Coronation Scot ~ The Paul Temple Theme
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- This was one of the first tunes I remember hearing on the wireless, I was about three.
Coronation Scot was the the theme tune to detective series called 'Paul Temple', and was the most requested piece of music on the BBC between 1949 & 1951.
When I grew up I tried to buy the record, but it wasn't available, so I recorded my own at Strawberry Studio in about 1980.
I just found it on an old cassette ( a bit wobbly), I think I still have the master tape, must be in the attic.
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Fun fact: This theme might not sound like it to Thomas fans, but this theme inspired Spencer's Classic Series theme.
"Coronation Scott" came along very early in the signature tune fad. So many memories are bound up in it for me parents, single Aunts, thrills, mystery and an introduction to detection; all of which lifted the gloom of life in Birmingham. I live in Palm Springs now and all of Paul Temple is available on the internet and until recently on NPR's radio station KCRW. Let's not forget The Temple's manservant "Charlie" and "Inspector Graham". Indelible material!
I'm kinda pleased that this piece of music is in my life....
Remember this on the radio as a small child! very nostalgic!
We had the rediffusion radio in our house this is one of the tunes stuck in my memory.On a monday evening listening to paul temple and journey into space back in the 1940's-50's.
I'm 73 and I remember this on the radio when I was a little boy
ME too can any one remember the name of Paul's partner / wife
I believe her name is Steve. I'm listening to it on the radio right now, and just waited for it to come up. Her name is indeed Steve, as I thought.
I remember the time when there was nothing but steam on the railways and the now "preserved" locomotives were still running on the main lines! I loved them as a kid and then my kids loved them too (but by then diesels and a few electrics had replaced them). Never saw the Coronation Scot - although I did see the Flying Scotsman once. There's a "heritage" railway a few miles from me and I often go and sit on the platforms and watch the trains.
I live on the GWR main line and the 'restored to steam' locomotives are still very much alive and running at express speed! - they go through fairly often in the summer months and are still very impressive to see as they come under the bridge belching fire and smoke - They seem alive with a sense of power and energy!
wow, fasanating.
I remember Paul Temple and the tune good ole days
Gordon Exmouth
I wasn't around the 1840s, it was the 1940s when I first heard this great tune.
I was three years old and it's remained with me since.
seftonwallet this tune didn't exist in the 1840s
Or 1920s
It first appeared some point in the 1930/40/50s
@@thomashambly3718 1940s, the Paul Temple theme tune on the radio.
Love this, I too remember Paul Temple, 7.30 this music would pour out of the wireless and a half hour of suspense and excitement would follow.
Wonderful... the wonderful England of my youth!
I'm 83 and listened to this on radio when a boy living in Edmonton, also PC 49.Lots of memories from listening to the radio. With plays and everything else you had to visualise the people. A shock sometimes when seeing people on TV years later as they always looked different, remember Just William and Toytown.
I used to listen to Paul Temple on the radio as well
Great days listening to Paul Temple on the radio, brilliant. Superb childhood with great parents.
The melody has a very unique voice. I like it.
It's like, uniquely shrill in a way that's not disturbing, actually quite comfortable, like when I eat boiled eggs I cut them in half and then dump mustard, black pepper, and salt onto the open faces and it's not an overwhelming flavor
Magnificent arrangement that brings tears to eyes as it awakens memories of the Golden Age of Steam.
I was hooked on the version played on the Hello children everywhere collection which just took me to the thought of the footplate
Great series. Do like to listen and relisten to them. ☺
I've loved this music since I was very young. It's so descriptive but it makes me think of other steam trains pulling out of Kings Cross station on a dreary day. I think that comes from my time of going there to watch the trains and collect their names and numbers.
My mother used to work at Minehead telephone exchange in the forties, Vivien Ellis being a resident in that locale. Years later, she would tell me about their frequent interactions, as he often needed to speak to London theatre folk. 20 years her senior, he clearly impressed her. Sadly, phone services nowadays are virtually all automatic, so few such memories are being laid down.
I remember the Paul temple ( Special Agent? ) BBC wireless broadcasts on saturday lunchtimes. it doesn't seem to matter if the sound track is a bit wobbly somehow. If you want a non-wobbly version though, it's available over on Spotify, played by the BBC concert ochestra.
'Hyde Grammar kids rule OK'
ive never heard this before till today and I'm glad I finally have. its really cool how the recurring base rift sounds like a steam engine
Sounds like it was recorded underwater!!
