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From: barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.tv.drwho
Subject: re: THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY signature tune
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 13:05:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 13 13:05:10 1985
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In article <704@tellab1.UUCP> barth@tellab3.UUCP (Barth Richards) (me)
writes:

>I remember seeing an article, either in net.music or net.tv.drwho asking if
>anyone knew where one could get the ORIGINAL version of the HITHIKER'S
>GUIDE TO THE GALAXY theme music (the version used in the radio series).
>Since I regularly read both nets and have not seen a follow-up, I have to
>assume the question was never answered.
>
>In the new HITCHHIKER'S book (the one with the complete set of the original
>radio scripts), a footnote says that Douglas Adams spent much time
>searching for the right signature tune for the radio series, and that he
>had a specific idea of what he wanted in mind. He was looking for "an
>electronic piece" but it had to have a banjo in it, because it would lend a
>certian "on-the-road/hitchhiking" feel to the show. He found the piece he
>was looking for in "The Journey of the Sorcerer" from (now get this) the
>Eagles album ONE OF THESE NIGHTS.
>
>I have yet to independently verify this, but I thought that whoever had
>asked would like to know.

I obtained a copy of the album and checked this out.

Bizarre as it may seem, it is true.