CROWN PAINT AD music?

[howardmitchell]

have been wanting to find a wonderfull orchestrated peice used for an early 1980s advert for CROWN PAINT i remember it was showing a paint by numbers scene with a woman and this very dramatic score , it ends saying " dont just paint it - CROWN it ! "

any ideas ?

cheers

H

[ican]

Is it this one? Scroll down to Crown.





http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/adverts/c.html

[ghughesarch]

I believe it was written for the advert, however a longer version (about 3 minutes) was made available as a record and was also used to accompany firework displays at Portmeirion in the mid-1980s.

Glad someone else remembers it. There was a longer version of the ad too

[marker]

This brings back memories I used to work for Crown Paint at there Park Royal depot

[howardmitchell]

hi ican - what do you mean scroll down to crown ?

cheers ghugh- is the lomg version still available ?

its hard to belive that it was commissioned and not a classical peice !

is there a weay for me to find a full length version of it at all ?

VERY many thanks guys

H

[howardmitchell]

hi ican - what do you mean scroll down to crown ?

cheers ghugh- is the long version still available ?

its hard to belive that it was comisioned and not a classical peice !

is there a way for me to find a full length version of it at all ?

VERY many thanks guys - its a wonderful peice of music

H

[ghughesarch]

I'd be surprised if it was still commercially available, but it might turn up on ebay etc (if only I could remember the name it was released under - something paint-related like "Shades" (but not that))

To save you scrolling down to the Crown ad on TV Ark, is this it?

TV ARK | iNTERACTIVE (Beta5-U312010)



(edit) Ah - can't do it like that, you have to go to the link ican posted, then scroll down the page to the Crown ad (on the right hand side quite near the bottom) - then click on the little arrow in a circle icon to play it

[howardmitchell]

hi ghughesarch there is no link posted from ICAN so cant access it

if there is a full 3 min version of it and with a title, i could maybee track it down .

if it was classical - i could just go out and buy it ?

grrrrrrrr ive wanted this peice for years !

thank you

[ghughesarch]

Howard



Here's the link ican posted:



TVARK | Adverts | C



You need to click on that link and scroll down that page as I described.

[howardmitchell]

hi guhgu

wrote to crown paint and messrge recived was

The piece of music used was 'Shades' - The United Kingdom Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Donald Gould. I hope this helps.

cant find any referance to it or the uk symphony orchestra ?

[Gerald Lovell]

For what it's worth, the bloke coming out the revolving doors in the ad is Ben Aris!

[ghughesarch]

Wikipedia says:



Shades (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shades is a piece of instrumental music performed by the United Kingdom Symphony Orchestra, which was used in the UK as the theme to the Crown Paint commercial in 1985 The song made the UK Singles Chart, where it stayed for four weeks, peaking at number 68.



The United Kingdom Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Donald Gould. The single was produced by David Mindel and François Trichot (the latter of whom also wrote and produced the B-side, titled 'Double Meaning')



The track as heard both in the advert and on the single is entirely orchestral.

The record was released on the food for thought label in 1985 and has the catalogue number YUM 108

[howardmitchell]

thanks for that ghugh- im contacting RECORD COLLECTOR to try and hunt it down

thanks again

H

[howardmitchell]

ill try and see if e bey will have it ?

[howardmitchell]

whahooooo !!!!!!!!! fingers crossed, i think ive got it - 7" single

ill let you all know

H

[howardmitchell]

HI people

just to say a big THANK YOU !

to all of you who helped me get this single ( now safely transfered to disc )

it was worth waiting 26 years for !

what a great set of people you are

cheers

H