I know what you mean. I was seven and it's just me now (and my wife and children) but I would love to go back to a Saturday evening in the 80's with my parents whom I both miss terribly.
A lot of people here saying "I was a teen in 1984 and don't know any songs". Believe it or not, this programme wasn't targeted at teens. It was targeted at older viewers. People who would have been born in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. The songs would have been familiar to them.
I can confirm. I was 65 in 1984 and knew most of these. Now that's what you call music. I would have bested both of these youngsters. Pair of arseholes.
I definitely get that impression, what with the Art Deco styled wheel. I do remember both Tom and Lionel presenting this when I was a kid but can't get over how dated it all looks now.
Why did you think you should know them? Shows like this weren't targeted at kids that age. They were targetted at much older audiences then. The songs would have been familiar to your parents and mostly your grandparents generation. It wasn't a kids' show.
Wish I could find more of these. I used to love this, never really watched many when Lionel Blair took over but remember watching Tom oConnor - started as the mid section of a variety show before it became a show on it's own. Good memories, even if I still can't identify most of the tunes.
@@jnuttso1 you don't need to save space writing anymore its not 2001 when text messages were limited to 160 characters and people used to shorten words to fit what they wanted to say in to 1 text message to save on doubling the cost for the sake of a few letters.
0:01 This alone explains the big city feel of the show 6:19 This is for Eurovision fanatics (th-cam.com/video/Oi0BTBC0opA/w-d-xo.html) 6:54 This part is bonafide Beautiful (th-cam.com/video/L__1goqraqU/w-d-xo.html) 7:45 Just for completeness: th-cam.com/video/0KPhwmDKq9A/w-d-xo.html 9:05 It’s an AIWA, and it’s better that any other Today’s AIWAs… 15:59 15 years later, the title of this song will trigger a Game Show revolution. 22:21 The BBC is gonna sue. Also, Peter is gonna enjoy the time travel. 23:21 IBA logo in the upper right of the sheet? (th-cam.com/video/nArihv2PaP4/w-d-xo.html)
My mother was asking if I'd find some Name That Tune for her (American version, the only one she knows of), but now she can see some UK version as well. Thanks! :)
I’ve watched this episode and they both got it in 1. The one I was talking about I’m sure they didn’t get a clue (and were sitting down behind a panel).
Muhammad Eesaa Tom O'Connor presented Name That Tune first in the 70s when it was a segment on London Night Out for Thames TV. It was then spun off from there and became a quiz in its own right. Tom left in the 80s and Lionel Blair took over. Lionel was never as good as Tom for me but he was still fun to watch.
You forget who the target audience was - it certainly wasn't teenagers. This was a long running programme which started in the 1970s and attracted a much older audience - teenagers were doing other things. It was sentimental television for older people. Many of these tunes would have been familiar to the older audience back then. People born in the 1920, 1930s and 1940s. You need only look at the contestants - probably in their 50s then in 1984. That would have meant they were born in the 1930s.
I love the ‘fabulous car’ lol. I suppose we were easier to please back then, not so greedy, more grateful. I preferred Tom O’Connor to Lionel Blair as compere on this show.
Yes on the Tom O'Connor hosted show the audience shouting "DOUBLE, DOUBLE, DOUBLE" every time it waa coming round. Lionel Blair was a legend did a fantastic job after taking over from Tom O'Connor, but as always with these game shows after a new host replaces the original host, they are always remembered for the original host. That's just the way it is. For yeara, Name That Tune wasn't a standalone show, it was part of an entertainment show called London Night Out on a Wednesday evening.
It certainly is fascinating listening to that piece as a piano arrangement, which the tune was the TV theme song to, "Medic"-- a rather short-lived series in the mid 1950s.
The Art Deco wheel is fabulous! I am American, and do extremely well with the US version. Here, I never heard most of these songs. It seems that English language music is not universal.
holydiver73 It was so they couldn't hear any police banging on the door to the whorehouse and crack den next door because they would be too distracted..😱😱😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
Wikipedia: "Blair married Susan Davis at Kensington Register Office on 21 March 1967, with Bernie Winters as best man. They had three children and three grandchildren and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on 21 March 2017. The couple lived in Banstead, Surrey." So, at worst, he was bisexual, though I doubt it. He was just quite British.
