Tumble Tower wrote: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