I love this. Takes me back to the good ol' days -- when the news was scary from Vietnam, Watergate, etc... but always there were adults in my life reassuring me that everything was going to be okay.
I'd forgotten how good this was. At the time it didn't sound like much, but now it's the kind of music I wish they still made, for that Herb Alpert/Mariachi spirit that defined '60s-'70s background, lounge and soundtrack music. Thanks for bringing it back!
I remember this theme song when I was 7. It was the first new theme song that I fell in love with. Ray Ellis was a very imaginative composer who really made any of his compositions as compelling as the shows that they were featured in.
That's because Ray Ellis is also known for composing the music to the original Spiderman cartoons. Weird how music can create certain nostalgic feelings for everyone within a certain culture
I loved this theme since my time as a kid in the 1970's. This theme song brought back memories of when I took a Lufthansa Flight in 1973 from NY to Germany (Cologne) as an 11 Year old. The theme song was in the background of the portable televisions in the airports as well as the speaker [of the airports and plane]
Longtime NBC announcer Bill Hanrahan opened almost every NBC Nightly News broadcast from August 1970 until his retirement in 1983 by saying "This is NBC Nightly News, reported by John Chancellor, with David Brinkley's Journal."
The theme conveys a sense of dynamism and reassurance. Vietnam was winding down and we were landing people on the moon. The held notes of the horns remind me a bit of 'Got to Get You into My Life' by the Beatles. My brother used to record stuff off the TV in the '70s. He recorded this at the end of NBC's 1972 political convention coverage. They may have had a longer version because the credits at the end were long due to the big crews they had.
JUST LIKE ME!!! I RECORDED A NUMBER OF THINGS.OOF TV INCLUDING A FEW AUDIO COPIES WITH MY NEW TAPE RECORDER DECK IN 1970sn THIS "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS" WITH ANCHORS JOHN CHANCELLOR & OCCASIONALLY DAVID BRINKLEY CAME INTO EVENING PRE-PRIME TIME PROGRAMMING AFTER CHET HUNTLEY RETIRED AND LEFT THE OLD PREVIOUS "HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT OF LATE 1950s TO 1971. I LISTENED TO THIS RAY ELLIS.MUSIC VERSION FOR YEARS COPIED ONTO 8-TRACK & CASETTE TAPES TO PLAY WITH OTHER HOME RECORDINGS IN MY CAR IN 1970s TO 1980s. PEOPLE HEARING MY SHINY BEAUTIFUL POLISHED 20 YEAR OLD 1966 CHRYSLER NEWPORT HARDTOP WITH WIDE WHITE WALL TIRES AS 'BIG AS A BOAT / WHALE" (from "Love Shack" by the B-52's in 1986) WITH SELF-INSTALLED SOUND SYSTEM WITH BOOMING SPEAKERS BLASTING "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS" WERE AMAZED WHERE AND WHY I GOT IT AND LIKED IT (BESIDES REGULAR ALBUMS OF JAZZ OR PERVASIVE ROCK TOP 40 MUSIC OF OUR ERA - I WAS CONSIDERED SO ECCENTRIC!!!! - hahaha!!! THANK YOU CATHODE RAY FOR GIVING THIS BACK TO ME!!!! = D.E.T.;/ E.T.2 - (Baltimore / Tuesday - April 21st, 2020) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Nightly_Nrws
PLUS THIS IS A MEMORIAL / REMEMBRANCE FOR JOHN CHANCELLOR WHO I MET HERE IN BALTIMORE AT A PUBLIC SPEAKING LECTURE AT LOYOLA COLLEGE HERE WHEN HE AUTOGRAPHED HIS MEMOIRS BOOK FOR ME!!! R.I.P. = D.E.T. / E.T.2 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chancellor
This is a long ago bit of music I probably whistled along to a thousand times. Really nostalgic for me. Does anyone else sort of see a cartoon Enterprise whooshing by or an Austin Powers street dance in your heads while it's playing..? ; )
+bbser That's a very keen ear you have, bbser. Ray Ellis, who composed this theme for NBC to use during Nightly News' closing credits, also composed _all_ the background music that Filmation used for the animated Star Trek series in 1973 (the credits list "Yvette Blais," but that was a pseudonym).
