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.
Rob Glover // Jun 24, 2008 at 11:45 am
I could have told you that mate! I’ve got Nantucket Sleighride somewhere on a tape.
Skuds // Jun 25, 2008 at 12:42 am
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 // Jun 25, 2008 at 10:57 pm
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 // Jun 25, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Oh yes, and don’t even think ‘nobody loves a smartarse’ because we have proof otherwise!
Skuds // Jun 26, 2008 at 12:46 am
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.