| Television Themes | ||||
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| Released | 5 October 2018 | |||
| Recorded | 2017–2018 | |||
| Label | Acid Jazz Records | |||
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| The Times |   [1] |
Television Themes is the seventh studio album by English comedian and musician Matt Berry, released in October 2018 by Acid Jazz Records. [2] The album includes Berry's reworked versions of television theme tunes from the 1960s to the 1980s. [3] It reached number 38 in the UK Albums Chart. [4]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Are You Being Served?" | David Croft, Ronnie Hazlehurst | 2:23 |
| 2. | "The Good Life" | Burt Rhodes | 2:06 |
| 3. | "London Weekend Television" | Harry Rabinowitz | 0:08 |
| 4. | "Blankety Blank" | Ronnie Hazlehurst | 1:59 |
| 5. | "Top of the Pops" (Yellow Pearl by Phil Lynott) | Phil Lynott, Midge Ure | 3:06 |
| 6. | "Picture Box" | Jacques Lasry | 2:57 |
| 7. | "The Liver Birds" (On A Mountain Stands A lady by The Scaffold) | John Gorman, Roger McGough, Mike McGear | 3:09 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8. | "Thames Television" (Salute to Thames) | John Hawksworth | 0:08 |
| 9. | "Rainbow" | Traditional, arranged by Hugh Portnow, Hugh Fraser, Tim Thomas | 2:47 |
| 10. | "Doctor Who" | Ron Grainer | 3:19 |
| 11. | "Wildtrak [lower-alpha 1] " (Florida Fantasy from the soundtrack of Midnight Cowboy) | John Barry | 2:15 |
| 12. | "World in Action" | Jonathan Weston, Shawn Phillips | 2:43 |
| 13. | "Sorry" | Gaynor Colbourn, Hugh Wisdom | 2:43 |
| 14. | "Open University" | Leonard Salzedo | 0:37 |
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