Before Lester, Brian or Tom, there was John Chancellor and David Brinkley’s commentary in 1970-82. I always try not to forget the early anchors of Nightly News from NBC. Kenneth A Huang 8/28/2022
I think this was only used as the closing theme, with NBC using a combination of their "classic" hourly radio news sounder blending into the sounder used at the end of their TV newscasts for the opening of "Nightly News".
I need that uploaded STAT! That intro theme sounded so ahead of its time -- it could've been used today and it wouldn't sound dated at all. Heck, I'd love to use that opening theme as my ringtone!
This lacks the punch of the INCREDIBLY powerful opening theme, but considering how much drama there was on the evening news during this era you almost needed a closing theme this light-hearted so the viewing audience wouldn't be too depressed to go on with the rest of their evening.
1972 - 1977: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Vietnam, Watergate, the Middle East, SALT, Patty Hearst, Inflation, OPEC, Chairman Mao, Leonid Brezhnev, and General Franco is still dead. IIRC, NBC also used this theme for the closing credits of Meet The Press. I think Garrick Utley was the moderator on MTP at the time.
IF THIS : NBC NIGHTLY NEWS THEME WAS USED TODAY, IT WOULD NOW INCLUDE: FROM NBC NEWS WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK, THIS IS: NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT. I’D LIKE TO KEEP THINGS CURRENT AROUND HERE. KENNETH HUANG. 8/19/24.
It Was #1 On Billboard's Hot 100 Then Crossover To #3 On Billboard's R&B Charts,Then Crossover To #4 On Billboard's Country Charts,Then Crossover To #5 On Billboard's Adult Contemporary Charts.
I remember this theme song when I was a kid. Why NBC stopped playing this closing theme I don't understand. NBC execs should reconsider using this theme song again.
Hi. Thank you! Any idea where the 1975 promo for NBC Nightly News might be found. (A montage; the accompanying music started with "Hear the world's heart beating like a big bass drum."
I've seen this before! It's in one of the uploads hosted by the Obsolete Video channel. I can't remember which upload it is but you'll definitely find it on that channel. "You know you can't be suuuuure until you looked it over/More than ooooonce...."
The point is that I'm suspicious of downloading from sources that might fk up my computer. That has happened. Also, I've had more SPAM than Hormel hit my computer from downloading. So, I would be most grateful if you would be a mensch and download because you have no fear of viruses or Whammy Spammy. :) One NIS theme used a double bass or cello as the main instrument. Just drop dead gorgeous arranging! epaddon
Great theme. I remember the opening theme of NBC News from the early 70s was used on KING 5 News in Seattle in 1979 and the closing theme was used on the late news on KING 5. - KING 5 is an local NBC Affiliate
SuperCruiser72 It is lighthearted, but it includes the same four-note sequence that became the main theme for World News Tonight, starting in/about 1978, after NBC stopped using this theme.
I always like the "fake" typewriters going on in the background---like they were a busy news bureau doing something! That's a sound you won't hear in the 21st century!
Back when news was news---REAL news, I mean, not fluff pieces, constant "stories" about our cultural fads & obsessions with Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, & Instagram, feel-good/inspirational segments, tabloid celebrity junk, etc. Chancellor was great, though he once introduced a lengthy piece on The 3 Stooges at one point in the 70's, unheard of for time-length today. Really miss Cronkite, Sevareid, Chancellor, Kuralt, Reynolds & all the great anchors of old!
Awesome... too bad about Hoover dying he knew where all the bodies were buried and probably could have helped Nixon survive which would helped the Republic of South Vietnam survive
For as long as I can remember, the NBC Nightly News theme has been the one by John Williams. This arrangement just sounds silly to me; although parts of it remind me of the classic four-note fanfare that begins the ABC World News Tonight.
Absolutely beautiful. A true classic from the legendary 1970's.
If they bring it back, people will love it !
It's a Classic, and powerful , with a touch of levity.
I love this. Takes me back to the good ol' days -- when the news was scary from Vietnam, Watergate, etc... but always there were adults in my life reassuring me that everything was going to be okay.
I'd forgotten how good this was. At the time it didn't sound like much, but now it's the kind of music I wish they still made, for that Herb Alpert/Mariachi spirit that defined '60s-'70s background, lounge and soundtrack music. Thanks for bringing it back!
