# I KNEW that Olympic music sounded familiar **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-that-olympic-music-sounded-familiar/260437 "2004-08-18T19:40:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-that-olympic-music-sounded-familiar/260437/21 "2004-08-19T16:42:44Z")
They used the \*Brisco \* music for the last Olympics too. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-that-olympic-music-sounded-familiar/260437/22 "2004-08-19T16:45:58Z")
> [@Winston Bongo](#): > > Bruce Campbell may be forever famous for the \*Evil Dead \* films, but it was \*Brisco County \* that really proved he could play a convincing lead role in a comic/drama series. Does anyone know if the show has been released on DVD? > > I think the music suits the Olympics pretty well, but it still puts a little tear in my eye for _Brisco_. šŸ˜› Iā€™m a huge Bruce and Brisco County fan too. As of now, the show is NOT on DVD, but it seems almost inevitable that itā€™ll get released eventually. Iā€™ll be first in line when it does! I remember it being a terrific western-comedy, with bizarre sci-fi touches (almost like a ā€œgoodā€ version of the horrible Wild Wild West movie). ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-that-olympic-music-sounded-familiar/260437/23 "2004-08-20T01:22:43Z")
> [@The Scrivener](#): > > I miss the particular recording of the Olympic theme that was used in the '70ā€™s (and into the early '80ā€™s, I think) onā€¦ ABC? NBC? It was crisp, brash, and downright militaristic, with heavy timpani drumming and lots of trumpets. Iā€™m sure Iā€™ve heard this one too (assuming Iā€™m thinking of the right one). ---
**Author:** ![nancyflute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@nancyflute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nancyflute)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-that-olympic-music-sounded-familiar/260437/24 "2004-08-24T18:05:41Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > The Olympics broadcast uses all variety of music (from classical to rock to anthemic scores) as the purpose suits them. Actually, all sorts of sports broadcast and highlight shows do. Too soon forgotten: Chuck Mangione wrote the theme (c. 1980) for the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, entitled ā€œGive It All You Got.ā€ Not the best grammar, but thatā€™s the way people talk, sooo . . . Oh. It also won an Emmy. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-that-olympic-music-sounded-familiar/260437/25 "2004-08-24T19:20:15Z")
> [@Only Mostly Dead](#): > > THIS IS THE O-LYM-PIC THEME SONG (first phrase) > IT IS THE THEME SONG OF THE O-LY-YM-PICSā€¦ (second phrase) Get out of my head!! Iā€™ve been singing the same thing!! (Do you also sing ā€œItā€™s a bird, Itā€™s a plane, Itā€™s a Moz-art!ā€ for the Jupiter Symphony?) ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-that-olympic-music-sounded-familiar/260437/26 "2004-08-24T23:01:17Z")
For me, **THE** Olympic theme is _[Buglerā€™s Dream](http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1b021802.html)_ by Leo Arnaud. Thatā€™s the piece with the kettledrums and chorus of trumpets. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-that-olympic-music-sounded-familiar/260437/27 "2004-08-24T23:31:40Z")
Fun personal fact: The opening ceremonies for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles featured a 1000 voice choir sitting at one end of the L.A. Colloseum, made up of university choristers. I got to be one of them. Unfortunately, the voices you heard singing on TV during said Opening Ceremonies were not those of the live choir, they were pre-recorded about 2-3 months earlier and consisted of about 70 handpicked members of that 1000 voice choir. I was, sadly, not among the 70 chosen for the recording chorus. (Had I been at UCLA for a couple more years, I think I couldā€™ve made the cut.) ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-that-olympic-music-sounded-familiar/260437/28 "2004-08-24T23:35:44Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > ā€œIs that the theme from Jurassic Park???ā€ They also used the _Jurassic Park_ music in an episode of _Nova_ about a masterpiece tile mosaic floor that was dug up from an area in Turkey **just** before a new dam went up and flooded the place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-that-olympic-music-sounded-familiar/260437.md?page=1)