I had a bad time of it in school, and would be worried about the next day when I went to bed, making it hard to sleep. Public television played these right around bedtime and I started watching them. The gentle story lines and music really helped with my anxiety, and thus my insomnia.
Great memories of sitting down in a large, soft armchair on a winter Sunday night, with the fire blazing and the dark shut out, to enjoy good people, lovely animals and wonderful story lines. (Perhaps the one dislike was the cow that Mr Herriot said would never get up n'more.)
This theme fitted the series like a custom made glove. To this day, when I re-read the books for the umpteenth time, I can hear this music playing in my head.
Can't deside which was better the t.v series or the books. It was great on cold winter nights reading about poor old james heriot going out in the freezing cold calving cows or lambing sheep and me nice and snug just reading about it. March and April were the main calving and lambing months around our area and March could be worse than winter on a bad day or night
Oddly enough, it wasn't composed for the series. It's a piece of stock music called "Piano Parchment" and was composed in 1969 by Johnny Pearson as generic, non-specific music to be plugged into whatever show, film, cartoon, or commercial someone thought it might work in.
One of my earliest memories was my dad laughing out loud when I was in bed. Turns out he was reading All Creatures. He grew up on a farm in Vermont. Later, we moved back there and I had the chance to live the life on a small farm. Magical and poetic. And when I finally got around to renting the series from my local library many years later, they hit me like a ton of bricks. The Dalesmen have so, so much in common with the small-operation farmers I grew up around. I couldn't love a series more. Siegfried is a towering character and I want to marry Helen!
Just listened to this theme for the first time for about 20 years. My late mother adored it so got a little sad until confronted with the cow humping pic, now I'm crying and laughing at the same time!
RIP to Robert Hardy who's died age 91 on 03/08/2017 so sad indeed but will be remembered in All Creatures Great and Small and also many other rolls to. James
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When I was a young child watching this programme I loved the theme very much. But there was a bit at 30 seconds in where I was convinced the pianist had made a mistake, unintentionally clipping one of the other piano keys. It really got to me so much that I used to cough loudly at that moment so I wouldn't hear it! 😄
That's me driving over our rolling hills in Scotland in our Jimny. Every time I come to the wee bridge over the burn, this song plays in my head. Miss this show and Sidney. xoxo
Oddly enough, it wasn't composed for the series. It's a piece of stock music called "Piano Parchment " and was composed in 1969 by Johnny Pearson as generic, non-specific music to be plugged into whatever show, film, cartoon, or commercial someone thought it might work in.
This theme tune and the last of the summer wine theme tune. This is what sundays where all about. Great sunday lunch then watxhing the telly to one of these great shows.
This reminds me of a DVD my grandad had called "Night Mail - the story of the Travelling Post Office". This plays when they are talking about 150 years of the TPO
William Brown I have been watching it on drama, in love with it all over again and I was a child when it was first one....I have always been a Siegfried fan since I was about five and I still am....
Coming back to this after many years on watching the new version of the series, I’m left with one question: who’s having the most fun here-the pianist, the string section, the conductor, or the drummer? The music itself is great but the feeling with which it is being imbued is what makes it.
By Jove, I well remember the programme and the tune, which is in D Major. The pre-war series ran when I was between eight and ten, the post-war ones between eighteen and twenty. The is the original tune because the ending uses different instruments;. I have a very good musical memory and notice those details!
We are watching this series for the umpteenth time right now and we are baffled as to why someone thinks it needs redoing. Was Herriot not happy with it?
When I went to Yorkshire in 1984 I stayed in Acaster Malbis..little village but always thought of this theme song when I went for a walk and saw Castle Howard
Matthew Bucknall how is it that the Beeb can produce a theme song immaculately but the audio mix of the program itself is a total clusterfork? You couldn't hear dialog over background noise in half those shows.
Interestingly this wasn’t even composed for the show! It was a piece of production music called “Piano Parchment” on the KPM label years earlier. And was by Johnny Pearson who is better know for writing “Heavy Action”, the theme for the UK’s “Superstars” and the US’s “Monday Night Football”.
