The Channel 4 News theme music, entitled "Best Endeavour," was
composed by Alan Hawkshaw.
"Alan tops our poll thanks to his work for landmark kids telly and
daytime broadcasting institutions. Yes, by penning the themes for
Grange Hill and Countdown his work will resonate with the generation
that grew up through the late 1970s and 1980s for decades to come.
Alan had a fine track record working as a session musician with Dusty
Springfield, Tom Jones and others (including, sadly, Cliff Richard)
before turning his hand to television. He still makes a mint from
Channel 4, having come up with not just Countdown but Channel 4 News
and Racing themes."
Ott's Hit Parade: TV Themes
http://offthetelly.users.btopenworld.com/features/tvthemes2.htm
rec.music.movies Newsgroup
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=G7%24kJHB7WP8zEwmB%40encom.demon.co.uk&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
Many thanks to my colleague, lot-ga, for finding this link which
includes the opening titles of the Channel 4 News, with theme song (in
RealAudio format):
http://www.channel4.com/news/home/z/stories/20021023/c4n.ram
The Channel 4 News theme can even be purchased as a ringtone for Nokia
phones:
http://www.songtones.com/c4/mainindex.cfm?criteria=C4%20News%20Theme%20
To obtain an audio file of the Channel 4 News theme, you may want to
contact this collector, who has the theme in his list, and who will
accept requests by email:
Mark Ashall's Homepage
http://freespace.virgin.net/m.ashall/Themes.htm
My Google search strategy:
Google Groups: "channel 4 news" + "theme"
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22channel+4+news%22+theme&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en
Google Web Search: "alan hawkshaw" + "channel 4"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22alan+hawkshaw%22+%22channel+4
I hope this information is useful. If anything more is needed, or if
any of the links do not function, I will be glad to offer further
assistance if you request a clarification before rating my answer.
Best regards,
pinkfreud-ga |
