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Ron Grainer: Happy Joe

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays the published piano version of a 1962 up-tempo piece by the Australian composer Ron Grainer, which was used as a signature tune for the BBC TV series 'Comedy Playhouse'.
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The Australian composer Ron Grainer (1922-81) is particularly remembered today for the work he did in the UK as a composer of music for TV series.  Perhaps the best known of his themes today (because of the renaissance of the TV series) is the 'Dr. Who' theme, in its realisation by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonics Worshop.  For much more Grainer's life and career see: http://www.rongrainer.org.uk/index.php

'Comedy Playhouse' was a long-running series of sitcom pilots, which started in 1962 and continued (sporadically) right up to 2014.  I'm not sure whether Grainer's music was used for the most recent series.

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