The show was aimed at older viewers in 1984 - I.e. people born in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It had tunes from their youths, not yours. The songs would have been familiar to your grandparents' generation or parents.
I remember this when Eberneezer Scrooge hosted it in 1844. 2 years later, Scrooge was executed by his nephew Fred and police believed at the time the motivation was robbery but then it became apparent that Karen Carpenter was stealing money from Scrooge's business as she was working there as his secretary and Fred needed money but on Friday 26th July of the same year, Karen and Fred had a violent arguement about Karen not stealing enough money for Fred and Karen told him that his uncle Scrooge had been doing her in the shitter for past 2 years.... Outraged and disgusted by the confession, Fred went and waited outside the office and shot Scrooge dead with his crossbow and then turned the bow on himself.. Karen Carpenter never recovered from the shock of it all and slowly starved herself to death...
1984. I was nine.
Lived with my mum dad and two sisters. Only my dad left now. Wish i could go back and spend one day then. 😢
I was 10 and I know exactly what you mean.x
@@mexidoodle. Sad isn't it.
@@MrN8073 Television was alot better 1980's for sure.
My happiest days were also in the 1980's.
The streets of London were alot safer back then.
I know what you mean. I was seven and it's just me now (and my wife and children) but I would love to go back to a Saturday evening in the 80's with my parents whom I both miss terribly.
I know exactly how you feel, I was 20 and my Mom and Dad have since passed on.
How fitting that the Austin Metro's hazard lights were flashing.
😅
It was the Metro's phenomenal build quality that occasionally set off these lights😂😂
@@theroadahead6033 I had one, a 1982 model.
It was my driver's side door that went first.
A lot of people here saying "I was a teen in 1984 and don't know any songs". Believe it or not, this programme wasn't targeted at teens. It was targeted at older viewers. People who would have been born in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. The songs would have been familiar to them.
I can confirm. I was 65 in 1984 and knew most of these. Now that's what you call music. I would have bested both of these youngsters. Pair of arseholes.
Well, they did include "You Light Up My Life" and "Rock Bottom".
I definitely get that impression, what with the Art Deco styled wheel. I do remember both Tom and Lionel presenting this when I was a kid but can't get over how dated it all looks now.
RIP Lionel Blair - never forget give us a clue and this
He was great on Kenny Everett as his torture victim.
Yeah he was a talented old school showman. You don’t get people like Lionel anymore. He had a good swansong on Celebrity Big Brother.
Kaluki's mincing dance in the opening titles is superb
😂🤩🤩😂
DOUBLE! *DOUBLE!!*
🤣
I remember the Tom O'Connor one. It was great, cos I used to get them all right, lol
Omg I remember the Thames thing at the start
I remember the Thames television ident
I remember it when I use to watch Bless This House
Love how frantic the music gets when LIONEL! BLAAAIR!! is announced
🤣
Even this from 36 years ago gave away more money than Pointless🤔😂😂
What a glorious time to be alive this was...
Nah, so many pea-doughs in open sight.
Who's here because it's back on ITV?
I would have been 12 in 1984, I knew none of these tunes! Born and still UK.
Why did you think you should know them? Shows like this weren't targeted at kids that age. They were targetted at much older audiences then. The songs would have been familiar to your parents and mostly your grandparents generation. It wasn't a kids' show.
Aahhh, those were the days!
John Adams, so much better than now. Bring this back as well as 3 2 1, boycott the dreadful ''The Voice'' and ''The X factor'' and ''BGT''.
@@Loverboy19691 agreed. Good entertainment and without the pointless and irritating ant and dec!
Used to love this.. game shows were so much better back then.. now its all celebrities.
You're joking aren't you? Shows like this have always been bloody awful, whichever era
@@th8257 you have your opinion.. I have mine..
Few of the game shows that plays the theme music, tunes and the round cues live on stage without missing a note!
Wish I could find more of these. I used to love this, never really watched many when Lionel Blair took over but remember watching Tom oConnor - started as the mid section of a variety show before it became a show on it's own. Good memories, even if I still can't identify most of the tunes.
