Channel 4 - Fourscore

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13 жыл бұрын

Channel 4 UK's Fourscore Theme by Lord David Dundas.
When the channel had just launched on 2nd of November 1982 at exactly 4:40PM GMT+00, Paul Coia had intoned the following sentence, "Good afternoon. It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four".
Following this was a montage of that Channel 4 had to offer at the time. This song played during this montage and following this was Channel 4's first programme, Countdown at 4:45PM GMT+00, the tea-time slot. Countdown is still Channel 4 and Yorkshire Television's longest running show and is still aired today.
Every time this song played during the idents, Lord David Dundas received £3.50, which totalled approximately £1000 per week. As it cost Channel 4 a lot of money, it was no longer used by 1992, ten years after the channel had launched. At the time, the sequence of four notes was the shortest musical piece to be copyrighted.

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@JackpotButtonLewis Жыл бұрын

Today, the 2nd of November 2022 marks 40 Years since Channel 4 first broadcasted all the way back in 1982! HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY CHANNEL 4! 🎂 4️⃣0️⃣ 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@TheDoomb 10 ай бұрын

Waiting for 50 years of C5 now!

@Alantheguy2024 10 ай бұрын

@@TheDoomb i am waiting 60 years of C6

@AngelaErrington 12 сағат бұрын

Oh wow! What it was like to be a teenager growing up in the 80s, I'd give anything to go back again, channel 4 had the best programs, exciting and different...the munsters, addams family, Mr ed, Beverly hillbillies, car 54, bewitched, I dream of Jeanne...the list goes on, my memory is dull but it still reminds me of great days gone by. X

@MisatoKatsuragiHD 6 жыл бұрын

And as the countdown to a brand new channel ends, a brand new countdown begins.

@davidtownson1476 3 жыл бұрын

Richard Whiteley. I miss him so much. Those jackets!

@daveharries Жыл бұрын

One of the tracks I remember most from when I was young: always good to hear it.

@panda-wk8mv 6 жыл бұрын

it is genuinley one of my life goals to hear this preformed by a full live orchestra, it's magical enough as it is, live would be breathtaking. such a well constructed peice

@andrewnewton7093 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder who the airwave orchestra really were... 🤔

@alexwells6876 6 ай бұрын

I don't know why channel 4 don't still use it from time to time. It's too good to sit in their archive!

@johnmcauley5301 5 ай бұрын

It was because they didn't want to pay the royalties

@mike_mcgb 28 күн бұрын

@@andrewnewton7093David Duende

@kaseywestbrook8564 7 жыл бұрын

Good afternoon. It's a pleasure to say to you: Welcome to Channel 4!

@annasoriano3984 4 жыл бұрын

(Music playing)

@test-ru2jo 3 жыл бұрын

The Good afternoon sentence was a bit of an Scottish dialect.

@DJDeryn 3 жыл бұрын

@@test-ru2jo it was Pual Coia

@test-ru2jo 3 жыл бұрын

@@DJDeryn Mr Coia is the most handsome narrators on Channel 4.

@davidtownson1476 3 жыл бұрын

He was the host of BBC 2's quiz show Catchword, and also presented Pebble Mill at One!

@radiodarkhorse 11 жыл бұрын

This is a classic as far as I'm concerned

@TriFusion86 Жыл бұрын

This is a classic. One of the best channel themes of all time.

@twelveeyedfish 12 жыл бұрын

In an age where you don't really notice TV channels coming and going (I mean - seriously, when did Dave-ja-vu virtually stop and Really start broadcasting. Never noticed!), the idea that a TV station would not only have the launch that it did but would also come with its own theme music that wasn't cheesy, would survive for ten years and be a record breaker is really humbling. Even better that the same graphic "4" is still in use even now - about thirty years on!

@samorra7123 4 жыл бұрын

Your really sad m8!

