I just listened to this and it literally broke me down - not just because it reminds me of my childhood in Maryland, but because of the class and beauty of it. And the gulf from this, with its earnest, relaxed, beautiful harmony to the state our society is in now; it's very hard to bear. So it's a work of art now, a cultural artifact and a very valuable one. Thank you so much for this beautiful mastered video.
@cinegraphic
6 жыл бұрын
Jack, reading your comments makes all of the hours I put into editing this, well worth it. Thank you so very much for your touching thoughts.
@jackwhyte1
6 жыл бұрын
It's acting on me like Proust's Madeleine - I posted a link to it on Facebook and commented that there is a whole lost world in it. I'm a musician and singer myself, and the quality of this recording is breathtaking, the fidelity as well as the ingenious intelligence of it. I browsed down through the comments and saw one that says it was produced in 1964. Which means shortly after the Kennedy assassination. It conveys an utter seriousness along with warmth, kindness, and respect. This was still a time when, this makes clear, broadcasters felt they had to ask politely to be invited into your home, felt they were serving their listeners. It's all in there. Your video along with it, of the Washington that was rapidly disappearing at that time, is a terrific complement. My parents, aunts and uncles, all were saddened even in 1964 by how much of what they had loved about Washington was disappearing. The true nature of a work of art is that it inspires this sort of cascade of thinking and feeling, you can't pin it down. I will be listening, thinking and being moved by this many more times. Thank you once again, it's gorgeous.
@cinegraphic
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, the music is the finest "jingle" ever composed. It truly inspired me to dig through my archives for the appropriate footage.
@jackwhyte1
6 жыл бұрын
Your footage, and how you've edited it, makes this come to life. If I'd found the jingle and listened without footage, I would have been moved because I never really listened to the music with the attention necessary to realize how fine it is, or maybe I didn't yet have the sensibility to know back then. But your footage lifts it up to another level entirely, restoring a whole zeitgeist for those of us who remember living in the US then. It's really masterly work - beyond professional. I consider your composition of it a work of fine art. It acts as a vital touchstone for trying to understand larger questions about what so many of us feel we've lost in our society, and is a hint to the true nature of that loss. Not merely nostalgia, these are urgent questions today. A million ideas, and not enough space to put them in a comment.
@e.a.m.6382
6 жыл бұрын
Jack, thank you so much for your eloquent writing about this charming and unforgettable theme music. Everything you wrote perfectly summarizes the changes in our society that are rarely articulated with your stunning clarity of insight. Having grown up in Washington and Northern Virginia, not only does the music evoke the exact same feelings for me, but your writing in this post and the one that follows (below) are equally as profound and touching as is this beautiful orchestration. Your reference to Proust says everything about the power of great music and in particular this particularly memorable recording, which invites reflection on the importance of community, tradition, gratitude and life itself. As moved as I am by this beautiful melody and nostalgic imagery, your thoughtful care in composing this verbal tribute to the beloved city of my childhood and beyond elicits the same surge of emotional yearning. I too can be moved to tears by the lost dignity of public expression, once far more pervasive than rare. My appreciation to you is heartfelt. (and to "Cinegraphic").
@halgreen85
11 жыл бұрын
Since I was program manager at WMAL when we produced this theme, I get a real kick out of seeing and hearing it here. Thanks.
@jackwhyte1
6 жыл бұрын
This is so gorgeous, and so moving. I'd be very interested to know who created this gorgeous work - this is like Proust's Madeleine - it seems not just to bring back the memory of WMAL but of the entire ethos of that time and place.
@Nostaljack
4 жыл бұрын
@@jackwhyte1 The tune was written by Hugh Heller. I don't know who the singers are. Magical, isn't it?
@charleslewis7470
4 жыл бұрын
Hal, any chance you can at least point me in the right direction in terms of finding out the composer, arranger, lyricist, song' official title, name of the vocal group (if any - they were probably local studio types)?
