John Williams' "Bumper Cues" for NBC Olympics

[RonBurbella 5]

Years ago, John Williams had recorded a substantial series of intro and exit "Bumper Cues" for NBC's coverage of the Olympics. And I think that sometime last year he recorded a new set of bumper cues for the 2008 Olympics. I always found how he extracted them from his larger Olympic musical works into 5-10-15-second cues to be musically interesting and quite clever.

Somewhere out there are copies of these internal NBC Library cues. Anybody have a copy, either of the first batch or the more recent batch? Please contact me.

And then there are those diligent home recording enthusiasts who taped hours and hours of Olympic coverage to try and get those bumper cues without any fading-in or fading-out or any dreaded "voiceovers." God knows I tried back in 1988 with only limited success. Did any determined fan have more success than I did?

Ron Burbella

BurbellaRon@cs.com

[King Mark 3,626]

I managed to get the best one of all,the 20 second one that starts with the toll bell effect and ends like Clash of the Lightsabers .It was the last night of the Athens games and after 2 weeks of trying to record it they played it with no voice or sound effects over a stadium shot.