@@carlgorney9840 we Torontonians watched it as well. "It's Eleven O'clock. Do you know where YOUR children are?" OMG I never knew it was a full song, with lyrics!
I grew up in Philly, heard the beginning of this theme thousands of times before and during the news and NEVER knew that it was more than a 12 measure musical riff, much less a song with lyrics!
I'm from Erie and WJET used this song, too. As did WPXI in Pittsburgh and WNEP in Scranton. It's most commonly associated with Philly and WPVI, but this could very well be our state song.
this should be in the Guinness book of world records. 6ABC has used MCTYW since 1972 (for 48 years)...the longest-duration of use of a news theme in a single TV market. Stations across America (even rival Philly stations) keep changing their news theme music and changing their music, but Philly's theme song MCTYW withstood the test of time.
Yes, I watched their 50 year celebration, they said they tried to update the sound of it, to modernize it in 1996 without changing the song and everyone called to complain…they changed it back to this original sound within a week.
I can't believe they're still using it. We got it in 1997 and used it up until 2001. I wish we still had the CD I have an idea for our 25th anniversary.
@@tetraspellTHANK YOU. Local stations don't have any slant outside of sports. Plus, WPVI interviewed both candidates in separate interviews. Something that no other local newscast did this year. So that says a lot that WPVI cares about everyone.
Jim Gardner just retired as of 12/21/2022. This song came out just 7 years before he began hosting Action News. I will always have fond memories of watching Action News and Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, both from childhood and adulthood. Jim, thank you for your service to the greater Philly region in providing local news.
We had a 13" black-and-white RCA TV in our kitchen, and every night, my dad would tune into Action News at 6. I remember Jim Gardner, Jim O'Brien, and Joe Carcione, the Green Grocer. And in June, they would show pics of high school grads with the song "You're the Best of the Class This Year" playing in the background. Ah, memories.
I moved outta Philly in 1996 as a kid. But I forever love this theme song! And Whenever I visit the City... I'll only watch Action News 6 just to hear this jawn!
Listening in from Huntsville Alabama to honor Jim Gardner's final broadcast tonight. Theres a lot of things about Philly I've grown distant from, but this song always makes me smile and feel nostalgic. Cheers to a great career Jim
Born and raised in The Bronx since 1981. My maternal grandmother lived out in Reading, Pennsylvania. Whenever I visited her during the 80's and 90's, all the affiliates were Philly stations. ABC6 would be on, courtesy of my grandparents' love of JEOPARDY and WHEEL OF FORTUNE. When that ACTION NEWS theme blared on the old Sony Trinitron stereo speakers, just the bass alone had me going! Great memories...
I'm 44, from outside Hershey, PA and remember as a boy watching 6 ABC Philadelphia with a now prehistoric big Zenith tube TV in the living room with the directional antenna on the rooftop, you turned the dial on the box N, S, W, E, before cable.
Really cool to learn. 31 here and I grew up with the two dials, one for smaller numbers and one for bigger. Never fully understood them because by the time I was 12 or so we had cable boxes and the dials were gone.
All I want is other television stations and networks to upload their old reels. It’s not like they’re doing anything better with them, they are probably in some back room collecting dust. They did a really good job with this one, the quality is really good compared to other indents i’ve seen from that era. I just love it!
I remember KTVU-2 in Oakland, California aired this from 1971 to 1974. I have a friend who is from Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia TV and radio stations are common.
This particular film clip was stored at the Temple University media archives. WPVI donated their archival library to them. This film was part of the 1972 promotional campaign for Action News as they were premiering their famous theme song as they used the title as the program's slogan, "Moving you closer to your world".
Hey, it's also the traditional Southern New Jersey newscast too! Can't wait til October 1st 2022, when it turns 50! (They need to have documentary on how this song became a mainstay in the world of local news journalism and most importantly, the Delaware Valley's most recognized theme tune...)
Great shots of the ever-famous Chopper 6 capturing the scenes of Southeatsern Pennsylvania, the Delaware Memorial Bridge, the Pennsylvanian countryside, and, of course, the "City of Brotherly Love" itself, Philadelphia.
