Heavy Action
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"Heavy Action" is a piece of music composed by Johnny Pearson that is best known for its use on Superstars and Monday Night Football.
It was composed expressly for the BBC's television series Superstars.
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[edit] Monday Night Football
In 1971, ABC acquired the rights to use "Heavy Action" as the opening theme music to Monday Night Football,[1] though it would not become the theme proper until 1989. In 1989, Edd Kalehoff arranged an entirely new recording of "Heavy Action"[2] for the final years of Monday Night Football on ABC. It was also used as the background music during a halftime segment as Howard Cosell narrated highlights of the previous Sunday's games.
In 2006, a team of composers comprised of Robert Anthony Navarro, Cris Velasco, Sven Spieker, Sascha Dikiciyan and Chris Rickwood were hired by Associated Production Music (APM) to arrange yet another entirely new recording of "Heavy Action" for the rebirth of Monday Night Football on ESPN.
[edit] SFM Holiday Network
Three years after its arrival on Monday Night Football, this same music was used as the theme for the now defunct syndicated SFM Holiday Network monthly offering of family feature films.
[edit] Ten Who Dared
The music was also used as the theme for the American television show Ten Who Dared (1976), which was a reworking of the BBC series The Explorers (1975).
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[edit] External links
- Background on Ten Who Dared
- Filmography of Martin Shaw, confirming the connection between Superstars and Ten Who Dared
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