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I knew it had ‘World’ in it somewhere

June 24th, 2008 · Posted by Skuds in Music · 5 Comments · Music

Quite a while ago I heard a track on the radio that immediately rang a bell with me: “Ah. The theme music from World in Action” I thought.  I decided I would procure the track so I immediately looked up World in Action on Wikipedia.  Sure enough, there was a section on the title sequence and it said that the music was called Jam For World In Action by Jonathan Weston.  After much searching around I found that it was never released and was not available.  Not only that, but it was written especially for the title sequence but what I heard on the radio was at least five minutes long.  Annoying, but not the end of the world, and I forgot all about it until yesterday.

Yesterday I was listening to the radio again and the same track was played again.  This time I didn’t bother with Wikipedia but went straight to the radio station’s website so I could catch the ‘now playing’ bit while the track was still playing.  The track was Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain.

Just out of interest I looked that up on Wikipedia.  It told me nothing, but then I jumped to the article on the band itself and it said that Nantucket Sleighride was used as the theme music for Weekend World…  Oops.

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5 Comments so far ↓

  • Rob Glover

    I could have told you that mate! I’ve got Nantucket Sleighride somewhere on a tape.

  • Skuds

    So if I had asked you what the music was from ‘World In Action’ you could have helped? I imagine that ‘Tomorrow’s World’ is the only programme with ‘World’ in it that you used to watch 🙂

  • skud's sister

    I never used to ‘watch’ World in Action – just listened to the theme tune and wandered off. But I think I did know what the theme music was. Hard to know now though, after the fact…

  • skud's sister

    Oh yes, and don’t even think ‘nobody loves a smartarse’ because we have proof otherwise!

  • Skuds

    I’m not really sure if I watched World In Action regularly, if at all. I do know I watched Weekend World – we used to watch it in the common room at school.

    Which makes it even more stupid that I connected the very familiar music with the unfamiliar programme.