Farmhouse Kitchen Theme

[@bencoleman8350]

Everytime I hear this tune reminds me being off school sick back when life was so simple it's a shame you don't see TV like this this generation wouldn't appreciate classic TV

[@AndrewGivens]

It was our primary school generation's Ready Steady Cook, to be perfectly fair to daytime TV. I mean, the littl'uns now get Antiques Road shows as afternoon telly when they're off sick. What *will* they make of daytime tv twenty years from now?

[@letsmooch4857]

Snap!

[@howardkelly3261]

It was the same for me, being off school sick and Farmhouse Kitchen in the afternoon. You're absolutely correct, these were simpler times and good ones to grow-up in. Shame these days are gone.

[@philgraham5341]

And me.

[@louiseowusu246]

The same here. This is a very jazzy tune!

[@iainclark5964]

Omg so many memories, this a Crown Court were the soundtracks to days off school.

[@mekonta]

Also known as the theme to 'Pretending To Be Ill To Get Off School'.

[@salvadormarley2360]

Absolutely. Did it many a time.

[@CarlB_1962]

I know what you mean. It’s amazing how many lunchtime programmes I remember watching as a child when I should’ve been in school. Happy days!

[@andrewfielden284]

Yeah, I remember - Mum, I need some Lucozade :)

[@mekonta]

@@andrewfielden284 That Mum bought from the CHEMIST! Complete with tamper-free, clinical, orange, crinkly plastic wrapper around the bottle neck to show that it has extra healing qualities!

[@normathomas8276]

😀😀😀😀😀😀

[@wahidkhaliq4776]

I remember watching this as a toddler with my mum in Yorkshire, neither of us spoke English back then but we loved the elderly lady she was a kind soul 🙏🏽

[@nebbyscumbold]

That's so funny. You were just watching the cooking.

[@stevepettit2064]

I was only about seven then when this was on i have commented about it on here this clip she was called dorothy sleightholme grace mulligan took over when she retired.

[@caerfaimama]

How lovely 😊

[@bryanhughes8003]

If you heard this, you were off school - a fantastic Pavlovian response on hearing this 30 years later.

[@mikehumble1120]

When you'd been to dentist and lying on the couch with a bucket thanks to gas and air

[@Larry]

Its the theme tune to "How we used to Live" and "Picture Box" for me :D

[@user-jc8tj5co7d]

It was on 12:30 till one weekdays i came home for my dinner .

[@muppetrowlf1473]

Crown Court does it me.

[@salvadormarley2360]

Or pretending to be poorly to get off school. No doubt gran would bring one of those bottles of Lucozde with the orange celophane. My gran always did. Then at 4 o clock you'd be well again and out on the bike.

[@stripeycat1970]

I love this tune. It always makes me dance like the woman at the beginning of Tales of the Unexpected.

[@birdman4274]

Haha Yeah similar mood of song. Do you remember Thriller (similar to Tales of the Unexpected) but real sinister organ music.

[@stripeycat1970]

@@birdman4274 No but I will look it up!

[@birdman4274]

@@stripeycat1970 There are a few on youtube. Here's a link. Takes a few mins for music to start. Used to scare the crap out of me as a teen kzbin.info/www/bejne/eH-TmZd-nclqhM0

[@arbrento73]

Haha! That’s put such a great image in my head! I can’t hear it now without seeing that silhouette against a red background. So, thanks for that...I think..?! Mind you...I’ve absolutely no idea how I ended up here!

[@stripeycat1970]

@@arbrento73 Me neither! It's called a youtube loop I think.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

A different time. I remember Dorothy Sleightholme doing a revipe for stuffed tomatoes. She draped streaky bacon over them to give a nice glaze. "You can make these if you have a vegetarian guest, just take the bacon off before them before they see it."

[@ibkis30]

I'd quite happily go back to then, lunchtime TV the best

[@cjane6975]

Reminds me of the sounds of the time. It's mysterious and peaceful at the same time .

