Test Card Favourites
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2020
- A collection of musical miniatures from BBC Test Cards of the late 1960s and through the 1970s. Enjoy!
0:00:02 - Scotch Broth · The Oscar Brandenburg Orchestra
0:02:02 - High Life · The Gerhard Narholz Orchestra
0:04:30 - Voy Voy Voy · Guy Luypaerts And His Orchestra
0:06:41 - Foolery · Siegfried Merath With His Orchestra
0:09:22 - Five To Play · Cologne Studio Orchestra
0:12:28 - Punta Del Este · Siegfried Merath With His Orchestra
0:15:42 - Don Pedro · Hans Hatter And His Orchestra
0:18:26 - Happy Polka · Siegfried Merath With His Orchestra
0:21:34 - Nightingale · The Erwin Lehn Stuttgart Dance Orchestra
0:24:45 - Friendly Street · Stuttgart Studio Orchestra
0:27:11 - High Flyer · The Glen Somers Band
0:29:18 - Tina’s Tune · Stuttgart Studio Orchestra
0:32:13 - Nine-Twenty Special · The Gentle Giants
0:34:57 - Soul Street · Georges Delagaye And His Orchrestra
0:37:26 - Mild And Mellow · Jeff Hasky And His Orchestra
0:39:34 - If I Dream · Lem Arcon And His Orchestra
0:42:34 - February · Budapest Radio Orchestra
0:45:41 - Valzer Promenade · Bruno Nicolai
0:49:11 - Blue Eyes · The Franz Thon Big Band
0:51:58 - Honeycakes · The Franz Thon Big Band
0:55:17 - Five To The Bar · Pitt Fontana’s New Sound
0:58:11 - On Top Of A Cloud · The Delle Haensch Band
1:00:29 - Dream Alley · The Andy Novello Orchestra
1:04:22 - The Glory Of Love · Charles Vanberg And His Orchestra
1:06:41 - Take Off · The Henry Monza Orchestra
1:09:08 - Tempo-Tempo · Heribert Thusek’s Xylophonie
1:11:23 - Waltz Of Roses · The Andy Novello Orchestra
1:13:54 - Finally Swing Time · Pitt Fontana’s New Sound
1:16:04 - San Diego Drive · Frank Valdor’s Posaunen Band
78 minutes
The music was used in the following BBC TV Trade Test tapes:
Scotch Broth (broadcast on BBC2 1969-1972) ~ track 1
High Life (BBC2 1969-1972) ~ 2
Voy Voy Voy (BBC2 1971-1972) ~ 3
Foolery (BBC1 1972) ~ 4, 5, 6
Matilda (BBC1 1972-1975) ~ 4, 8, 9
Don Pedro (BBC2 1972-1974) ~ 7
Lagoon Waltz (BBC1 1972-1975) ~ 10, 11
Nightride (BBC2 1973-1976) ~ 10, 12
Rosetta (BBC1 1974-1975) ~ 13
Super Racing (BBC2 1974-1975) ~ 14, 15
Flying Over San Jose (BBC2 1975-1976) ~ 16, 17
Mini Battallie (BBC1 1975-1976) ~ 18
Tropicana (BBC1 1976-1977) ~ 19, 20
El Camino (BBC2 1977) ~ 21, 22
Winter Walking (BBC1 1977-1978) ~ 24, 25
Finally Swing Time (BBC1 1977-1979) ~ 26
Victorian Drawing Room (BBC2 1977-1979) ~ 23, 27
Finally Swing Time (BBC1 1977-1979) ~ 28, 29
Happy Polka (BBC1 1981-1985) ~ 4, 6, 8
Dixie Omelette (BBC2 1983-1985) ~ 24, 25
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This used to be part of my entertainment in the late sixties and early seventies as a kid when the regular programmes took a break i used to sit and listen to the Test Card music ..happy days
The old radio orchestras of the sixties, seventies, eighties had the best background music. There were so many brilliant arrangers, composers around then. The best ones? Oh, don't get me started!
I think these Tunes fall into two theme tune categories.
1. A cosy BBC sitcom starring Terry Scott.
2. A camp jet setting crime thriller starring Roger Moore with Roger Delgado as the villain!
There is but one Master...
