BBC Radiophonic Music

BBC Radiophonic Music is the first compilation of music released by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It featured music by three of the Workshop's most prominent composers, John Baker, David Cain, and Delia Derbyshire. The album was originally released by BBC Radio Enterprises in 1968 to coincide with the Workshop's 10th anniversary[1] and later re-released in 1971 on the BBC Records label.

BBC Radiophonic Music
Compilation album by
Released1968
Recorded1962–1968
GenreElectronic music, library music
Length47:29
LabelBBC Records
ProducerJohn Baker, David Cain, Delia Derbyshire
BBC Radiophonic Workshop chronology
BBC Radiophonic Music
(1968)
Fourth Dimension
(1973)

In 2002, the compilation was remastered by Mark Ayres, and re-released with two bonus Derbyshire songs; the original composition "Time to Go" and her version of "Happy Birthday". For the 2003 release of Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the 2002 remasters of this compilation were combined with Ayres' 2002 remasters of the 1975 compilation The Radiophonic Workshop, and the entire set was resequenced.

The music on BBC Radiophonic Music varied between incidental music and signature tunes, which had been used by various BBC programmes, as well as some radio jingles. The selection demonstrated many of the methods used by the composers at the Radiophonic Workshop, including musique concrète tape editing and their use of primitive early electronic oscillators. It featured mostly original compositions, except for Baker's arrangements of the traditional "Boys and Girls" and "The Frogs Wooing", and Derbyshire's version of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Air".

It is to be reissued as part of the Record Store Day exclusive 6-CD box set Four Albums 1968 - 1978[2][3] 29 August 2020.

Track listing

Original
track
no.
2002
track
no.
2003
track
no.
ArtistTrack nameYear
11E5David Cain"Radio Sheffield"1967
22C1John Baker"Radio Nottingham"1968
33C9John Baker"Boys and Girls"
44A1Delia Derbyshire"Mattachin"
55A6Delia Derbyshire"Pot au Feu"
66C6John Baker"Time and Tune"
77D9John Baker"Tomorrow's World"1965
88D2John Baker"Reading Your Letters"
99B1Delia Derbyshire"Blue Veils and Golden Sands"
1010C8John Baker"The Missing Jewel"
1111E3David Cain"Artbeat"
1212D1John Baker"Fresh Start"
1313D10John Baker"Christmas Commercial"
1414C5John Baker"Sea Sports"
1515B2Delia Derbyshire"The Delian Mode"
16A2Delia Derbyshire"Happy Birthday"
1617C10John Baker"The Frogs Wooing"
1718C2John Baker"Milky Way"
1819D6John Baker"Structures"
1920C11John Baker"New Worlds"
2021A4Delia Derbyshire"Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO"
2122C7John Baker"Festival Time"
2223C3John Baker"The Chase"
2324B3Delia Derbyshire"Towards Tomorrow"
2425D3John Baker"Quiz Time"
2526D4John Baker"P.I.G.S."
2627E2David Cain"Autumn and Winter"
2728A5Delia Derbyshire"Door to Door"
2829C4John Baker"Factors"
2930E4David Cain"War of the Worlds"
3031E1David Cain"Crossbeat"
3132A3Delia Derbyshire"Air"
33A7Delia Derbyshire"Time to Go"

References

  1. Niebur, Louis (11 November 2010). Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. OUP USA. p. 124. ISBN 9780195368406. While the commercial release of the album, dubbed "the Pink Album" because of the garish sleeve, was timed to coincide with the Workshop's anniversary, the collection itself had been internally circulating within the BBC for use as stock music for at least two years, making many of the tunes contained within already familiar to audiences.
  2. "BBC Radiophonic Workshop, The - Record Store Day". recordstoreday.co.uk.
  3. "Silva Screen Records". www.silvascreen.com.


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