Paint Along With Nancy. Artist Nancy Kominsky presented this 1970′s show which, as the title suggests, taught people how to paint. It has a great breezy, jazzy theme tune which is quite hard to find online but I did find it..although you have to sit through 6 mins of testcard! (WHY?!!?) Just skip along to about 6.14 on the video above.
UPDATE: Hear the theme tune in all it’s glory here (Thanks Arnie!)
Farmhouse Kitchen. This series had another theme in later series but I prefer the original flavour. The track’s called “Fruity Flute” by Reg Wale and it’s bloody marvellous. You can get it on an excellent compilation CD of themes and library music called, “Girl in a Suitcase”.
Jim’ll Fix It. The best bit of this theme is the “ba ba ba”s backing vocals, I’m a sucker for “Ba ba ba”s. The show was, for those who don’t know, a British Saturday tea-time staple – where a slightly creepy elderly DJ from Leeds would grant children’s wishes (“Your letter was only the start of it..). Best remembered though for the, still hilarious, clip where scouts are granted their wish of having a picnic on a rollercoaster.
Mr. Men. Kids TV show themes are usually the best so let’s hear some great examples. First up the Mr. Men (Original series) with it’s lovely theme, so good it makes me almost shed a tear. Couple that with the wonderful Arthur Lowe telling the tale and I’m 5 again. *sniff*
The Wombles. Written and Sung by Mike Batt, this McCartney-esque song is a 70′s classic, in fact the Wombles had quite a few chart hits in the 70′s, I think I had an whole album of Wombling songs as a kid, including the classic, “Remember you’re a Womble” which is actually a great pop song!
More great themes to come….(seriously).