Thank you for reminding us of the lovely sound we once had 🌟 🌟🌟
I remember this theme song when I was 7. It was the first new theme song that I fell in love with. Ray Ellis was a very imaginative composer who really made any of his compositions as compelling as the shows that they were featured in.
Sounds like music Spider-Man would have swung around town to.
That's because Ray Ellis is also known for composing the music to the original Spiderman cartoons. Weird how music can create certain nostalgic feelings for everyone within a certain culture
Wow, that is wild. Thanks for sharing, Michael!
Peter Parker and John Chancellor were both journalists.
@@RonaldCharlesEpstein At least _Chancellor_ didn't have jolly Jonah to contend with.
Or Batman would have driven in his Batmobile around Gotham listening to on his 8-Track player.
I loved this theme since my time as a kid in the 1970's. This theme song brought back memories of when I took a Lufthansa Flight in 1973 from NY to Germany (Cologne) as an 11 Year old. The theme song was in the background of the portable televisions in the airports as well as the speaker [of the airports and plane]
Back when flying was fun instead of wondering if you were going to be inside of an airborne psych unit.
Thank you for finding this theme! I remember this as a kid. This was my favorite NBC Nightly News theme.
Chisox74 My grandmother always watched NBC Nightly News at that time, and I remember hearing it whenever she babysat for me.
Yes. Me too. I grew into my teenage years with this tune. One reason I loved watching the news was tohear this theme.
Couldn’t agree more.
Every time I go visit my great grandmother, she always watched NBC Nightly News in the 70s and that was my favorite news theme.
I just wish they have that classic NBC Nightly News 1972 theme song being added to Spotify or something so I can listen to it all the time.
The four-note procession is similar to the opening of the ABC News theme that came later on.
Mark Potter It is, isn't it? It took me a long time to notice.
It is also reminiscent of the old Mutual News theme.
Yes, I thought I was the only one who noticed...: )
Terrific NBC News theme!
Longtime NBC announcer Bill Hanrahan opened almost every NBC Nightly News broadcast from August 1970 until his retirement in 1983 by saying "This is NBC Nightly News, reported by John Chancellor, with David Brinkley's Journal."
Best closing theme NBC Nightly News has ever had.
The theme conveys a sense of dynamism and reassurance. Vietnam was winding down and we were landing people on the moon. The held notes of the horns remind me a bit of 'Got to Get You into My Life' by the Beatles. My brother used to record stuff off the TV in the '70s. He recorded this at the end of NBC's 1972 political convention coverage. They may have had a longer version because the credits at the end were long due to the big crews they had.
JUST LIKE ME!!! I RECORDED A NUMBER OF THINGS.OOF TV INCLUDING A FEW AUDIO COPIES WITH MY NEW TAPE RECORDER DECK IN 1970sn THIS "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS" WITH ANCHORS JOHN CHANCELLOR & OCCASIONALLY DAVID BRINKLEY CAME INTO EVENING PRE-PRIME TIME PROGRAMMING AFTER CHET HUNTLEY RETIRED AND LEFT THE OLD PREVIOUS "HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT OF LATE 1950s TO 1971. I LISTENED TO THIS RAY ELLIS.MUSIC VERSION FOR YEARS COPIED ONTO 8-TRACK & CASETTE TAPES TO PLAY WITH OTHER HOME RECORDINGS IN MY CAR IN 1970s TO 1980s. PEOPLE HEARING MY SHINY BEAUTIFUL POLISHED 20 YEAR OLD 1966 CHRYSLER NEWPORT HARDTOP WITH WIDE WHITE WALL TIRES AS 'BIG AS A BOAT / WHALE" (from "Love Shack" by the B-52's in 1986) WITH SELF-INSTALLED SOUND SYSTEM WITH BOOMING SPEAKERS BLASTING "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS" WERE AMAZED WHERE AND WHY I GOT IT AND LIKED IT (BESIDES REGULAR ALBUMS OF JAZZ OR PERVASIVE ROCK TOP 40 MUSIC OF OUR ERA - I WAS CONSIDERED SO ECCENTRIC!!!! - hahaha!!! THANK YOU CATHODE RAY FOR GIVING THIS BACK TO ME!!!! = D.E.T.;/ E.T.2 - (Baltimore / Tuesday - April 21st, 2020) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Nightly_Nrws
PLUS THIS IS A MEMORIAL / REMEMBRANCE FOR JOHN CHANCELLOR WHO I MET HERE IN BALTIMORE AT A PUBLIC SPEAKING LECTURE AT LOYOLA COLLEGE HERE WHEN HE AUTOGRAPHED HIS MEMOIRS BOOK FOR ME!!! R.I.P. = D.E.T. / E.T.2 -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chancellor
"This has a been a presentation of NBC News, which is solely responsible for its content."