@darkren0111 3 жыл бұрын

@@samorra7123 nah he's nkt fuck off

@NancerOne 6 жыл бұрын

Fourscore is back

@derekhorne8076 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I've heard it on E4 a few times

@rogerhoward7498 10 жыл бұрын

I Remember, the first few months before Channel Four came on the Air, the Channel were creating real excitement of the Programmes that the Channel would show. The Music with the images of programmes represented the Dawning of a New Age of British Television Broadcasting. The Music in the Channel Four theme represented MORE than just music, it was a representation of a Nation's Unity on the Television Screen. Coming towards the end of 1982 (when the Channel Opened November 2nd), The Old Fashioned ...

@pionelpessi1022 6 жыл бұрын

One of the most well known tracks in British television history

@moramento22 5 жыл бұрын

Right next to Best Endeavours

@rickhardman7376 4 жыл бұрын

it's a not a song.... a song must have singing

@ZoeSummers1701A 4 жыл бұрын

It’s not a song if it doesn’t have words!!! It’s an instrumental piece of music!

@rickhardman7376 2 жыл бұрын

only for certain generations

@Ian_Livesey Жыл бұрын

Happy 40th Birthday Channel 4

@edbateyjr.517 Жыл бұрын

Happy 40th Birthday and Anniversary Channel 4, and to another 40 to come!

@damoshort76 5 ай бұрын

I was a 13 year old when Channel Four started broadcasting. It amazed me with Countdown, Fifteen To One, The Munsters, The Addams Family, Bewitched, Alice, The Avengers and The Human Jungle. Plus the old Universal Horror movies on a Friday and Saturday nights. In the afternoons they showed Old Mother Riley and Will Hay movies along with other classics which I still watch. And the Christmas week was a treat with some silent movies like Nosferatu and The Crowd. They were cheap to show and because they couldn't get enough adverts for the breaks we were gifted this tune. It was the first thing I downloaded on Napster and I still listen to it regularly. I wrote to them in 1982 to say how much I loved the channel and they sent me a Channel Four opening day paperweight. I have it in front of my monitor. Still.

@kascnef Жыл бұрын

I hope channel 4 goes 4k when it's 40th comes up...

@eddisonfoncette9103 5 ай бұрын

One of the anthems of my youth, I remember the excitement and anticipation of start of Channel 4 like it was yesterday, happy days that I miss so much.

@user-zt1er1uj6i 5 жыл бұрын

23' Just gives you goosebumps

@richardbrown1189 Жыл бұрын

I remember the excitement in the run-up to the launch of Channel 4. People needed to get their TVs re-tuned to pick up the new signal. If you did, you could have a sticker which read "I''ve joined the I've had my set set set". I had one which I kept for many years.

@ben_fpyt 4 жыл бұрын

They need to bring this back. But they kind of do now

@Rexowogamer 5 жыл бұрын

DUN DUN DU-DUN! Ladies and gentlemen, *4 fucking notes on a loop* makes a good track. And for idents at that!

@Chotabear 8 жыл бұрын

Beautiful piece of music !!!

@Rexowogamer 6 жыл бұрын

I can confirm in 2018 that Fourscore, albeit remixed, is back.

@MondySpartan 6 жыл бұрын

The new idents featuring the new Fourscore were actually introduced mid 2017.

@Rexowogamer 6 жыл бұрын

TehMondasianSpartan I thought it was October?

@resolvanlemmy Жыл бұрын

An E4 ident used the Fourscore theme as well

@ricky2286 11 жыл бұрын

Every time this was played on Channel 4 for ten years from 1982 to 1992, David Dundas earned one grand a week. Just imagine that one grand a week for ten years! No wonder David Dundas was made a Lord, he's loaded!

@lewisclark1122 2 жыл бұрын

It seems that Lord Dundas is a Lord by birth, not by appointment. But how can we begrudge him his lot in life when he composed this wonderful piece of music?!

@johnmackswith5252 Жыл бұрын

@@lewisclark1122 It was orchestrated by Rick Wentworth. David wrote the 4 notes.

