Keith Mansfield (born 1941 in London, England) is a British composer and arranger known for his creation of prominent television theme tunes, including the Grandstand theme for the BBC.[1]
Mansfield is probably best known by American audiences as the composer of the tune "Funky Fanfare", used for underscoring in NFL Films productions and the Astro Daters series of snipes produced by the National Screen Service in the late 1960s. That song is currently used during the opening credits of the show Pit Boss on Animal Planet, as well as backing music for the "Quick Hits" segment on the Sklarbro Country podcast. Mansfield also composed the brass tune "Superstar Fanfare", which was notably used (in several variations) by Channel Television in the Channel Islands, RTL plus's news programme 7 vor 7, Worldvision Enterprises, and by the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) as a idents jingle for British Forces TV in West Germany, Berlin, Cyprus, The Falkland Islands and Gibraltar in the 1980s and 1990s.
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The Astro Daters' "Our Next Attraction" was featured prominently in two films by Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill and Death Proof. A vocal version of Funky Fanfare entitled "House of Jack" was also recorded by James Royal in 1969. Another Mansfield composition, "National Pride," was the opening theme to the 1980 movie Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, which utilizes Mansfield's library music score, and as the logo jingle for CBS/Fox Video. A song remix was also used in the game, Saints Row: The Third.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Mansfield was a significant figure in the UK library music scene and recorded many materials for the production music company KPM. His work has been sampled by prominent hip-hop producers such as Danger Mouse ("Funky Fanfare" on the Danger Doom track "Old School Rules", "Junior Jet Set" on "Run" by Gnarls Barkley, and "Morning Broadway" on the Danger Doom track "Space Ho's"), Madlib, as well as Fatboy Slim ("Young Scene" on the track "Punk to Funk") and most recently, "Walkin" by Denzel Curry, produced by Kal Banx. American sports fans will find a lot of Mansfield's and other KPM composers' music used on NFL Films team highlights and Super Bowl documentaries. American sports journalist Jon Bois uses Mansfield's work ("Love De Luxe", "Style City") in his videos.
Mansfield was arranger and conductor for several tracks on Dusty Springfield's 1968 UK album Dusty... Definitely,[2] and acted as orchestral arranger on some hits for Love Affair ("Everlasting Love") and Marmalade ("Reflections of My Life"), among others. Mansfield wrote material for and produced albums with trumpeter Maynard Ferguson: M.F. Horn, Maynard Ferguson (album) and M.F. Horn Two.
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Light & Tuneful is one of Keith Mansfield's most enduring TV themes, having been used as the opening theme tune for the BBC's coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis coverage since 1976. This arrangement for brass band was arranged for the Putney & Wimbledon Brass Band.
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Think of the best sports theme tunes in British television history. There are a few classics, right? Now name one that didn't originate on the BBC. It's not so easy. Because, whatever else they may have got wrong, the Beeb have an exemplary record in assigning a piece of music to a sport. We've got the old band back together again to remember summer Saturdays gone by and the lost innocence of our sporting youth.
Remember Grandstand, kids? It was a kind of umbrella programme that tied together various sporting events taking place on a Saturday afternoon. One minute you'd be watching horse racing at Newmarket, then rugby at Twickenham, followed by the studio-based Final Score.
Launched in 1958, the show lasted nearly half a century before being phased out, ending in January 2007. The BBC blamed the increased use of interactive and online services for its demise, placing Grandstand alongside top-shelf porn and human patience as 'things that have been killed by the internet'.
Skiing! I've never been skiing and have no intention of ever doing so as I'd blatantly break some bones and wipe out a group of school children. But man does the Ski Sunday theme make it seem appealing! That jaunty beat, the feeling-so-free strings; I could really go for some skiing right now. Later on proceedings get a bit off-piste, briefly sounding like the theme from a 1970s American cop show. But with that done we're back on the snow and skiing! On a Sunday! Yeah!
Snooker is full of weird juxtapositions, so the BBC's theme fits the mould perfectly. It's jaunty, upbeat and a bit raucous, exactly the opposite of what follows when the sallow-skinned men begin slowly knocking coloured balls around that sweet green table, like children batting balloons about a meadow.
The track is an instrumental titled 'Drag Racer' and was written by the Doug Wood Band. In 1984 it was released as part of the 'BBC Snooker Themes EP' which, we shit you not, is an entirely genuine piece of sporting ephemera.
You don't have to be a Formula 1 fan to know this one. If you've ever been go-karting for a stag doo you'll have heard the sport's theme music played afterwards as you spray your mates with 3 champagne and wonder what sort of hell a pub crawl through rural Yorkshire is going to be.
The track is of course Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain' and has become synonymous with speed. Which is funny, because the first three minutes of the actual song are a fat slice of plodding acoustic-guitar-led seventies rock. It's not until that bass kicks in that things get serious: the building drums, the screaming guitar, it's enough to get your pulse up and the adrenaline flowing. Or maybe that's just the stag night entertainment beginning to take effect.
Prepare to be impressed: the theme music for the BBC's Wimbledon coverage was composed by the very same man who penned the Grandstand intro. Oh musical genius, thy name be Keith Mansfield! And it doesn't end there: Keith also contributed to U.S TV sports coverage and has more recently been sampled by Gnarls Barkley and Fatboy Slim. Fatboy bloody Slim!
Titled 'Light and Tuneful', it has a bouncy pomp to it that conjures up thoughts of strawberries and cream, grass banks named after tennis players, and Cliff Richard singing in the rain like a lost child crying for its mother in the supermarket. Don't worry, she'll find you one day, Cliff.
Written by Barry Stoller, it became the show's theme tune in 1970 and is now the only piece of music associated with MOTD. And it's hard to deny that there's something reassuring about the fact that such an old tune remains in use today. No modern remix or alternate version with Robbie Savage rapping over the top. No, the same piece of so-so music they had 45 years ago. While the soul might have dropped out the bottom of the British game and destroyed everything that your granddad held dear, at least this remains unchanged. This and Gary Lineker's eternally youthful face.
Today 5 Live, the digital 5 Live Sports Extra and Radio 4 are the national sports broadcasters for BBC Radio, with BBC local stations since their inception broadcasting their own versions of Sport on 5 and covering local midweek football matches. In a Rugby League playing area like Cumbria, Radio Cumbria and its counterparts in Lancashire and Yorkshire, have, since 1982, also broadcast live Rugby League commentaries involving local teams on Sunday afternoons.
However, this was not ideal, either for sports or music fans. In the summer of 1957 the BBC introduced another long-running BBC institution, Test Match Special on the Third Programme, where ball-by-ball commentaries could now be accommodated on a minority channel rather than the sporadic updates on the Light. The Third Programme was also used to carry some of the World Cup matches in the 1958 tournament.
Despite all the changes and moves over the last fifty years, certain things still remain the same. Sports Report still broadcasts at 5pm on Saturdays with the familiar and rousing Out of the Blue as its theme tune, while Sport on 5 continues the tradition of covering the second half of a football match and uses Number One as its theme tune, which dates back to Sport on 2 days.
I have been a sports fan all through my life and recall that there was a great commentator /anchor on BBC Saturday Special from 13.30 hrs GMT onwards who brought all sports news live from UK and abroad during 1970 tees. Can you tell me his name please
I was wondering whether anyone up there could recall the name of that great radio bbc saturday sports commentator in 1960-70,
Well i have been able to recall that it was Padee Felee. not sure though about the spellings
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