When I pulled up this of the composer of this now infamous move closer to your world news jingle, Al Ham has a impressive resume. He was in the Glenn Miller Orchestra band in the mid 40's, worked for Columbia Records in the 50s under his mentor Mitch Miller and in the 60's went on to co-produced the legendary T.A.M.I (TeenAge Musical International) with the lights of the Beach oys James Brown, The Rolling Stones The Supremes Marvin Gaye and Lesley Gore. I'm doing while Al was composing news jingles, he also work for Warner Bros. Records in the 70's What an impressive person he was.
I moved from Philly in the mid 70's when I was six. Visited my grandmother every summer until my late teens throughout the 80's. I love this theme and I deliberately searched it up because it popped up in my memory out of nowhere. I never knew that it was a whole song. Loving it!
Iconic theme song and very nostalgic for all the SE Pennsylvania and South Jersey kids who heard this intro thousands of times while our dads sat in his chair smoking a Marlboro and sipping a beer after dinner while mom cleaned it all up.
I moved to Cleveland in 2014. I JUST moved back home to south Jersey a month ago and i gotta tell ya, east Cleveland was bad but god damn man, NOTHING beats Philly lmao I missed it so much
I lived up in the Philadelphia area from 1974 to 1983 I loved action news loved action news and saw it all through then including Jim o'brien's passing
I am in love! In the 80s and 90s they only sang the refrain "move closer to your world my friend Take a little bit of time. Move closer to your world my friend and you'll see." And now and for many years they sing nothing😥 I miss theme song soooooo much!!!!!
My best friend is from Philly, he said one night a nightclub he'd go to actually played MCTYW and it got quite the reaction. (IDK if they played it like newscasts do or if they mixed it out from/in to other club music.) I've lived in 2 markets that have used MCTYW and it didn't get near the reception that it has through Ch.6.
If you grew up in Pennsylvania anytime from the 1970s to the year 2000, you've heard this. Doesn't matter if you're from Philly, Erie, Pittsburgh, or Scranton. If you ever watched the news, you know this song.
I remember the first time visiting my family in Philadelphia in 1990. When my uncle turn on his television and saw Action News for the first time, It was a big shock and I love it!!
following jim gardner’s farewell broadcast, i sang this so loud in the closing credits. i wanted jim to know, i was really moving closer to my world, for him.
I remember sitting with my father and grandfather in the living room waiting for this to come on….when the melody started, I knew it was time for the news
I lived in Downingtown when i was growing up and i watched this every single night. I moved away in 1990 to join the military but this will be stuck in my head forever
I grew up with this song in the early 70's. We lived over 100 miles from Philly but it was only 1 of 6 stations we could get at that time. Consequently, we watched the news out of Philly - I don't know, I was just a kid and didn't control the TV dial. So we had Larry Kane and then Jim Gardner a little later. Some great memories and some harrowing ones as well but, that theme song still lives on like a first love that "never runs dry. " Thank you Dennis DeYoung 😢
WKBW was where both Dave Roberts (as Dave Thomas) and Jim Gardner "cut their TV teeth" before coming to WPVI-TV (as Capital Cities owned both stations; WPVI-TV being the company's flagship station and the biggest generator of revenue for its parent company, allowing them to buy the bigger ABC Television Network in 1985).
I'm in my late 50's now. But when I was a kid living in Central California, this was the theme song (and opening motion graphics) for KFSN, the ABC affiliate in Fresno. It was a truncated version that started at about the 1:41 mark. I thought the music had authority and it caught my attention. Why I thought of it this morning is beyond me! Super cool that it's here on TH-cam.
I remember visiting my grandma in Philly every summer & at 6pm my grandma would always turn on action news & that theme song just burned in my memories….
Thank you for posting!! KTRK Channel 13 Eyewitness News in Houston had this for years. Brings back so many memories of a simpler and more wholesome time.
I grew up in Delaware in the 80s and this song was heard in our house every day. I live in NC now, and news stations don’t even have theme songs. When I go home to visit family, it definitely gives me that warm fuzzy feeling when I hear the song again. I hope it never changes.
They do. Just not used as long because of corporate consolidation of local news here. Glad WRAL is still around being local, rocking In-Sink for as long as it has, but still it's not as iconic as MCTYW.
It may have begun as a news theme for WPVI, but many other stations also used it. This was composed by Al Ham, perhaps better known as creator of the "Music Of Your Life" radio format.
@altfactor I zoomed in on the sheet music shown in a recent news report*, and sure enough, it's all visible (heh, even had their home address on the bottom, though they no longer live there). *The co-author of the lyrics, Walter Liss, died recently at 78.
