Where did they get the background music for "The Magic Roundabout"?

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In pretty much every episode of the original series of The Magic Roundabout, there was some jazzy background music. For example, this one (from 1:50 and more from 3:27), this one (from 2:05) and this one (from 1:06 and 3:12).

Those are all reasonable pieces of music, but many episodes (which I can't find online, but such as the one where Brian and Dylan form a band, and Dougal ends up joining in, playing some pretty discordant "music", or the one where Mr MacHenry has "a sort of university of the air" where he teaches birds to sing) featured some fairly weird music that didn't sound like the sort of thing anyone would write for pleasure!

I just found this link, which shows the cassette we had which contained the two episodes I mentioned above ("Dougal The Musician" and "Birds", respectively). If anyone has this cassette, they'll know what I mean!

Anyone know where they got this music? Was it pre-existing, or did the BBC write it specially?

The latter seems unlikely, as (as far as I remember), when the BBC bought the original series, the French company who sold it to them did not include the scripts, and wanted extra money for those. Eric Thomson, unable to understand the French, turned the sound down and wrote his own scripts. It seems unlikely that the French would have supplied them with the music separately (which it needed to be, as it was often behind dialogue) as part of the price, and then tried to charge them extra for the scripts. This of course is not a proof, merely my speculation, so feel free to correct me if you know better.

Either way, does this music exist anywhere?






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Who wrote The Magic Roundabout music?

All music (16-51) composed by John Debney and Mark Thomas.

What is the name of the rabbit who appeared in The Magic Roundabout shown on the BBC in the 1960s?

Other characters include Zebedee (Z\xe9bulon), a talking jack-in-the-box with magical powers; Brian (Ambroise), a snail; Ermintrude (Azal\xe9e), a cow; and Dylan (named after Bob Dylan) (Flappy), a hippy rabbit.

Who was Dylan in The Magic Roundabout?

The Magic Roundabout (2005) - Bill Nighy as Dylan - IMDb.



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