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Found at last...

A piece of guitar-based library music, sometimes heard on Pathé News items of the mid-1960s.

Irritatingly familiar, yet never identified... until today (courtesy of the Shazam app on my iPhone - I don't know why I didn't think of that before).

Dine And Dance, variously credited to "The Scottmen" and "John Scott" for performance and (of course) just to John Scott as composer. John (often referred to as "Johnny") wrote lots of library music, including The Good Word (the theme from BBC TV's Nationwide) and was a noted saxophonist and flautist in almost every famous recording and broadcasting band of the 1960s. He made a side-career of sounding just like Paul Desmond (of the Dave Brubeck Quartet) on alto sax.

Anyway... does it ring a bell with anyone else? I cannot say how pleased I am to final ID this recording and to hear it all the way through. And are those roundwound bass strings? Maybe Rotosound Tru-Bass (the black nylon tape-wound bass strings)?

https://clyp.it/unw4llpz

Sounds very much of its time... I must have heard it at some point. I picture some leading man, like the Saint, driving along some coast road in Italy or elsewhere in an open-top sports car...

George

John Scott the library composer:



John Scott the session alto-saxophonist (and on another familiar piece, though this time by John Barry):



And here's the tune as used in a Pathé News item (with Bob Danvers-Walker doing the voice-over):

https://clyp.it/50krok4s

Bob Danvers-Walker i remember that voice didn't he do double money as well as pathe news. peter

Yes quite a catchy little tune, the guitar playing reminds me a bit of Judd Proctor
style on some of his45s?

Mike

George Geddes wrote:I picture some leading man, like the Saint, driving along some coast road in Italy or elsewhere in an open-minded sports car...
George

It sounds to me more like what the library sleeve would describe as "optimistic", "carefree" or "sound of summer".

Yes, that's what I was thinking...

And I was thinking open-top car... Predictive typing [sigh]

George

Whilst on this subject does anyone know what the guitar instrumental was that used to close the Wimbledon highlights show many years ago?

JimN wrote:Found at last...

A piece of guitar-based library music, sometimes heard on Pathé News items of the mid-1960s.

Irritatingly familiar, yet never identified... until today (courtesy of the Shazam app on my iPhone - I don't know why I didn't think of that before).

Dine And Dance, variously credited to "The Scottmen" and "John Scott" for performance and (of course) just to John Scott as composer. John (often referred to as "Johnny") wrote lots of library music, including The Good Word (the theme from BBC TV's Nationwide) and was a noted saxophonist and flautist in almost every famous recording and broadcasting band of the 1960s. He made a side-career of sounding just like Paul Desmond (of the Dave Brubeck Quartet) on alto sax.

Anyway... does it ring a bell with anyone else? I cannot say how pleased I am to final ID this recording and to hear it all the way through. And are those roundwound bass strings? Maybe Rotosound Tru-Bass (the black nylon tape-wound bass strings)?

https://clyp.it/unw4llpz

Interesting piece-thanks for posting Jim!

Regarding the prominent bass sound, I think it's flatwounds but with the treble 'maxxed out' on the bass guitar and the amp- which was probably a relatively small valve bass amp combo and is distorting/overloading slightly to my ears..

I like it - very jazz influenced. That bass guitar sound is one that I connect with the disco-funk music of the 1970's.

The guitar riffs remind me of EVERYTHING'S ALRIGHT by THE MOJOS. This is a 1964 record which was later covered by David Bowie on his PINUPS album.

Kindest regards
Christopher