KTRK Houston used this theme for the Eyewitness News casts from the mid 70s to the very early 80s. I never forgot it and even now when i turn on the news i somehow expect to hear this at the opening of the newscast. Something i carried over from my childhood, i guess
@@annedavis2561 I believe Jim O'Brien died in a skydiving accident. I remember Jim Gardener having to report this that night on Action News and it was brutal to watch...poor guy trying to hold back his tears while reporting this....I grew up in Wilm, De....
@@s.f.7724 I remember too. But what about Don Tolleson, I think his name was something like that. I believe the three of them were on together. I think Don died of some sort of cancer. Yes, Jim was para shooting. It didn't open in time. Sad day..
This is one of my favorite and most influential songs! But now also one of the saddest as i listen and read the lyrics in our present time. "get close to people, dont turn away my friend, take a little bit of time, join hands my friend with all the people in your world." And now, a few decades later in the decline of local media ownership, news reporting has never been so divisive. I wonder what the news theme song would be if it were written for 2025 instead
I grew up in the 70s and 80s listening to this, moved away years ago, but listening to it now makes me feel like I have to get to bed so I can be up for school in the morning, but I want to stay up and switch on Johnny Carson instead.
Awesome, very cool nostalgic video. 'Listened to it for years on TV and never new there was so much to it. Now I can't call it random news theme music... it's so much more!
70’s were better than the 80’s. But the. 80’s were better than the 90’s and now. So, I would be tickled to death to go back to the 80’s but I would say, the 70’s was a glorious time to be alive.
Two questions about the short-lived 1996 version: 1) Why couldn't 6ABC hire a local band called the Philadelphia Orchestra? Why go all the way to London and hire both the Symphony and Philharmonic to do a joint production of the theme? 2) Why mess with one of the things that already work? And always have worked since 1972?
Can't Believe I Watched, Listened, and Added... Action News The World's Leading News Broadcast..... With News Anchors... Jim Gardner, Jim O'Brien, Joe Pellegrino, Larry Kane,.... 😍
Hearing this song is like shaking hands with an old friend… I know it’s still on but it still reminds me of growing up and my dad having this on ALL THE TIME!
I mean…, like, the lyrics tho! I’m kinda mind blown’ Move closer to your world, my friend! Take the time to learn about people… and you’ll see! Wow. Super deep!!!feels like Sesame Street!!
I remember eyewitness news in philly had a good song. They dropped it. And they just recently dropped eyewitness. They are just cbs news philadelphia. Lets hope Action news stays action news.
The current 6abc Action News intros: -"Action News, Delaware Valley's Leading News Program, with Jamie Apody, meteorologist Cecily Tynan, Rick Williams, and Monica Malpass"- (5pm version) -"Action News, Delaware Valley's Leading News Program, with Ducis Rodgers, meteorologist Cecily Tynan, and Jim Gardner"- (6pm and 11pm versions before Gardner’s retirement from Southeastern Pennsylvania journalism broadcasting)
And: "Action News. The Delaware Valley's leading news program. With Matt O'Donnell,Tamala Edwards,Karen Rogers and Meteorologist David Murphy(4-7 am)".
Monica Malpass left Channel 6 last year. Sharri Williams now does the 5pm broadcast with Rick Williams (no relation to each other). She also does the 4pm and 10pm (on Channel 17) broadcasts with Brian Taff.
What a song. I can hear this theme song without even trying to think of it. I've heard is at least 1,000 times. 31 years old here and I remember this most days growing up.
Long time ago i heard a dj remix this song. Caught me totally off gaurd and i was transported back to the 90's. Blew my mind. Wish I could remember who it was.
WTF???🤯 Buffalo-nian here, born and raised. Had NO fucking clue that the Channel 7 news theme was actually a song, complete with lyrics. That's so cool! I wonder if my parents and bro know about this....🤔
If you live in the Philly area. This song is burned into your brain forever. Been watching since the 2000s as a kid from Norristown.
Yes very true 😂😂😂😂👍
Oh hey Thunderbolt
I'm a 80s baby so you know I feel ya! (84)
Hey Thunderbolt
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Ladies and gentlemen,please rise. Gentlemen,please remove your hats. Please join us in the singing and playing of the Philadelphia National Anthem.
Janette McClelland brings back so many memories from when I was a kid
Hear, hear
Up here in Buffalo, we know that song all too well.
