WHO COMPOSED THE OLD 1010 WINS SOUNDERS?

[NorwoodBoundD]

Hi guys. 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.

 

[upndownthedial]

I found an article that says:

Mr. Plotkin traced the theme music back to an Austrian music-production company, Foster Kent, which did not pick up its phone Tuesday evening Austrian time, making it impossible to retrieve the name of the composer immediately.

Here's the article: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/part-of-the-citys-soundtrack-reworked/

 

[NorwoodBoundD]

I found an article that says:

Mr. Plotkin traced the theme music back to an Austrian music-production company, Foster Kent, which did not pick up its phone Tuesday evening Austrian time, making it impossible to retrieve the name of the composer immediately.

Here's the article: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/part-of-the-citys-soundtrack-reworked/

The article was referring to the new sounder package. I was referring to the old sounders in the video featured. I want to know who composed the three sounders in the video.

 

[wbhist]

The sounders on that video were also a re-recording, albeit earlier than the new ones. If this is of help, the original sounder music (used from c.1974-5 to c.1989-90 by 1010 WINS) was also used as the opening and closing theme of the long-running (1970-98) TV series Viewpoint on Nutrition which was hosted by Dr. Arnold Pike (and, in the 1970's in NYC, ran Saturday mornings on WOR-TV/9). That show used a bit more of this particular music than was excerpted by WINS for their sounders. As on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvvtecThJ5c (at the beginning)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PXGxmFZTdM (at the end)

 

[wbhist]

In addition, in the comments section of that Times article, Adam C. Powell III - who was News Director at WINS in 1974, when that music was first introduced - commented:

The xylophone was introduced when I was news director, in 1974, to accentuate the then-new “22-minute” format. The xylophone was inspired by none other than Leonard Bernstein, from his orchestration in “On the Town.” We were looking music that said “streets of New York,” and that was it.

Just a matter of which exact music it was.

 

[NorwoodBoundD]

I still wonder who composed the exact sounders in this video and I know it is not Foster Kent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyKnrG9ujRM

 

[wbhist]

Through a YouTube user, I have uncovered the answer as to the original sounder (used by WINS from c.1974-75 to the early 1990's). It was from the rather famous (or infamous, depending on one's point of view) Capitol Records "Hi-Q" production music library. More specifically, the piece was called "Construction Site," composed by Danish bandleader Ib Glindemann (credited on the label as "Dan Kirsten"), from Reel 129, Track #1-VM-174. In this context, not only the new Foster Kent package, but also the prior one from Charlie Morrow / Other Media (used from the mid-1990's to about two years ago) as well as the adaptation used by the late, lamented WMAQ Radio 670 in Chicago in its early years as a Group W-owned all-news station, would qualify as de facto plagiarisms. It was this instrumental that also was used to open and close the syndicated TV series Viewpoint on Nutrition.

 

[johnny marks]

I hate to address something I'm not familiar with. However, after much research..it seems Foster Kent is the consensus winner. Everywhere I went..every engine I used brought up Foster Kent as the production house for the 1010 WINS sounders.