through his delightful program Out of Town, and later Old Country his new home after the sad and totally unnecessary demise of Southern TV which made some superb programming, the ITV sell off was a travesty, and it destroyed so many wonderful programs before their time, now we have wall to wall “Reality TV” which is nothing of the sort, inane game shows, and later in the evening online gambling, what a sad state of affairs, over 200 channels on Freeview now, and I seldom find anything worth my time, I do still have some niches of quality, Talking Pictures TV, Legend, and sometimes BBC 4, but so much Dross in between masquerading as entertainment, it’s just plain sad 😢
The subject matter of these programs, confirmed to me that being “lower drawer” was still honourable. A lesson I carry on to this day. The music though, is from somewhere else. I hadn’t realised the significance of this till I did Camino and read authors like Hemingway and Orwell….
Called something like "Recuerdos de la Alhambra", it was (is?) a standard piece in recitals by all the great guitarists like Bream, Williams, and the matchless Segovia. Not sure I have the name quite right but it's close enough for anyone that's curious. It means " Memories of the Alhambra". I prefer the original from the soundtrack, myself.
Is this the original version, it has the same beginning, a better bass and percussion than other versions. Anyone know for sure as it was never played all the way through on TV as far as I remember?
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Being a young teenager in 1970, hearing this made me think the world was a gentle caring place where people spoke honestly and calmly, a lost time which I miss more and more
Yes. My dad loved this program - this music really takes me back.
Agree totally, this tune brings back memories of my Dad watching it. Think it used to be on Sunday morning. I was about. Well I was born in 1973. Born and bred in South London, Roupell Park Estate, yeah a rough reputation but so more innocent, people looked out for each other. I had a very happy childhood, most kids then did, we more or less had the same, working class council Estate, some very good friends and people black, white, yellow who cared. Look now Music encouraging Drugs, Underage sex, Violence, and the dangerous thing is it influences youth so much, like God's. Violent movies Violent Games, some of these idiots especially musicians are scum, also Satanic, I'm 48 but would take pleasure in busting some of there head's. I'm a Christian who loves Jesus, I don't affiliate with church's especially Catholic. Just God's word and Love. Being in place's with certain people, I loved Drugs and Alcohol, turned Heroin Addict when 29 for 15 years, please if your young listen, be careful don't let idiots bring you down, I'm no preacher and a sinner like all of us. When I was getting stoned and drunk God was there with me not that I gave a shite. I am clean and sober 10 years, yeah I'm on medication and methadone, I've took substances all my life. At least the meds don't leave me homeless, smelly, a thief, I'm not in fear anymore of owing Violent people money. I'm not a bible basher, but Satan is for real, and I don't mean horns and spikes and fake blood, like these idiot metal bands.no no Satan is usually a gentleman a business man and he wants you badly, good news so does Jesus Christ, he cured my insanity he loves me and you, he knows how many hairs are on your head, so you can imagine all your little secrets he knows. His office is open 24/7 365 if you're in trouble chat to him, clear out the rubbish, he is still in the miracle business. And to all these walls with their twisted music and wicked messages, beware. OK your a satanist, have you read your bible recently Satan is an angel, an extremely intelligent being he prowls looking for vulnerable people. I'll end it simply. Jesus he is the way the truth and the life.
To you Robert Hayes, I'd bet you're a real gentleman, military maybe. Gentleman are a dying race too. You're words gentle,caring , honest and calm. It's funny actually my Dad is Irish but came for work. Some Pubs do you remember No Dogs No Irish No blacks. Lovely. Your words stirred me. Thank You. Just a fact for you, The biggest commodity on Earth is Drugs. I haven't prayed for 20 years or sang a happy song, since praying went with innocence and the Devil played along. Ronnie Drew the Dubliners from a great Irish song "The Mero" you might like it it's all about old Dublin City characters 😀 nu
I thought I was alone out there on this one, there are others out there.
Growing up on a northern council estate made this show seem magical. Whicker's world too.
I don't know if I'm just looking back through rose tinted spectacles when I hear this stirring piece of music.... probably about 10 or 11 years of age in the early to mid seventies? ....sat round the tv as a family on a Sunday (?) evening watching this gentle old bearded man with pipe and maybe a hat with feather in it, as he talked so clearly and calmly about various countryside things.... I think of my Dad.
But as Robert Hayes comments below and I'd have to agree - "this made me think the world was a gentle caring place where people spoke honestly and calmly,"
My thoughts exactly Paul
Sitting on my dad's lap in my pyjamas, aged about 7, watching this show in the early to mid 70s - the perfect calming down programme before bed.
