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WHO COMPOSED THE OLD 1010 WINS SOUNDERS?

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NorwoodBoundD

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Hi guys. This is my first post here and I am glad to be here. I am a huge fan of news music and the 1010 WINS Sounders are amongst my favorite themes. I want to know who composed the three old sounders, which are in this self created video at -----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyKnrG9ujRM. I also want to know if anyone here has the voiceover free version of those sounders. Thank you so much.
 
There is a "Production" subforum here (listed under the "Radio Pros" section) that you may wish to pass your question along to if you don't find an answer here. Thanks!
 
I'll put this in the "Radio Pros - Production" section too, but if this is of help, this same music - the original, used from 1974-5 to 1989-90 by WINS for their sounders - was also used as the opening and closing theme for the long-running TV series Viewpoint on Nutrition (1970-98), hosted by Dr. Arnold Pike (and, in NYC, seen on Saturday mornings in the 1970's on WOR-TV). A bit more of this music was used by this show than used by WINS, as per:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvvtecThJ5c (at the beginning)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PXGxmFZTdM (at the end)
 
wbhist said:
I'll put this in the "Radio Pros - Production" section too, but if this is of help, this same music - the original, used from 1974-5 to 1989-90 by WINS for their sounders - was also used as the opening and closing theme for the long-running TV series Viewpoint on Nutrition (1970-98), hosted by Dr. Arnold Pike (and, in NYC, seen on Saturday mornings in the 1970's on WOR-TV). A bit more of this music was used by this show than used by WINS, as per:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvvtecThJ5c (at the beginning)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PXGxmFZTdM (at the end)
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So Westinghouse recorded the music in the electronic version at about the same time that they bought WMAQ in Chicago and flipped it to all-news (I don't recall ever hearing this version on MAQ--first time I heard it was in the set-in-the-70s movie "GoodFellas"--Scorsese being a stickler for details). Am I correct in that the "Star-Spangled Banner" version used now started out went on-air *before* 9/11?
 
Mark Jeffries said:
So Westinghouse recorded the music in the electronic version at about the same time that they bought WMAQ in Chicago and flipped it to all-news (I don't recall ever hearing this version on MAQ--first time I heard it was in the set-in-the-70s movie "GoodFellas"--Scorsese being a stickler for details). Am I correct in that the "Star-Spangled Banner" version used now started out went on-air *before* 9/11?
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I've heard the various versions of this sounder, and WMAQ's seemed a bit different from the re-record for 1010 WINS. There is an audio sample of WMAQ's TOH transition and the music in question, on a website devoted to its long history - go down to the section of the station's incarnation as all-news, and click on the mockup of the '50's NBC logo icon (with "MAQ" substituted for "NBC" on the xylophone) with "WMAQ in 1990" marked below (the file, alas, is RealPlayer). The TOH and BOH time tone appeared to be around 853 Hz (as in the 853/960 Hz combo used for old Emergency Broadcast System tests).

http://www.scottchilders.com/timecapsule/TCWMAQ.htm
 
Mark Jeffries said:
Am I correct in that the "Star-Spangled Banner" version used now started out went on-air *before* 9/11?
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By Star-Spangled Banner version you are referring to the sounder with the 6 note intro? Who composed that one?
 
NorwoodBoundD said:
Mark Jeffries said:
Am I correct in that the "Star-Spangled Banner" version used now started out went on-air *before* 9/11?
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By Star-Spangled Banner version you are referring to the sounder with the 6 note intro? Who composed that one?
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Which are the first six notes of our national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner." Lyrics by Francis Scott Key, music from an English drinking song that everyone so bombed while they were singing they never noticed how hard it was to sing. Ever hear of it?
 
The TOH sounder did not use the "SSB," but the arrangement, especially the last four notes, were indeed reminiscent thereof. All those first re-recorded sounders dated to the early 1990's and were first heard in the last years of WINS' run as "Group W, a Westinghouse Broadcasting station, serving New York, New Jersey and Connecticut." They probably came on either before or after the first WTC attack in 1993. And yes, on those three, at first V/O Paul Anthony intoned, "This is W-I-N-S," rather than "This is Ten-Ten Wins" as he would starting later in the decade, after Westinghouse swallowed up CBS.
 
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