Our starting lineup music

First off, wow, major apologies for not updating this blog. I'll try not to let six months pass by before the next update.

Anyway, those of you who have been listening to our baseball and softball broadcast may notice I use different music when doing starting lineups. If you've wondered what those pieces are, wonder no more.



This is my favorite, my old standard. This is a piece called "Ivory Tower", from the 1984 film, The NeverEnding Story. The piece was written and composed by Klaus Doldinger and Giorgio Moroder. I was inspired to use after seeing that The BBC used the music when displaying the starting lineups for Formula 1 races from the late '80s to the early '90s (I have a few BBC homages in my broadcasting style). Here's an example of the music's use, the grid for the 1989 Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest. The voice over the video is that of Murray Walker, the greatest Formula 1 announcer of all-time:



A couple of other pieces I use have been used on NASCAR on Fox in the past. This is their starting grid music from 2001, which is still used by sports networks as a generic highlights piece:



And this is the most famous version of the theme, which they no longer use, as the starting grid is, in my opinion, lazily scrolled across the top of the screen. I can't embed the YouTube video for you because it's been disabled, but I can link to it:

NASCAR on Fox starting grid theme

For those of you who heard our coverage of Thursday's District 7-AAA softball tournament championship, you may have heard a thumping, dramatic background piece. That piece is called "A Pressing Need to Save the World", used in the fourth series (the British term for "season") of television's longest-running science fiction series, Doctor Who:



So, there you have it. That's the music I use to read starting lineups. Now, let's hope I keep this blog up-to-date. At least every now and then.

--Michael