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Brilliant brings bk many memories sat at my grandmas house me playing with toys and them watching this :-)
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Just write back not bk
@@prpwnage9296 y's that? 😁
@@jnuttso1 you don't need to save space writing anymore its not 2001 when text messages were limited to 160 characters and people used to shorten words to fit what they wanted to say in to 1 text message to save on doubling the cost for the sake of a few letters.
@@jnuttso1 haha
u can get anything on this time travelling machine
Maggie Moon’s silver pants are a thing of beauty.
From the days commertial TV had strict limits on the value of prizes they were alowed to give away.
4:53 Superb use of the Cockney wink throughout that piece. There's no known song on earth which cannot be enhanced with a Cockney wink.
Remember this so well. Doesn't feel like 39 years ago 😲
0:01 This alone explains the big city feel of the show
6:19 This is for Eurovision fanatics (th-cam.com/video/Oi0BTBC0opA/w-d-xo.html)
6:54 This part is bonafide Beautiful (th-cam.com/video/L__1goqraqU/w-d-xo.html)
7:45 Just for completeness: th-cam.com/video/0KPhwmDKq9A/w-d-xo.html
9:05 It’s an AIWA, and it’s better that any other Today’s AIWAs…
15:59 15 years later, the title of this song will trigger a Game Show revolution.
22:21 The BBC is gonna sue. Also, Peter is gonna enjoy the time travel.
23:21 IBA logo in the upper right of the sheet? (th-cam.com/video/nArihv2PaP4/w-d-xo.html)
I learned to play the Thames Television ident just by listening to it over and over
If that had been me in the final, I would have probably said; "No F***ing Idea by George Gershwin !" 😉
Lionel Blair thought he was going to get a kiss , lol 18:21
loving the star prize ...woooohhhh lol
Loved Lionel and Maggie as a kid
My mother was asking if I'd find some Name That Tune for her (American version, the only one she knows of), but now she can see some UK version as well. Thanks! :)
I once saw someone on this show name that tune in 1!!!!!!!
I’ve watched this episode and they both got it in 1. The one I was talking about I’m sure they didn’t get a clue (and were sitting down behind a panel).
R.I.P. Lionel Blair.
never knew lionel presented it, i only remember tom o'connor
Muhammad Eesaa Tom O'Connor presented Name That Tune first in the 70s when it was a segment on London Night Out for Thames TV. It was then spun off from there and became a quiz in its own right. Tom left in the 80s and Lionel Blair took over. Lionel was never as good as Tom for me but he was still fun to watch.
I thought it was just Tom O'Connor too.
brilliant but what alternate universe or dimension was that bloody music from! id be a teenager in 84.....never heard of 83% of that stuff :D
You forget who the target audience was - it certainly wasn't teenagers. This was a long running programme which started in the 1970s and attracted a much older audience - teenagers were doing other things. It was sentimental television for older people. Many of these tunes would have been familiar to the older audience back then. People born in the 1920, 1930s and 1940s. You need only look at the contestants - probably in their 50s then in 1984. That would have meant they were born in the 1930s.
That's not strictly true. I was a teenager and knew most of these songs. My mum was a Big Band singer.
@@ailishbethd4033 ha ha you must have been in the alternate universe then... or was it me in the world of bagpipes ! :D
RIP Tom O’Conner
Ah the good old days when television was funny n great viewing unlike now .......boring 😎😃😊👍
DOUBLE !!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
My son used to sit mouth agape as I named the tunes he thought I was manic
I love the ‘fabulous car’ lol. I suppose we were easier to please back then, not so greedy, more grateful. I preferred Tom O’Connor to Lionel Blair as compere on this show.
I'd be thrilled if someone gave me a 1984 Austin Metro. 😁
Yes on the Tom O'Connor hosted show the audience shouting "DOUBLE, DOUBLE, DOUBLE" every time it waa coming round.
Lionel Blair was a legend did a fantastic job after taking over from Tom O'Connor, but as always with these game shows after a new host replaces the original host, they are always remembered for the original host. That's just the way it is.
For yeara, Name That Tune wasn't a standalone show, it was part of an entertainment show called London Night Out on a Wednesday evening.