@drbobaudio
11 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful. Brings back so many memories of this great station. As a former WMAL engineer, I played that anthem many times on the air, but seeing the video here made it twice as special. Thanks for the posting.
@danocable
Жыл бұрын
The bunny man and weirdo’s hurting us kids yeah I had a whole different experience. So when I hear old wmal I feel I could be attacked again. Just saying
@danocable
Жыл бұрын
I thought Ed walker could be weird, it was probably my PTSD from being abused by weirdo’s.
@00ddvw
5 жыл бұрын
I also grew up with WMAL. I was present at the 10 year anniversary of H&W morning show (I in grade school, but yeah, I'm that old). This particular jingle has haunted me since those days- I used to listen to Felix Grant in the evenings, and he played this often. I thought it was something by "Singers Unlimited," the harmonies were so rich. Like Jack, listening to this does make me sad on some level. We sure were a different place then. Not better, just different. I'll be sharing this on Facebook before Tuesday's election, so my friends might be able to reconnect with their better angels before they do "the easy thing..."
@justbobism
4 жыл бұрын
It does sound like a Gene Puerling arrangement...
@JohnKelm
12 жыл бұрын
I used to hear this from my clock radio every night at midnight when I was in high school. As I heard this, I was anticipating the voice of Bill Mayhugh to usher in the overnight.
@LaCanadaMike
11 жыл бұрын
We moved to Fairfax in January 1963 from Ohio and I used to hear this then. I don't think I have heard it in 50 years. Thank you so much for the tears of nostalgia.
@WSenator1
3 жыл бұрын
This anthem would play on WMAL at midnight, and when I was too young, in junior high school, to stay up, I'd sneak my transistor radio under the bedsheets and listen to it. I was ready for a great night's sleep then.
@dcaswual
4 жыл бұрын
My father was popular DC radio and television personality in the 50's. I grew up listening to this jingle before heading off to school on foot and every morning in between. Brings back memories. Thank you for posting!
@charleslewis7470
4 жыл бұрын
Jill, I desperately want to know who wrote and arranged this, the name (if any) of the vocal group, and the name (if any) of the song
@Grgran381
12 жыл бұрын
I grew up in DC--moved there in 1942 and lived there until 1972. Although I have lived far, far away from DC for 40 years, I'm still very homesick! This video brings back a lot of those memories--the trolleys, shopping on F Street, seeing the Old Vic Company perform "MacBeth" at the National Theater when I was a junior in high school, having lunch at the Neptune Room....I know things are vastly different there now, but I sure miss those days!
@JohnKelm
11 жыл бұрын
WMAL was such a proponent of music, particularly jazz, in the public schools. Their live broadcast of Bands of Tomorrow competition (with Bill Mayhugh as MC) was a highlight of the year.
@davidfyre2963
8 жыл бұрын
Belmont Heights Little Italy. NW, Washington, D.C. I can still remember when it was a clean and beautiful City. Going Downtown and seeing all the beautiful Christmas lights all lit up especially at the White House. And watching the President light the National Christmas Tree. It was very safe and beautiful back in those days. It saddens me that it is not like that any longer. But it is still Home.
@OSTARAEB4
5 жыл бұрын
David, the city is coming back. P Street and Fourteenth Street are much better than twenty or thirty years ago.
@rickwestlake3048
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this! IIRC, I first heard it in the mid-Sixties, listening to "the Album Sound" of Felix Grant -- Washington's original "Smooth Jazz," and also the DJ who introduced Bossa Nova to the Washington area. WMAL has abandoned music, as well as the AM broadcast band. but "Radio 63" lives on in my memory (with Harden and Weaver!)
@popichoochoo
10 жыл бұрын
yes this brings back fond memories for me. Grew up listening to it
@shnewsman
14 жыл бұрын
You had to be here to understand what all that meant. An entire era in 2:00.