[@jumpstar9000]

Why can't we seem to write tunes like this anymore? I miss those days so much. Thanks for sharing.

[@LouishWaltz]

Theme tunes today are all bland and sound much the same. All the great music has been written.

[@crazeepaving]

Because they were off their tits with psychedelics.

[@paulosborne6517]

Mmmmm, Jazz..! Nice... Johny Dankworth's early 70's theme for 'Tomorrow's World' is another good one - and we all remember fried eggs as letter 'O's in the title sequence.

[@cutiel7237]

I had quite bad asthma and the inhalers then were pretty rubbish so I used to be off school quite a bit, me and my mum used to watch this all the time

[@teejayy2130]

Pulling a sicky from school and after the news watching Dorothy Sleightholme cook😊👍👍👍

[@stevenmcdonald2239]

Love this tune. Happy childhood memories.

[@agreenidge99]

Just heard this and had the biggest flood of emotions and memories. Superb! Thanks.

[@bumble1612]

...there we have it, if you were off school, it was: For Schools and Colleges in the morning, then Pebble Mill at One.

[@MrBlueSky474]

Do you or anyone else remember the big minute countdown to the next programme clock on For Schools and Colleges with "Time" by Pink Floyd playing in the background? Happy off school with Chickenpox memories while waiting for Mr Benn

[@rolthesole]

Bart. The schools and colleges quad diamond intermission music. Late 70s.

[@cutiel7237]

@@MrBlueSky474 I loved Mr Benn, also Bod !! Oh the memories

[@MrBlueSky474]

@@cutiel7237 Yea me too Lisa, thanks for commenting. Would love to go back and leave this cruel and twisted century.

[@cutiel7237]

@@MrBlueSky474 yeah, life was so much more simple back then.

[@martin-mi3cg]

I think it used to be on after Rainbow when I was at primary school and went home for lunch 😊 I remember Dorothy Sleightholme often saying "now in my bowl...."

[@ABWEndon]

Love this tune. A real blast from the past. I used to catch it at lunchtime when I came home from school. I heard the tune recently on TV as part of an advertisement for Border Biscuits and it took me right back and with a bit of a search found it here.

[@dawnfinch8232]

ABWEndon yes it drove me mad trying to remember where I'd heard it from now i know

[@terinasargeant138]

Yep Skipping School theme. Its like Ceefax. Boring but nothing else on daytime tv back in 1979

[@darganx]

It was sitting through Pebble Mill at One, waiting for Mr.Benn to start!

[@andrewfenning7281]

Thank you so much for sharing- I’ve always loved this tune. I inherited the Yorkshire Television “Farmhouse Kitchen” recipe books from my Mum. The 1st one was published in 1975 and the 2nd one in 1978.

[@kenmcvittie3584]

Yay. I've got them, unfortunately inherited as well but they pretty much have everything you need from the basics onwards

[@stephenholmes1036]

Dorothy Sleigtholme a stern farmers wife was the first cook

[@grahampearson5283]

Dorothy Sleightholme was the original host of this programme. She died young in a car accident leaving Grace Mulligan in charge for the last couple of years. Dorothy and Grace had a number of guests young and old on the show during its run I seem to recall.

[@pussycats456]

‘Sore tummy and skiving school’ music, as others have said. Lying on the couch with a blanket, in your jammies, eating soup. This was on, then Crown Court I think, or The Sullivan’s!

[@colinwright4139]

The Sullivans...there's a blast.

[@TheMasterNo6]

Exactly that. I remember it all well....and skiving off school or being allowed to stay home after lunch by my Late Mother as my primary school didn't teach me much - my Mother taught me far more as a child.