@@carlgorney9840 we Torontonians watched it as well. "It's Eleven O'clock. Do you know where YOUR children are?" OMG I never knew it was a full song, with lyrics!
It's also Buffalo NY's anthem as well.
I grew up in Philly, heard the beginning of this theme thousands of times before and during the news and NEVER knew that it was more than a 12 measure musical riff, much less a song with lyrics!
Here after Jim Gardner's final sign off. Thank you for a lifetime of news, Jim!
Yes, he will be missed
I'm not from Philly but this song is such a jam, killing chord changes.
Literally if you guys are saying so, it's fact
It has been the theme for years. I moved away in 2003 and even when I hear this, I still think of my grandmom who never missed the news. Ever.
@The8BitBigBand Philly Was Part Of My Childhood
I'm from Erie and WJET used this song, too. As did WPXI in Pittsburgh and WNEP in Scranton. It's most commonly associated with Philly and WPVI, but this could very well be our state song.
this should be in the Guinness book of world records. 6ABC has used MCTYW since 1972 (for 48 years)...the longest-duration of use of a news theme in a single TV market. Stations across America (even rival Philly stations) keep changing their news theme music and changing their music, but Philly's theme song MCTYW withstood the test of time.
The person who finally decides to change it will have to be fired. This song is goated
@@bosten56 Greatest Of All Time fo shizzle!
It also helps that they never had to change their network affiliation (ABC) unlike KYW and WCAU. But then again…
Yes, I watched their 50 year celebration, they said they tried to update the sound of it, to modernize it in 1996 without changing the song and everyone called to complain…they changed it back to this original sound within a week.
I can't believe they're still using it. We got it in 1997 and used it up until 2001. I wish we still had the CD I have an idea for our 25th anniversary.
If this isn't the kindest song ever
The big story: a homicide, a house fire, crime.
50 years ago this theme came out and it STILL goes hard, even though Philly is effed up I will always love my city and 6ABC.
Yup!!! Couldn't have said it any better 😊!!!
It's effed up because the people of Philadelphia keep voting for the same political party.
@@exdemocrat9038Nobody asked.
@@tetraspellTHANK YOU. Local stations don't have any slant outside of sports. Plus, WPVI interviewed both candidates in separate interviews. Something that no other local newscast did this year. So that says a lot that WPVI cares about everyone.
Jim Gardner just retired as of 12/21/2022. This song came out just 7 years before he began hosting Action News. I will always have fond memories of watching Action News and Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, both from childhood and adulthood. Jim, thank you for your service to the greater Philly region in providing local news.
Rest In Peace
Standing ovation for Mr. Jim Gardner 👏👏👏👏
@@fiz_tank he didn't die 😂
Beautiful tribute that describes my childhood with Jim Gardner and 6ABC News.
4 years.
This film and the theme song premiered in 1972, while Gardner came on board in 1976.
I wish there was shorts for the music. So i could use it. It's the best song for Philly.
We had a 13" black-and-white RCA TV in our kitchen, and every night, my dad would tune into Action News at 6. I remember Jim Gardner, Jim O'Brien, and Joe Carcione, the Green Grocer. And in June, they would show pics of high school grads with the song "You're the Best of the Class This Year" playing in the background. Ah, memories.
The Green Grocer & Jim O'Brien....memories
1976
I moved outta Philly in 1996 as a kid. But I forever love this theme song! And Whenever I visit the City... I'll only watch Action News 6 just to hear this jawn!
We miss you... come back home.
Hey wat made u leave
Hey don’t ever come back it’s not worth it. Thanks
@@FreshhCutz yeah he's lucky to cuz the tornado just hit a phew weeks ago lol
@@trayvondixon9661 tell me you're from Philly, without saying you're from Philly
the fact this isn't on Spotify is a crime
Nobody wants to put this on Spotify, for fear of getting a copyright strike
Listening in from Huntsville Alabama to honor Jim Gardner's final broadcast tonight. Theres a lot of things about Philly I've grown distant from, but this song always makes me smile and feel nostalgic. Cheers to a great career Jim
You do know it was his final 11pm anchor broadcast. He's STILL anchoring the 6pm slot 'til the end of his year (2022) 😉!
I moved out of Philadelphia in 1995 at 10 years old and I still remember every word and note to this song.
