Thanks to everyone for the try replay music info, especially WillKav for the track titles, and davi for starting the thread. I thought Ten's use of music during their coverage was fantastic, with some of the best use of music in sports tv coverage alltime, and executive producer and director Alan Catt did a great job showcasing the sport. The music tracks they used really were perfect, as those particular tracks really added a huge amount of energy/atmosphere/drama to the audio/visual experience of watching a match. I was such a big fan of the try replay music up until 1990, then I was so disappointed they changed the music in 1991, then when Ten lost the rights the following year the coverage was stripped of that vintage vibe. Graeme Hughes was great, and I think its a shame he hasnt commentated more since 91. His calls of 1989 grand final and first 2 tests of 1990 Kangaroo Tour I thought were really special, during matches of such incredible atmosphere. Bill Anderson was an awesome analyst/sideline eye.
Ten also used commercial well known tunes such as 'On The Edge Of A Dream' by Joe Cocker for 1989 and 1990 grand final day coverage, as outros into ad breaks. At half time of 1990 grand final leading into the ad break, they had a graphic ON THE EDGE OF A DREAM with the tune playing, and they often mentioned this line as the theme of the day. Before kickoff in 1989 grand final, Graeme Hughes said, "they are on the edge of a dream, the Tigers today."
Remembering the 2GB Peter Peters/Greg Hartley coverage around 1989, a few minutes before kickoff they played music to intro the match of the day 3pm Saturday or Sunday kickoff, and it set the scene as 'game time'. Was it the first 45 seconds instrumental of Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor(with Peter Peters talking over it and it faded down before the songs vocals start)? If not it was something similar that really pumped me up as a young kid. Can anyone confirm the use of this track late 80s on 2GB just before Hollywood & Zorba started their call of a match, or was it something else?
The Ray Hadley/John Gibbs continuous call in the late 80s to mid 90s I remember had a very catchy try replay theme when Gibbs would call the replay, and I think a similar type of style to The Chase by Craig Palmer. Anyone remember this?
Now, to the 3 tracks used by Ten mid 80s until 1990 that we are not sure about that WillKav refers to above - we need to find them! All 3 are in this video -
The first track we need to find was used as try replay music mid 80s to 1990 but also as the intro to the NEC Big Game in 1985, a 40 second extended use of it in the video above before Ray Warren starts talking but it has crowd effects underneath. It reminds me of the style of Nick Ingman who did the Nines Wide World Of Sports show theme(Giants Causeway), and also reminds me of the style of Brian Bennett, who composed the track used by Nine for their cricket coverage(New Horizons). Also reminds me a bit of Theme For The Common Man by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
2nd track we need to find is at 23 minute mark of the video I linked to, and sounds similar in style to Craig Palmer.
3rd track we need to find is at 36 minute 30 seconds mark of the video I linked to and again sounds similar in style to Craig Palmer.
There is also a track in that video at 32 minute mark which I dont remember at all and not sure how often it was used after 1985.
