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Post by jno on Apr 21, 2016 5:56:52 GMT
Over the course of the first two series of 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet' Joe Fagin recorded 6 songs that contained 4 pretty memorable theme tunes to feature in the credits - but which is your favourite?
Pick 2!
1. Breaking Away
2. That's Living Alright
3. Get It Right
4. Back With The Boys Again
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Post by daz on Apr 21, 2016 7:06:17 GMT
Has to be the two originals songs. The opening sequence of original Auf Pet is classic.
I remember my brother had the 7" single of Living Alright.
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Post by ltd on Apr 23, 2016 18:11:08 GMT
All equally dreadful - hence my solitary vote for Joe who? I do like the series though, in spite of the music.
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Post by vicboy on Apr 24, 2016 13:04:50 GMT
Blimey, 'That's Livin' all Right' not top!
It got my vote because it so captures the essence of the lads thrown together on a building site far from home. Also, a happy tune that I have on my playlist when on the running machine in the gym!!
A brilliant programme though, regardless of tune, which I enjoyed the most when they were doing up the nursing home in the second series. Nothing has captured the building profession quite as well since.
Also it often reminds me of a tiny thing many years ago.
My father, long gone now, was a carpenter who also did building work. Small time only but in my teenage days I often helped him on jobs at weekends. Looking back, I have never been happier at work than I was in those days which probably explains this.
Back in 1999 I was an IT contractor at the Bank of New York. I was earning tremendous money but was under great pressure to produce because of the Y2K deadline - a deadline like none before or since!
Having been a trainee reporter before IT, short of the days spent with my father, I had never done manual work of any kind.
One day in 1999, I had gone through a really stressful day resulting in me being summoned to fly to New York the next day. The Bank of New York were a great outfit to work for who never quibbled amount money but were extremely demanding and highly ruthless.
Anyway, I pulled into a petrol station on the way home to fill up still fretting about the problems and how I was going to probably get a 'boll***ing' the next day, As I stood with the pump in my hand, two young lads pulled up next to me in a white van.
Clearly builders from their clothes, one jumped out to do the petrol and one went off to pay. I watched them and suddenly felt a huge rush of envy for how carefree they looked. There was something about them which took me back to my teenage days with my dad, some 25 years earlier and I wanted to be like them despite all the cash I was earning. The feeling passed but I have never forgotten that moment and whenever I see AWP I always think back to it.
Sorry to go off topic a bit...
(Incidentally, the trip to New York ended up having nothing to do my the London problems but being all about contracting rates in the UK. Another great example of the biggest thing my 56 years on the planet have taught me. Namely, the things you worry about the most are the ones which almost never, ever end up knocking you for six! It is invariably something else that you did not see coming that hits you between the eyes the hardest).
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Post by felixdeburgh on Apr 24, 2016 13:54:26 GMT
Get It Right for me - loved watching this on a Friday night back in the 80's and that song brings it all back. Loved the opening titles as the Central globe logo dropped from the screen into the roulette wheel before we see Dennis draining a pint, Neville running down a hospital corridor and then with Moxey jumping over the prison wall and Wayne driving around in his BMW, it just evokes the series for me.
Does anyone remember when ITV chopped the episodes in half and were showing them in 30 minute slots prime time twice a week in a bid to beat Eastenders? What a disaster that was.
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Post by jno on Apr 24, 2016 14:08:00 GMT
2 favourites for me - "Breaking Away" - great tune this one, great lyrics and pretty much tells a story very similar to my own. "Back With The Boys Again" is the second favourite, that killer opening guitar riff that ended the episodes of series 2 each week together with the chorus - top stuff. If there was a third it would be "Get It Right" - again, as felix says, Dennis drinking, the roulette wheel this was top banana back in the day and truly great this was back on telly at the time.
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Post by ltd on Apr 24, 2016 18:04:32 GMT
Does anyone remember when ITV chopped the episodes in half and were showing them in 30 minute slots prime time twice a week in a bid to beat Eastenders? What a disaster that was. Complete with some of the more "fruity" language edited out in crassly incompetent fashion. |
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Post by Portland Road on Apr 27, 2016 8:26:57 GMT
I didn't think his songs were that great. But I picked 'That's Livin' Alright' because it captured the essence of the series. Even though the song itself sounded dated by 1984. P.S. vicboy - great post, with a moral to the story: One day in 1999, I had gone through a really stressful day resulting in me being summoned to fly to New York the next day. Anyway, I pulled into a petrol station on the way home to fill up still fretting about the problems and how I was going to probably get a 'boll***ing' the next day, As I stood with the pump in my hand, two young lads pulled up next to me in a white van. Clearly builders from their clothes, one jumped out to do the petrol and one went off to pay. I watched them and suddenly felt a huge rush of envy for how carefree they looked. There was something about them which took me back to my teenage days with my dad, some 25 years earlier and I wanted to be like them despite all the cash I was earning. The feeling passed but I have never forgotten that moment and whenever I see AWP I always think back to it. Absolutely. Some people think it is uncool to think such, but money isn't everything. Yes, because the problems that you anticipate, you are pro-active in dealing with. |
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Post by dscarter1975 on Jun 15, 2017 19:08:32 GMT
I remember seeing a Sweeney tribute video which had Back With The Boys Again as its theme tune, but not long after, it was taken off.
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Post by jno on Jun 16, 2017 3:30:49 GMT
It is quite rare that two different series have two sets of killer themes written by the same guy. Sadly Joe did fall victim to milking the cash cow 22 years down the road though, when in 2006 he sold his soul to Lucifer's money pot and shamefully reworked 'That's Livin' Alright' into an England World Cup tune 'That's England Alright'. Oh dear oh lord. Dreadful, just dreadful.  |
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Post by Portland Road on Jun 16, 2017 7:22:56 GMT
I think Joe Fagin has had a career behind the scenes in the music business. He isn't known to the public for anything other than the AWP songs.  Surprised to see he is now 77 years old - he was already 44 when 'That's Living Alright' went into the top ten. |
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Post by daytona355 on Jul 21, 2017 4:33:06 GMT
Bloody good show that one, and when they came back to England and had the Newcastle gangster with the old mansion, funny as ......... Gary holton was hilarious, RIP. Lord knows how they managed to seem to pull off that series without him filming hardly any of it, but I reckon it did reduce the show a fair bit without him and his bird bandit ways
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Post by gustav on Jul 26, 2017 19:50:33 GMT
Sitting on the fence, not fussed on any.
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Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Sept 15, 2017 20:34:11 GMT
They are all great. But my favourite is Back with the Boys Again. It plays after a wonderful adventure from the second series has ended. It's a shame Gary Holton died so a third series could not be made in the 80s.
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Post by thewoodster on Mar 15, 2018 9:09:20 GMT
Back with the boys again
Breaking away a close 2nd.
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Post by simon316 on Oct 18, 2023 18:21:29 GMT
That's Living Alright to me epitomises the whole series
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Surprised to see he is now 77 years old - he was already 44 when 'That's Living Alright' went into the top ten. 
