Tag: doctor who

Doctor Who’s Next

While watching Doctor Who on the Roku HD player, I wondered if anybody had collected all of the versions of the theme song, written in 1963 by Ron Grainer and realized by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The answer is, of course, that quite a few people have. I picked this one because the sound is good.

Speaking of Doctor Who, I was surprised to learn tonight that Bismo didn’t know of Rowan Atkinson’s appearance as The Doctor:

[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/2010/JUL/AtkinsonWho.flv 640 360]

Synthetic Sir George

Time BeatWaltz in Orbit

I’ve been trying to find a copy of a 1962 single of partially electronic music, Time Beat b/w Waltz in Time, by Ray Cathode. I’ve placed bids, and lost, for the single on eBay, but fortunately I found these MP3’s on WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. [Link] Here are the tracks.

Ray Cathode – Beat Time
[audio:http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DG/time_beat.mp3]

Ray Cathode – Waltz in Orbit
[audio:http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DG/waltz_in_orbit.mp3]

Ray Cathode was a pseudonym for a collaboration between BBC technician-producer Maddalena Fagandini and George Martin, who would sign the Beatles to Parlophone Records just a couple of months later. The recording was made for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which was set up to create atmospheric music and effects for radio and TV. The 1963 production by Delia Derbyshire of Ron Grainer’s theme for Doctor Who is undoubtedly the workshop’s most familiar work.

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/APR07/DoctorWho.mp3]