RAINBOW children’s TV soundtrack music LP 1980 Geoffrey Hayes Jane Tucker Zippy
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Description
Original Rainbow Cast ?– Rainbow Songtime – classic children’s TV programme broadcast in the UK from the 1970s and 1990s.
Label: Tempo Records TMP 9016
Country: UK
Year: 1980
Genre: Pop, Children's
Vinyl: MINT. Clean on visual inspection. Plays superbly with no clicks, pops or dropout. Very bright sound.
Cover and sleeve: VG. Colours are unfaded, and no tears on the sleeve. Some rippling and creasing throughout (possibly due to damp).
This soundtrack album has never had a CD release. A CD rip of this LP will be included in this sale.
Tracklist:
A1. Follow Me
A2. The Empty Road
A3. Oh George
A4. The Village Blacksmith
A5. Sad Witch
A6. There's Only One Of You
A7. Christmas Time
B1. Wobbling Song
B2. The Little Flower
B3. Cardboard Train
B4. Cinderella
B5. Mr. Snowman
B6. Soft Toys
B7. Circus Song
B8. What's Behind The Moon
Credits:
Banjo – Rod Burton
Bass – Wally Waller
Drums – Chico Greenwood
Guitar [Lead] – Roger Walker
Guitar [Picked] – Rod Burton
Keyboards – Jane Tucker
Mandolin – Roger Walker
Vocals – Geoffrey Hayes, Jane, Rod, Roger, Roy Skelton, Stanley Bates
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About the series:
Rainbow is a British children's television series, created by Pamela Lonsdale, which ran between five times weekly, twice weekly and once weekly at 12:10 on Tuesdays and Fridays on the ITV network, from 1 September 1972 to 31 December 1991. It was intended to develop language and number skills for pre-school children, and went on to win the Society of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Children's Programme in 1975.
The show had three producers over its lifetime - Pamela Lonsdale, Charles Warren and Joe Boyer.
The programme was originally conceived as a British equivalent of long-running American educational puppet series Sesame Street. The British series would be developed in house by Thames Television, and had no input from the Sesame Workshop.
After more than 1000 episodes, the series came to an abrupt end when Thames Television lost its ITV franchise at the end of 1991. Since then, it has gained cult status and continues to get frequent mentions on radio and television.
Theme song (not featured on this album):
The theme song for the show was actually a small part of the full version, also called 'Rainbow' and written by Hugh Portnow, Hugh Fraser and Tim Thomas of the band Telltale, who regularly appeared in the first series of the show. This was released by Music for Pleasure in 1973 with the B-side "Windy Day".
There have been several dance versions of the theme tune which have been released as singles. The dance act Solo had a minor hit in 1991 with a sample-free instrumental version of the Rainbow theme, while Eurobop released a dance version in 1993 featuring samples taken directly from the original theme as well as voice samples of the main characters, who appeared on several music TV shows to promote the single; a hardcore version entitled 'Rainbow Vibes' by the Sonz of Bungle circulated on 12" vinyl in 1992 which sampled the theme tune over a chopped up breakbeat and featuring rave stabs. The most recent dance version, titled "It's a Rainbow!" and featuring the vocals of Zippy and George, reached the UK top 20 in 2002.
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Postage and packaging £3.50 to UK. Will post worldwide. Europe £6.50; N and S America, USA, Canada £9; Asia, Australia, Japan £11. No returns accepted.
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