3:45 "Yaaaaaaaaaayyy" "Awwwwwwww"🙃
great tv
Believe it or not, I had a crush on Maggie Moone as a young boy!🤕
Lionel's bow tie could do with a little adjusting there.
It didn't become a full half hour gameshow until 1983. Sadly ratings for this went into a gradual decline in 1985..... eventually killing it in 1988.
I don't remember Lionel doing this I remember tom o Connor presenting it
Kaluki. Whatever happened to them?🤣😂 Almost 40 years ago and their dance still cracks me up!
That would be interesting to know. There is nothing about them on the internet.
AIDS took them.
Austin Metro as a main prize,lol.😂
I didn't know 99% of the tunes on that shite and I wrote 12 of them, says me, Billy Bullshitter.
Old Lionel moved in for a kiss and got a big no no
Here after watching Alan Carr's version, at least I can actually name the tunes with that version 😂
I remember watching this at my grandparents' house.
Kaluki have more cheese than the cathedral city factory
0:54
i came here because of jane krakowskis 2021 name that tune
I wonder how the pianist plays the final piece so we'll only just seeing the music.
It certainly is fascinating listening to that piece as a piano arrangement, which the tune was the TV theme song to, "Medic"-- a rather short-lived series in the mid 1950s.
I want to know what happened to Peter’s Mini Metro
The Art Deco wheel is fabulous! I am American, and do extremely well with the US version. Here, I never heard most of these songs. It seems that English language music is not universal.
Wow you find anyone called Constance today!
Yes, I know one and she was born in 2005👍
Did Constance ever make it to San Francisco? I certainly hope so.
One question. What was the point of the sound proof booth when everyone is hearing the music anyway? Asking for a friend.
We thought the same. For the big money question think it is to stop the audience shouting the answer out to the contestant.
holydiver73 It was so they couldn't hear any police banging on the door to the whorehouse and crack den next door because they would be too distracted..😱😱😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
I wonder if Peter ever made it to the States?
@@antonycatlin1339 seems like they could have done with that sound proofed booth on that crooked episode of "Who wants to be a millionaire?”
I was expecting tunes like 'smack my bitch up' and 'Orgasim addict' not 'The Galloping Major'....only kidding I love it happier times.
whos here cos they found out lionel blair has just died ????
Wish the winner of the mystery tune won 10000 pounds. 1000 pounds a year for the next 10 years. Or had a extra 1000 pounds to go with the car.
Could never decide if Lionel was gay. He always came over as likeable and highly professional.
Ask the cast of ‘I’m sorry I haven’t a clue’ I am sure they will give you some feedback
He isn't.
he was married and had children i think
Wikipedia: "Blair married Susan Davis at Kensington Register Office on 21 March 1967, with Bernie Winters as best man. They had three children and three grandchildren and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on 21 March 2017. The couple lived in Banstead, Surrey."
So, at worst, he was bisexual, though I doubt it. He was just quite British.
@@davidlewis1787 Don't you mean "Give Us a Clue"?
Are you a sardine?
Where those songs in 1984? Never heard any of them...😁😁 Only really remember the bid a note bit
The show was aimed at older viewers in 1984 - I.e. people born in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It had tunes from their youths, not yours. The songs would have been familiar to your grandparents' generation or parents.
Ppl
Thought it was Tom o Connor
I think Peter was moving in for a kiss with Lionel at 1.32.
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I remember this when Eberneezer Scrooge hosted it in 1844. 2 years later, Scrooge was executed by his nephew Fred and police believed at the time the motivation was robbery but then it became apparent that Karen Carpenter was stealing money from Scrooge's business as she was working there as his secretary and Fred needed money but on Friday 26th July of the same year, Karen and Fred had a violent arguement about Karen not stealing enough money for Fred and Karen told him that his uncle Scrooge had been doing her in the shitter for past 2 years....
Outraged and disgusted by the confession, Fred went and waited outside the office and shot Scrooge dead with his crossbow and then turned the bow on himself..
Karen Carpenter never recovered from the shock of it all and slowly starved herself to death...
Damn! Good story BTW!
Kah..WHO? ky.
Gripping
Maggie Moone was hot.
This looks like 1974 vs 1984.
This is SOOO bad! 😂😂
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