- Heavy Action
"Heavy Action" is a piece of music composed by
Johnny Pearson composed for the BBC's television series "Superstars ", and also used as the theme music for the ABC andESPN 's "Monday Night Football "."Monday Night Football"
In 1971, ABC acquired the rights to use "Heavy Action" as the opening theme music to "Monday Night Football", [http://www.80stvthemes.com/ra/MONDAYNITE.ra] though it would not become the theme proper until 1989. In 1989,
Edd Kalehoff arranged an entirely new recording of "Heavy Action" [http://www.80stvthemes.com/ra/MNF89.ra] for the final years of "Monday Night Football" on ABC. It was also used as the background music during a halftime segment asHoward Cosell narrated highlights of the previous Sunday's games.In 2006, a team of composers comprised of
Robert Anthony Navarro ,Cris Velasco ,Sven Spieker ,Sascha Dikiciyan andChris Rickwood were hired byAssociated Production Music (APM) to arrange yet another entirely new recording of "Heavy Action" for the rebirth of "Monday Night Football" onESPN .FM Holiday Network
Three years after its arrival on "Monday Night Football", this same music was used as the theme for the now defunct syndicated
SFM Holiday Network monthly offering of family feature films.Fact|date=July 2008"Ten Who Dared"
The music was also used as the theme for the American television show "
Ten Who Dared " (1976), which was a reworking of the BBC series "The Explorers " (1975).References
External links
* [http://www.afana.org/2000chrono.htm Background on "Ten Who Dared" ]
* [http://www.personal.u-net.com/~carnfort/Professionals/martin.htm Filmography of Martin Shaw, confirming the connection between "Superstars" and "Ten Who Dared"]
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