@johnnoone4323
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video. I was born in DC in the 1950's and my family is from there.
@kwg1
12 жыл бұрын
"You are listening to Felix Grant with the album sound till midnight" --anybody remember that?
@matrox
7 жыл бұрын
I remember Felix Grant and his easy listening Jazz Show, Bill Mayhugh on another station had a similar show called G-strings in the 1970s-80s.
@rockvilleraven
6 жыл бұрын
Music, Memories and Mayhugh.
@jorgejefferson8251
6 жыл бұрын
on his last night on the air, i drove around downtown D.C. listening to to the Felix Grant show. i grew up in the city listening to WMAL radio. hearing this song brings back very good feelings.
@charleslewis7470
4 жыл бұрын
I sure remember that
@okeebassdudes
14 жыл бұрын
great video on my hometown yes im a washingtonian and proud of it C&O canal i remember it well walked it with the cub scouts in the 60's thanks for sharing
@EdmundStAustell
12 жыл бұрын
What a lovely and nostalgic blast from the past this is. This is very much the way I feel about WLW in Cincinnati. My brother and I used like in our beds at night and at midnight listen to the chanting monks at Mount Saint Mary's Seminary back in the 1950's. This is great.
@lesmyers6068
10 ай бұрын
Ohhhhh wow- this brought back many memories! That melodic theme was so ingrained that it is a part of my DNA! I'll echo what Jack Whyte wrote. I can hear - in my mind's eye, Harden and Weaver jumping in at the end of the jingle with more of their smile-a-mile chatter. Thanks for posting this!
@cinegraphic
10 ай бұрын
It's so nice to know that I'm not the only one who loved this piece of music. Those were priceless times, were they not!?
@matrox
7 жыл бұрын
I remember this theme song when I was a kid growing up.
@brucelafleur6446
11 жыл бұрын
Thank you Hal. My dad listened to Harden and Weaver everyday on the way work and school. Some how this amazing theme makes me remember snowy Washington winter weekends near Christmas.
@JRNipper
12 жыл бұрын
Yep, I found a really nice 30 minute air check tape that was recorded by Bill Trumbull in 1967 that has a couple of the faster jingles. I will post them on YT soon.
@Stender_
3 жыл бұрын
That was beautiful! I cried on the inside! This video shows me of how blessed I am to live in a such a conveniently located metropolitan area. Love and thanks, form Great Falls, NOVA!
@ShirleyGrande
4 ай бұрын
Really nice I remember when I was very young went there it was clean not scared of guns and people who looked bad thanks I needed a reminder
@justbobism
11 жыл бұрын
When I was in stage band in high school we had an arrangement of this we played. I suspect it was sent out as a freebie to area schools.
@charleslewis7470
4 жыл бұрын
Any chance that experience taught you the tune's title, composer, lyricist, arranger, and/or name of the vocal group (probably just some talented local studio-ers)?
@justbobism
4 жыл бұрын
Charles Lewis wish I could say it did. I always kind of knew it as the WMAL radio theme.
@charleslewis7470
4 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a quick reply! Imagine how fast you'da answered if you knew those items
@justbobism
4 жыл бұрын
@@charleslewis7470 Ha! Although it's the people that generally know nothing that respond fastest and loudest. That being said - I love this music and like you I wish I knew the writer and even more, the arranger of the jazz band version (it was a vocal, I think) that we had in high school.
@JenniferDrake-pn7ns
20 күн бұрын
A rather whimsical reminiscence that evokes a sense of poignant nostalgia. Foxhall et al✨
@PaulGreen11
3 жыл бұрын
DC was special in the early '70s, haunting memories of JFK and RFK.
@thespeez
6 жыл бұрын
I think I remember hearing this once as a kid on H&W's show.