[@martin-mi3cg]

The Sullivans was brilliant! Funny accents and gripping stories

[@eyebrowman1]

I remember ut so clearly. Every note. Definitely a skive off school tune

[@cliveevans9795]

My mum used to love this..got the Cook book

[@chopchung]

Never forget this theme!. Remember to this day watching an episode of this with the wind and rain battering against the windows one lunchtime.I had managed to talk my mum into letting stay school off as i felt a bit off colour.She had been threatening me all morning that she didn't really believe me and would be forcing me into school that afternoon.I was sat in the chair praying that she would get so wrapped up in Farmhouse Kitchen and then the gossip in the local paper that her threats would come to nothing.My prayers were ANSWERED!. With just 5 mins of FK left she let her eyes drop on to the paper and got so wrapped up she didn't "come to" until Crown Court came on @ 1:30, FIFTEEN minutes after the school had restarted.Faced with dragging ME through the storm and getting soaked inthe process AND having to walk in on an already started lesson she chose the easy option and watched C.C. with me.It gave me a WONDERFUL, naughty feeling to be snug at home with mum when my classmates were being given the "benefit" (ha, bloody ha!) of Mrs Carter's "education"!. P.S. I always thaught that the guest cooks looked TERRIFIED of Dorothy Sleightholme.Not surprised, she looked like stereotypical Les Dawson "Yurkshur" mama!.(complete with 'tash and rolling pin).

[@stevepettit2064]

when i skived off school my mum watched this along with general hospital and crown court she worked in the bread shop in wakefield where we lived friday and saturday because she was looking after me so this was her tv time when the kids programmes came on i would be sat in front of the tv while she made our family tea simple happier times.

[@stevepettit2064]

thanks for the reply mark yeah pipkins absolute classic that.

[@stevepettit2064]

@Mark thanks for the reply pipkins now that's a real kids classic that one.

[@arbrento73]

Crown Court...now there’s a theme tune!

[@stevepettit2064]

@@arbrento73 thanks for your comment yeah you are right happy uncomplicated times back then.

[@mandynobel2830]

Loved Pipkins

[@fraserkatie]

If you often sick from school this is what youd always watch lying on the couch!

[@MaxDayTrading]

Couldn't have explained that better myself! Happy days.

[@froglet72]

This and Crown Court

[@cutiel7237]

Who remembers Play For Today

[@sarahhardcastle2433]

And the schools and colleges.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

​@@cutiel7237I remember Play for Today and how grown up I felt if I understood one of them.

[@rajnirvan3336]

Memories of coming back from Nursery school early 80s. If I remember it was on after News At 1

[@eyebrowman1]

Great quality upload. I remember every note

[@BruceDanton-xw6eg]

Very nice too.

[@dvidclapperton]

Another famous theme of sick days from school.

[@MrMittens1974]

'Fruity flutes' is the official title of the theme.

[@Davy.J.Y]

I used to watch this as a kid with my Grand Mother...excellent show..:)

[@youma2996]

Pure Genius......A million samples spawned for breakbeat x

[@johntyfleming4581]

I am laffing and crying at the same time, buthappy none the less, the comments here i so understand and get,, MUM i dont fel well, ok go lie on the sofa ,,OH farmhouse kitchen is on,,, no words, good memories of simple times , i only wish the world could grasp what we had back then.. be well all who had the priviledge of these wonderful times.. good luck my friends

[@BarnacleBill77]

Ian Anderson was short of work and they offered him a cash job for this!! ;) :D

[@arbrento73]

That’s the first person I thought of here! It sounds like Ian Anderson playing early John Barry!

[@iaincrombie1556]

Amazing. In the stv Glasgow region this theme is being used to advertise 'Border biscuits'.

[@thaiscottie65]

+Iain Crombie Just seen it & came on here straight away. Brilliant used to be on when I came home from school at lunch time.

[@terinasargeant138]

Iain Crombie yes we have that advert on itv in nottingham now. couldn't place the programme but knew the tune.