During the 1940's I listened to aul Temple and the music The Flying Scotsman in the evening on a weekly basis.
How many real-life engines do you know that have a theme?
The North Western Railway. Visit today!
Paul Temple - brings back many memories of the 1940's when we only had the radio to listen to.
09 01 24, The added weight of the streamlining was later removed to save coal .
Wow amazing to find this as this is the first theme tune I remember bringing back such strong emotions. I remember it as a tv series with Francis Mathews and I must have seen it in the 60's as I was born in 54. Am I mistaken? The power of radio?
You are correct about the TV series. I was born in 1946, so the music is extremely emotive for me from the original radio series.
The John Wilson version is particularly wonderful. th-cam.com/video/VtchzNfcKvE/w-d-xo.html
Can you remember Paul's wife name
@@MatchstalkMenBand Many thanks this is brilliantly played and just about how I remember it. Sent goosebumps!
Steve @@mikelarge3594
@@mikelarge3594 "Can you remember Paul's wife name"
Steve - presumably Stephanie.
This video takes back to the radio program PAUL TEMPLE during the 1840's.
Yeah I reckon Charles Dickens would have loved it too. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂1840s?
Classic
Great theme!
And a really cool looking locomotive too - although it reminded me of the head of a certain alien that terrorized Sigourney Weaver in several films!
Great just great
@rotosphere2000 ..It was Dick Barton "Special Agent". The theme music was the "Devil's Gallop".
@robertwmartens Hi Robert,
British locomotives didn't have a headlamp, but when one of these did a tour of the USA,
to comply with US regulations it had to have one fitted fitted as you can see in one of the photos.
The loco was number 6220.
@robertwmartens Of course not, with that headlamp I too can see the comparison.
Hope nobody was offended by my comparison - I meant it to be amusing. I honestly like the locomotive's design, and found the musical tribute to be perfect.
OH wow, if you do have the master I'd love to use it in a model rail video I am making for TH-cam?
LMS
But who wrote it? I cannot find any record of it!
Vivian Ellis, he was also a composer of musicals.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Ellis
spencer theme
No
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This is not the hard hitting Paul Temple music which I know, this sounds like a freaking beach resort 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This to me is the pinnacle of music its almost telling the tale of the engines journey starting uo and dragging into the station the. Away easy at first upbeat speed maker then comes the gradients an image of the west coast finally back to easy for a lovely entrance into glasgow central
@rotosphere2000 I'm a fan of British Light Music, & haveseveral CDs,Erica Coates, Robert Farnon etc although he was Canadian.
I picked up a copy about 1979 on 78 by the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra (the original version from the 78 Record Exchange" on Hillgate, Stockport, now closed down unfortunately. I of course now have a copy of this on one of the CDs. I just found the master tape of my version, must get it digitised.
I've now been in the attic and found the original master of my recording.
I'd love to hear the clean master if you ever got it transferred. This is by far one of my favourite arrangements of this piece I've heard, it's got such a lovely unique sound, and your own little twists and additions make it stand out even more. May I ask what synths you used, if you can recall? I'm an absolute sucker for orchestral pieces done on a good analogue synth haha.
@@MKtheinstrumentalist It was played by Tintwistle Band from Derbyshire, and strings were added by the late Vic Emerson using a Yamaha C80 synth.
Vic was the keyboard player with the group "Sad Café".
I know where Spencer’s theme originated.
Perfect for Murder on the Orient Express!
Not really ... because this is "action music" and the Orient Express is stuck in a snowdrift most of the time.
This kinda hurts my ears
When I wear my ear phones
Can anyone remember the name of Paul Temple's wife
Steve
Her real name? Louise Temple nee Harvey. Though she called herself Steve Trent.
Steve Trent who married Paul and became Steve Temple. She was played by Bernadette Hodgson in the very first transmission and then played my Margery Westbury who kept the role her for the rest of her life. A radio fan left Westbury all her money which she tried to refuse and on and on and on...
I think that this is really awful. Horrible 'arrangement' and over-blown echo to it's sound.
I just love playing this version really loud n jumping up n down. The music is slightly askew, curved in some way. I imagine the huge wonderful train screaming roudthe bend running with the gradient. Oh deep joy. Try this first thing especially if your banging on for 70. Puts new life in you. People would pay moneyfor this. It's wonderfully out of sync like me. BRAVISIMO MORE MORE. I'm a fan.xx great grandma says pass on the joyxxx
Not the best recording I've heard, but still evocative...