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A&W theme song
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:15 pm
by thedeep42
so... i'm wondering if anyone ever took the time to write down the part for the old A&W restaraunt commercials with the big bear mascot skipping along with the kids and the burgers and the stuff... i'm thinking early-mid nineties? they've kept it around to some extent i think...i don't really watch tv. maybe it was only in canada. i can only remember the first few notes, and i wonder how many suppressed memories i could stir in my students if i whipped that bad boy out. so... if anyone has the part or scribbled it on a napkin and could send it, that'd put me in a happy place indeed. cheers
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:56 pm
by iiipopes
A&W root beer has that frosty mug taste....
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:29 pm
by Tom Holtz
ed wrote:Yeah, I can help - here's the part:
Ba dump ba dump
Bump
Ba dump ba dump bump
Ba dump ba dump
Ba dump
Ba dump bump
And repeat.
Enjoy!
Fourth note is a little flat.
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:14 pm
by Kutz
Contact Dennis Milelr at McGill University. He was the one who recorded it and ( as I understand) still gets royalties. Cute little theme...
Good luck,
DK
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:02 pm
by JB
That cutesy little theme was reworked into a one-movement tuba feature with orchestra – complete with cadenza. (A concerto in one movement, if you will.) Back in the mid-80s I had the chance to play it far too many times on our school shows. Kids and teachers seemed to love it, and it gave the tubist a front-row spot for a tune.
Wonder who did the arrangement -- it was in manuscript form rather than published. Something tells me it might have initially been done for someone in Western Canada.