Classic wish this was all on a cd. I love test card music 👌
Oh wow thank you 👍
Tracks from 8 of those Apollo Sound CDs are here:
ruclips.net/p/PLHrFsokGQ0JmbHQ2hYmeMikrH6dmFR95T
'Trolly song' 1978 testcard my favourite so many vivid childhood memories from the large gaps in t.v programs. Many testcard tunes late 1970's would do well if remodelled and released into pop charts!.
A vinyl reissued release of these would be amazing
Well most of these gems were released on cd many years ago as a compilation from Apollo Sounds as test card music with 10 volume or so selected from their archive. And two other albums from another music label I can't recall at this moment! But these wonderful piece of music made me a forever fan of the library music/tracks aka production music! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan
Absolutely loved these. More for trying to relax at work today in a picking area in our warehouse. Blotting out the 'crap' spoken from certain individuals !😄
..... until the next programme, we return you now to a trade test transmission and some music.
We Love BBC TV Test Card
"The Glory Of Love" is easily the best one here. Superb and uplifting !
Indeed, one of the all time greats of Test Card music.
I loved the glory of Love, it featured on BBC1s Winter Walking tape and also on BBC2s Dixie Omelette
.... and BOOM instant nostalgia trip for the 40 something.... I remember BBC2 pumping out these testcards well into late morning and then later came CEEFAX. My Granny got one of the first ceefax tv's and I would spend hours "surfing" the ceefax and oracle pages. Thanks for this little bit of history... it's cool !!!
Thanks for posting these test cards classics. In the latest fashion was one my favourites 🎶
This is so great 10 out of 10 the best. Wish this was on CD 👍👌
The 1hr 18min run-time makes maximum use of a CD's capacity, if you have a way to extract the audio from RUclips...
I have some on cassette tape. My own recordings.
Excellent choice of playlist!!
Excellent stuff!! The first two tracks also appeared on the BBC Scotland CEEFAX compilation "Sightseeing".
"High Flyer" is awesome. I can see Shaft running through 1970s Harlem in winter time chasing some two bit hood as a weak sun shines down on newspapers blowing up the street. He follows the man into a sleazy strip joint and the performer is dancing to "Soul Street"
Thanks for this nostalgic production 🙌 👏, we got our first colour tv in 1969,a 25 inch Philips which gave an outstanding picture, but the valves were overdriven and I was having to set the convergence up every couple of weeks to this exact test card .
It would be very useful if broadcast today to adjust the contrast to spot on and the brightness instead of using the built in facilities to do this.Its more exact .Best Regards,Ian 👍😊
Remember this tape being played on BBC1 Trade Tests Spring/Summer 1975.
A really lovely compilation of tunes we were so familiar with once (those of us who were listening in!!) Dream Alley was a rare piece to be heard, as it was positioned right at the end of the Victorian Drawing Room tape, which seldom got that far!! A pity, as it's a superb track.
That second track “high life” is very catchy. I’ve been using these as background music in the afternoons at weddings.
i remember watching the test in co op 1967 i was 5 years old at the time when I got a colour tv the first film was in black and white but watching the Apollo 11 in colour was fantastic 1969 7 years old
This is by far the best compilation I have heard . I love several of the tunes on here such as Voy Voy Voy and If I dream to name but a few .
Thank you so much for sharing 😊
We moved to dilapidated cottage in 1957 Wales money was extremely tight, we had two 405 sets very old ( wooden cabinets ) when one broke down we would use the other until it was repaired. Yes I am still living at that cottage Happy days long gone
Is the cottage still dilapidated, or have you done some repairs on it?
Those certainly were the days, RGB 625 line cathode ray tube colour TV's, PAL colour decoders with only 4 channels, then later Ch 5 came along and this great epic TV test card music. They were great times for us career TV engineers, we were very busy as those colour TV's were always breaking down! Multi Broadcast, DER, Granada, Visionhire and Rediffusion rentals to name but a few. Ah the good times, spent many happy hours repairing and adjusting the colour convergence, while listening to test card music. Must be time for a cuppa, while I sit back and admire my work. The convergence looks pretty good enough to me.
1.5 2.5 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.25 on the right bsside the multiple vertical lines. What were they?
Thank you! Easy listening for bath time!
Nothing on TV so put the test card on. Thanks.
