I found a song from 1975 that begins with the Blakes 7 theme...

[JesusAndYourBush]

Doesn't really deserve a thread but I don't know where else to put this...

I discovered this song that starts with the Blakes 7 theme, the problem being that it pre-dates Blakes 7 by over 2 years. (It's from a TV broadcast on 1st July 1975)

https://soundcloud.com/spicy9999/beginning-of-this-song-from-1975-sounds-like-the-blakes-7-theme

I just thought it was unusual/amusing, that's all.

[Better Midlands]

Global Communication- Sublime Creation samples the end of the Blake's 7 theme

Not really adding anything to your post there.

[Malcy]

Nice find!

[famethrowa]

I always thought Kenny Rogers might have been a fan of the Liberator crew, having nicked their melody:

https://youtu.be/fE1bvEp8V-Y?t=68

[gilbertharding]

I thought for ages, thanks (I suppose) to my mum who used to sing along to the Blakes 7 theme, that it was an instrumental version of the Perry Como song 'It's Impossible'.

The tunes are quite similar.

[notjosh]

Hang on... I thought you were going to post Music by John Miles:
https://youtu.be/lAsvjVx-Mg4?t=199

Just how many times has that tune been nicked?

[petril]

so the theme music was nicked from multiple sources, and the logo was just Star Trek on it's side.

I can forgive them, because if you're working with an old BBC sci-fi budget but only after Doctor Who's been at it, you'll nick anything to get by

[Gurke and Hare]

Is there something earlier that they could all have sourced that bit from? It sounds like it could be a fanfare motif taken from a bit of classical music or something.

[JesusAndYourBush]

Is there something earlier that they could all have sourced that bit from? It sounds like it could be a fanfare motif taken from a bit of classical music or something.

I was thinking that myself.  Even the clip I posted (from a Japanese TV show) could have been nicking it from elsewhere.  In that show (like many at that time) people performing their songs did so with the backing of the house band rather than a backing tape or being backed by whoever played on the actual record, so it could be the house band having fun slipping in a little bit of something nicked, by way of an introduction.

And yeah, as a kid I remember people making up words to the tune (probably influenced by the Perry Como song), something like "It's impossible, it's incredible, it's improbable, it's (any other word that rhymes)..."

[dissolute ocelot]

I always thought Kenny Rogers might have been a fan of the Liberator crew, having nicked their melody:

https://youtu.be/fE1bvEp8V-Y?t=68

See also Pulp's We Can Dance Again (a demo on the Different Class deluxe edition), from about 45 seconds in.

[olliebean]

Hang on... I thought you were going to post Music by John Miles:
https://youtu.be/lAsvjVx-Mg4?t=199

Just how many times has that tune been nicked?

I kept listening past the Blake's 7 bit, and was thinking, "This has gone very Alan Parsons Project-y." Then looked it up and saw that it was produced by Alan Parsons, with orchestral arrangements by Alan Parsons Project arranger Andrew Powell, so... not that surprising, really.

[A Hat Like That]

Goodbye My Love by the Glitter Band has a strong resemblance in places.

[Pauline Walnuts]

so the theme music was nicked from multiple sources, and the logo was just Star Trek on it's side.

It's the logo of the Terran Federation, and it's the Star Trek's Federation logo* turned to the right. I always thought that was some sort of subtle in-joke.



* I think it's technically the logo of the StarFleet, but let's not get bogged down in pedantry the details.

[George White]

Also, the 1974 Portugal Eurovision entry/call for revolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJrtNwD_r_0

Also It's Impossible by Perry Como https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKQ9--_ZgB4
Oh, already mentioned. Guessd so.
But see also Yesterday I Heard the Rain by the same writer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTX_LcUjoEU

Just googled the Japanese song. Turns out Yuzo Kayama was in a couple of Kurosawa flicks.