WLVI-56 Wake-Up Music - 1985 

Well, nowadays these test patterns and wakeup music are replaced by boring informercials that nobody likes.

I seem to remember that channel 38 would start their test pattern at 6:30 AM while channel 56 would start theirs at 6:45 AM. Channel 56 would switch from a test tone to music while channel 38 just used a tone. Now I feel old!

Nowadays we have 1000 digital channels and it's ALL SHIT. I miss the good ol daze....

The music is from "Hooked On Classics".

Wow. This is lovely. I never saw/heard test patterns played with actual music before, only tone. I'd much rather have listened to "Hooked on Classics," followed by Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle orchestra any day...Sort of like video radio. Thank you for this.

I❤ the way this was integrated. Genius!

The classic songs listed here are actually part of one song called "Hooked on Classics Part 1 & 2". Remember this album was sold in the 70s to get kids to listen to classical music. I let my own kids listen to it and it really does work! They really dig the classics!

0:28 - Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 0:38 - Flight of the Bumblebee 1:05 - Mozart's Symphony No. 40 1:24 - Rhapsody in Blue 1:48 - Karelia Suite 2:09 - Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 2:23 - Tocatta in D Minor 2:45 - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 2:51 - Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 3:06 - William Tell Overture 3:23 - Marriage of Figaro Aria 3:37 - Romeo & Juliet 3:52 - Trumpet Voluntary 4:05 - Hallelujah Chorus 4:12 - Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor 4:42 - March of the Toreadors

I loved this kind of test pattern. wish they were still around. Thanks for posting

Of all the songs I've heard in this, my favorite was The Immigrant by Neil Sedaka.

this is truly wonderful, I really get some personal responses on thism, but who has kids parade stuff, I'm intrested in all of dale dormans stuff, perhaps meet the guy, which i can

9:26 Back then, I was wondering "why would anyone care what their microwave unit was" cause I thought they meant microwave oven lol

this was part of my life's soundtrack as a kid in boston.....

I remember The Immigrant by Neil Sedaka. I recently put an mp3 of it in my computer for my personal listening pleasure.

Thank you for this! Brings back child-hood memories.

After this test pattern and the rabbi, the 1st show to come on was Bozo's Big Top. Friggin CLASSIC... also loved watching the Banana Splits at 1pm. :)

Well "You haven't changed a bit" was a real song but I remember they had soft rock allot to the test pattern. I think the first time I saw these test patterns originally was 1986... when I was 4 years old!!! I think they used the pattern into the late 80's. I'd wake up before 6AM and I went in and turned on the TV, and watched the pattern and listen to the music while I waited for the programs to come on.

Huh? I remember them playing "Good Day Sunshine"

27 seconds of Parking attendant going EEEEEEEEEE then music. A pity these didn't take requests. I would have had Def Leppard playing over the colour bars

Hooked On Classics!! I LOVE IT!!!

I remember one song that was often played during the test pattern, but I, for the life of me, don't know the name of it. The song as played had no words. It started off with a flute playing a few notes, and then a bass guitar joined in adding some rhythm. Then a brass section was added, followed by some rhythmic hand clapping and lastly some background voices AH"ing. The song started off "small", but it swelled to the end.

A rare time when they didn't play real off the radio music or songs.

One has to wonder if there's any station out there anymore that actually signs off instead of just airing infomercials.

That was...ummm...yeah...THIS IS WHAT THEY CALLED "WAKE UP" MUSIC?

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who used to watch this earning in the morning. And those who used to watch the "sign off" late at night.

I also miss when some TV stations used to have a radio-style news brief/segment during the sign-on for the day.

Love these videos. How about a WBZ sign on from the 70s? I remember there being a prayer with a shot of the Boston sky line from the late 60s early 70s. Or anything from WCVB with Five All Night Live at Night with George Fennel?

Boston Legal still rules! 🫢😱❤️

The "Hooked on Classics" number, perhaps.

@wmbrown6 hey wmbrown6 the PBS stations in Hawaii used this TP design before they went on the air every day back in the 1980's. KHET were the call letters for the PBS station in Honolulu. Don't remember the call letters for the other PBS stations in Hawaii but I know there's more than one. Haven't lived in Hawaii. Have been there just for vacation. Thanks for replying.