This used to be one of my favorite shows along with Flambards and I'm American. lol All my friends use to make fun of me but I would tell them to shut up or go home. So they would shut their asses up and watch... lol
@@cmdfarsight yes! I liked him, his personality is just as i see him! I didn't like the series at the beginning bc it wasn't canonical but now i enjoy it not as filming of the book but as series. I like mrs Hall, she is warm and comforting. (Sorry i can say smth incorrect i am not English)
@@user-ec1jx4km7o Your English is wonderful :) I thought the new series was really quite like the book to be honest. But yes, Mrs Hall is wonderful. I'd love her to be my housekeeper, all that lovely fresh baked food and no trace of a dog hair. I've two thick furred border collies and they are always shedding fur.
@DaveyC95 ahh prisoner cell block h . he used to send me roses , i wish he would again , but that was on the outside , and things were different then :) . yeah lovely tune on all creatures
I had a bad time of it in school, and would be worried about the next day when I went to bed, making it hard to sleep. Public television played these right around bedtime and I started watching them. The gentle story lines and music really helped with my anxiety, and thus my insomnia.
Rest in peace, Robert Hardy, one of England's finest actors. You'll be sorely missed. :(
Did poor Siegfried die shows how out of touch I am. Great programme pitty they don't make the likes of it now, just good clean fun no agenda
Also a fantastic longbow archer, and someone instrumental in preserving the longbows raised from the Mary Rose. RIP - we owe you a lot.
My mom always said "this music makes me want to run out in the field in my nightgown" lol.
Great memories of sitting down in a large, soft armchair on a winter Sunday night, with the fire blazing and the dark shut out, to enjoy good people, lovely animals and wonderful story lines. (Perhaps the one dislike was the cow that Mr Herriot said would never get up n'more.)
Only true fans know the cow what Mr 'Erriott said wouldn't get up n'more
@@bonzomcdrumcat4989 Mr. Billings dislike this^^
This theme fitted the series like a custom made glove. To this day, when I re-read the books for the umpteenth time, I can hear this music playing in my head.
This is probably one of the most beautiful TV theme tunes ever composed. If I close my eyes I can imagine 1940s Yorkshire as depicted in the books
Can't deside which was better the t.v series or the books. It was great on cold winter nights reading about poor old james heriot going out in the freezing cold calving cows or lambing sheep and me nice and snug just reading about it. March and April were the main calving and lambing months around our area and March could be worse than winter on a bad day or night
Oddly enough, it wasn't composed for the series. It's a piece of stock music called "Piano Parchment" and was composed in 1969 by Johnny Pearson as generic, non-specific music to be plugged into whatever show, film, cartoon, or commercial someone thought it might work in.
@@TheStockwell Incredible! I can't imagine this theme being any other! It's perfect for the show!
1930s until way through the series of books.
@@TheStockwellAnd without the amazing drumming!
The greatest BBC show of all time (for me). This music will always be in my mind (-:
Agree, and I would include Upstairs, Downstairs as the best of BBC.
One of my earliest memories was my dad laughing out loud when I was in bed. Turns out he was reading All Creatures. He grew up on a farm in Vermont. Later, we moved back there and I had the chance to live the life on a small farm. Magical and poetic. And when I finally got around to renting the series from my local library many years later, they hit me like a ton of bricks. The Dalesmen have so, so much in common with the small-operation farmers I grew up around. I couldn't love a series more. Siegfried is a towering character and I want to marry Helen!
Just listened to this theme for the first time for about 20 years. My late mother adored it so got a little sad until confronted with the cow humping pic, now I'm crying and laughing at the same time!
Haven't heard this for maybe 30 years (and I'm not much over 40). What an amazing piece of music - thank you.
Ok
Try listening to the original from KPM published as "Piano Parchment" by Johnny Pearson.
@@timothylegg looked it up and WOWWWWWW, it's stunning. Thanks so much for that!!! th-cam.com/video/KNkkC514f38/w-d-xo.html
RIP to Robert Hardy who's died age 91 on 03/08/2017 so sad indeed but will be remembered in All Creatures Great and Small and also many other rolls to. James
I absolutely loved this when I was a kid 🌹🌹
Oh those wonderful drums in the background. So, so, so wonderful.
thought there would have been a good break in there
The Strings get me everytime.