Loved the Test Card as a kid in the late 60s/early 70s. Think the music opened my love of easy listening! Love it to this day!
@@davidowen9320 Had it on last night. Lovely relaxation.
Such high quality musicians. I had no idea so much of the easy listening music was by European orchestras.
Unfortunately, as well as being very capable musicians, it was also partly due to cost reasons - they were cheaper.
The BBC got letters asking if they can get a copy. They couldn't at the time because of legal issues.
Coooooool!!!👍👍👍
Brilliant!
I am especially here to see this BBC1 Colour test card.
This is rare!
I don't ever remember the word COLOUR being used on the testcard on BBC1, the bottom line just said 'BBC 1'. This would have been mid 1970s, we were UHF 625 line monochrome at the time
Music from the KPM Green Label collection...👌
THE GIRL,THE DOLL,CULT CLASSICs
0:06:41it's similar to firecracker/franck chacksfield ！
foolery＝crazy circus/composed by Fred Weindorf
22 - On Top of a cloud was also on Summer Sunny Holiday BBC1 - 1982-1984.
True, but Summer Sunny Holiday was 40% a compilation of tracks from earlier tapes, with only 60% "new" material. It's still a great compilation in its own right.
I wonder I have to go to Mexico and having to do commercials from the local places with testcard music background in the future
Ahh I’m back on our old green chesterfield sofa it Monday morning during school term I’m off with a stomach upset but suddenly felling better as it’s gone nine waiting for you and me and bcc for schools and colleges.
Piece at 1:04:20 wouldn't look out of place for a late 1960s comedy feature film with animated or stills backgrounds for opening credits.
This is amazing. Makes me feel like I've gone home. How on earth did you assemble this music?
They're available on CD from Amazon. Look up, 'Test Card Classics.' There's 2 volumes available under the Flyback label.
Once I had obtained the names of the composers (the orchestras are usually anonymous session musicians, mainly outside the UK to avoid paying Musicians Union rates and broadcast royalties) it was largely a case of trawling the Discogs marketplace for secondhand vinyl
Discogs.com - the mother lode.
And because they are taken from Library Music vinyl LPs what you hear in these playlists are mostly stereo, whereas the actual BBC broadcasts at that time were mono and highly compressed bass-heavy sound.
I remember Voy Voy Voy so well
Can anyone help/maybe put it on You Tube: Test card music from around 1977-ish.
I remember a piece of test card music that part of the tune was whistled, and at both beginning and end of the tune wad the sound of a cowboy style gun or pistol being fired. Another tune I liked sounded like it was played on bouzoukis (Greek music). Whenever that Greek tune was played, I always remember if you went two tunes back, there was a piece that sounded like gypsy music.
I think I know the gypsy tune you mean. I have been trying to identify that since the 1970's. The cowby theme with the whistling might have been "They call me Trinity", but I don't remember any gunshots.
SOMETIMES THIS INTERNET THING DRIVES YOU MAD,A SHORT TIME AGO I TYPED IN TEST CARD MUSIC-SUPER RACING-IT DID NOT FIND THE TAPE BUT DID GIVE ME EVERY GRAND PRIX LISTING GOING BACK TO 1948!
Welcome to The UK. Where even this gets ratings.
A different version of Test Card F as the one used on BBC1 only ever said BBC1, the word Colour wasn't used.
A version of Test Card F in my stories had the strapline 'GDPtv COLOUR'. It was used between November 1969 to the middle of 1984.
That's true. The BBC1 testcard was broadcast on VHF 405 lines, as well as UHF 625 line (by 1969). It was the same slide with BBC1 superimposed on top of the BBC2 Colour logo. Also there was no frequency grating numbers on the side cause the frequencies wouldn't match on the 405 line system. They also didn't want to confuse viewers with dual standard colour sets at the time, so the word colour was omitted.
Sounds like much of Radio 2 fare of the same period!
How are you getting all this test card music?
Must be a BBC connection with Lucinda Woodward who compiled some of these CD's from the BBC archives
Because until 1997 The BBC couldn't sell the stock music due to rights issues.
They're available on CD via Amazon, (or used to be), under, 'Test Card Classics.'
Discogs.com Marketplace.
