World In Action Theme - Recording Sessions
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The iconic theme to World In Action but with a difference, this upload is from the original recording session in 1967, when Shawn Phillips, Mick Weaver, and John Shepphard, (Producer for World In Action) were working on the track. Shawn has clarified his position on the composer of the track in the info section of • World In Action - Jam ... as has Jonathan Weston. Mick Weaver comments in the comments section here • Mick Weaver & Shawn Ph...
When you're thinking about how brief life is, and are feeling a yearning to travel back in time to revisit when you were happiest, as a child, this theme just does it! It was bedtime when I heard this. Another day satisfied and tired from playing out, when the world ( through a child's eyes) was a great place to live, and the word "problems" was not known to me. Though moody, this, along with the whole score of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Flashing Blade, really takes me to a nice time and place. Time flies, sadly!
Yep agree,I got Robinson cruesoe and the flashing blade,as well lots off old stuff,including Mary mungo and midge,double deckers,better times,school holidays in Leyton hot summers,flying saucers,sherbet pipes,spangles,Darlek ice lolly’s,Rayleigh choppers,Jacobs skates,and red led watches excellent memories,cheers
It certainty does, regrettably
Ah yes, 'go to bed' music, this, and The Sweeney closing music. Memories indeed.
This reminds me so much of my childhood the nostalgia is almost painful!
@Jason Wong Yeah, not like today - knife crime, chemical weapons, wars, religious extremism, foodbanks, zero hr contracts, mass homelessness, mass unemployment, privatised NHS, Trump, Putin, Johnson, North Korea,
Sends shivers down my spine. Tragic that ITV is no longer brave enough to produce investigative journalism
Death on the Rock documentary is the reason. Thames Television lost its franchise at the following franchise licensing. TV has never been the same since then
I would love to see this get a commercial release, I live in hope...
It is on iTunes 👍
When i was a kid, even the dog use to sneak up on my bed when this came on tv..
The Ripper, donkey jackets, men in grey suits with grey hair imposing greyness upon society, jumbo jets, oil shortages and godawful boil in the tin puddings.
Oh yeah forgot about those sponge puddings in a tin.
Factory closures, sectarian bombings, collieries, Falkland war, asbestosis, Toxteth, DeLorean, cabbage patch kids riot.
The miners on strike, BLand Ford on strike, refuse collectors on strike, power cuts, Belfast, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher, Brixton and The Specials doing 'Ghost Town'.
A different world
I miss the Heinz chocolate boil in the tin pudding , was magic with custard alternatively chill in fridge and serve as slices of cake ...Oh happy days , back to the music , always knew something bad was coming when I heard this, yet strangely always loved the tune 🤷♂
“D minor, the saddest of all the keys”. Nigel Tufnel, 1982
Always love the minor key.
True
Lick My Love Pump
Originally, this track was called 'Lick my Love Pump'.
When humanity dies, this music will be playing.
The sound of the nuclear armegeddon
They can carry me in with this one.
Fantastic for a funeral in a crematorium, as the coffin disappears behind the furnace door...
True. Are we you having problems receiving RUclips notifications? I got this notification but I have had video notifications for 2 days now. They stopped at 12 on Thursday night.
@Herr Mondlicht
Very observant of you! 👏 Sometimes wondered that myself!
Mick Weaver masterclass
this show needs to be back on our screens what an awesome tune. could you imagine world in action on brexit, if only
And Führage in the pockets of foreign billionaires.
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Fascinating to listen to the evolution of this piece and the alternative versions which might have made it. Still one of the most haunting and memorable theme tunes ever.
Hellfire action from Mick Weaver - his Hammond B3 skills made this work the masterpiece it is. Brilliant, haunting sound.
beautifully put
@Cardinal Sin
Well yes...but you'll note the YT post elsewhere from Weaver himself. Sort of thing I've read about the music business several times before so I'm sure there's no reason to doubt his word. Without Weaver's skill and imagination this would probably have ended up as just another long-forgotten junk theme tune and not the one we all know and love decades later.
@Cardinal Sin
I believe Phillips asserted his rights as 'composer', which is no doubt appropriate, but from what's been said since Weaver didn't get a fair share for his input. Something like that.
As a bass player I'm wondering who the bassist is
When a World In Action programme was about to end, in the 80s I think, this particular version of the opening theme tune would be played - a fittingly slower, reflective piece at programme's end.
