Guest bubble Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 (edited) what tune did your track use for all the riders when they walked out for the parade just before the meeting started. pulstar was used at the kings lynn track in the martin Rodgers days. what was yours? to go down memory lane click below, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVM5svE4M-8 Edited February 9, 2010 by bubble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 what tune did your track use for all the riders when they walked out for the parade just before the meeting started. pulstar was used at the kings lynn track in the martin Rodgers days. what was yours? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVM5svE4M-8 Are you thinking of "Telstar"?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneys barnstormers Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 (edited) Are you thinking of "Telstar"?? no, it is definetly pulstar. telstar was by the tornado's. fact: vangelis was the original creator of pulstar Edited February 9, 2010 by barneys barnstormers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knowle Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 At Bristol in the 1950s it was "Marching along together" which was on a 78rpm record which got broken and the Management had to appeal in the programme for anyone to donate theirs! In the meantime they had to borrow one from Ronnie Green's "closely guarded" stock at Wimbledon. Happy days but sad to think that I can remember this so readily but have difficulty in remembering important details from last season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazeaway Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Can't for the life of me remember what they played at Wimbledon.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmartin Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 'Entry of the Gladiators' at Sunderland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slickmick Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Can't for the life of me remember what they played at Wimbledon.... Very good, I was just about to post the answer when the penny dropped. Was it; Heigh Ho Silver at Ackney, I know it was something to do with Cowboys. Going back to Wimbledon, for years I thought they had nicked the ABC minors song, used at Saturday morning pictures in the sixties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMcCaffery Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 Was it; Heigh Ho Silver at Ackney, I know it was something to do with Cowboys. It was The Magnificent Seven. At Rye House in Len Silver's two spells in charge they've used "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines", as they did when the Rockets raced at Rayleigh. During my few years as announcer at Hoddesdon working for Ron Russell that tune was strictly off-limits so, looking for a march with a more up-to-date feel I used a sequence from "Hooked on Sousa" - basically a jazzed-up version of traditional marches that was part of the "Hooked On Classics" project. That was 1989-93. I also ended each meeting with Elton John's Rocket Man over the same period and in the comeback year in 1999. Mind you - the very last tune I played as a Rockets' announcer was Meat Loaf's ballad "Lost Boys and Golden Girls" - I think I knew I wasn't going back ;-) I had to edit the Sousa sequence since it started with "The Liberty Bell" and I wasn't having the Rockets march out to the Monty Python theme... Rob McCaffery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsloes 1928 nearly Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 I had to edit the Sousa sequence since it started with "The Liberty Bell" and I wasn't having the Rockets march out to the Monty Python theme... Oh, I don't know...: sounds fair enuff to me!!! The march out music at Crayford was sometimes the fantastic 'Because They're Young' by Duane Eddy; but then there was a bespoke piece of music, based on a similar one used previously at Harringay, which went (in it's London Rd. incarnation...): "Two, Four, Six, Eight; Who do we appreciate? Oh, the Crayford Kestrels! Two, Four, Six, Eight; Waiting at the starting gate; Oh, the Crayford Kestrels!. Come on chaps, turn on the taps.." and now my exact memory of the lyrics fades...! Any Crayord or Harringaly folk out there able to fill in the words..? BTW, a great theme music never used - as far as I know - at a GB Speedway track was The Pastels' brilliant song, "Speedway Star". Find out all there is to know about this little known track in the current issue of The Speedway History Mag. This shameless plug would be nothing without this link: http://www.speedwaymags.co.uk/speedway-mag...y-magazine.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMcCaffery Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 I had to edit the Sousa sequence since it started with "The Liberty Bell" and I wasn't having the Rockets march out to the Monty Python theme... Rob McCaffery. Oh, I don't know...: sounds fair enuff to me!!! Ah I so miss going to London Road for the automatic two points, waving goodnight to Bryn in the supporters' hut as he cheerily wished us safe journey back under the river - and the chance to see if those stuffed budgies on plinths had learned to talk yet (For those who didn't experience the 'birdcage' one of the souvenirs there was a plinth-mounted red & yellow kestrel) Those were the days. Rob McCaffery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 crayford was a track that took a lot of stick because of its size and shape but i used to love going there. for me it was so easy to get to. a direct train service from waterloo east to crayford station which was connected to the stadium. how us fans in the south east could do with a venue like that today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsloes 1928 nearly Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 crayford was a track that took a lot of stick because of its size and shape but i used to love going there. for me it was so easy to get to. a direct train service from waterloo east to crayford station which was connected to the stadium. how us fans in the south east could do with a venue like that today. Well that's right: a midweek track that was a breeze to get to by public transport... Something I fear we'll never see the light of day again in the London and north Kent areas... In the last two seasons I'd by then moved to the Isle of Dogs. Still simple. Home by train from Crayford to Greenwich, walk through the foot tunnel to home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzybird Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 (edited) crayford was a track that took a lot of stick because of its size and shape but i used to love going there. I remember their restaurant and the home made Steak and Kidney pudding after the journey up there!!! As for Canterburys music I hear it every year on Poppy night as the troops are marching in, each time sobbing (due to the emotional side of the event) I phone my Dad to ask him what it is and each year he's answered the phone too late to hear it! ..... Bloody useless springs to mind Edited February 13, 2010 by shazzybird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomcat Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 The music used at Ipswich in the 70's was "A Walk In The Black Forest". I came across it as a download last year, just listening to that again brought back a flood of great memories from that era, complete with the image of John Earrey presenting and his verbal battles with the legendary Soldier Boy. That was also the time of the Bugler, who used to play a few tunes on the 2nd bend at Foxhall, 'What A Load Of Rubbish' being a favourite if we lost a heat advantage, or a rider didn't do the business.... oh those were the days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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