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
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 :??
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❤
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.
@@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.👍👍🤣🤣
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).
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.
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!
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
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),
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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
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!
I'm 60, from Argentina. Very popular TV series in the 70's there. I'm watching the whole season in spanish again.
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.
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.
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.
John Barry... Boy did he know how to write tunes! The memories...
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.
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.
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 :)
Love how they're billed simply as "Curtis And Moore" We all knew who they were! haha
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 about 12 when this show aired in the USA. I've never forgotten the theme song.
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
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 ?
We had a small black and white telly in the seventies and we loved this show. The music brings back memories.
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 ...
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
It's a quite sad, emotional and tragic theme. Remember the series fondly from my youth.
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.👍👍🤣🤣
One of the greatest theme tunes of all time.Simply brilliant.
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).
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.
Just a stunning piece of music
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.
Brilliant series on a Sunday afternoon brings back great memories of the good old days
Love the persuaders a great 1970's Television.
Best actors, best cars and best soundtrack of the sixties
seventies
And stp march 701 of siffert!!
It was early 1970s
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..
One of the absolute best TV series of all time.
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 😀
John Barry was genious...so were these actors.
The 007 movies, never more will be the same without these actors...
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
In die tijd was het een geweldige serie ,echte toppers. En zeker de muziek van Barry.
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.
I was just an adolescent watching this show and many of those around me are gone forever. :(
Best TV show theme of all time !!!
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 RUclips algorithm throws old stuff at you.
@@BlueberrySwede _tempus fugit:_ how time flies
I'm 66 and still love it.
An absolute masterpiece. This theme is engrained in my childhood memories.
En Argentina disfrutamos de esta Serie y su tema musical maravillos una obra de arte de Jhon Barry
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
I watched this in the early eighties as a kid. Best time of my life while at grandparents house.
very sweet memories of my childhood! when i saw this movie, i was only 10 years old boy!! I have still rem. those time !
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
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),
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.
Awesome memories for me as a young boy, beautiful music and fun tv series
J'étais fan de cette série ,c'est dingue comment les années ont défilé à une vitesse folle !
Very true: _tempus fugit_
wonderful program when I was a kid. I watched it on a sunday lunch time as my mom was cooking our sunday roast xx
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.
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
Tony Curtis; a star who never will fade.
I prefer Roger Moore
@@ebrahimhoosain6216 they both complement each other, a rough background one and an elite Brit. makes for more interesting interactions and viewing
A beautiful piece of melancholic music by John Barry. Always made me feel sad. Loved the series. Classic TV.
Shades of The Italian Job.
This have been voted best Film series-Track ever!!
Theme tunes in the 60s / 70s are the best, good times,good memories.
Ah yes, such memories!!
loved the music and the series - great family entertainment from the 70's
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.
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.
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. *:(*
rip roger you will always be the best bond in my opinion
I wasnt born in the 60s but i used to watch this show when i was like 5-10 years old. I loved it
The theme of my life. John Barry rules!
Agreed This is a brilliant Theme!
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 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.
...Two screen legends together, admire the sheer coolness!
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.
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.
John Barry my favorite composer! Wonderful theme song, on Barry's greatest hits cd, I finally have! RIp John, Tony and my lovely Roger Moore ❤❤❤🎵
John Barry genius , so underrated
loved this show then and now great theme again as were most 60and 70 shows.
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.
wow from 1971 " no persuading" wanted from me to listen/watch this even though i was only 10 years old !!
One of my fav childhood memories
Brilliant theme and great program.
RUclips recommended this.
I have had this tune suck in my head for over 40 years - finally I know its name.
Rip roger more. My favourite james bond actor.
Great theme!! Roger Moore & Tony curtis, THE BEST!!!!
+Marcelo Mateos Yep! Perfectly right! I think it's high time for a re-run on TV here in Germany!!
Great theme tune.my favourite.thanks john Barry.great track.
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
Just brilliant like The Sweeney, Minder, Randel & Hopkirk, The new Avenger, its the 70's and its GREAT
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.
Still sends shivers down my spine after 30+ years! This was a must watch program with a world beating theme ♡
The TV show of my youth. Barry's music has remained in my heart...👍
1972 and...BAM! I’m eight years old again.
My favorite childhood program.
watched it as a kid, loved there fast cars, Ferrari and and an Aston martin
Haunting theme tune of elegiac sombre grandeur almost 'Handelesque'
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'm Japanese, 23 years old.
But this is my favorite drama!
Uma das melhores séries passada na década de 70...Sensacional pode recorda esses dois, monstros..Curtis e Moore....
Magnificent Theme ... John Barry ... a Great Composer ...
Fantastic duo
The best theme tune to go with the best tv show....ever XxX
memories come to mind about this music, this was a real gentleman series once
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.
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
This song is a prime example of how a creation can be infinitely more than a collection of its pieces.