I love how the story behind this awesome piece of music keeps being filled out. Thanks for the upload and props for the musicians who created such an enduring and indelible theme.
What does props mean ??
@@JD-eq4dp Props is originally hip-hop slang, derived from propers, both similarly meaning due respect.
According to The Rap Dictionary ("the oldest and ultimate resource for looking up hip-hop slang"), props is:
An abbreviation of "propers" or proper respects. A show sits on physical and non-physical props. At an award ceremony the winner gives props: "And I would like to thank...". "Cause this hip-hopper gets props just like a mobster" -- Da Youngstas featuring Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (Who's the Mic Wrecka)
They can carry me in and lower me down to this one
Knew it was bed time when this came on in early 70s
Just amazing
I was only a small kid in Litherland, Liverpool and up popped this programme which showed proper in-deep documentary making and the power of pairing pictures with the theme music. It put an older head on my shoulders. These days its hard to be a documentary maker to expose the worlds scandals - and look what they now get away with...
They would have shut down the whole fiasco of cov**19 and it would be a great expose of the gates of hell, and all the other corrupt politicians and liggers connected. The same way they would back then. Real gritty honest reporting. No bullshit, just the there and then. They would wipe the floor with crooks and liars, then hang them out to dry. People weren't sleeping, they also weren't easy to scare. Something happens, but life went on.
These days the pinnacle of high brow programme making is "The Masked Singer".
This brings back memories of Monday night bedtime, school in the morning !
The mighty Mick Weaver with this absolute banger!
nurses strike. blue disability vehicles. orange sodium street lights and steel bins - the 1970s
Fascinating to hear "work in progress" versions, one wonders how and where people dig up these recordings from after 50 years though!
People in the industry rescue things, pass them on/make them available to others. I have things still to go up here for other shows no one else has. We have someone else to thank in the case of world in action though.
@@thingsandthemes3474 brilliant
@@thingsandthemes3474 some more please. Take me back just for a little while.
Using different drawbar settings in these recordings compared to the final cut and lacking that slight bit of overdrive at the end Would love to hear different versions of the intro music, which was full of overdrive .
I used to watch this before going to bed when I was a kid. The documentaries were hard hitting and tough. Showed violence, drug culture, a lot of what probably was scary people, but I've never been affected by what I saw on those programmes and I'm in my mid 50's now. The modern wimp, limp lettuce type documentaries we have today, or even what was on since World In Action finished, don't even come close to being as good and hard hitting as World In Action. Now they have to put a message up saying you might be offended by this and you can get support here and you watch them and I don't know if it's just me, but there's nothing to be offended by. 🤷♂️ The only documentary series, over all these years, to come close to World In Action, was I think called The Cook Report. He did some quite hard hitting, in depth reporting. I always loved the World In Action music. The Hammond organ sound just makes it more mind blowing. Hearing it does bring back a lot of nice memories from that time. I see also, that a lot of the World In Action documentaries have been uploaded on YT too and I've watched one, but I'm defo going to watch more. Anyway, this is the first time I've heard the actual recording session of the music. Great stuff. 🙂👌
You can only take offence. If you don't like something, switch off the tell-lie-vision. In the days of WIA, and Cook Report, leaning on a grindstone was more comfortable.
Your comment nailed it.
Stay well.
This and the Weekend World music scared the heck out me.
Same here. But these themes are both unforgettable 😊
Ground Breaking Program.
Recognise the theme music within the first few note's.
Great to hear more of this! Top notch musicians playing a great tune. Really takes me back to being a kid in the seventies, like a few other TV themes seem to. I taped the TV theme on my Dad's radio cassette player, using a plug in mic by the telly. No idea who it was then. Amazing.
Ah......but do you still have that cassette tape?
(Please say "yes", even if the answer's "No!")
I have always loved this piece since I first heard it on TV in the early 1980s. Now at 53 in 2024, here is my take on this music done in 2022: ruclips.net/video/UDnhJbQTwSQ/видео.html
Somehow this tune always comes to my mind when I think about "The troubles" in Northern Ireland during the 80's. It was always this theme which accompanied grey, grainy footage of Belfast at the end of World in Action.....
I have a memory of this event and the theme in my mind, out of Thames Television’s This Week at the time, preferred the look and feel of WIA, and such a shame that it was cancelled.
Same here. Was a kid in the 80’s in Ireland and it reminds me of The Troubles too.
