I have not heard this in over 45 years. And I'll never forget the half dream I had falling asleep in front of my parents tv while this sign off (Gustaf Holst) music was playing. I was about fifteen years old, but I remember this so vividly. I was already dozing off but could hear this music in the background. I had this happy and euphoric feeling and felt weightless. In this dream all I could see was blue sky. Blue above me, blue below me, blue all around. And I had the strangest feeling that God was holding me in the palms of his hands. It was this beautiful, amazing feeling that I never forgot. And I am reminded of it every time I hear Jupiter from The Planets Suite. I never told a soul about it until now.
I think the whole of Holst's The Planets Suite amazing, Mars and Jupiter especially. It was integral in the founding of modern orchestral pieces like the soundtrack of Star Wars and its ever-expanding list of sequels and TV shows. The poem's author John Maghee was a soldier in the Canadian Army, who died in a training exercise in December 1941, weeks after Pearl Harbor. A fine poem used many times, especially by Ronald Reagan after the Challenger Disaster.
Does anyone have the KABC sign-ons? Does anyone remember when they would have instrumental music playing over the color bars before returning to the air?
They alternated between color bars and the 1963 B&W test pattern with the 'abc' circle logo at center, from what I recall (and this, from a New York boy).
@@wmbrown6 I remember around this time, when the carrier came back on, the test-pattern with the abc logo was the first thing we saw and Len Beardsley’s voiceover was over it before the 1K tone, then the color bars followed after with Beardsley’s voice over then instrumental music
The UK and the USA make up the 7th (and final) Biblical World Power. (Daniel ch. 7 and Revelation ch. 17, among others). That, in part, is why both official and unofficial National Anthems share similar trademarks.
