Seeking incidental music from 1980 Olympics (Moscow)

August 7, 2015 1:29 AM

In Australia (maybe elsewhere), Channel 7 played a short sequence as an outro to the Olympics coverage before a commercial break. It lasted 15-30 seconds or so. I'm trying to find a recording of this music.

The first part of it sounds (as best as I can remember it) like this.

(Press the red Play button in the bottom left corner to make the score play. No comments about my scoring please!)

The music was brassy, and the video always featured slow-motion shots of athletes; the one I remember most was a diver leaping backwards off a high board.

The music was NOT "Moscow" by Genghis Khan!

posted by flutable to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Is it this Olympic Overture by Robin Langdon?

(John Williams' Bugler's Dream was composed for the '84 Olympics, so it's probably not that, but linked just in case.)
posted by coppermoss at 5:07 AM on August 7, 2015

I think you're looking for Fanfare for the Common Man. There's lots of versions on YouTube but I can't find the one they always use on Australian sports broadcasts, which is a bit faster & rockier with guitars and shit.
posted by stellathon at 8:54 AM on August 7, 2015

Chuck Mangione composed the theme for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY. It was a smooth jazz funk number called "Give It All You Got". He also released a mellow version called "Give It All You Got, But Slowly". None of this quite adds up to what you're talking about, but the slow version seems close.
posted by modofo at 9:17 PM on August 7, 2015

Response by poster: Hmm. Checked all these and none of them are what I remember. Might try contacting the TV network and see if they have anything in their archives.

Thanks everyone for the help!
posted by flutable at 4:32 AM on August 9, 2015