Takes me back to when my dad was alive . Pot Black and Premier League were a MUST watch in our family.

BBC used to have great, memorable theme tunes for their various sports.

@speedy692

7 ай бұрын

To the Unknown Man & Ski Sunday themes are great.

Classic hit. God Bless Winifred Atwell.

@guybrennan5801

2 жыл бұрын

Just watched an episode of THe Two Ronnies where she played this in the music section of the show. Very impressive, but cant find her appearance on the show anywhere on youtube?

@mcfcguvnors

Жыл бұрын

BBC never credited her did they ?

@humongoustesticlees

Жыл бұрын

@@mcfcguvnors She didn't compose it

God bless Winifred Atwell. The Queen of the Ivories.

This used to air on Friday nights in Australia on the ABC - I grew up watching Eddie Charlton and Steve Davis.

@WillCrawford0

5 жыл бұрын

Steady Eddie!

@rjjcms1

5 жыл бұрын

He was always steadier than Eddie the Eagle.

I **loved** watching Pot Black here in New Zealand back in the 70s! Great players like Ray Reardon and Steve Davis! Great times!

@insertnamehere5809

Жыл бұрын

It was popular on the other side of the ditch as well, Eddie Charlton was a favorite of ours 🎱

This takes me straight back to my grandparents' living room. Sublime!

“For those of you watching in black and white … the pink is behind the blue”

great to hear the pot black theme again,one of my favourites thanx

The highlight of my childhood Friday evenings :)

@MrBoybergs

7 ай бұрын

My Dad and me; every Friday evening; happy memories

When my dad was alive he could play this on Piano. I used to watch Pop Black & it's one frame format with group stages of 4 snooker players. Ie a group A with John Spencer, Graeme Miles, Dennis Taylor & Rex Williams & Group B: Ray Reardon, Alex Higgins, Doug Mountjoy & John Pulman. Referee Sidney Lee & commentary by whispering Ted Lowe introduced by Alec Weekes.

@user-we8ue9qy9l

3 ай бұрын

& also don't forget Eddie Charlton the Australian & the World Champion as well too of course.

Toe tapping brilliant ❤

Pot Black bought snooker to the mass tv audience. Great entertainment with the big stars of the sport showing their skills every week. Great stuff !

@MOGGS1942

4 жыл бұрын

It also gave it some respectability. I played snooker back in the late 1950's and kept quiet about it. The game was frowned upon, and seen as a waster's passtime.

@paulputnam8211

3 күн бұрын

RIP Ray Reardon who passed away today.😢

A piano classic and a TV classic. Snooker was full of characters in the good old days. The interaction with the audience so often associated with Ray Reardon, John Virgo and others, is sadly lost from the sport now. Perhaps it is because of the money involved and the levels of focus required while playing at tournaments. It would be great to see something like Pro-Celebrity Golf (with Peter Allis) where a two snooker players join two celebrities in a doubles match and they talk about their lives etc

@manephewlenny6401

2 жыл бұрын

Ray Reardon went mental outside my house one night and bit my dog.

@Dragon-Slay3r

Жыл бұрын

Is that what he was doing with his TV?

@leocomerford

6 ай бұрын

Yes, pro-am snooker is an interesting idea.

Pot Black was a great show we had this in New Zealand it played on TV One for many years until it came to and end I think in 1988 not sure when -The theme is by Winifred Atwell it was a good theme.

@williamweir1547

4 жыл бұрын

As a kid I use to watch this show with my Dad ,who was a huge snooker fan ,in New Zealand as well... my favourite player was Jimmy White

BBC SHOULD BRING BACK POT BLACK📺 ON TV💻 ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S IT WOULD BE A HIT 🎱🎱🎱 SUPER THEME SONG

@garethdavies3921

4 жыл бұрын

It would be great to see something like Pro-Celebrity Golf (with Peter Allis) where a two snooker players join two celebrities in a doubles match and they talk about their lives etc

" Fred Davies having trouble getting his leg over ", purred 'Whispering ' Ted Lowe, as Fred attempted a shot down the rail. Happy days.

Yes, I do still remember this Pot Black TV-Show of Snooker from our (ABCTV Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in Australia and especially seeing Eddie Charlton both the Australian & World Champion who was playing & winning his number of snooker games against all &/or any of his opponents of course.

great stuff, memories of a tuesday evening on BBC2 at 8.30, 1981-2 ish. weird hearing the whole piece, in those days it was the first & last 30 seconds for the theme tune. and god bless alan weeks!

I ended up here from Grandstand, I've never heard this theme and all I can imagine is black and white silent movie shenanigans going on while this plays lol

And to think, when snooker was first televised, it was in black and white!! :-D

@G6JPG

Жыл бұрын

And colour TV actually caused snooker to change the colours of the balls: the brown, for example, was originally a much redder brown.

Happy Days,never fails to cheer me up.Classic,many thanks for posting.

A cover of this was includes on the Wham! album "Fantastic" as a hidden track at the end of "Young Guns (Go For It)".

The mother of British boogie woogie

It certainly brightens' me up any day in the week.

Love it ;-) If there was ever tune I wish I could play it would be this ;-) )

@chooseyourpoison5105

6 жыл бұрын

I actually learned to play this piece many years ago when I was doing my A.Mus.A and I can attest that it is murderously hard.

Ideal music to encourage your dogs to play billiards

Ah, poor Willie Thorne.

"For those viewers watching in black & white, the green is behind the yellow...."

God, that is good.

This is incomplete ; it's missing the sound of 2 snooker balls colliding at the end

@paulputnam8211

5 жыл бұрын

Thought I was the only person who noticed that ! The balls can be heard on the BBC sports theme LP/CD that was released many years ago.