I love this song despite that I live in North Jersey
This is so aesthetically pleasing. I hope the 70's style catches on in the 20's in the way that the last decade had the 80's vaporwave/mallwave style.
Born and raised in The Bronx since 1981. My maternal grandmother lived out in Reading, Pennsylvania. Whenever I visited her during the 80's and 90's, all the affiliates were Philly stations. ABC6 would be on, courtesy of my grandparents' love of JEOPARDY and WHEEL OF FORTUNE. When that ACTION NEWS theme blared on the old Sony Trinitron stereo speakers, just the bass alone had me going! Great memories...
I'm 44, from outside Hershey, PA and remember as a boy watching 6 ABC Philadelphia with a now prehistoric big Zenith tube TV in the living room with the directional antenna on the rooftop, you turned the dial on the box N, S, W, E, before cable.
Really cool to learn. 31 here and I grew up with the two dials, one for smaller numbers and one for bigger. Never fully understood them because by the time I was 12 or so we had cable boxes and the dials were gone.
I use to play with it just to hear it turning it made a wired wrrrr wrrrr wrrrr sound lol
Living currently in Las Vegas, NV but a native of Wilmington, DE and this song will forever remind me of my childhood!!!
I was today years old when I learned the song of my childhood has BLOODY LYRICS.
Same, and it feels so weird knowing there’s lyrics to a news song
Knew there were some lyrics but not the long slow part. Save me Jim Gardner!
@@bobberman4641 KTVU 2 aired this on the Tuck, Fortner report circa 1971.
Me too
I thought the only words were ITS ELEVEN O'CLOCK, DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE.
Get goosebumps and a giant smile whenever I listen to this. Optimistic vibes and funky as hell
Jim Gardner was the absolute GOAT of Action News!
Why is this song bringing tears to my eyes right now?
All I want is other television stations and networks to upload their old reels. It’s not like they’re doing anything better with them, they are probably in some back room collecting dust. They did a really good job with this one, the quality is really good compared to other indents i’ve seen from that era. I just love it!
would be great but thats easier said than done.
I remember KTVU-2 in Oakland, California aired this from 1971 to 1974. I have a friend who is from Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia TV and radio stations are common.
Some statins are donating their old reels to universities who are digitizing and uploading their videos
This particular film clip was stored at the Temple University media archives. WPVI donated their archival library to them. This film was part of the 1972 promotional campaign for Action News as they were premiering their famous theme song as they used the title as the program's slogan, "Moving you closer to your world".
To this day even as a 22 year old living in Texas but born and raised in Chester county I always hum this to myself from time to time.
It used to be played at the beginning of 13 Eyewitness News in Houston as well.
Was used from 79 to 83 on channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas. They used the piano version when they showed call in poll results.
I do to... 45 years old living in Texas and born in Camden.
As a Chester county resident who lived in philly too I’m telling you it’s the best song ever
You'll still be humming it 22 years from now. I have that on very good authority from...uh...a friend.
Since October 1, 1972, WPVI News stills using the theme "Move Closer to Your World" by Al Ham, The Philadelphia-Delaware's traditional action news.
I thought it was little bit later than that.
It's almost become the national anthem of Philadelphia apart from the Rocky Theme
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren It IS the Philadelphia National Anthem.
Hey, it's also the traditional Southern New Jersey newscast too! Can't wait til October 1st 2022, when it turns 50! (They need to have documentary on how this song became a mainstay in the world of local news journalism and most importantly, the Delaware Valley's most recognized theme tune...)
Great shots of the ever-famous Chopper 6 capturing the scenes of Southeatsern Pennsylvania, the Delaware Memorial Bridge, the Pennsylvanian countryside, and, of course, the "City of Brotherly Love" itself, Philadelphia.
I'm not even from Philly, or have any connection whatsoever to the city, but get this jingle stuck in my head regularly.
Nothing like the music of the 70s. The orchestra. The airy choir. The bongo lines.
I definitely prefer 70s music
Disco harmonies
When I pulled up this of the composer of this now infamous move closer to your world news jingle, Al Ham has a impressive resume. He was in the Glenn Miller Orchestra band in the mid 40's, worked for Columbia Records in the 50s under his mentor Mitch Miller and in the 60's went on to co-produced the legendary T.A.M.I (TeenAge Musical International) with the lights of the Beach oys James Brown, The Rolling Stones The Supremes Marvin Gaye and Lesley Gore. I'm doing while Al was composing news jingles, he also work for Warner Bros. Records in the 70's What an impressive person he was.
