The Chimes Quoted in Music
Many composers have used the NBC chimes as their signature for their news packages, many of which were made exclusively for NBC stations. Some songwriters have quoted the sequence as well, and NBC-owned radio stations such as WNBC (AM) incorporated the melody into their station ID jingle packages. A few examples include:
- NBC Stations by Edd Kalehoff
- The Tower by 615 Music
- The Rock by Stephen Arnold
- The NBC Collection by Frank Gari
- L.A. Groove by Groove Addicts
- Nothing But Class and The Only One by JAM Creative Productions
- "Let's Go" by Ray Charles on his 1961 album Genius+Soul=Jazz
- "Do Your Thing" by Isaac Hayes
- "Here's Love" from the Meredith Willson musical Here's Love. It plays during the lyric "from CBS to NBC."
Read more about this topic: NBC Chimes
Famous quotes containing the words chimes, quoted and/or music:
“It was your severed image that grew sweeter,
That floated, wing-stiff, focused in the sun
Along uncertainty and gales of shame
Blown out before I slept. Now you are one
I dare not think alive: only a name
That chimes occasionally, as a belief
Long since embedded in the static past.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“It’s a hard feeling when everyone’s in a hurry to talk to somebody else, but not to talk to you. Sometimes you get a feeling of need to talk to somebody. Somebody who wants to listen to you other than “Why didn’t you get me the right number?””
—Heather Lamb, U.S. telephone operator. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)
“Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the “moral significance of existence.” But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)