@IanLawson-tl1xe 4 ай бұрын

What a great original catchy theme tune. I remember vividly as a teenager Paul Coia's opening remarks "It's a pleasure to say to you welcome to channel 4" as the UK all tuned with curiosity and anticipation to this new analogue channel at 4.41pm on Tuesday 2nd November 1982 followed by the full play of this tune. This would be a great additional orchestral piece whenever the Proms decide to do an evening in tribute to popular TV themes aswell as the now familiar and equally popular Proms film nights.

@simonwhu 6 жыл бұрын

Superb music

@cpmahon 2 ай бұрын

True, funny and even a bit of fourscore thrown in for good measure. Cheers

@lauramolony 4 жыл бұрын

Lovely piece of music.

@itsjemmabond 11 жыл бұрын

For some reason, whenever I heard this song, particularly the beginning, I thought about computers! They should bring this theme song back, but I don't think they ever will. Channel 4 truly was groundbreaking, and to think that in the early days they were actually called 'Channel Bore'...

@LlwtyDeer 6 жыл бұрын

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@neilpower60 8 жыл бұрын

fourscore is a lovely piece, its it's such a burgeoning and expectant tune, must've been a small fortune

@GryphLane 4 жыл бұрын

Rather than pay a lump sum for the track, Channel 4 paid royalties every time they used it.

@jane1975 2 жыл бұрын

@@GryphLane Apparently it amounted to £1000 per week to David Dundas, as such it was dropped in 1993.

@RetroMuseumHQ Жыл бұрын

It's classic. It's also very 1982...if that makes sense

@andyr4941 6 ай бұрын

what a banger.

@davidlewis5681 7 жыл бұрын

The piano-led section after 2:07 reminds me of Bat Out of Hell.

@MrDan1466 7 жыл бұрын

I can agree with that... It sounds like it, only without Meat Loaf singing...!

@stephenemmett9753 5 жыл бұрын

@@MrDan1466 You're right! It does! You could make up some Bat Out of Hell-esque lyrics to go with it!

@Needinaname 2 жыл бұрын

Its Channel 4's Birthday tomorrow... mine too! Happy 39th Birthday 4!

@kascnef Жыл бұрын

soon 40th

@bobbyperu1000 3 жыл бұрын

Great memories.

@derekporter7658 2 жыл бұрын

That's quite clever, 4 notes in sequence for channel 4! Is that the same David Dundas of " I put my blue jeans on" fame?

@rickhardman7376 4 жыл бұрын

Channel 4 used to be ground breaking

@georgeholland2934 3 жыл бұрын

These days they aim to imitate the populist cheap reality TV rubbish shown on ITV and Channel 5. Disappointing and frustrating. They have reached an all-time low with Gogglebox, a programme about people watching programmes. Ugh!

@souvikrc4499 3 жыл бұрын

@@georgeholland2934 I think it started with the Broadcast Act of 1990, which deregulated British television, and dissolved the IBA. According to Wikipedia, this allowed for Channel 4's commercialization.

@anicetune 4 жыл бұрын

This sounds like a much earlier piece of music, as if it's from the 50s/60s era. Definitely not something from the 1980s.

@johnmackswith5252 Жыл бұрын

Recorded at Odyssey studio and mixed at Utopia during August/September 1982 by me. John Mackswith.

@robertofraser101 7 жыл бұрын

4 score love it

@no1fanofthepals 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@Toffachannel 6 жыл бұрын

Channel 4 had been paying a little too much money to keep using this tune for their idents. On an average scale, throughout the ten years, Dundas would've got over £520,000 from this. This was why in 1992, the day after it's tenth anniversary, Fourscore was no longer used on the idents. I don't know if Dundas was payed when the tune temporarily returned in 2007 for the channel's 25th anniversary but it seems unlikely.

