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[Pete]

Who will be fronting the coverage of the state funeral of Jeremy Beadle?

may I present you with post of the week as a gratuitous reason to test something I noticed in the admin panel?

[johnnyboy]

Who will be fronting the coverage of the state funeral of Jeremy Beadle?

may I present you with post of the week as a gratuitous reason to test something I noticed in the admin panel?

Please do.

[Nini]

Darwin's law!

Isn't it Godwin's law?

Indeed it is. Ron, you're a dink.

[Ronnie Rowlands]

Darwin's law!

Isn't it Godwin's law?

Indeed it is. Ron, you're a dink.

I was just 3 letters wrong and listening to music at the time, be nice.

[Slagathor.]

Uh-oh.

Thanks!

And according to that site, the official written version of the Thames jingle is dong di dong dung (pah pah paaa paaaaaaaahhhh).

Well spotted G4. Glad you too have noticed the site Written Jingles

Most of my written attempts at jingles, which I've posted on Digital Spy Forums and TV Forum the past year or so differ from the equivalent ones on Written Jingles. Here goes:

Anglia Knight (early 1970s to late 1980s

Written Jingles: Pah pa pa papa pepapapaaaaaaa

My version: Da da da da-da dada dada daaa

ATV Lightspots "In Colour" (early 1970s to 1981)

Written Jingles: Peeaah paaaah paaawwh bum bum bum bing beng bung papapaaaaah

My version: Pee wah wah bong-bong-bung tong ting tung sha-she-ahh

HTV "aerial" (1970s to mid 1980s)
Written Jingles: Wuwuwubblllleee wuwuwubblleeee woooooooohhh-woooh wuuuuuh

My version: Wall-all newl-all wah wea-wah

LWT 1970s to mid 1980s
Written Jingles: Deng dung dang ding (buuurrmmmm bum-bum-bum)

My version: Lin-ga lon-ga lin-ga lon-ga dadada-daa dum dadadada dum dum

Thames Skyline (1970s/1980s)
Written Jingles: dong di dong dung (pah pah paaa paaaaaaaahhhh)

My version: Gowng gowng geeng-er horng ut a norng

There's just one more, which isn't on Wrtitten Jingles at all:

Central (1982 to mid 1980s)
My version: Goi woi lon-ga la ting ting

Back in the mid to late 1970s, I saw idents for Thames, LWT, ATV, Yorkshre, Granada, Anglia, HTV and Westward more than anything else. Those idents appeared at the start of programmes.

With repeated viewing of each ident, over time the jingles became increasingly familliar to me, and it got to the point of me thinking they can be represented in the manner I've described. For example, whenever I saw the HTV ident, and hence heard the jingle, I thought "Here it is again" followed by what I reckoned it to be "Wall-all newl-all wah wea-wah". Those reprsentations became fixed in my mind. However I never thought of writing them down, until early last year when I set up a thread on Digital Spy Forums TV Jingles - Written Out

Just for your information, I was five on 30 September 1976, and 10 on 30 September 1981, so that gives you an idea of my age range over the year span I'm talking about.

Now as we all know, people don't normally represent music using phonetic sounds (combinations of letters of the alphabet). One normally uses musical notes on a stave. Ask ten people to represent say, the Thames skyline jingle using phonetic sounds, like I've done, and you'll probably get ten different representations. My written representations are how I have interpreted those ident jingles, and represented them as phonetic sounds. Inevitably therefore they differ to how Andrew Bowden, of the site "Written Jingles", has interpreted and represented them.

Tumble Tower

[Sput]

I can't work out what's more tedious: whether he posted it in the first place or you REPOSTED IT HERE IN ITS ENTIRETY WHEN YOU COULD HAVE JUST LINKED TO IT.

[Nini]

Uh-oh.

Quiet Slaggy, you invited him to do them. Though on reading them, his versions are odd but you know of both versions he's the one taking it very seriously.

[Pete]

as much as a cretin slaggy is for posting it, the original post has now been removed form TVF so I'm obliged to keep it here for TT mocking purposes.

[Slagathor.]

The torrent of neediness descends further upon my PM box:

Erm... thanks?

Thanks for your reply to my message. Is that all you have to say about what I had to say about written ident jingles? Any chance of you elaborating a bit, and giving some feedback on what I wrote?

By the way, that first one was a PM as well.

[Sput]

The torrent of neediness descends further upon my PM box

And, in turn, upon Metropol

[Lorns]

The torrent of neediness descends further upon my PM box:

Erm... thanks?

Thanks for your reply to my message. Is that all you have to say about what I had to say about written ident jingles? Any chance of you elaborating a bit, and giving some feedback on what I wrote?

By the way, that first one was a PM as well.

and you're telling us because..?