Surprise Surprise (1992)

This is probably a long shot.

Does anyone have the 1992 Surprise Surprise theme? I'd love to get a copy of the full version w/ lyrics - and if it exists, an instrumental/bed.

For reference: https://youtu.be/PlPDFn8Z00k?t=3

Would appreciate it if anyone can point me in the right direction for this. I see after searching it was posted many years ago - but the file links are dead

Thanks again!

I've got some MP3s on a computer I'm not currently near, although they're not the cleanest to be fair.

I've long been after a good version of this too

I think I have this on an old hard drive somewhere. I will dig it out and upload. I seem to remember it’s a downsampled WAV so doesn’t sound as good as it could do.

Do you have a way of sending an MP3 to you, I have a version on the Surprisingly Cilla Album, here is a link to the same song on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7-7S4eCuTM
Let me know if that's the track you are looking for

Hey danste237. This is not the track I'm after. The one you've posted is the original track.

The one I'm looking for is this: http://ds.dazusu.com:5000/sharing/4OCGjiARs

This is the only rough copy I have of it.

This is the version I have

https://up.metropol247.co.uk/Pete/surprise-surprise.mp3

Thanks Pete! Appreciate it.

I've been after a full quality version of this for years, I don't think it was ever released commercially as with a lot of Ray Monk and Trevor Brown's music. Ray also seems very peculiar with his arrangements being released even on the internet! It's a shame as he's one of the best light entertainment composers in the business, up there with his predecessor, the great Alyn Ainsworth. That said, he's entitled to preserve his material I guess.

Of course the original 1984 version by Kate Robbins, still tends to be the theme everyone thinks of when it comes to Surprise Surprise and was released on Cilla's 'Surprisingly Cilla' album. Here's a strange remix of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QWtUGKmGMY

But for a generation of anyone under 40, the latter 1992 'Life is full of Surprises' arrangement is what comes to mind but is strangely absent from cult circles.

I was never released probably because it was never recorded. It was always played live by Ray and his orchestra afaik each episode. If you were to listen to each ep back to back you'll find the intro theme is slightly different each time, he was forever tweaking the arrangements. Vocals were on click track if they needed and sometimes Cilla would sing live. The stings and such were played live as well so they could time it better depending on how long it took the guests to enter and get to the sofa.

LWT probably had some sort of mix minus the vocals for promos and publicity purposes, but that would be like searching for a needle in a haystack! besides I don't think LWT exist now, but I'm sure someone can correct me on that?

As an on-screen brand it hasn't existed since about 2004, but I believe LWT the ITV company is listed at Companies House as dormant.
Not that it really matters because it's all part of ITV plc now anyway, as would any assets be.

The mix of which you speak was probably lost years ago, and now they've got rid of TLS if it existed at all by that point it'll almost certainly be gone now. Not very often companies keep programme assets once the programme they belong to has been dropped by the network with no potential for reuse in, say, foreign adaptations.

Central was quite "good" at this, having lost all the music beds for Bullseye at some point after the show finished, so Bullseye 2006 had to remake pretty all the musical assets which are heavily based on the original. Same thing happened with Bob Holness Blockbusters, they lost the original music dub to that as well, so it only exists as such on the episodes and there is no clean copy without the "and now please welcome the host of Blockbusters" voiceover.

Yet Chris Moyles managed to obtain the original Bullseye score from the actual composer to use in a feature on his breakfast show.

Be that as it may, doesn't change the basic fact they went missing from Lenton Lane at some point after 1995, but nothing to stop the composer if they have a copy supplying it out if they want to.