THE NEW LOOK AND READ EYES MUSIC

Date: Aug 14, 2004

THE NEW LOOK AND READ EYES MUSIC

Date: Aug 18, 2004

Fantastic! Seriously well done spotting that! So they haven't bothered getting an original score done at all then.

Does anybody know if the very nice Shadow Play theme music is from a commercial track too? There are a couple of people credited with "music" in the Shadow Play credits, but it doesn't say what they did - composed? performed? mixed together some pop songs?

It does work really well as a little ditty (can you tell I'm not used to talking about music?!) over the animation, and they let it play on while Angellica starts talking too. Will have to check if you can hear the lyrics come in or not, but I certainly never noticed before. Here's a video of the titles, for anybody who missed it last month: RealVideo, 295kb.

Was that song released as a single or was it some obscure album track? It'd be nice to be able to say that a Look & Read theme has been in the charts!

Date: Aug 18, 2004

Ben im going to email you the song ok

Date: Aug 21, 2004

I was very surprised that Sarah Miller bought back the Look and Read “Rolling eyes” animation and music. Her track record on BBC Schools’ radio wasn’t great. It was only a few years back that “Ms” Miller as producer of Schools Radio hits such as “Dance Workshop” and “Time to Move” described on the phone to me the Schools Radio music series produced by legends Douglas Coombes and Peter Hutchings (Time and Tune, Singing Together, Music Workshop) as too “middle class” and “white” which resulted in new producers Barry Gibson and Janet Wheeler turning them into Folk reunions and choirs called “singers”

Date: Aug 21, 2004

who is this guy

Date: Aug 23, 2004

Somebody who seriously knows what they're talking about, by the looks of it, Samuel!

I have to say my impression was (and I will attempt to find out officially for when the site finally gets a proper write-up of Shadow Play!) that the Eyes animation & the whole classic story > teaching middle > story structure that dates back to 1965 was brought back for Shadow Play specifically because of the recent repeats. It makes the story very clearly a part of the same canon that also brought us The Boy From Space and Dark Towers, etc, so teachers who're familiar with those classics can introduce Shadow Play as a spanking new modern, field-removed version of the same thing. And conversely I suppose, teachers who come to Shadow Play as just part of the TV resources on BBC2, can go on to use the creaking old stories because they're all part of the same series. Wouldn't it be nice if BBC Educational Publishing actually made available reprints of some old story books & notes & things to really unify the past & present!

But however 'old' & 'classic' Look & Read may be, it's got nothing on those eminent schools radio series has it! Has Singing Together finished for good now, does anybody know, or is it just taking a year off in 2004-5? I don't think they'd made any new episodes of it in the last 2-3 years anyway, but that still gives it a lifespan of very close to 60 years. Makes Look & Read's 37 years seem positively juvenile!