@pionelpessi1022 6 жыл бұрын

I wonder if they are still paying him as they brought the Fourscore music back for their idents

@97channel 6 жыл бұрын

Toffaexe - Was it definitely the day after the tenth anniversary that Fourscore was replaced? It's just that I know they used a special version of it for the Christmas idents that year, so I always assumed that it was replaced on new year's day 1993, coinciding with Channel 4 becoming fully independent.

@Toffachannel 6 жыл бұрын

It was definitely dropped after the tenth anniversary. IIRC, the last use of it was in the early hours of 3rd November and reshowing the launch film with the full Fourscore track. I always thought that the music to the 1992 Christmas ident was based on the music that replaced Fourscore. They do sound very similar, so it seems likely that Fourscore was definitely dropped then before the 1992 Christmas idents appeared.

@97channel 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just had a little look around and continuity from the 4th of November features the newer jingle. But the Christmas idents are confusing, one variation I can find is definitely based on the one which replaced Fourscore, but another one is highly ambiguous. It sounds so much like Fourscore, the notes are identical, but the pace is more similar to the underscore of the newer one. I have a feeling it is meant to be based on the newer jingle, but if I were David Dundas I'd have asked for my fee, because it's basically the exact same four notes just ever so slightly paced differently. I've got this version of the xmas ident on a copy of The Big Breakfast 1992 New Year's Eve special, and I've never questioned it to be anything other than a festive version of Fourscore.

@hakc97again 6 жыл бұрын

And because their style of programming immensely changed after then becoming far more mainstream than they had been before and to have this piece of music come on before something like Friends or Eurotrash, it doesn't really fit.

@hibbiea8841 26 күн бұрын

I Love My Train He Loves His Train

@broitshxnif_ Жыл бұрын

I love 4score, I wish that C4 news had used this. I LOVE C4

@alexwells6876 6 ай бұрын

I had no idea that the bloke who wrote the pop song Jeans On also wrote this masterpiece

@flakelorenz02 12 жыл бұрын

I think it was money well spent. For four notes it's very memorable.

@MondySpartan 6 жыл бұрын

David Dundas also composed the 1989 and 1999 ITV Generic themes.

@trollface1994 4 жыл бұрын

yeah, David Dumbass is good isn't he?

@jane1975 4 жыл бұрын

MondySpartan Also did Meridian’s ident theme too.

@trollface1994 4 жыл бұрын

@@jane1975 so did Peter Gibbon-Fischer

@jane1975 4 жыл бұрын

@@trollface1994 Probably the later ones with the "Spirit of idents which Anglia Television also had, the early launch ones were Dundas".

@trollface1994 4 жыл бұрын

@@jane1975 I made ''Peter Gibbon-Fischer'' up :) Just goes to show how people take content people write here as being for real.

@davidsanderson5918 4 жыл бұрын

Can someone please upload the slow reggae tune they used to have with the melancholy clarinet? Can't find it anywhere. :(

@LeandryXyrx Жыл бұрын

Best theme EVER!

@WAOU9697 3 жыл бұрын

Good one

@WAOU9697 3 жыл бұрын

I love ❤️ it

@minerbloxer6471 2 жыл бұрын

Wales never got to hear this great track. Wales had S4C(S Pedwar Ec)

@svartsalt 4 ай бұрын

The composer was paid per play, or part play. The theme played every 15 minutes for 25 years.

@PeteNicholsonAnimation 12 жыл бұрын

I agree with the various comments of there's too many tv channels. I'm sure most of them would go bust if you paid for just programs you wanted to see, not a bundle of channels on Sky.

@davidtownson1476 3 жыл бұрын

I would always watch Dave!

@PeteNicholsonAnimation 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidtownson1476 Same here. Also, love getting a reply 8 years after a comment!

