Grange Hill/ Give Us a Clue Music Conundrum

[MrPooHead]

Can anybody enlighten me as to why, way back when, Grange Hill and Give Us a Clue had exactly the same music? Most people claim that they can't hear said music without conjuring a cartoon sausage on a fork, and I must admit I'm in agreement, but I have the added demon of Lionel Blair.

[answerbok]

because the sausage on a fork was part of the grange hill intro toon and lionel blair was host of give us a clue. - you answered your own question.

[shybearuk]

I think MrPooHead is actually asking why both programmes had the same theme music, answerbok. Not that I have an answer, of course...

[answerbok]

Sorry, Mr Poohead, i misread your question. Maybe ABeditor will reset it ti unanswered as all three responses are uninformative.. but i do remember grange hill had that tune first.

[smorodina]

Because it was not written for either show. It was written by Alan Hawkshaw as a piece of 'library music', and must have been discovered independently by the producers of both shows. I seem to remember they both started at around the same time, so neither was probably aware of the other when they first went out.

[MrPooHead]

Alan Hawkshaw, I might have known... he's the b*stard responsible for "It's All At the Co-Op Now" isn't he? And the original Pepsi advert? The swine.

[MrPooHead]

Also, if I may correct Answerbok there, Mr Blair was the captain of the "boys" team (how showbiz) and Una "Glass-Top Coffee Table" Stubbs was the captain of the "girls" team. That all the contestants were the wrong side of 35 was blissfully overlooked. Mr Michael Aspel was the original host as I recall.

[Headtime]

Alan Hawkshaw also wrote the music for the best game-show ever invented - Countdown.

And his daughter, Kirsty sang on that Opus iii record "It's a fine day". (Why is my head so full of rubbish?)