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July 26th, 2009 by admin | Filed under Sports.love2register2 asked:
I'm definitely not what you'd call a sports fan but I've been in love with this promo since I saw it again as an adult. Not exactly sure why, but probably some combination of the epic music & blown-up film images (why do they both seem so beautiful?), and the flashback to saturday afternoons in the 70's. As for the show itself, my only real memory is wishing they would finally feature cliff diving. ... wide world sports promo ad commercial tv television show 70s 70's 1970s 1970's ...
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You did a hell of a job. Thanks for the memories.
Have you found the 1 min version? Good stuff.
I love the theme song from WWofS. I remember this from the early 70′s and always hoped there was gymnastics on the show. Even when there was not, I still loved to listen to this song. Always got my bllod pumping and my heart racing.
I’ve always liked the promo better than the intro. Sundays at our house always included the WW of Sports. Thanks for posting.
Ah, the glamor sports of yesteryear: bronco busting! demolition derby! barrel jumping! log rolling!
Like others here, I loved hearing this music and seeing this commercial when I was a kid. What a great rush to see and hear this again tonight, 37 years later. Thank you for that great memory, and for posting it here, so I could dislodge it! Those images and notes have been forever burned in my mind. NOT a bad thing, either!
~B
(production house music?)
It was on YouTube about a year ago, but then was yanked. If you find it please post it!
There is a 60 second version, I’m trying to find a copy
I designed this promo annd edited it. It was footage from 26 shows. It was done in 1972.
It won best edited commercial that year at the clio awards.
Jeff Dell
The footage of Bob Seagren at Echo Summit is
interesting as the pole vaulter would later win ABC’s first “Superstars”!
As idahovandal already pointed out, there’s some footage culled from the men’s 1968 U.S.T&F Olympic Trials so it likely came out before the ’70s came out of the blocks.
Speaking of NowhereMan1966′s aforementioned lumberjacks and the clips of Jim Hines winning the 100 trials here, check out the video I made for this last Halloween.
Does anyone know what year this promo came out? 1970,71,72?
you’re welcome! Sorry, I don’t have a longer version.
My God, I’ve been wanting to hear this music for YEARS!!! Do you, by chance have the FULL promo?
Thank you so much for filling another part of my memories!!
I completely agree!!!
Thank you for posting this! I see that many who have commented on this had the “Saturday Afternoon Experience” that I grew up with in the late 60′s/early to mid 70′s…American Bandstand, Soul Train, Wide World of Sports (which I didn’t watch too often, but loved the theme when I heard it on TV, when my dad or grandfather watched it) I miss those days. I love the background music too in all these old sports shows…baseball and football highlights too.I have the box set of Sam Spence’s music.
I always thought the Wide World of Sports was cool, you saw many different types of sport, I even saw a race between two lumberjacks on how fast they can cut through a tree after climbing in. I also dig those old NASCAR autos too.
RIP, Jim McCay, you’ll be missed, you covered the Olympics the best. I think overall ABC had the best Olympic coverage, NBC kind of sucks, they hop too quick from event to event.
Longtime Wide World of Sports commentator Jim McKay died today at 86. RIP
WOW! Forgot about that intro,thanks a ton for posting it,GREAT STuff RIP Jim McKay!
Jim McKay died today so I wanted to look at the memories of this great show. Even if you were not a sports fan, this show was still very cool and fun to watch.
Must have been ’68 or ’69 cause there is a lot of footage from the 1968 US Track and Field Olympic Trials (Beamon, Fosbury, Seagren, Carlos).
hey!!!! i was about 3 or 4 when this was out ! cool shit dude!!! yea loves theme at golf tourney’s!lol!!!
There was actually a longer version of this promo, as well. Both are very well done!
This was a very hip and soulful theme commissioned to replace the 60′s “Agony of Defeat” march for a slicker `70s campaign. I LOVE this brief burst of music. It brings back fond memories of Saturdays spent watching everything from “Multiplication Rock” to “Soul Train” before heading out into the afternoon sun on my banana seat bike (w/ handlebar radio) for adventures unknown. The music has a Burt Bacharach/Herb Alpert feel as memorable as Burt’s “ABC Movie of the Week” theme (a.k.a. “Nikki”).
This was a very hip and soulful theme that was commissioned to update the ol’ “Agony of Defeat” track as the 60s segued to the 70s. I always loved this piece of music and the memories it conjures – right up there with other Saturday morning into afternoon rituals like Multilication Rock, The Black Experience, Scooby Doo, the Jackson 5ive cartoon, Lance Link, American Bandstand and Soul Train. It has a Burt Bacharach/Herb Alpert feel similar to Burt’s ABC Movie of the Week theme (a.k.a. “Nikki”).