since you're all so good at informing me about music, there's a weird (local, I suspect) TV series called something like The Way We Were which has bits of old cine film from individuals decades ago (I love it) on Sunday evenings with a splendid neo classical theme to it.

Name that tune, please!

Thats one for Uncle Rob, they all sound like pieces from "Workers Playtime" to me. He is the guy that it is in the know about that period of music.

From another website last month (this seems a hugely popular series - as a result, of course, it's been cancelled!!!!).

...The title is "Tenderness", and it features on a CD called Love Themes (ref: BRJ52), which is published by Bruton, who are a subsidiary of Universal Publishing Production Music. The composers are Alexander Baker and Clair Marlo.

As this is production music, it isn't possible for an individual to purchase the track. However, you can listen to the full track, plus the commercial cuts which are used on the show, on Universal PPM's website.

www.unippm.co.uk/default.aspx?skiplaunchpage=yes

I think that show is regionalised. We have it up here, made by Tyne Tees (ITV North East) and it's always about life in old North East England. Other regions must also make their own versions. I haven't heard that ours has been cancelled. I must take more notice of the theme tune next time, because I can't remember how it goes.

Go to the link and search Tenderness - it's the second such title with guitar and strings (no vocals).

Just listened to it. Yes it's definately the theme tune. Very nice.

If you hear a piece of music and don't know what it is, get your mobile phone, dial 2580 (the middle vertical numbers on the keypad). Hold the phone towards the music source, and the call will automatically cut after 20 seconds. You'll then receive an SMS message with the songs details.

The service is from SHAZAM. I think the calls are 50p each.

(No, I'm not from SHAZAM - I just think it's a great service!)

Thats interesting Dixie. I cannot resist of course testing this service with the most obscure thing that I can find!

I imagine that this service somehow runs via Gracenote.
When we first started being a digi download company here, Gracenote caused dreadful panicky uploading problems to say the least.
I would start uploading a song and a Gracenote logo would appear and if you were not quick enough to get rid of it, and deny it`s intrusion, your music suddenly got completely wrongly tagged, tags which you then had to remove, which took time.

Their is one tune we have out, that still consistantly is wrongly tagged, a lesson for all though emerges from this who upload to Tunecore , AIM or whatever, make sure that your computer is offline when you create the original MP3 from a master recording, you could be stuck with a duff tag for a long while.

Did you try it Mart?

I've used it many times. It's not 100%, but it's close, and I often been amazed by the results!.

By the way, let me know how your lunch with JK at the Riverside goes. I've enjoyed to occasional breakfast/lunch with the old chap. Always enjoyable. in fact, must catch up with him again soon - Tough I'll leave it a while so he'll have carmed down from me calling him an "old chap"!

Not yet Dixie, will do later.

We tend to put food posts on the other board, so check that one out after lunches etc.

I think that the old Queen, sorry I mean King is away again currently.

I`ve only got next week that I am full on with work again, I`m having a lazy domestic and writing time here!

He's been at In The City.

I haven't been for about 5 years - despite going to the first 5 or so.

Sounds like JK had a good time, but without today's big players being there, can't see any reason to go myself.