Can anyone help ID this tune?

[ScotHill]

It's possibly from a sci-fi film/TV show, 80s or earlier, but in all honesty it could be anything. Anyone recognise it?

It's from a cover of the disco Close Encounters theme but none of them feature this particular instrumental break, so it must have come from somewhere else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FmGEDnkXLI#t=2m11...

[Tyre Smoke]

Sounds like Cagney And Lacey.

And what does that bloke look like?

[ScotHill]

Yeah it's got the generic 'that sounds just like...' thing about it, but then all 70s/80s TV themes do. If it's a TV theme.

And it was a show where all the performers dressed up as schoolchildren, i.e. St Trinian's if they were female, so included a dozen 16-21 year old girls dressed in fishnets. Totally wasted on me as I was only 10 at the time.

[Tyre Smoke]

Are you sure it isn't shorts boy just going 'jazz'?

[ScotHill]

Tyre Smoke said:

Are you sure it isn't shorts boy just going 'jazz'?

Pretty sure, it was part of a culture of just playing what was on the sheet music, never heard him play anything else remotely like that - if he did come up with it he should have kicked Rick Wakeman out of Yes!

[eltawater]

There's a bit of the Blockbusters Theme tune at 2m:50

[Saleen836]

Reminded me straight away of this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJzF8_df1R8

[SAB888]

The Rockford Files.

[ScotHill]

SAB888 said:

The Rockford Files.

Someone else said that but I honestly don't hear it - is there another version with an extended solo, or is The Rockford Files the modern Rick Rolling?

[SAB888]

ScotHill said:

SAB888 said:

The Rockford Files.

Someone else said that but I honestly don't hear it - is there another version with an extended solo, or is The Rockford Files the modern Rick Rolling?

No idea! I just played the clip you linked to and The Rockford Files came to me straight away. I used to watch it many years ago.

[Eric Mc]

Nothing like Rockford.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj8V5sRVXGk

It's titled "Close Encounters" and one segment does contain the famous chords featured on the sound track - but the rest is just anonymous jazzed up stuff.

[ScotHill]

It's a pretty close arrangement of the disco version (apart from the middle section): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn62rCVyNQk

Edited by ScotHill on Tuesday 14th April 19:39