To Whom It Concerns

  By Will | September 6, 2009 - 7:27 pm | Music, TV

To nearly everyone in Ireland, this means “The Late Late Show“, which restored the old theme tune to our screens on Friday.

However, it turns out that the theme we know is actually a number 13 UK chart hit by Chris Andrews from 1966. I know that the Late Late started in 1962, however I don’t know when the theme associated to the show was first used.

Direct link to the video if you can’t see the embedded one. Video link courtesy of TheChrisD.

Interestingly Chris Andrews is still alive and working in Germany, so its possible that he might show up on the show yet. In fact, its also possible that Ryan is related to Chris (in a Today FM interview Ryan mentioned that he was trying to find out as he is part of the Andrews family). And I wonder if it is possible to get an old song like this to top the iTunes chart of similar.

Today FM interview

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2 Responses to To Whom It Concerns

  1. EmilyAM says:
    September 6, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    Great song. Perhaps Ryan will be on Who Do You Think You Are to assist in his quest.

  2. Darragh Doyle says:
    September 7, 2009 at 11:24 am

    I was only commenting to someone the other day that one of my favourite tapes is one of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra performing old themes and this was one of the ones on the tape.

    Always loved it - it was an integral part of Friday nights falling asleep in front of the fire. I’m not sure about the new one yet…