John Craven's Newsround - The full length music

The full length music for John Craven's Newsround

[@simoncurtis1979]

sitting in front of the tv at 5.10 after school. Back in the days.

[@truetothegame2928]

i blew the whistle on this recording...

[@angelacooper2661]

I well remember the theme tune and the programme during John Craven's tenure. It started when I was just two and he left when I became a young adult of nineteen!

[@julianfirkins7936]

Yes indeedy, to summarize: this is the full version of the track used for the OPENING titles, of which only the first 10 or so seconds were used. As Cheeseford accurately points out, it's "Johnny One Note" by Ted Heath & His Music. The END titles for John Craven's Newsround came from the last 2 seconds of John Baker's New Worlds, as slinkdot pointed out.

[@Cheeseford]

It's Johnny One-Note by Rodgers & Hart from the 1937 musical Babes in Arms. The version used here was recorded by Ted Heath & his Music for a BBC broadcast in 1967 and released on a Decca LP that year - '21st Anniversary Album'. It's on CD now on the Vocalion label.

[@sussexmews]

The beginning bit before the bongos was played by myself using 2 Felt tip pens with lids on on by Brothers teeth

[@sanchoodell6789]

ahh that's amazing! How was that bit recorded? Did the sound engineers insert microphones into your brother's mouth?

[@TheBritishmike]

Wonderful!!!

[@mattcrooke8321]

Brilliant!

[@Perranporth]

Brilliant - it sounds so exotically 60s!

[@74HC138]

Also it's played almost every week as the intro tune to the 7:30pm news bulletin on Sundays on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC Six Music. (The entire tune, not just the final 2 seconds as played on Newsround).

[@mjamesthomasb]

The tune is Johnny one note by Ted Heath but this version is only on the album titled "In Concert- Beaulieu Jazz Festival"

[@LouishWaltz]

Music is 'Johnny One Note' by the Ted Heath Orchestra.

[@stashcode]

fucking awesome.

[@97channel]

And finally, a panda...

[@simonwtkns1]

This specific adaptation, I believe, was attributed to a band called "The Death", which was a cheeky anagram of "Ted Heath". No idea why they didn't use their proper title for this specific version.

[@mrspivvy]

@GrandDizzy Paul Macdowell

[@RERBO76]

Sounds like an arrangement from the great Ted Heath band!

[@mrspivvy]

where the hell did that middle 8 come from???

[@markfrancis6508]

john, could have a video on this.

[@drofmats1969]

Outstanding. Who composed this? Ronnie Hazelehurst by any chance? The outro is similar to Blankety Blank's, which he composed.

[@Tomsonic41]

I kinda see why they always cut the music off after the whistle - it's almost like a completely different style after the intro!

[@turk_d2004]

JOHN CRAVEN'S NEWSROUND

[@kengibson4054]

double time swing - NOT QUITE MY TEMPO.

[@repo136]

"Were you rushing or were you dragging?"

[@slinkdot]

New Worlds by John Baker. It's sampled on Spare Parts Express, a track by Orbital.

[@Gannett2011]

I've heard two very similar versions of this, have to say I prefer this one. The Ted Heath version from Big Band Percussion has the same arrangement but slightly different. Anyone know where this recording comes from?

[@RebelVoDKa]

Roger Finn.

[@RebelVoDKa]

No, I didn't.