It never was
Made me feel like a child again. Loved this programme
I how I loved 'Out of Town' what a wonderful presenter, Jack Hargreaves!!!
Makes me melancholy for golden days long past.
Thank you Jach Hargreaves.
This programme is currently being repeated on Sunday afternoons. Couldn’t stand it back in the 70s but love it now I’m grown up and can fully appreciate the calm, caring and respectful themes of nature it deals with. An oasis in a desert of modern day cacophony and utter madness
I suddenly missed talking to my dad about fishing. Got a few tears out of me Dad is a Kentish man and always loved fishing. He always loved watching Out of Town. Now I am so far away from him I miss him so much. I can honestly say he is the greatest person that I know.
I'm with you. Lost my Dad a year ago & I can't bear my life anymore.
@@gaysy1stmy dad just passed 2wks ago & his funeral is nxt Tues 20th Dec. He was 84. Loved watching Out of Town in the 70s. Used to watch it as a family also. My dad loved fly fishing & used to tie his own flies. Smoked a pipe as well. This took me down memory lane. God bless U. It is hard to lose a parent 🙏❤️
My dad was a Kentish man also, loved Out of Town, smoked a pipe & tied his own flies. He passed 2wks ago & his funeral is nxt Wed 20th Dec. He was 84. RIP Dad 🙏❤️
the guy was my hero , many many years ago ,
in fact in many ways he still is.
Got to agree Tom , him and Fred Dibnah, 2 legends
I absolutely loved out of town, loved the music, brought memories back from my childhood, I also liked going into the countryside which wasn’t far from me, and I loved going fishing, so it wasn’t a surprise that I liked this programme.
Jack Hargreaves. He was my life's mentor. As a young teenager, Jack once did a set on cultivating water cress. He cut a circular area approx 3ft in diameter into the bank of a river. That created a swirl within. He planted some at the far back of the cutting. His words, were, or something like "This will give the cress it's moving water requirement. Jump a few weeks later, the amount of cress was just staggering. Jump even further, I was now a family man. We built a pond and I wanted water cress. I acquired some from a local grocer, just one small bunch. I planted it in my pond and it was successful. I've had water cress ever since. What an amazing man he was. Fred Dibnah with a garden fork.
Who,s listening in Lockdown 2020, wishing life was like this again and i am only 48
I hear ya. Things are always in flux. Who knows, maybe we'll get back to something similar someday.
we would all like to get back to the 70s before grab and greed but to do that you need to stop voting for main stream parties who will sell you down river at the first available chance while at the same time feathering their nest.
You must remember though that jack was simply a presenter, he was a technology freak and had an editing studio in his own house, multiple television sets vcrs etc.
He told us about the old ways but the inside of his house looked futuristc at the time.
He even had electronically opening curtains that were operated by a remote control and that was in the late 70s.
Been searching for this tune for literally years. Used to be a theme tune to a TV show from the 70's when i was a kid. Loved the tune. So glad i finally found it..
Recuerdos de la Alhambra is a famous guitar piece by Tarregas. This tv theme version waa put together by a group of musicians organised by John Hargreaves ..the arrangement was specially commissioned for the Out of Town series ....many other classical versions exist without the rhythmic element
This soundtrack beautifully captures British television culture in its finest post-war years, the mid 70s. We didn't know it at the time but everything we held on to so dearly was about to be bulldozed aside in the 1980s. My mum worked as a typist for Jack in the 1960s when he was a copywriter for JWT - she still remembered the smoke in the office from that pipe 50 years later. If you watch Reginald Perrin for example [David Nobbs] 1976 - you're watching very fine tragedy acting set against the rising tide of consumerism. Nobbs was almost anticipating 1979 and the sweeping aside of so many curious old things that Jack Hargreaves was making programmes about.
What an interesting comment. Jack - my stepfather - was headhunted by most of the big agencies, including Colman, P & V and Hobson Bates & Partners where I , dropping into his office, used to be fascinated by the world of advertising as explained to me by Jack and colleagues. Yes, the aroma of Gallagers Golden Honeydew ran through my childhood, though I also recall the era when smoking began to be denigrated and JH had to move away from directly smoking his pipe on camera, taking a puff as the 'on air' light came on and then putting his pipe away in a pocket. Story goes his pipe wasn't always fully extinguished and, noticing smoke from Jack's pocket, a floor manager would have to crawl over to Jack below cameras and tip a jug of water into his pocket while J, consummate professional, continued his musings to camera.