[@iaincrombie1556]

Great. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

[@iaincrombie1556]

Great. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

[@caddelworth6794]

Heh. The tune is called "Fruity Flute" and was written by Reg Wale. ;)

[@indigohammer5732]

Wow! It went “Free Jazz” pretty quickly there!😂

[@numberstation]

I like to listen to this whenever I need to dismember a body. Lightens the mood, somehow.

[@iestyndavies7287]

Why Madam, what have you done?

[@salvadormarley2360]

Me too mate. You're right it lightens the mood somewhat.

[@denizmehmed971]

Farmhouse Kitchen! It was on on a Saturday morning before Thunderbirds! 👍🏼

[@ecbrd8478]

Everybody else mentioning being off school sick or having actually watched this show or whatever, I'm here from the Chriddof video!

[@Gandim45]

.....and now the news at 1:45, with Leonald Parkin.

[@hubertlane-nicholson8954]

Such rich and wonderful memories... but didn't Leonard Parkin present the ITN News at 5:45 (and not 1:45)?

[@florencesissy9492]

No Leonard Parkin did the news at 1300.

[@salvadormarley2360]

LOL I can see his face

[@manglewurzel5328]

Tune!

[@alisonjordan]

Gosh!!!! Another theme tune that has been going round my head for years 🤦‍♀️ Farmhouse kitchen was a quaint cookery series from the 1970s🥟🍰👩🏼‍🍳Very different to the cookery programmes of today!!

[@AndrewGruffudd]

I could listen to this all day. It has a whiff of 70s' fondue about it, but for me it's also a timeless dance performed naked to the god Pan. Pity about the name "Fruity Flutes" - still, if your name's Reg Wale, you're bound to have a touch of sociopathy.

[@johntyfleming4581]

piss myself laffin at this..lol

[@niggle6425]

The "going home for dinner" song

[@carlb4738]

Comfort tune for the sick

[@lewis72]

Quite sure John Shuttleworth would sing a song over this tune about out-of-date jam or the wrong brand of ketchup.

[@fairycherub1]

ive got the cook book for this , great recipes

[@MrMittens1974]

Except everything uses that blasted margarine.

[@lindabayley-brown7536]

I hate margarine .... vile and unnatural stuff.

[@ian_b]

Poor Dorothy, I never knew that.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

Lifestyle on satellite and cable television used to show this programme as part of their morning to early afternoon schedule

[@johntyfleming4581]

I just put this on my phone as a ring tone lol...why not.....

[@waxwerks1]

Reg Wale - Fruity Flute

[@jacksugden8190]

Long since passed away

[@octaviussludberry9016]

Are you implying Reg's flute was fruity?

[@SpuddySpud]

The drummer on this is outstanding!

[@allanhogg7590]

Remember this very well

[@jacksugden8190]

Addictive up tempo library disk.

[@annoldham3018]

You take 2 potatoes. And you boil them. Then you have lovely boiled potatoes! God it was dreary.

[@normathomas8276]

It was a lovely childhood memory to many of us

[@salkkaritennakkoja376]

Not nokia tune, but amazing too.

[@2008giles]

"we're doing puddings today"

[@richardsharpe2966]

The theme is called Fruity Flute

[@uglycustard1]

Friday afternoons school finished for the weekend.

[@elizabethstephenson440]

Now you need to take out a mortgage to cook anything at all. Greed has ruined everything.😢

[@dougtucker4539]

Anyone who knows this tune wasn't ill

[@sinbad8982]

Which is the one that goes... Do d dooo... Do d dooo..... Dooooooooo D. D. D. Dooooo.... Do D... Dooo!

[@Geraint3000]

Great song - abysmal graphics!

[@oneurope]

you can't get much more "retired" than dead I guess!!

[@TheRomper55]

Grace mulligan if I'm right? 😅

[@ukpropaganda]

1:01 - OWW, my bloody ears!

[@applemask]

That's jazz

[@rxhx]

Chriddof

[@AlfieEdwards]

the sims ass music