KTVU 2 in Oakland, California played this theme from 1971 to about 1975. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I moved from Philly in the mid 70's when I was six. Visited my grandmother every summer until my late teens throughout the 80's. I love this theme and I deliberately searched it up because it popped up in my memory out of nowhere. I never knew that it was a whole song. Loving it!
Iconic theme song and very nostalgic for all the SE Pennsylvania and South Jersey kids who heard this intro thousands of times while our dads sat in his chair smoking a Marlboro and sipping a beer after dinner while mom cleaned it all up.
Living in Wilmington, DE from the 80s till 2008, I got this almost every night. All Hail Jim Gardner.
I moved to Cleveland in 2014. I JUST moved back home to south Jersey a month ago and i gotta tell ya, east Cleveland was bad but god damn man, NOTHING beats Philly lmao I missed it so much
In Australia, the 0-10 Network stations used it as the theme for "Eyewitness News" starting in 1976 (well except for TVQ0 in Brisbane) until 1988.
I lived up in the Philadelphia area from 1974 to 1983 I loved action news loved action news and saw it all through then including Jim o'brien's passing
I am in love! In the 80s and 90s they only sang the refrain "move closer to your world my friend
Take a little bit of time. Move closer to your world my friend and you'll see." And now and for many years they sing nothing😥 I miss theme song soooooo much!!!!!
12 people have personally disrespected Jim Gardner
Now 15 folks who disrespected Jim Gardner. They watch Jim Rosenfield instead. Their loss.
@@janettemcclelland2959 WPVI doesn't deserve him.
@@GoldenDaggerProductions As soon as he inevitably retires,NBC10 will get the viewers.
Friday night and the big story on action news is, im pissed at the dislikes.
Now 20 evil people 💀
I have always believed that organizations should never change identifying markers such as logos or theme songs. This is a prime example.
My best friend is from Philly, he said one night a nightclub he'd go to actually played MCTYW and it got quite the reaction.
(IDK if they played it like newscasts do or if they mixed it out from/in to other club music.)
I've lived in 2 markets that have used MCTYW and it didn't get near the reception that it has through Ch.6.
If you grew up in Pennsylvania anytime from the 1970s to the year 2000, you've heard this. Doesn't matter if you're from Philly, Erie, Pittsburgh, or Scranton. If you ever watched the news, you know this song.
Best news song ever
Agreed. It's rare to find an uplifting news theme like this, and this one is exceptional.
This song is tough to beat.
I remember the first time visiting my family in Philadelphia in 1990. When my uncle turn on his television and saw Action News for the first time, It was a big shock and I love it!!
following jim gardner’s farewell broadcast, i sang this so loud in the closing credits. i wanted jim to know, i was really moving closer to my world, for him.
I remember sitting with my father and grandfather in the living room waiting for this to come on….when the melody started, I knew it was time for the news
Ditto!!!
They killed this theme ❤they embodied the news 🗞️ theme on this song 🎵
I lived in Downingtown when i was growing up and i watched this every single night. I moved away in 1990 to join the military but this will be stuck in my head forever
The breakdown @1:45 is the most badass thing about this legendary newscast anthem.
The drums are incredible. Excellent playing
This section is played before they go into commercial break; letting you know what’s up next.
It really is unbelievable
I grew up with this song in the early 70's. We lived over 100 miles from Philly but it was only 1 of 6 stations we could get at that time. Consequently, we watched the news out of Philly - I don't know, I was just a kid and didn't control the TV dial. So we had Larry Kane and then Jim Gardner a little later.
Some great memories and some harrowing ones as well but, that theme song still lives on like a first love that "never runs dry. " Thank you Dennis DeYoung 😢
50 years strong. Happy Anniversary, WPVI-TV! Action News, Delaware Valley’s Leading News Program.
This is depressingly nostalgic and beautiful. We'll never know another time like the seventies.
I know, you're so RIGHT &
It brings tears to my eyes when, at the same time, making a huge smile☺️This is the ❤of Philly🎉
This song is legendary and generational now in Philly.
May it live forever….
Action News 6 ☮️
WNEP-TV Scranton Wilkes-Barre
I live near Atlantic City New Jersey so I see this channel all the time!