Music starts at 0:02
Don't know why but that made me laugh. Silly bugger 😀
@@kernow9324
I was trying to bypass the ad at start of video.
@@dvidclapperton Ok, I don't see ads, I use an ad blocker, so I thought you were trying to save someone 2 seconds, which is funny. Never mind.
I'm still waiting for the DVD boxset.
There's 7000 dvds in the set
Much of the music can be found listed on Discogs.com, where there are also 2ndhand sellers offering the otherwise hard to find Lps and Cds.
In a British version of Ghostbusters, it wouldn't be the StayPuft Dough Boy, that Ray would try not to think of.... Thus conjuring up a 250 foot version, it would be the Test Card F girl, replete with Bubbles! Destroying contemporary London!
The Clown's name is Bubbles.
@@SanFran51 And Carole (the girl in the photo, now in her sixties), made him!!
I clearly remember 'Daydream Believer' by The Monkees as one of the Test card tunes, as well as possibly 'Money Money Money' by ABBA.
Magnificent
Can't believe this. For the last couple of decades, I've been trying to find out info on what turns out to be five to play by the cologne studio orchestra. I've had recordings of loads of these pieces but could never find out the name or who played this particular piece. Also I knew the title Punta Del Este but didn't know anything else. These are 2 of just a few recordings I made when they were played originally some 50 years ago! Who composed five to play? and are these available to download or purchase the cd? My version of the former has an awful, loud click on it. would be good to get a decent recording.
If you know the name of the artist/band/orchestra then a search at Discogs.com will often lead you to the vinyl or (sometimes) CD - Punta Del Este is one of the few that were available years later on CD, but essentially library music is still largly a vintage vinyl thing at the moment. The website has evolved into a useful market place for sellers and collectors to connect. The main challenge is that composers or artists on these library music sessions often used numerous pseudonyms, depending on the style of music being released.
@@ricadus Thanks for that. Discogs didn't show anything but it's on a test card cd that I've ordered. I saw that Punta Del Este is on a cd but can't find a copy anywhere. Over the years though a lot of this stuff has become available on cd or to download. I actually got to know Neil Richardson when he was conductor of the NRO. Of course he was known as Oscar Brandenburg. Anyway, I'm pleased that I've found something that has been eluding me for years.
How old is that Girl now ...blimey
She's 63. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Hersee
There was one electronic piece, sort of prod rock but can never find it 🤔
Is there any way of stopping all these flipping ads peppering the video on youtube spp on a mobile.
Get an adblocker
@@gbhxu
I can't get any of the adblockers from google play store to work on the RUclips Android app.
@@dvidclapperton don't use the app. View RUclips using chrome
@@gbhxu
Cheers. I was wondering why the adblockers don't work on the app.
Helpful for testing monitors, or it would be if Linux was better at detecting when different ones are swapped in.
What they would do was all channels would be stopped from 1 am to 6 am so for 6 hours they would put this on by the way the creators of this are unknown but not important anymore the tv test card f began in 1978
Who would actually watch paint between 1am to 6am in that time in the morning, The testcard was only attending to be use for old analogue tv sets for tv traders to tune in the tv sets and line up tv pictures.
Between 1976 and 1978, BBC2 played a tape which featured THEME FROM SHAFT. Which tape was it?
Not sure about the BBC tape, but I wonder if the track used might have been the version on this LP by John Schroeder:
www.discogs.com/John-Schroeder-TV-Vibrations/release/2311372
@@ricadus So many thanks.
Could it be this version? ruclips.net/video/MgRW1abdymE/видео.html
Ambros Seelos Orchestra was this version of Shaft as played on the BBC-2 Le Retour De Borsalino tape in 1976.
15:42
This whole video (maybe a large majority) is just Test Card F.
Just noticed ....480 p What a shame
At that size the movie file was still over 1 Gb in size and took ages to upload as I had just moved snd hadn’t got WiFi installed before we went into Covid lockdown, so had to use my phone as a hotspot instead. Still, the music is the main thing with these compilations.
ruclips.net/video/Gx6aN0O39Iw/видео.htmlsi=10L-BGgETyJwIMYc what is this song😊
The
Jesus Christ make it stop.
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The last track will finish you off for good 🤣🤣🤣
@@jrbs :p
Hell is a lot worse!