@charlesennis9079
12 жыл бұрын
This without a doubt the greatest radio jingle of all time. It perfectly describes the history and majesty of our capitol city. I contacted Tom gauger a few years ago to find out who made it and who has the rights to it. It would be the perfect anthem for Washington D.C.. . all you have to do is clip the 'WMAL " tag at the end. ( If Wmal would permit it)
@uplinkal
6 жыл бұрын
Isn't this a Hugh Heller Production? I remember hearing it all the time on WMAL in the 70s
@Nostaljack
4 жыл бұрын
@@uplinkal I already "thumbed you up" but yes, it was absolutely Hugh Heller.
@charleslewis7470
4 жыл бұрын
Did Heller write it? If not, who?
@ostaraeb4293
9 жыл бұрын
How beautiful! The Nat Cap! What a beautiful city. Small, but the power and beauty is palpable.
@cinegraphic
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks Bob. I hope that it brought back some great memories for you.
@raiphdude7
13 жыл бұрын
THIS IS INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL
@robertmcceney4171
4 ай бұрын
I wish we could bring back Harden and Weaver. I felt privileged to have grown up with them.
@kathyflorcruz552
4 жыл бұрын
Lovely.
@lynnnash3332
9 жыл бұрын
In the late sixties or seventies, WMAL's owners, The Evening Star Broadcasting Company, also had a station in Lynchburg, Virginia, WLVA. They did another version of this song/tune with lyrics for Central Virginia and WLVA. Is my memory correct and does anyone know where I can hear that jingle? By the way, I have an original copy of the 7" 33.3 rpm LP vinyl promotional record you are hearing here. Given to me personally by Bill Trumbull at the station. A nice man.
@danbayne2242
5 жыл бұрын
I delivered the Evening Star Newspaper in the sixties and WMAL had a segment in the afternoon called Know Your Star Carrier. I went down to the station (when it was upstairs over a strip mall on Connecticut Ave.) when I was 11 years old and recorded my interview with Bill Trumbull. It aired the following week and I was a WMAL listener from then until Frank Harden retired after Jackson Weaver passed away. And you're right, Bill was a very nice man.
@storylinemotionpics
14 жыл бұрын
What great footage of D.C.! I am looking for street scenes of D.C. from the mid 60s - any advice as to where I might find any?
@CurzonRoad
12 жыл бұрын
@kwg1 Thanks very much to CineGraphic for this vintage treasure! If anyone has it would of course be nice to hear the quicker version, too! PS: "WMAL.... have-a-groovy-weekend!"
@OSTARAEB4
Жыл бұрын
Bring this back!
@gigmeister53
11 жыл бұрын
Yep - although I didn't appreciate jazz until much later.
@dcbandnerd
13 жыл бұрын
If this doesn't make you proud to be a Washingtonian, you might as well just move to Baltimore or something.
@kwg1
11 жыл бұрын
Still can't find the quicker version ...oh well some things are just meant to be in our memories I guess.
@fancynot
14 жыл бұрын
lovely indeed ! ?
@Roland0554
6 жыл бұрын
Just heard the first ~ 60 seconds of this on a radio show (Bob's Slacktime Funhouse, WREK. org, Atlanta) and it inspired me to look for it on youtube since I remember it from "back in the day." Remember Harden and Weaver?
@gigmeister53
11 жыл бұрын
How great to hear this song again after so many years. I'm surprised this didn't become the official DC anthem, but then such finely crafted music and lyrics would not be appreciated today. Does anyone know who wrote it?
@Nostaljack
6 жыл бұрын
The WMAL theme, "We Like to Be in Washington" was written by jingle writer, Hugh Heller. Great song!
@charleslewis7470
4 жыл бұрын
Wow! My answer was hidden under gigmeister's post the whole time. Thanks. But did he also write the music and arrange the vocals?
@rockvilleraven
5 жыл бұрын
As of 7-1-2019, WMAL flipped to ESPN radio sports and sadly flipped their call letters to WSBN ending the longest association of call letters with a local DC radio frequency. 105.9 FM is still WMAL, both stations along with WTEM will be part of the Redskins radio network.