Wish I were the Conductor to this fine piece of Music.
Sunday nights on BBC 1. The music gives me goose bumps.
Beautiful. Great series. Brilliantly acted. Rip Robert Hardy
R.I.P. Siegfried.
Robert Hardy RIP Aug 3rd 2017
Beautiful music from one of the best TV series ever made ❤💛❤💛
Wonderful tv series and remarkable theme tune. Probably my favourite of all time with superb actors/actresses.
Just had to look up this music when "new" series began. As expected, made me "fill up". Absolutely wonderful.
Yup, same thing and I couldn't wait to hear it again but wasn't prepared for just *how* happy it made me.
Bit puzzled by speechmarks, aren't you?
One of my favourite TV themes, takes me back to when I was single figures in age. Wonderful
RIP Robert Hardy :(
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Man, love this show so much!
Oh dear. Fond memories plus a modern stereo connected to this PC... Awesome! About to play it for the third time...
And hello from 2022... I would love to hear this live, complete with the cow humping the horse.
In Memory of Robert " Sigfried Farnum " Hardy. 1925-2017.
Mark Snell The lovely Linda Bellingham too who played the second Helen.
When I was a young child watching this programme I loved the theme very much. But there was a bit at 30 seconds in where I was convinced the pianist had made a mistake, unintentionally clipping one of the other piano keys. It really got to me so much that I used to cough loudly at that moment so I wouldn't hear it! 😄
Johnny Pearson wrote this for a production music library along with a great many others.
That's me driving over our rolling hills in Scotland in our Jimny. Every time I come to the wee bridge over the burn, this song plays in my head. Miss this show and Sidney. xoxo
Beautiful music beautiful tv show
Oddly enough, it wasn't composed for the series. It's a piece of stock music called "Piano Parchment " and was composed in 1969 by Johnny Pearson as generic, non-specific music to be plugged into whatever show, film, cartoon, or commercial someone thought it might work in.
That's a really cool fact!
@@morningcoffeecat2271 Cool facts are always the best. 👍
This theme tune and the last of the summer wine theme tune. This is what sundays where all about. Great sunday lunch then watxhing the telly to one of these great shows.
Fabulous series, great theme tune, brilliant Robert Hardy who has been outstanding & magnetic actor in everything I've seen him in X
A beautiful piece of music!
This reminds me of a DVD my grandad had called "Night Mail - the story of the Travelling Post Office". This plays when they are talking about 150 years of the TPO
Wonderful music. Thank you for creating.
I was listening to Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto in C RV.425 (1), and was somewhat reminded of the All Creatures Great And Small theme.
This music to my ears is sound heavenly , as simple as this... chapeau monsieur Pearson
This is the song they are playing at my grandads funeral
The best TV production ever made. I still watch it (from NetFlix). Just a beautiful series capturing the finest years of England prior to WW II.
William Brown I have been watching it on drama, in love with it all over again and I was a child when it was first one....I have always been a Siegfried fan since I was about five and I still am....
William Brown A majority of it is post ww2
cmdfarsight,
True. I should have stated "peri-WW II" to be more precise. It was, IMO, a wonderful time, in many ways, for English civilization.
Emmy,
I agree 100%. Siegfried is truly a Dickensian character. Hardy was made for that role. Full of jovial wit and joie de vivre.
Completely agree with you. There were many ideals then that should be around today.
I am 11 and I freaking love this song, I am reading the books and watching the shows go James Herriot
I think this is the best tune ever written :) along with all of the others off of the t.v series!
Robert Hardy RIP.
The music is work of art also love tv show 70s and 80s ones😊😊😊
What a classic theme
Butifull memories ,thanku😊
Coming back to this after many years on watching the new version of the series, I’m left with one question: who’s having the most fun here-the pianist, the string section, the conductor, or the drummer? The music itself is great but the feeling with which it is being imbued is what makes it.
Fabulous piece. Great memories of a better time aswell.
By Jove, I well remember the programme and the tune, which is in D Major. The pre-war series ran when I was between eight and ten, the post-war ones between eighteen and twenty. The is the original tune because the ending uses different instruments;. I have a very good musical memory and notice those details!