RIP, John Chancellor.
This is a long ago bit of music I probably whistled along to a thousand times. Really nostalgic for me. Does anyone else sort of see a cartoon Enterprise whooshing by or an Austin Powers street dance in your heads while it's playing..? ; )
+bbser That's a very keen ear you have, bbser. Ray Ellis, who composed this theme for NBC to use during Nightly News' closing credits, also composed _all_ the background music that Filmation used for the animated Star Trek series in 1973 (the credits list "Yvette Blais," but that was a pseudonym).
+Scott Fulton III No kidding, Scott. I had no idea but thought I heard something familiar in there. Thank you for the validation : )
This music is as 70s as you can get
I’d cast Sam Waterston as John Chancellor and Harrison Ford as Tom Brokaw.
Before Lester, Brian or Tom, there was John Chancellor and David Brinkley’s commentary in 1970-82. I always try not to forget the early anchors of Nightly News from NBC.
Kenneth A Huang 8/28/2022
It's got more of a Quinn Martin-y feel to it.
It sounds like... Was it the NBC mystery movie wheel that had a theme similar to this? Was that NBC?
NBC Nightly News... a Quinn Martin production ... starring William Conrad... Tonight's episode:
@@steveprestegard5151 nailed it💯
I think this was only used as the closing theme, with NBC using a combination of their "classic" hourly radio news sounder blending into the sounder used at the end of their TV newscasts for the opening of "Nightly News".
I need that uploaded STAT! That intro theme sounded so ahead of its time -- it could've been used today and it wouldn't sound dated at all. Heck, I'd love to use that opening theme as my ringtone!
I Heard This As A Kid My Favorite NBC Nightly news theme.
The NBC Nightly News: A Quinn Martin Production 📺
This lacks the punch of the INCREDIBLY powerful opening theme, but considering how much drama there was on the evening news during this era you almost needed a closing theme this light-hearted so the viewing audience wouldn't be too depressed to go on with the rest of their evening.
Come Home to the Best...................only on NBC
Back when people took journalism seriously. Now they think Fox and Twitter are news.
woah bro take a second and shut the fuck up!
There are 4 distinctive bars in the music that were copied for the ABC World News Tonight Theme. I wonder if NBC ever sued.
1972 - 1977: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Vietnam, Watergate, the Middle East, SALT, Patty Hearst, Inflation, OPEC, Chairman Mao, Leonid Brezhnev, and General Franco is still dead.
IIRC, NBC also used this theme for the closing credits of Meet The Press. I think Garrick Utley was the moderator on MTP at the time.
CHECK IT OUT ON THE FOLLOWING!!! = D.E.T. / E T.2 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Press
Other than that, not a damn thing going on.
This piece of music sounds like highlights of the final out to end the World Series, and the winning team celebrates on the field.
IF THIS : NBC NIGHTLY NEWS THEME WAS USED TODAY, IT WOULD NOW INCLUDE:
FROM NBC NEWS WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK, THIS IS: NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT.
I’D LIKE TO KEEP THINGS CURRENT AROUND HERE. KENNETH HUANG. 8/19/24.
Closing music for Friday credits.
This is amazing and catchy, but my favorite is still the opening from 1982.
1971-1977
FROM NBC NEWS’ WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK… THIS IS: NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT.
Kenneth Huang. 9/18/24.
Very Jazzy from the Early 1970s.
Great music during a terrible time.
It Was #1 On Billboard's Hot 100 Then Crossover To #3 On Billboard's R&B Charts,Then Crossover To #4 On Billboard's Country Charts,Then Crossover To #5 On Billboard's Adult Contemporary Charts.
I remember this theme song when I was a kid. Why NBC stopped playing this closing theme I don't understand. NBC execs should reconsider using this theme song again.
