My Music

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My Music
Genre	Musical Humorous panel game
Running time	30 mins
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	English
Home station	BBC Home Service and BBC Radio 4
TV adaptations	BBC2 (1979-1983)
Starring	(Chair) Steve Race (1967-94) (Panellists) Frank Muir (1967-94) David Franklin (1967-73) John Amis (1974-94) Denis Norden (1967-94) Ian Wallace (1967-94)
Creators	Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Producers	Tony Shryane, Bobby Jaye, Pete Atkin, Richard Edis
Air dates	January 3, 1967 to January 24, 1994
No. of series	29
No. of episodes	520+
Opening theme	1. 1967-75 Composed by Graham Dalley 2. 1976-82 Composed by Graham Dalley; arranged by ? 3. 1983-94 Composed by Graham Dalley; arranged by ?

My Music was a radio panel show which premiered on the BBC Home Service on January 3, 1967. It was a companion program to My Word!, and like that show featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir. It was also broadcast via the BBC World Service. There was also a short television series on BBC2.

My Music followed My Word!'s pattern of two teams of two competing in a series of challenges, based this time on music rather than words. Again, the quiz element was subordinate to the entertainment. In later years, each episode featured a final round in which each contestant was required to sing a song, regardless of his vocal ability. Initially, this was a genuine test of whether the contestants knew the songs, but later the songs were always ones that they were certain to know. Indeed, towards the end Denis Norden decided what song he would sing, supplying some rather bizarre ones. Many of these were written by the English music hall songwriters R. P. Weston and Bert Lee.

The teams were

1967-1973: Ian Wallace and Denis Norden versus David Franklin and Frank Muir
1974-1994: Ian Wallace and Denis Norden versus John Amis and Frank Muir

The show was hosted for its entire run by composer Steve Race, who also set the challenges (after an early period in which they were set by series creator Edward J. Mason) and provided piano accompaniment where appropriate (except in the first five series, in which accompaniment was provided by Graham Dalley on mellotron). Neither Race nor Wallace missed a single one of the more than 520 episodes broadcast.

Graham Dalley, the series' first accompanist, also composed the signature tune,^[1] and his original mellotron version was used from 1967-75.^[2] A new arrangement of the theme, featuring trumpets, bass guitar, electric guitar, conga drums, and cabasa,^[3] was used from 1976,^[2] and was succeeded in 1983 by an arrangement for piano.^[2]

Producers of the series included Tony Shryane and Pete Atkin.

The show was last recorded in November 1993 and broadcast in January 1994. It is still rerun in The UK on BBC7, in Australia and the United States. In the US the show is syndicated on the WFMT radio network.

[edit] References

^ "untitled episode". My Music. No. 3, season 12. 18 minutes in.
^ ^a ^b ^c My Music (PDF). The Global British Comedy Collaborative (2007-09-24). Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
^ "untitled episode". My Music. No. 3, season 12. 17 minutes in.