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Iain Churches wrote:
To the best of my knowledge it's still the library version. It's near
impossible to produce a 'new' version that sounds exactly the same.

Agreed, and yet the time frame seems odd, if the library version
(Chappell, I believe) was recorded in the 80's and there is a
commercial version conducted by the conductor who died circa
1973.

It is odd. Unfortunately I can't check as the superb Thames music library
- probably only second to the BBC one - no longer exists.
I've no idea the date the library version was recorded - simply that it
was on a CD of similar themes. The Rumpole I was dubbing took place on a
cruise liner - hence the theme. Think the ep was called Rumpole at Sea.

Usually, music libraries licence material for commercial release
*after* it has become famous as a theme tune from a TV series.
("The Power Game" Granada TV comes to mind)

Yup - and of course the commercial release will not sound the same as the
original. They often have to be re-recorded in stereo for commercial issue
- if old.

BTW, it also becomes very expensive IIRC *not* to re-record theme tunes
after a given number of years (MU regs?) which is why it happens often to
the chagrin of the viewers on long running series. Goodness knows what it
costs Coronation street to stick with the original but 'stereofied'
version.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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