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Here's an odd one, could be a challenge for someone...
As some of you know, I work for a radio station in Wolverhampton. We run a regular programme which is very similar to Desert Island Discs, in which local personalities come on the show to talk about their lives and play songs which mean something to them.
Coming soon we'll be featuring Tom Coyne who presented Midlands Today during the 1970s as well as numerous other regional programmes in other areas. Tom is retired and lives in Wolverhampton, hence his participation in this show. It'll be airing in early February, and if anyone's interested it'll be streaming online for those outside of Wolverhampton (www.wcrfm.com) - I'll try and let you know TX details when its scheduled.
Anyway, one of Tom's earlier jobs was on Tyne Tees's "North East Roundabout" a 1960s forerunner to "North East Tonight", and as one of his songs Tom has chosen the theme tune which to North East Roundabout which he remembers was called "Old Comrades". Apparently it's a carousel type of tune. Unfortunately its well before my time, so I wondered if anyone on here could throw a bit of light on it and perhaps point me in the right direction?
If anyone should have a clip of it (you never know), then that would be ever so useful so that we could track down a closely matching version (or even the real thing).
Or if it should happen to be library music, then obviously you can only send info details, but this is of course perfectly fine because we are fully licensed and can get hold of the track from whichever library its on.
By the way, just in case anyone wondered, we're sorted for the 1970s Midlands Today theme, "Sports Fever"!
Any help will be much appreciated!
As some of you know, I work for a radio station in Wolverhampton. We run a regular programme which is very similar to Desert Island Discs, in which local personalities come on the show to talk about their lives and play songs which mean something to them.
Coming soon we'll be featuring Tom Coyne who presented Midlands Today during the 1970s as well as numerous other regional programmes in other areas. Tom is retired and lives in Wolverhampton, hence his participation in this show. It'll be airing in early February, and if anyone's interested it'll be streaming online for those outside of Wolverhampton (www.wcrfm.com) - I'll try and let you know TX details when its scheduled.
Anyway, one of Tom's earlier jobs was on Tyne Tees's "North East Roundabout" a 1960s forerunner to "North East Tonight", and as one of his songs Tom has chosen the theme tune which to North East Roundabout which he remembers was called "Old Comrades". Apparently it's a carousel type of tune. Unfortunately its well before my time, so I wondered if anyone on here could throw a bit of light on it and perhaps point me in the right direction?
If anyone should have a clip of it (you never know), then that would be ever so useful so that we could track down a closely matching version (or even the real thing).
Or if it should happen to be library music, then obviously you can only send info details, but this is of course perfectly fine because we are fully licensed and can get hold of the track from whichever library its on.
By the way, just in case anyone wondered, we're sorted for the 1970s Midlands Today theme, "Sports Fever"!
Any help will be much appreciated!