Nearly NPFR. But not quite. Still apropros of nothing though.

What ho, people. I have often heard, in the course of my time here, the frequent drubbing of our less enlightened or unsophisticated television programmes which somehow find their way to American screens decades after Britain has ostensibly done away with them. I say ostensibly because the BBC can, has and will resurrect them from the vaults for scheduling stop-gap measures at the most unlikely moments. One such show is Are You Being Served. I'm almost certain that nobody picked the PF connection up, did they? TVCream did, though:

'Best thing was the experimental cash register theme tune which was way ahead of its time and pre-dated Pink Floyd's inferior 'Money' by at least two years.'

Sad Ken - five years on amp-f, and still none the wiser

I think I posted once about how I thought they'd nicked it from the Floyd. When did the damn show begin airing?

Hmm. You probably did. As I say, I certainly remember many giving it a damn good pelting. I think it was first broadcast here in 1972. Whether the signature tune was an original or lifted from something else, or when indeed it or whatever it may or may not have been nicked from was recorded, I don't know. Let's find out, shall we? I should have done this earlier, really.

Hmm. From http://home.hiwaay.net/~emilyj/index.html, we find the following:

'AYBS?'s unique theme song, which featured a lift girl (voice of Stephanie Gathercole, Mr. Rumbold's first secretary) announcing each floor over a 'cash-register' rhythm track à la Pink Floyd's 'Money', was written by series co-creator David Croft, who was trying to eliminate the need for expensive union musicians when deciding on a signature tune. The sparse musical accompaniment was arranged by Ronnie Hazlehurst.'

And for those of a particularly obsessive nature, you can download the full version of the theme tune. Well, it makes a change from listening to Money again.

Sad Ken - five ears on amp-f, and still none the wiser