@kwg1
12 жыл бұрын
That would be awsome - thanks JRNipper
@charleslewis7470
4 жыл бұрын
DJ Jim Evans - who played/sang his own theme song - w/ new current-event-based comic lyrics each day - used to parody part of this as, "in the Muriels of marble, and the monuments are stoned"; like to know the title, vocal group name (tho probably just anonymous studio types), + composer, lyricist, arranger
@kwg1
12 жыл бұрын
Grew up in DC area in the mid 60s. I remember this. Very nice, thanks for the memories. There was a shorter, quicker version of this same jingle that they would use too but I can't seem to find it anywhere? Anybody know where it could be found? Thanks again.
@HunterMann
14 жыл бұрын
Wow, rare to hear a long jingle(swingle) like this! Kind of vocaleze style, very cool. The footage is well cut & timed with the lyrics too. Was there a little humor meant at 0:44 ... ? House Where Lincoln Died then the lyric "and it lingers in the air"...
@danocable
Жыл бұрын
To me it’s bizarre. But nice. They were weird time’s late sixties and early seventies in Washington. 🤔
@jimporter2571
19 күн бұрын
Anyone remember Robert Means ?
@cinegraphic
11 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, Hal. Do you remember the year you first started using this anthem?
@charleslewis7470
4 жыл бұрын
As a bit of a music historian, plus a connoisseur of this genre, I'd be much obliged if someone could inform me of this tune's official title, the name (if any ) of the vocal group, plus (most importantly) its composer, lyricist, and arranger.
@AustinCasey
10 ай бұрын
Unbelievable
@cinegraphic
10 ай бұрын
Thank you, I think. 🤣
@blacktar467899
2 жыл бұрын
Is this a STEREO recording from 1949, or a remix?
@cinegraphic
2 жыл бұрын
The footage is from 49, the anthem is from the 60s.
@blacktar467899
2 жыл бұрын
@@cinegraphic Yeah, I should have read further through the comments before posting. I live in the area, btw, but way too young to remember this. Pity.
@ronaldwilliamson4762
9 жыл бұрын
Jingle from 1964.
@charleslewis7470
4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to know who wrote it, performed it, its title, if any
@blacktar467899
2 жыл бұрын
thanks. you answered a question I asked the OP.
@blacktar467899
2 жыл бұрын
@@charleslewis7470 It was probably the PAMS crew in Dallas.
@danocable
Жыл бұрын
A lot of serial killer weirdo’s dressing up like hippies and killing woman. The bunny man of Fairfax county. We saw him in the woods and he chased us down sleepy hollow rd past congretional school those of you from the area know. Bizarre.
@johnplink
12 жыл бұрын
Take a look here for the logo: logos.wikia.com/wiki/WMAL_(AM)
@MrMike0553
13 жыл бұрын
The reason this lovely theme is not played now is because WMAL has been debased into a hate and fear mongering forum for right-wing ranters. I too miss the "Joy Boys" and "Hardin and Weaver."
@dave7372
10 жыл бұрын
I listened to the station for a long time about 40 yrs. Know, but after Hannady left and I think that this Mikele Savage well leave foe all I hear is about his Book he wrote or how he got blacked ball crom Fox hell I dont wont to know I like for him or the station talk about today's enterest not selling his book
@stevenking2980
9 жыл бұрын
You're right! That's all he talks about! And all hannity talks about is a bunch of words and no meaning. He repeats himself over and over day after day. He says "unbelievable" every other word. Those two are very annoying. They have Chris Plante now. He is the best, smartest, and most entertaining guy on the radio period!
@matrox
7 жыл бұрын
Huh??
@danocable
Жыл бұрын
😰😱😢🤫
@libertyann439
4 жыл бұрын
I came here in the 90s. Wish I could have seen it then. No Trump or metal detectors. And you could drive by the White House.
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