@@SimonBaddeley Awesome.
As a fisherman born in the late 50's its not hard to remember this music, raced home from school to watch the program all the time
Loved this programme a fond childhood memory.
So glad this music and series has been remembered ...brings back great memories*
A beautiful bit of music, I wish I had a copy of it. The origional song, "OUT OF TOWN" was sung by the late and, GREAT!....MAX BYGRAVES, who, without knowing it, got me into "SHOW BIZ!!!!!" At the age of, about six, my mum took me to The London Palladium, to see "THE MAX BYGRAVES SHOW" We we're in the front stalls, on the right facing the stage, and, all through the show, Max kept coming in front of me, smiling, at that tender age, now 68, I KNEW I wanted to be like Max. Not enough time to tell my story, but, after leaving The Royal Navy as a multi-instrumentalist, trained by The Royal Marines Bandmaster, I joined a "POP" group. Fast forward, I recorded over 8 albums, and 3 double albums. My radio show had "SUPERSTARS" doing "Phone Ins" I had a listenership of.....OVER...FIFTEEN MILLION LISTENERS...WORLDWIDE....PROVEN BY LOG INS. I did "The Ken Dodd, The Elvis Presley AND MAX BYGRAVES tribute shows" THANK YOU MAX!
Of Max Bygraves, my stepfather, Jack Hargreaves, once said "Max could walk onto a stage before an audience of 1000s and say 'Hullo' and everyone in the theatre felt he was talking to them."
I used to watch this every Sunday on Granada and it showed traditional country crafts and activities your mum knew well as a little girl.
Always had Jack Hargreaves on screen wearing a quilted Barbour shooting vest with patches on the top and wellies presenting it
It also got repeated on the free to air Pan European Astra 1A satellite channel Lifestyle.
This week it's ferreting, and how to lay a hedge! :-)
It made me cry, listening this theme music (fond memories).
Mark Birdseye remember rushing home to watch this.
Yeah it brings a lump to ones throat, a time and place that is sadly long gone.
You can get all the series on Amazon great to watch them all again.
You can get all the shows on DVD from Amazon, great to watch them all again
I'm the same .. deeply moved .. I think we are a generation of wimps ! .. and the new generation is even worse
This is Tarrega's music but it isn't the arrangement recorded for Southern's 'Out of Town'. The person who arranged this tune for Jack Hargreaves (my stepfather) is Jonathon Xavier Coudrille. who says it's 'certainly based on my arrangement, but not my playing. Sounds like the early John Williams recording, slower, mechanically perfect, slightly relentless, (lacks the lilt and the late Mick Hawksworth' s magical bass), with my counter-melodies inserted and, somebody's very competent string parts over the top. Beautifully produced, lovely in it's way... I don't disown it, but neither can I take the credit for the whole.' The tune here plays in the background of the 'Out of Town' and 'Old Country' DVDs issued by Network on Air in 2017/18, but once anyone opens any specific episode they will hear Jonathon Coudrille's unique arrangement of 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra', which was commissioned by Jack Hargreaves from Jonathon, one of Southern TV's musical directors. Strolling a corridor at the Southern TV HQ at Northam in Southampton, Jack Hargreaves overheard the multi-instrumentalist Coudrille playing his own arrangement of Francisco Tárrega's piece and decided to use it in place of Max Bygraves' song 'Out of Town'. He commissioned Coudrille's group 'Late November' comprising Coudrille, the late Mick Hawksworth, Steve Smith, Tony Fernandez, Peter Barraclough and Jonathan Handlesman to play it especially for OOT. It's clearly different from this version on RUclips loaded by Johnny Cassettes. As Jonathon says, still a lovely piece however arranged. .
Coudrille's version is better
THOUGHT SO..
I fondly remember 'Out of Town' in shown in the Granada TV region in the 1970's and early 80's (and probably before but I'm too young to remember being born in 1964). I got into fishing when I was a teenager partly because of watching Jack Hargreaves on 'Out of Town' from about 1978-80 in particular. I also remember Jack on the original 'How' in about 1970 when I was about 6.
@@duncanrobinson3200 Hi. I'm Jack''s stepson. Do consider joining FB page 'Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves'. You'd be most welcome.
@Simon Baddeley
Simon do you have any Out Of Town pages anywhere else other than facebook? I don't use it anymore.