I remember that too
And industrial action in some godawful coal mine or factory in the North of England. Either way there were probably coppers with riot shields or soldiers with rubber bullets. The seventies and the eighties were grim but I still love this soundtrack.
Yes! I always associated the organ sound with Northern Ireland, and I still do to this day for some reason
Doom in a theme tune.
Such a great piece.
Also such a shame to read of the wrangles around it’s origin.
I wish this was available anywhere to purchase.
I would!
What is this music called part from being the best I have heard ever. Takes me back to my child hood in the 1980s great program miss it bring back to our tv
world in action jam/jam for world in action. was never given a definitive name but that is what people have used for the theme over the years.
World in Action -such groundbreaking and almost revolutionary journalism into often terrible things, but for me evokes memories of 8pm childhood bedtimes! 🥰
Nearly everything was terrible in the 70's
THE IMAGE OF THOSE I.R.A GODFATHERS ALL SAT IN A ROOM ALL IN THER 70s/ 80s with white hair & smirks on there faces, this music playing & end credits rolling give me nightmares for a long time.
i was just a child, growing up and hearing about the troubles on the news but never knowing who was behind it all, it was a TRUE ( wizard of oz ) moment, REVERSED.
Some Excellence here ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Wonderful Music
The Doors, without the purple hearts!
ford Granada, 3 quart coat & a pepsi
And don't forget a pint of Watney's pale ale and a can of Skoll lager!
God
“Rolling Derek!”
This is excellent! Great quality too. Can I ask where it came from?
A tv industry insider.
@@thingsandthemes3474 Is this recording for the closing credits? The opening credits are slightly more dynamic / upbeat.
This is Bloody Good!
OMG THIS IS GOLD!
Well supper musicianship,and really something listening to these session recordings as they were working the parts out ,just great ,we so need this kind of musicianship these days ,great stuff .🌍
The theme music to my childhood in the seventies
Granada TV was the best.
There was something about Granada TV that was unmistakably gritty and anti-establishment, exemplified by World in Action which was The Guardian but with moving pictures and sound. Not surprisingly since both were originally from Manchester.
Masterpiece
World inaction.
Baby Satan"s Lullaby .
Darker times then come back
Surely these weren’t the versions used, missing was the intro, other videos have the intro and closing theme, maybe someone can shed some light please?.
I guess this must be either a bootleg or the elusive raw original "work in progress"
they are from the original recording sessions early on in the day before they 'figured things out'. they came directly from a reel to reel tape at granada.
What are the other recordings on RUclips please?, were they the screen-used versions recommissioned for Granada please?.
Jack Sugden
Here’s one that was used at the end I think
ruclips.net/video/X4xu3VbG0-o/видео.html
2024
I would love to be able to play this on my organ, any chance of a tutorial?
Practice. There's no shortcuts in life.
Listen to it and replicate, you'll probably get one note wrong all the time, that's the way when learning by ear. (organist)
Used to play it in my band as a kid ... v simple, had to be
I'm always practising with my organ.
Wynder k frog.
what does that mean ?
@@daibhiseaghdha153 Wynder K. Frog is the name of the band Mick Weaver was in, the gentleman who plays Hammond organ on this track.
Anyone know where the sheet music could be found please, treble clef and chords ideal.
Fantastic session - many thanks for sharing. Does anyone know who's playing bass please?
I don't think there is any bass guitar in this recording. Just acoustic guitar and Hammond organ.
@@tyreburster If you listen in headphones, the bass is very clear through the right channel and you can also hear it playing some harmonics, etc. before the start of the second take around 4.17.
@@frederickowen4006 I'll take your word for it. Probably a session player like Russ Stableford.
@@tyreburster Good suggestion, many thanks.
Is this on any cd i really want
No. It came from a reel to reel tape originally.
@@thingsandthemes3474 Is it available to purchase in any format for audio.
It is THE most amazing piece of music. So sad to read of the really bad blood associated with it’s production
I always think of another time years ago when I to was a child in the 70s,that tune always does it and in the 80s I remember seeing the Toxteth riots on world in action and its just something that takes you back.
I do come from Toxteth originally so I picture the scenes of that to this music also.
It's a very special piece.
I think my uncle recorded this
Who is your uncle?
@@fishbmw It's her cousin's dad of course :-)
Shaun Weaver is a great musician 🇬🇧👍. Every time I hear this incredibly emotive and memory bringing tune, it resonates in my head for weeks.
This is incredible, thanks for sharing.
rolling dereck.