Left Bank Two
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"Left Bank Two" is a piece of library music
composed by Wayne Hill in 1963 and performed by the Noveltones, a group of session musicians from Holland. It is best known in UK popular culture as the music used in "The Gallery" sequence during the children's television programmes Vision On
, in which the art sent in to the programme by young viewers was displayed, and subsequently in the equivalent segment in early seasons of Take Hart
, a programme presented by Tony Hart
, formerly a co-presenter on Vision On.
The piece has become synonymous with the making of art for those growing up in the 1970s
, and has been used in a number of adverts for clients including Picture Loans and Volkswagen
.
The track was used as background music in the 2008 PlayStation 3
video game LittleBigPlanet
, and in a 2011 advertisement for the British supermarket chain Waitrose
.
Production music
Production music is the name given to recorded music produced and owned by production music libraries and licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media.-Introduction:...
composed by Wayne Hill in 1963 and performed by the Noveltones, a group of session musicians from Holland. It is best known in UK popular culture as the music used in "The Gallery" sequence during the children's television programmes Vision On
Vision On
Vision On was a British children's television programme, shown on BBC1 from 1964 to 1976 and designed specifically for deaf children. It was conceived and developed by BBC producers Ursula Eason and Patrick Dowling to replace a monthly series For the Deaf, a programme paced slowly enough for...
, in which the art sent in to the programme by young viewers was displayed, and subsequently in the equivalent segment in early seasons of Take Hart
Take Hart
Take Hart is a British children's television show about art, fronted by the late Tony Hart. It took over from Vision On, and ran from 1977 until 1983. The show featured Hart and the animated Plasticine character Morph, and other characters created by David Sproxton like 'Smoulder the Moulder',...
, a programme presented by Tony Hart
Tony Hart
Norman Antony "Tony" Hart was an English artist and children's television presenter. He was famous for television shows such as Vision On, Playbox, Take Hart and Hartbeat.-Early life:...
, formerly a co-presenter on Vision On.
The piece has become synonymous with the making of art for those growing up in the 1970s
1970s
File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil...
, and has been used in a number of adverts for clients including Picture Loans and Volkswagen
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...
.
The track was used as background music in the 2008 PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
video game LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet, commonly abbreviated LBP, is a puzzle platformer video game, based on user-generated content, for the PlayStation 3 first announced on 7 March 2007, by Phil Harrison at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California...
, and in a 2011 advertisement for the British supermarket chain Waitrose
Waitrose
Waitrose Limited is an upmarket chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom and is the food division of the British retailer and worker co-operative the John Lewis Partnership. Its head office is in Bracknell, Berkshire, England...
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