@paulputnam8211

5 жыл бұрын

The album version has the balls ! !

@jungfraujoch11333

3 жыл бұрын

Aw, no plop plop at the end 😢

I don't know if someone else has got there before me, but what's always made me laugh was the line ' ... and for those watching in black and white, he's just hit the pink (substitute other colours)'

@G6JPG

2 жыл бұрын

Or ".. going for the one behind the brown", or similar. Though this is often quoted as being funny, it actually wasn't that daft: anyone who _followed_ snooker would actually know where the various colours were. (In the same way you have no trouble knowing which traffic light is which when they're shown in black-and-white films.)

Just a game-related fact for you, this song was recently used in Superior Interactive's Repton 1 game (and possibly in the original BBC Micro versions as well!) as the background music.

Great memories.

Soundtrack to my youth.

RIP Ray Reardon

Winifred atwell is this version and someone else called pop black recorded this as well

All stand for the national anthem

A big sorry to George Botsford, I thought this was Joplin for 40 years. :-(

It aired on Friday nights here in the UK too. Oh happy days! (Sigh...)

@joannegray5138

6 жыл бұрын

Was your family Catholic, eating fish on Friday? That's probably why.

And for those of you watching in black and white...the pink is next to the green

@mcfcguvnors

Жыл бұрын

I can actually remember that it totally happened :D

The sound heard by millions of British men while lying on black fake leather sofas drinking cans of Light Ale and smoking Players Number Six cigarettes.

@MOGGS1942

4 жыл бұрын

Park Drive in The Midlands.

@Londonfogey

4 жыл бұрын

I remember those! They were 'plain' rather than 'tipped' as I recall. Usually smoked by old fellows in flat caps round my way, either that or Capstan, Woodbine or Player's Navy Cut.

Scott Joplin ROCKS! vote 1 for Winifred Atwell as honourary Queen of Australia for ever.

Who's on here after hearing they have put a black plague in Brixton to honour Winifred Atwell?? May she rest in peace 🙏🏾

@chrisnorton4382

3 жыл бұрын

-- plaque :)

@leonardhoward3856

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisnorton4382 thanks Chris 😊 sorry

@ManWalksDogs

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisnorton4382 as living standards plummet, it won't be long before we start hearing that the likes of the black plague has returned to deprived areas...😟

How come I know this theme without ever having heard it before? It's so familiar for some reason

RIP Willy Thorne

I wish they'd bring it back

ahh the pot black rag

If your watching in black and white its the one behind blue :-)

Trippy.

classic

Bring back pot black

does anyone know the name of the other piece of music that was used during the segment with the trick shots and bloopers?that was a cool theme tune.

@adamgietzelt3771

8 жыл бұрын

+reksub Pretty sure it was 'The Entertainer", originally by Scott Joplin. But Atwell did a version, probably the one used on the show

@reksub10

8 жыл бұрын

Adam Gietzelt cheers mate,couldn't remember the name for the life of me.thanks again.

@adamgietzelt3771

8 жыл бұрын

+reksub Not a problem. It was strange - I had the same question and had to find the answer yesterday, as my Mum just passed away. I found out she loved it too when she noticed me watching Pot Black as a kid. We’re gunna play it at her funeral - good memories!

@richardupton3323

7 жыл бұрын

it was "smack my bitch up" done ragtime by charles schmuch the 4th in 1928

@reksub10

7 жыл бұрын

Richard Upton lol.

Brill Alan weeks used to do swimming as well

@grahampearson5670

5 жыл бұрын

We all miss Alan.

@G6JPG

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know about either snooker or swimming; I associate him with figure skating, around the time of Torvill and Dean.

Who watching 2020 and for ringtone

What's the name of this song again?? been racking mee mind trying to remember. lol :)

Supposedly the original idea behind _Pot Black_ was to use snooker to sell the public on the merits of colour TV, so maybe the choice of a theme song with this title was a joke ...

@roseanne74

6 ай бұрын

You use the WHITE cue ball to pot the BLACK eight ball. Black and White.

well I've be fucked I used to watch pot black as a kid and thought the theme songs was the sting.

@banjopink4409

6 жыл бұрын

Brett Neither did I.

@G6JPG

Жыл бұрын

You're thinking of "The Entertainer", which was used for the _film_ "The Sting". (There is at least one piece of music called The Sting, but different from both of these!)

lol you couldent make it up! watching pot black on a b/w tv set different times

@rjjcms1

5 жыл бұрын

I'd had my own small-size table for a year or so when I first watched it with my family as a 7-year-old in 1972. The players I remember being on it then were John Spencer,Ray Reardon,Eddie Charlton,John Pulman,Fred Davis and Rex Williams.

@Londonfogey

4 жыл бұрын

'And that's a lovely shot...he's potted the dark grey, just missing the slate grey and the mid grey, in a lovely rebound past the light grey...'

Alan Weeks lol

Fingers like a centipede.

snooker loopy anyone? lol

Sounds like chickens running around inside a de-tuned piano

@richardhedderly

5 жыл бұрын

Cluckin' ell! :O

@lidbass

4 жыл бұрын

That’s no yolk...

@G6JPG

Жыл бұрын

It was Winnie's "other piano" - which depending on who you believe either _was_ a detuned Steinway, or the junk-shop upright she toured the world with.

Almost as good as yakkety sax!

And wasn't Len Ganley a referee?

@MOGGS1942

4 жыл бұрын

" Big " Len Ganley, as he was referred to.

Ronnie would have won this comp lots of time

gay

Probably Russ Conway on the piano 🎹

@davecommentator

18 сағат бұрын

Winifred Atwell.