[GreenKeys] tty trivia from the 1960s (Kinda off topic - but, what the hell)

[Don Robert House]

Theme: "TWX In Twelve Bars"

    [THEME title and composer credit from on-screen closing credits;

      The Theme music originally underscored an opening video sequence
      depicting the hectic pace of life during a trading day on Wall  
Street;
      Harmonically, it was a 12-bar blues progression; and, perhaps  
in a nod
      to modern technology, it had an unusual 5/8 meter; it was  
played at a
      brisk tempo by a small jazz-rock combo featuring trombones,  
flutes, bass
      guitar, drums and an electronic (Fender-Rhodes) piano; After  
Rukeyser's
      departure, the opening (including the THEME) was shortened to  
just a few
      brief seconds...]

      Composer: Donald Swartz (not affiliated with ASCAP or BMI)

      1978 Publisher: [not found in the 1978 ASCAP Index of Performed  
Compositions]

      2001 Publisher: [not found in ASCAP or BMI databases]

      Copyright Date:
      Renewal   Date:

      Recordings:





On 11 May 2007, at 9:37 AM, John Lawson wrote:



On Fri, 11 May 2007, George B. Hutchison wrote:

> All - - -
>
> After listening to the Essex "Easier Said Than Done" as provided on  
> the knology link, there is indeed an effect, a click, if you will,  
> that does ring of a 28 running close to machine speed.

   The theme music to the PBS Show 'Wall Street Week with Louis  
Rukeyser' (who passed away this time last year) is entitled "TWX in  
12 Bars" and is another composition inspired directly by the sound of  
a TTY machine - in this case a Mod 33.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_%24treet_Week#.22TWX_in_12_bars.22



   Any more TTY-themed Music?


Cheers

John
KB6SCO
DM09fg

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