[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Hogwarts School Song/magic in TV shows/Potter rip offs

[Roy Mallett Jr]

Is there a place on the web to hear this? I'm sure my boys and myself, would
like to hear it. Thank you.
>From Wanda The Witch  of Revere,Ma.,USA
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Date: Thursday, April 05, 2001 6:56 PM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Hogwarts School Song/magic in TV shows/Potter
rip offs


>Rachel said ...
>"Hahahahaa!  I just downloaded the Hogwarts School Song.  It's
>adorable.  But my question is where did this come from?  The audio
>books?  Who is singing it?  Jim Dale as Dumbledore?  Does that mean
>the Sorting Hat song is on the audio tapes, too?  I guess this all
>makes sense but it didn't dawn on me that there was already a little
>tune for these two.  Well, I guess the school song doesn't have
>an "official" tune but.... Cute."
>
>Doreen said ...
>"When I heard it, it sounded like Jim Dale to me. I don't remember
>where I heard it, though. I think maybe someone sent it to me."
>
>I say ...
>I haven't heard the Jim Dale audiobooks, as we have Stephen Fry doing
>our versions - can't comment on that respect.  I get the feeling I
>*don't* want to hear it, as I already have a tune for it in my head
>which I catch myself humming on occasion.  Though I can't really
>comment, these are the thoughts that occured to me after reading the
>posts - which bear some relevance IMHO.  These random thoughts
>follow ...
>
>... now ...
>
>I have also imagined it (the Hogwarts School Song) sounding very much
>like the theme song to ITV's 'Worst Witch' kid's drama series, which
>was a very choral type organ arrangement with what was blatantly
>intended to be the school song being sung by the cast over the
>music.  The school in this show bears startling resemblances to
>Hogwarts as well.  The theme to BBC's more recent 'The Belfry
>Witches' would not be appropriate, as it is very poppy and was
>recorded by Atomic Kitten - an appallingly bad British girl-band.
>The Belfry Witches remains notable in my opinion for one very
>Potteresque sequence (which I got the impression JK herself could
>have come up with) in the season opener where a load of kids on
>broomsticks are coming into land after a flying lesson.  There is,
>standing in front of them, a witch wearing earmuffs, directing the
>broomsticks with those things apron supervisors at airports direct
>planes with.  The other thing I noted about this particular show,
>which IMNSHO, is absolutely terrible - was that the good witches were
>all called 'red stockings' and the bad ones called 'green
>stockings.'  Potter rip offs?  Maybe, but I doubt anyone cares.  I'm
>also realising this is breathtakingly irrelevant to almost everyone
>here.  So will shut up ...
>
>Except I won't.  Do any list-Brits remember a mid eighties kids' show
>with a giant yellow talking cone.  It inhabited some weird land, and
>there was magic going on and such.  I have a sinking feeling Paul
>Daniels might have been involved somewhere.  Anyway, I'd just like to
>be able to remember the title.
>
>*Al saunters vaguely westwards*
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