Hi. Thank you! Any idea where the 1975 promo for NBC Nightly News might be found. (A montage; the accompanying music started with "Hear the world's heart beating like a big bass drum."
" Hear the world's heart beating like a big bass drum ..." I would love to find this. I will probably surface eventually.
I've seen this before! It's in one of the uploads hosted by the Obsolete Video channel. I can't remember which upload it is but you'll definitely find it on that channel. "You know you can't be suuuuure until you looked it over/More than ooooonce...."
Has anyone found this download? I’m looking for it too
Nostalgia
I Sang Along With The Theme.
Does anyone have NBC Radio's "News and Information Service" theme music? It was wonderful with cello and/or double bass. :)
+Roger Wilco You can find the entire package of NIS cues and variants at this link. www.audiocenter.com/NIS.html
Thanks, but I just want to listen to it. The site only wants to download.
Can you provide it on TH-cam without it being a copyright invasion? :)
+Roger Wilco If you download then you can listen. The file has every variant they used.
The point is that I'm suspicious of downloading from sources that might fk up my computer. That has happened. Also, I've had more SPAM than Hormel hit my computer from downloading.
So, I would be most grateful if you would be a mensch and download because you have no fear of viruses or Whammy Spammy. :)
One NIS theme used a double bass or cello as the main instrument. Just drop dead gorgeous arranging! epaddon
Used also in City 2 Balita in 1979-1986
NBC News Must Bring That Theme Song Back!
I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore
To me, it sounds like an airline jingle from the period.
Great theme. I remember the opening theme of NBC News from the early 70s was used on KING 5 News in Seattle in 1979 and the closing theme was used on the late news on KING 5. - KING 5 is an local NBC Affiliate
It was used by a lot of NBC stations.
It makes me want to have a bowl of icecream and play with Clackers
And they ought to also bring fast unison trumpets back too!
And the trumpets playing very fast in unison or dubbed, sounded like Herb Alpert or what not too!
The trumpets at 0:13 are using mutes.
Halt and Muir were either little kids or have not been born yet.
Sounds nice but doesn't sound like a true news theme IMO. It's a bit too lighthearted and not serious enough like World News Tonight's theme.
SuperCruiser72 It is lighthearted, but it includes the same four-note sequence that became the main theme for World News Tonight, starting in/about 1978, after NBC stopped using this theme.
I always like the "fake" typewriters going on in the background---like they were a busy news bureau doing something! That's a sound you won't hear in the 21st century!
As seen and heard on:
WAVE-TV Louisville
WCMH/WLWC-TV Columbus
WDTN/WLWD-TV Dayton
WKYC-TV Cleveland
WLWT-TV Cincinnati
WSAZ-TV Huntington
WSM-TV Nashville
WVVA-TV Bluefield
Others.....
Was this composed exclusively for the Nightly News?
Yes.
JAZZ FLUTE!!!
Back when news was news---REAL news, I mean, not fluff pieces, constant "stories" about our cultural fads & obsessions with Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, & Instagram, feel-good/inspirational segments, tabloid celebrity junk, etc. Chancellor was great, though he once introduced a lengthy piece on The 3 Stooges at one point in the 70's, unheard of for time-length today. Really miss Cronkite, Sevareid, Chancellor, Kuralt, Reynolds & all the great anchors of old!
I feel like I'm about to bid on a new Frigidaire.
Parang ito rin yung tunog na ginamit sa City 2 Balita ng ABSCBN noong 1978
sounds like the law and order theme
Great piece of music, but it lacks a certain gravitas.
Huntley and Brinkley used Beethovens's ninth.
@@glouconx983 Keith Olbermann's Countdown on MSNBC borrowed it.
The news taking place had more than enough gravitas.
Проблемы фермера Джорджа :3
Awesome... too bad about Hoover dying he knew where all the bodies were buried and probably could have helped Nixon survive which would helped the Republic of South Vietnam survive
LOLOLOLOL@YOU!!!!!
@@johnblair8146 F U
0:22
LILO, STOP IT!!!
YOU ARE MAKING IT WORSE!!!
Then Styx gave them a new one
For as long as I can remember, the NBC Nightly News theme has been the one by John Williams. This arrangement just sounds silly to me; although parts of it remind me of the classic four-note fanfare that begins the ABC World News Tonight.
NBC news is s damn joke now
Nothing
But
Crap