Man same!!!! I came here to write the same message. That tune reminds me of a feeling of bed time soon, school in the morning, still haven’t done my homework.. trying to do stuff to buy more time awake so my mum doesn’t send me to bed. This would have been mid 80s
Oh my god, isn't it amazing how some music/images resonate even though they had LITTLE (to less) impact upon your life. I was born 1972 so my teenage school years were the 1980s (84-89) Sunday nights Mum let me watch Spitting Image and then this came on but this Tune (and the images) ALWAYS meant bed, and the sorrow that the weekend was over and it was back to school tomorrow !!
Melvyn Bragg (aka Lord Melvyn Bragg or Baron Melvyn Bragg) was for 45 years the presenter of The South Bank Show. The South Bank Show was a ITV Sunday seasonal series when I first heard about it but from 2012 it has been a Sky Arts seasonal series. There will be a new presenter for the forthcoming series to replace veteran Lord Bragg.
There's some serious "swagger" about them. The funky musical intro with "T H E S O U T H B A N K S H O W" being spelled out, the artwork/animations, hands of God. Awesome. I came for the tune, remembering it from childhood, but was fascinated enough by the intros to watch all of it! Thanks for the upload, probably very few people have this on VHS and even less willing/able to convert it to RU-vid! 👍
Amazing after 31 years to see all those old clips again, that Lloyd-Webber Theme and Variations Cello and Orchestra by Paganini 1 -4 survived for 14 years.
It's not too difficult to imagine an episode of The South Bank Show which starts with Lord Bragg saying "Tonight's programme is all about our opening credits over the years" and then going on to feature interviews with the animators and television executives involved in the creation of these opening titles. Seriously, these opening titles would have made a good subject for an episode of The South Bank Show.
Maybe it was? I remember seeing basically all of these intros broadcast sometime in the 90s just like this (where I first saw/heard this theme). Im not sure what show it was. I dont think I ever caught an actual episode.
@@Wagoothe ALW album was called Variations, as it was variations of that theme. Later used in Song and Dance Act 2 and here. In case you were being disingenuous…
Ah yes, from the days when ITV actually bothered to pay any kind of notice to the arts and regularly devote space to discussing them instead of clogging up the schedules with tripe 24/7.
@@PurushaDesa But at least the BBC still do. Look at the Sicilly and Italy Unpacked series as just one example. Along with [still] half decent documentaries fronted by experts rather than celebrities, Environmental programmes that aren't afraid to push the truth, rather than the popular. Nature programmes that deal with the harshness, and not the cuddly cuteness. Does ITV do any of that? Of course not. They are funded by advertising, for which the viewing public pays for every branded product that advertises on the commercial network, and they may buy. Nothing is for free.
LWT was the home of the ITV theme tune banger: The South Bank Show, The London Programme, Dempsey and Makepeace, World of Sport, Weekend World, Please Sir...
The first programming language I ever learnt seriously was something called 'IDL'. It included various array generation functions, all ending with '... gen'. Often when I used these functions, this theme tune would irrepressibly start whirring in my head and I would be powerless in stopping my brain from listing the whole family of functions to the beat at the beginning. Viz.: # bind-gen, ind-gen, find-gen, lind-gen.... dind-gen, cind-gen... #, etc.
This show used to play on the Bravo cable network in the U.S. I also used to watch episodes at the Museum of TV and Radio, now The Paley Center for Media. The animation in each of the credit sequences is dazzling. The music, just in case you were unaware, was by Andrew Lloyd Webber from his album Variations, which later became the "Dance" section of his show Song and Dance.
I remember the last one for sure - I seem to think that was the one on the opening credits for the episode that commemorated the 25th anniversary of Sgt Pepper's release
As an Aussie I’d never heard of this show until I became a massive blur fan, I want to know if this show is big in the uk, because it doesn’t have a Facebook page, a twitter or Instagram account, yet it’s been running pretty constantly since 1978… can anyone help?
Being an arts programme and being on quite late when it was on terrestrial, I'd guess it wasn't an enormous ratings hit, but yes it was an institution in a way I suppose. It went to Sky Arts after ending on ITV.
👉⚡👈 I came for this... it's part of my investigation 🧐 Loved the interview with Francis Bacon... I think that's how you spell it? I wonder if he got Philadelphia'd...? It looked like it was heading that way. I'm currently getting Pepsi cola'd LOL...LOTS
How has this theme tune stuck in my head? I've NEVER ever watched an episode of the South Bank Show but there is a new commercial on UK TV (in 2018) that is using part of the SBS theme. It was one of those "Where do I know that from?" moments. My first guess was "Its not the South Bank show, is it?" so I fired up RU-vid but only listened to the first few seconds of the theme before dismissing it. 10 minutes later I recalled a connection with Michealangelos Creation of Adam - Again, why that detail stuck in my head I do not know... I've never watched the South Bank Show!! 10 minutes later I was sure the Creation of Adam link was with the SBS so decided to watch this video properly and - GOD DAMMIT - I was bloody right first time!! How? HOW has the SBS done this to me???!??? LOL
Can someone help me? I remember an opening to a tv show in early 90s that i used to think it was from The South Bank Show, but now i believe it wasn't. Opening was mostly made in stop motion. It had a Brontosaurus like dinosaur that almost looks like it was made by Aardman studio and it had The South Bank Show theme but it was more Techno like. Does anyone know what i am talking about?
Does anyone actually know which animator or studio animated the titles? It feels like it could only be Richard Williams though I haven't seen it credited as such.
@@lmjones7716 I never thanked you for this! I'm not sure who most of the caricatures are, to be honest. I recognise Ella Fitzgerald, Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen and that's about it.
I think George Lucas is in there (seated, as the word 'bank' is being finished off) and someone suggested Roman Polanski a few places early, plus Beryl Cook is probably the woman in underwear near the start. Anyone agree? Any others?
@@Elgrug Definitely Beryl Cook, done in a very Beryl Cook stylee (and with nipples showing, too, tsk tsk). The others I have no idea anymore, if I ever did. Is #3 Patti Smith?
my guesses with ? where i have no idea - john gielgud, ? (it looks like michael heseltine but he is politics), ?, the presenter melvin bragg himself, ?, ?, liza minelli, ?, ?, ?, steven spielberg, ?, ?, ?, woody allen - and then - ?, jack lemmon and walter matthau (from the odd couple movie), and i think the last pair are 2 different men but i don't know who.
According to Wikipedia, "The theme music is taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Variations composed in 1977 for his brother, the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. This is based on the theme from Paganini's "24th Caprice".
Based on Paganinis 24th caprice. Why doesn´t any fuzzie here mention it?Terrible ignorance and superficiality nowaday though getting information so easy.Only smombies running around.