RIP Irv Weinstein, Rick Azar, and Tom Jolls from WKBW Ch 7 Eyewitness News Buffalo, New York. This theme song was on in Buffalo for decades.
WKBW was where both Dave Roberts (as Dave Thomas) and Jim Gardner "cut their TV teeth" before coming to WPVI-TV (as Capital Cities owned both stations; WPVI-TV being the company's flagship station and the biggest generator of revenue for its parent company, allowing them to buy the bigger ABC Television Network in 1985).
I'm in my late 50's now. But when I was a kid living in Central California, this was the theme song (and opening motion graphics) for KFSN, the ABC affiliate in Fresno. It was a truncated version that started at about the 1:41 mark. I thought the music had authority and it caught my attention. Why I thought of it this morning is beyond me! Super cool that it's here on TH-cam.
Stolen!
I remember visiting my grandma in Philly every summer & at 6pm my grandma would always turn on action news & that theme song just burned in my memories….
As a former Delawarean, I remember this theme sing vividly from the 90s and early 2000s.
WTVD channel 11 in Durham NC also used this theme for its Eyewitness news
I remember this theme song from the early 1980's growing up in Philadelphia, PA.
When I finally spread my wings and fly away to South Carolina, this music will still be in heart, until it stops beating.
Thank you for posting!! KTRK Channel 13 Eyewitness News in Houston had this for years. Brings back so many memories of a simpler and more wholesome time.
I grew up in Delaware in the 80s and this song was heard in our house every day. I live in NC now, and news stations don’t even have theme songs. When I go home to visit family, it definitely gives me that warm fuzzy feeling when I hear the song again. I hope it never changes.
They do. Just not used as long because of corporate consolidation of local news here. Glad WRAL is still around being local, rocking In-Sink for as long as it has, but still it's not as iconic as MCTYW.
It may have begun as a news theme for WPVI, but many other stations also used it.
This was composed by Al Ham, perhaps better known as creator of the "Music Of Your Life" radio format.
omg I attended the same school as his daughter-didn't know he wrote this music!
@altfactor I zoomed in on the sheet music shown in a recent news report*, and sure enough, it's all visible (heh, even had their home address on the bottom, though they no longer live there).
*The co-author of the lyrics, Walter Liss, died recently at 78.
And The Hillside Singers
KTRK Houston used this theme for the Eyewitness News casts from the mid 70s to the very early 80s. I never forgot it and even now when i turn on the news i somehow expect to hear this at the opening of the newscast. Something i carried over from my childhood, i guess
Action News, Delaware Valley's Leading News Program
With Jim O'Brien, Don Tollefson, And Jim Gardner
I remember when Jim passed. Did Don pass from cancer? I'm not sure if I remember correctly?
@@annedavis2561 I believe Jim O'Brien died in a skydiving accident. I remember Jim Gardener having to report this that night on Action News and it was brutal to watch...poor guy trying to hold back his tears while reporting this....I grew up in Wilm, De....
@@s.f.7724 I remember too. But what about Don Tolleson, I think his name was something like that. I believe the three of them were on together. I think Don died of some sort of cancer. Yes, Jim was para shooting. It didn't open in time. Sad day..
As a resident Minnesotan this is a amazing theme for a News program
This is one of my favorite and most influential songs! But now also one of the saddest as i listen and read the lyrics in our present time. "get close to people, dont turn away my friend, take a little bit of time, join hands my friend with all the people in your world." And now, a few decades later in the decline of local media ownership, news reporting has never been so divisive. I wonder what the news theme song would be if it were written for 2025 instead
I grew up in the 70s and 80s listening to this, moved away years ago, but listening to it now makes me feel like I have to get to bed so I can be up for school in the morning, but I want to stay up and switch on Johnny Carson instead.
Best news song ever!! I've been listening to this song for as long as I can remember. Early 70's. Loved it then and love it now.
I swear this is going to be played at my funeral - as a mandatory sing along ...
Awesome, very cool nostalgic video. 'Listened to it for years on TV and never new there was so much to it. Now I can't call it random news theme music... it's so much more!
The definition of "If it ain't broke don't fix it"
Brings back memories. Even with all the modern conveniences of 2020, I'd rather be in the 80's
Oh, me too!!
GMB This was first used in 1972.
Ya Don't say.
70’s were better than the 80’s. But the. 80’s were better than the 90’s and now. So, I would be tickled to death to go back to the 80’s but I would say, the 70’s was a glorious time to be alive.