I remember them playing "Take my breath away" before the 6:00 Hour.

indeed! :D

I vividly remember watching this test pattern and listening to the song "The City of New Orleans."

Oh, my gosh. I heard this on TBN years ago! Thanks for posting this.

I remember in the Summer of '78 it was Meco's disco Star Wars Cantina-band

Memories, memories. I also remember hearing "Sing, Sing, Sing" (Benny Goodman) during the WLVI wake up music.

Those morning prayers by the reverends, elders and that rabbi must had originally occurred in the 70's, back when channel 56 was still owned by Kaiser Broadcasting!

I remember watching this before school waiting for Bozo to come on at 630am

Does anyone remember the days when the Channel 56 sign on included 'Got to Get You Into My Life' and a few other pop classics?

I miss these days of old... do tv channels even do this anymore?

Those are some hot beats!

2 years since my last post, I finally found out the name of the song that I was thinking about. The song that was played as a part of one of the song rotations is "That Happy Feeling" by Bert Kaempfert. Apparently it was used by other Kaiser Broadcasting television stations.

Would anyone know if other Boston stations besides WLVI (and those in the area besides WSMW and WMUR) used this color pattern design?

This is from Boston, but it’s a lot like what I heard as a kid in Oklahoma. I feel so old because I remember stuff like this.

Watch in 240p for that "old analog sound" effect. ☺

Maybe it is just me but that test pattern creeps me out.

I don't think WLVI was the only Boston station that used this type of test pattern overnight. Perhaps Channel 7 when they were still WNEV? (Though, I'm thinking of the early 80s, too, when the Lowell-area cable still carried the Providence stations as well [6/10/12], so maybe it was one of those?)

In addition to What's New, I also remember Herb Alpert's Route 101and the theme to Happy Days...which the station was showing reruns of anyway. The black and white lines of the test pattern would produce a moire effect that I just loved to watch as a child even if I didn't understand it at the time.

I'm born in 1977, and we had one stateowned tv-station until 1988 and three state operated radiostations until 1987. Our tv started at 6:00pm and signed-off at no later than 11:15 pm. Sometimes 11:30pm on Saturdays.

This must have been on to at least the Early 90s I remember seeing it.

@bewarethedecks - Always cool to hear from those who even remember these..)

do any stations in the U.S. still use this kind of test pattern? I loved seeing this test pattern back in the 70's and 80's. Haven't seen this in years. The last station I remember using this pattern is KGO-TV channel 7 in San Francisco CA. back in the mid to late 90's.

@broughham - KGO's use of this particular TP design (with the fabled "circle 7" in the center dated to at least the mid-1970's (probably 1975 at the earliest). One other station, or entity, west of the Mississippi used this TP design, albeit turned upside-down, later in the '70's: the stations of South Dakota Public Television, including KUSD Channel 2. Any other stations on the West Coast or with "K" calls you know of that used this TP design?

Excellent !! ☆☆☆☆☆ from me !

I heard The John Barry Seven doing Goldfinger on this once, and have it on videotape.

@broughham - From what I've seen, that TP would have mentioned KHET at the top part - and KMEB in Wailuku at the bottom.

I'm still trying to figure out the name of one a particular instrumental song that was part of the WKBG/WLVI test pattern music rotation. It started out simply with a flute. A bass guitar was added then rhythmic hand clapping, brass instruments and, lastly, voices singing "Ah". I think the song is the same general era as Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra's "Love Theme" (which I think was also used in the rotation).

What's New. Linda Ronstadt. What a Great Voice !!

I lived in Utica NY most of my life and WUTR used to play music over their sign-on station ID card every morning as part of their sign-on routine, They played jazz and other music. WKTV did the same as their sign-on also with a station ID card, but once in a great while. WKTV also played music over their SMPTE bars once i a while.

Where is "That happy feeling??"

Wow, this is pretty cool.

I recall some other song that may've come from some spaghetti western as being on channel 56

at 0:28 MUSIC