Composer John Barry has died today aged 77.
His career spanned almost 50 years and there was not a genre of music he didn’t touch. He was most well known for his’ James Bond Scores’, namely, ‘From Russia with love’, ‘Goldfinger’ and ‘Diamonds are forever’.Other notable film work included ‘Midnight Cowboy’, ‘Born Free’ and ‘Out of Africa’.
In my opinion much of his greatest work was for the small screen. Starting his career as The John Barry Seven he had a hit with...

Just a head of my December Blog, some additions to the playlist.

From the new release ‘Top Dog: A Retrospective of Classic TV & Radio Themes 1960-1982’ this is the fourth release in De Wolfe Music's commercial series to celebrate their centenary.

There are some great tracks on the Album and currently included on the Sounds Familiar playlist are:

Roohbarb - Johnny Hawkworth

George & Mildred - Johnny Hawksworth

The Gonk - Herbert Chappell the theme from ‘Seeing ...

Any spare slot in the TV schedule would be eagerly filled with one of these little gems, at least by the BBC, and ITV would on occasion  air one if it had no advertising slots available or ...

This month featuring tracks from the Winchester Hosptal Radio's release ‘Music While you Watch'
If you'd like to buy it click on the Album cover.

There’s some great tracks on this CD.
 I’ve Included in my playlist
'Kitten'  by The Pandora Orchestra, the theme tune to Thames TV’s Good Afternoon,
'Family Theme' Johnny Hawksworth Group, the theme from Mother Makes Three,
and The Greatest Show on Earth, The Reg Tilsley Orchestral , from Yorkshire TV’s sitcom Queenies Cast...