I wish I was born in either 50’s or 60’s to see other decades.
As weird as it might sound, I remember this song but never heard the complete version. I needed to hear this...thanks!
Two questions about the short-lived 1996 version:
1) Why couldn't 6ABC hire a local band called the Philadelphia Orchestra? Why go all the way to London and hire both the Symphony and Philharmonic to do a joint production of the theme?
2) Why mess with one of the things that already work? And always have worked since 1972?
REST IN PEACE GARY PAPA!! Salute to Jum Garner 🫶🏾Channel 6abc news is Legendary!
Wow a very first music video of action news
Al Hamm and The Hillside Singers did their thing on this one!!
Can't Believe I Watched, Listened, and Added...
Action News
The World's Leading News Broadcast.....
With News Anchors...
Jim Gardner, Jim O'Brien, Joe Pellegrino, Larry Kane,.... 😍
Hearing this song is like shaking hands with an old friend… I know it’s still on but it still reminds me of growing up and my dad having this on ALL THE TIME!
Grew up listening to this from 1981 on. At 43 this takes me back a bit. This was the real stuff here. This was business.
My late Uncle Tommy wrote this while attending Temple University in '69. Thomas Sellers.
"The big story tonight" is a man is dead has been the lead story for years!!!! Welcome to Philadelphia 😊
This has been stuck in my head for 39 years :)
I mean…, like, the lyrics tho! I’m kinda mind blown’
Move closer to your world, my friend! Take the time to learn about people… and you’ll see! Wow. Super deep!!!feels like Sesame Street!!
I remember eyewitness news in philly had a good song. They dropped it. And they just recently dropped eyewitness. They are just cbs news philadelphia. Lets hope Action news stays action news.
There is only one rule that's stays the same in Philadelphia... THE THEME WILL STAY, THE GRAPHICS WILL CHANGE! SO DON'T PANIC!
2:03--"There goes that Action News car again"....because they didn't have vans in those days.
Oh I’m so glad there’s a whole freaking song!! I always wanted to know how old this song was. Ahhh
Love this ! Reminds me of my childhood growing up in Philly!
The current 6abc Action News intros:
-"Action News, Delaware Valley's Leading News Program, with Jamie Apody, meteorologist Cecily Tynan, Rick Williams, and Monica Malpass"- (5pm version)
-"Action News, Delaware Valley's Leading News Program, with Ducis Rodgers, meteorologist Cecily Tynan, and Jim Gardner"- (6pm and 11pm versions before Gardner’s retirement from Southeastern Pennsylvania journalism broadcasting)
And:
"Action News. The Delaware Valley's leading news program. With Matt O'Donnell,Tamala Edwards,Karen Rogers and Meteorologist David Murphy(4-7 am)".
@@janettemcclelland2959 The best is "With Don Tollefson, Jim O'Brien, and Jim Gardner."
Monica Malpass left Channel 6 last year. Sharri Williams now does the 5pm broadcast with Rick Williams (no relation to each other). She also does the 4pm and 10pm (on Channel 17) broadcasts with Brian Taff.
thanks chris
@@rwboa22 I know. Sorry I didn't get the chance to make that change.
I remember this Song I remember this now I’m 57 years old
I remember hearing this when I lived in Philly. And me and my brother hear this song: You know it's time for Action News.
What a song. I can hear this theme song without even trying to think of it. I've heard is at least 1,000 times. 31 years old here and I remember this most days growing up.
Long time ago i heard a dj remix this song. Caught me totally off gaurd and i was transported back to the 90's. Blew my mind. Wish I could remember who it was.
WTF???🤯 Buffalo-nian here, born and raised. Had NO fucking clue that the Channel 7 news theme was actually a song, complete with lyrics. That's so cool! I wonder if my parents and bro know about this....🤔
TriState residents grew up to this music and Jim Gardner
I loved your theme song still do this day!
I used to watch action news with my parents
anyone still listening in 2020 when PHL changes the course of history again for the USA?
Phiily's looking good from here! Thanks, PA!
@@jamescombs8316 You're welcome
Thank you, reasonable folks in philly... I’m in York, PA and there are not enough of us here
@@jamescombs8316 bruh thjs comment is useless now cuz a tornado just hit philly so it aint fine now lol
WNEP 16 in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre has also used this theme for years.