I have a long standing friend (female), originally met at work but we both left during a shakeout, who has the forename Shirralee. Today, after a long period where our only contact was Facebook and other SM, we spoke on the phone. Essentially she wanted to bounce some stuff off me relating to somebody's probs at work.
This evening another FB friend put up a message about the 'theme tune', a riff on Ilkley Moor Bah't 'At, that Yorkshire TV used to play before regular broadcasts - school stuff - started around 09:30 back in the seventies/eighties before the Breakfast TV era. I'd not heard it for years but hearing it sent me off down a rabbit hole about who wrote the music. Not, as some sources suggested Eric Coates but a composer called Derek New. Turns out that he composed, or at least had a role in, the music for a film called The Shiralee.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0050961/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_5_msdp
After messaging her, she's aware of the film, the track by Tommy Steele which is associated and tells tells me she's forgiven her parents for naming her after an Aboriginal word for a burden....
The YTV tune is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoxa5CQHs3E&ab_channel=KevinWakelam
Start 2 mins in unless you like the whistle tune of the same era...
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Tue 16 May 23 at 22:16
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