Yes. I felt the later arrangement was nowhere near as good as this one and had more a more-strident brass arrangement.
My favourite tv theme as a child, brings back memories hearing this
It's crazy how unexpectedly funky the drums in this are.
Beautiful music reminds me when I leaved in Dublin
The rise and fall like a yorkshire dale and that descent like a watetfall. Lovely
We are watching this series for the umpteenth time right now and we are baffled as to why someone thinks it needs redoing. Was Herriot not happy with it?
Thank you for posting this....Takes me home again
Beautiful!
That video was ridiculous but I love the music - thank you for sharing that and stirring up memories x
yes it is . and thanks for your comment . Also black beauty is another lovely tune :)
Yes brilliant happy tune!
Just bought this, the original theme from way back when.
Oh, my! I think I'm in love!
Fond memories of when Britain was an innocent land to grow up in
I love this show. :')
Trickie-Woo's my favourite character.
When I went to Yorkshire in 1984 I stayed in Acaster Malbis..little village but always thought of this theme song when I went for a walk and saw Castle Howard
1974 visit Uncle .in Yorkshire..spent Night a
Wellington Hotel ...45 yrs.ago
Fantastic drums and the bass drum is mic'd perfectly!
Matthew Bucknall how is it that the Beeb can produce a theme song immaculately but the audio mix of the program itself is a total clusterfork? You couldn't hear dialog over background noise in half those shows.
Thank you 😁🎶❤🎶👌
Brilliant theme - brilliant series!!!
Perfect in every way.
love it!
love this theme!
Theme music written by the late and great Jonny Pearson.
Ahhhh. Just got a Nostalgia High
Cracking show!!!! Full of salt of the earth Yorkshire folk but they don't like parting t' brass!
you have to love it! :D
Bit noisy but great Sunday evening memories 👉💎👈👉🌈
Interestingly this wasn’t even composed for the show! It was a piece of production music called “Piano Parchment” on the KPM label years earlier. And was by Johnny Pearson who is better know for writing “Heavy Action”, the theme for the UK’s “Superstars” and the US’s “Monday Night Football”.
@19GirlBad so do i bad girl.. reminds me of my teenage years
Brilliant tune out Wright
one off the best themes and series i watched when i was young . they just do not make this anymore
Just enjoying this then got distracted by the image of the cow humping the horse!
My wife and I visited Asrigg in North Yorkshire where they filmed the series and it is just like the series
excellent family drama
I going bk to Yorkshire next year
Love the photo at 1.05 😂
Pure magic..
Brilliant tune :)) Plus zero dislikes :))
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This used to be one of my favorite shows along with Flambards and I'm American. lol All my friends use to make fun of me but I would tell them to shut up or go home. So they would shut their asses up and watch... lol
Beautiful. It puts modern “musicians” to shame
It's odd that the new series of this doesn't use the same tune, it uses an odd variation that I always want to turn into this... So frustrating!
Hard agree.
'Ello Mista 'Arriott!
I thought Tristan was awesome. Best in the program.
I think so:)💖
@@user-ec1jx4km7o The Tristan in the new series is also brilliant. Such a mischievious bloke :)
@@cmdfarsight yes! I liked him, his personality is just as i see him! I didn't like the series at the beginning bc it wasn't canonical but now i enjoy it not as filming of the book but as series. I like mrs Hall, she is warm and comforting.
(Sorry i can say smth incorrect i am not English)
@@user-ec1jx4km7o Your English is wonderful :)
I thought the new series was really quite like the book to be honest. But yes, Mrs Hall is wonderful. I'd love her to be my housekeeper, all that lovely fresh baked food and no trace of a dog hair. I've two thick furred border collies and they are always shedding fur.
Came here after listening to the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21
god damn this was my SHOW
Yorkshire - England🇬🇧
@DaveyC95 ahh prisoner cell block h . he used to send me roses , i wish he would again , but that was on the outside , and things were different then :) . yeah lovely tune on all creatures
Johnny Pearson finest Composition
R.I.P. Robert Hardy
R.I.P Johnny Pearson.
ha ha FORGOT I PUT THAT THERE :)
Brilliantly .tune