Fantastic! Ive been after this bit of music for years
There is a recent trend called 'slow TV'. It is really soul food TV. Just something slow and interesting to watch. There is a quite famous one of sheep dogs bringing sheep in for the winter from the high hills. It has a camera on the dogs and the shepherd, no commentary, just the voice and whistle of the shepherd, sheep, birds and wind.
Jack Hargreaves 'Old Country' was a lot like that. His later programmes actually documented what my life was like up until age 24 when I worked on my father's farm into the mid 1980s. That was over 1/3 of a century ago but that was a life that still linked back to old farming methods of my father and grandfather before they were swept away by EU subsidies and technology.
It's a very fine recording of the scree-used recording which was specially recorded at a session recording for Southern Television, only real thoughts that the intro was 50scs long, then the track restarted, and no had no orchestra. This recording was slightly slower, and a very good attempt to replicate Out Of Town.
NO, NO, NO!!! The tune I’m after goes “ say what you will, the countryside is still the only place I could settle down. Life is fairer, so much rarer out of town.” Or some such.
But then I’m remembering it from 60 years ago. What a great program that was indeed.
The MB tune was abandoned over rights issues. 70% of OOT began and ended with Coudrille''s arrangement of the Tarrega music.
This appears to be the only version of the Song, to which You refer, on RUclips unfortunately. I would also like to hear it again, the version that was used on the 'Out Of Town' Tv series. It starts at 0':20" in !! 😀
ruclips.net/video/xZetTcpe700/видео.html
@@antonyconnolly2738 Much appreciate you sending that. That’s the one !
Took me right back and Max Bygraves too. Hadn’t thought of him in years.
Made my day 👍
Today it's Stoat Snaring followed by Squaddle Flaying using only a Four Sided Dust Wrangle . . . 😉
Such a favourite of mine, Jack reminded me a lot of a family friend, another proper countryman, and so similar in outlook and manner to Jack, I felt a great affinity with the lovely man even though I only knew him through his delightful program Out of Town, and later Old Country his new home after the sad and totally unnecessary demise of Southern TV which made some superb programming, the ITV sell off was a travesty, and it destroyed so many wonderful programs before their time, now we have wall to wall “Reality TV” which is nothing of the sort, inane game shows, and later in the evening online gambling, what a sad state of affairs, over 200 channels on Freeview now, and I seldom find anything worth my time, I do still have some niches of quality, Talking Pictures TV, Legend, and sometimes BBC 4, but so much Dross in between masquerading as entertainment, it’s just plain sad 😢
The subject matter of these programs, confirmed to me that being “lower drawer” was still honourable. A lesson I carry on to this day.
The music though, is from somewhere else. I hadn’t realised the significance of this till I did Camino and read authors like Hemingway and Orwell….
So many memories. Love it.
We are watching the repeats of Out of Town on Talking Pictures channel 82 on Sundays at 1630 hrs.
Called something like "Recuerdos de la Alhambra", it was (is?) a standard piece in recitals by all the great guitarists like Bream, Williams, and the matchless Segovia. Not sure I have the name quite right but it's close enough for anyone that's curious. It means " Memories of the Alhambra".
I prefer the original from the soundtrack, myself.
Lovely music.
Beautiful
What a delightful piece!
beautiful music
Fugee's sampled a John Williams version of this about 20 years ago, it brought back memories of watching Jack Hargreave's
Loved this and country ways too
The Theme tune is based on 'Memories of Alhambra ' by Francisco Tarrega.
Life was so simple back then
Superb
I wonder if they chose this because the percussion sounds a bit like horses' hooves?
When did it change from max Bygraves out of town ?
This is a great version. Any details of this perticular recording anyone?
Great serious with Jack Hargreaves have all the dvd's.
Is this the original version, it has the same beginning, a better bass and percussion than other versions. Anyone know for sure as it was never played all the way through on TV as far as I remember?
This is not Jonathon Coudrille's arrangement of Tarrega's composition as used on 'Out of Town' and 'Old Country'
@@SimonBaddeley No it's not. an excellent 'Pirate' job that doesn't quite capture my intent or, feeling. As @Mannix Flynn observes, 'too slow'.
Just taking stock...
I've been trying to work out what this programme was for ages. Also, is that Portpatrick harbour in the photos?
My uncle william perry knew this guy ifor real he knew a lot of the brit tv personalities
1974
Honestly, as a child in the 1970's, I only remember this theme tune because it was the cue to turn over or turn off.
Too slow.
Yes, it's not quite my original arrangement, nor my band playing it. It's an excellent 'Pirate' job tho'!