@jane1975 2 жыл бұрын

@@PeteNicholsonAnimation lol, ITV and Channel 4 relied on ( and still does ) advertising to fund their channels as well as channel 5. In the early days of Sky in the 90’s and it was an analog signal, there was a decryption card in the box that is similar to the pin we have now, but it locked you out of certain channels as you needed another card for them. Now it’s subscription based like the sports channels are, and you have to key in your pin code for shows or films that are being broadcast before the watershed that my contain sex etc.

@PeteNicholsonAnimation 2 жыл бұрын

@@jane1975 relying on advertising is fine. That means they’re bringing in enough viewers to sell ads and become profitable. What I meant was wanting to watch just the football on Sky 1 and needing to buy the “sports package” with 6 channels you’ll never watch.

@williamnixon5583 9 жыл бұрын

I like this video it good

@RLYouTube Жыл бұрын

Nice music.

@red-trinity7390 8 ай бұрын

This is the most modern orchestra or something

@johncooper7792 12 жыл бұрын

what's the exact date channel 4 last used 'fourscore' as an interval track?

@victoriasmith3884 2 жыл бұрын

welcome to classic channel 4 four score .

@PhilipCollins777 11 жыл бұрын

lost forever

@otemachi4317 5 жыл бұрын

-and seven years ago-

@BluDevil93 5 жыл бұрын

Why Matt Berry didn’t cover this on his Television Themes album befuddles me so much...

@barbarakirk3064 4 жыл бұрын

It was at the start of each episode of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace!

@ziyaadjamil2324 2 жыл бұрын

He’d need to pay David Dundas £3.50

@BenEmberley 3 жыл бұрын

Was this a synthesised orchestra or was it a live recording? The piano solo sounded genuine...

@johnmackswith5252 Жыл бұрын

It was indeed a live recording Ben. Engineered by me. John Mackswith.

@garylewis7451 Жыл бұрын

Makes the hairs stand up...!

@johncooper7792 12 жыл бұрын

where's the video?

@RMProductionsIncfhhuegij49572 4 жыл бұрын

This Song Looks Like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Fermeture Credits Theme!!!! #WeDoWoW

@rick182z Жыл бұрын

Certainly starts with a punch

@angelitaarguelles9427 Жыл бұрын

this is channel four

@MrDan1466 8 жыл бұрын

I see it as a 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for the 1980s - the song is broken up the same way as Freddie Mercury did in 'Bohemian Rhapsody' back in 1975...

@MrDan1466 7 жыл бұрын

Yes, but I reckon Walt Disney could have made an animated short film in 'Fantasia' - now that would work...!

@LogoMan7777 Жыл бұрын

Hard to believe this was written by the same guy who wrote "Jeans On".

@johncooper7792 12 жыл бұрын

the last time channel 4 used the fourscore theme was on their 10th birthday in 1992, and so, i'd like to see a video of the bbc1 laser-disc globe with the full fourscore theme tune in the background, please.

@user-gq4ff8xj6d 4 жыл бұрын

They use 'Fourscore' theme until January 1, 1993 (playing at closedown on New Year's Eve for the last time) with baroque-like remix

@ellenekanem Жыл бұрын

They brought it back for It's A Sin last year.

@danielslade9485 3 жыл бұрын

This has a James Horner-esque vibe.

@jackcrawford3921 3 жыл бұрын

I’m guessing the theme used for this long during test broadcasts before the launch of Channel 4?

@seanart1508 3 жыл бұрын

Channel 4 used library music & 1Khz tone for their testcard, not fourscore.

@jackcrawford3921 3 жыл бұрын

Sean B158 ok

@jackcrawford3921 3 жыл бұрын

Sean B158 I know channel 4 and E4 use it now - albeit it does sound a bit different now tho

@ziyaadjamil2324 2 жыл бұрын

@@jackcrawford3921 E4 used Fourscore for one ident

@jackcrawford3921 2 жыл бұрын

@@ziyaadjamil2324 yeah I know but thanks

@johncooper361 11 жыл бұрын

The last time Channel 4 used 'Fourscore' wasn't on Wednesday, 30 December 1992, it was actually in the early hours of Tuesday, 3 November 1992.

@LlwtyDeer 6 жыл бұрын

And at last, Fourscore Returns.

@jackcrawford3921 4 жыл бұрын

Ok, but I know they kept it on Channel 4 Video VHS releases until 1999

@patcjan84 4 жыл бұрын

How fivescore from channel 5

@minerbloxer6471 2 жыл бұрын

You are watching the work of Martin Lambie-nairn, who sadly dies on Christmas day

@petemarr824 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome welcome welcome home to ITV.. oh.. sorry ;)

@davidtownson1476 3 жыл бұрын

The Mike Sammes Singers, I do believe, sang that one

@IAmTheBrandonH 3 жыл бұрын

1979 strike

@rtc9063 3 жыл бұрын

The best TV theme ever? They should just bring the original ident and theme back than the crap they've got now.

@simonwhu 3 жыл бұрын

I have the 7" single

@neilpower60 8 жыл бұрын

to produce

@gavt1976 10 жыл бұрын

Can somebody send me this song please because it is amazing and I did have it before but now it as gone, because of my PC crashed on me. :)

@antonincorsham1 9 жыл бұрын

1/ Play the clip above 2/ insert two lower case "s"s between the www and your tube. 3/ refresh your browsermabob, 4/ when system loads, select "download" and choose the format you wish to save the clip in - MP3, MP4 etc. 5. when the download square pops up select "save" and off you go !. The piece should be in your download box and you can move it from there if you wish. Best wishes, Anton

@gavt1976 9 жыл бұрын

antonincorsham1 I have tried that and it did not work for me, so is there another way to download this song. :)

@scorchx3000 8 жыл бұрын

use clip converter, it's a free website. www.clipconverter.cc

@rossy105 12 жыл бұрын

@blackjackaug or you could just get a youtube to MP3 converter :D

@robertkincaid 2 жыл бұрын

when did DAVID DUNDAS ware his blue jeans

@coldhopkins8million 11 жыл бұрын

I can imagine this being on a smash bros. game

@MartinHannett_ 7 жыл бұрын

RIP headphone users

@jackielolaz1298 4 жыл бұрын

Not me

@blakewilliams6051 5 жыл бұрын

Can I Get Fourscore As Your Ringtone Please!

@blakewilliams6051 5 жыл бұрын

Text UKTV1 To 94948

@samorra7123 4 жыл бұрын

@@blakewilliams6051 you seriously need help

@whatamalike 8 жыл бұрын

vaporwaaaaaaave

@itscrumbelivable 7 жыл бұрын

not even close babyyyyyy

@NaviciaAbbot 7 жыл бұрын

You can't vaporwave Fourscore. There's no point in doing so. There's no way to mock consumerism with Fourscore.

@TheGerkuman 3 жыл бұрын

@@NaviciaAbbot you could vaporwave Fourscore II though.

@NaviciaAbbot 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGerkuman Touché

@904mappy3 6 жыл бұрын

アリスバトン

@thomaspynchon2871 5 жыл бұрын

DAVID DUNDAS, GOT NO ROCK CAKES, IT DON'T WORRY ME NONE BRO.

@threestarsandasun04 Жыл бұрын

@madmurdock100 3 ай бұрын

2004??????

@jrdavis1992 10 жыл бұрын

Can you make a My Little Pony PMV of this tune? I think it will do some good for bronies like myself. I have never seen an orchestral theme like this on a PMV.

@MondySpartan 6 жыл бұрын

“Good afternoon. It is pleasure to say to you, welcome to My Little Pony: FiM!”

@sillygoose635 5 жыл бұрын

@LogoMan7777 Жыл бұрын

Hard to believe this was written by the same guy who wrote "Jeans On".

@rick182z Жыл бұрын

why

@LogoMan7777 Жыл бұрын

@@rick182z It sounds too good