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Baby Jumbo : Playout Music from The Clitheroe Kid

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2003
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1

Baby Jumbo is a piece of library music recorded in 1958 by the Crawford Light Orchestra. The BBC used the piece as the playout music which followed each broadcast of the radio comedy The Clitheroe Kid, starring comedian Jimmy Clitheroe, on the old BBC Light Programme.

More about it

In the 1950s and 1960s, if a half-hour radio show ran slightly short (say, only lasted 28 or 29 minutes) the BBC would fill the remaining airtime, until the time-check on the half hour, with what was known as 'playout' music.

This piece really has no association with comedian Jimmy Clitheroe. Its title, Baby Jumbo, derives from the fact that it was originally part of a suite of Circus themed music.

The Controller of the BBC Light Programme might have chosen it for The Clitheroe Kid because it was associated with another famous comedy act, Laurel and Hardy. It features on one of their short subject films, The Finishing Touch (1928), scenes from which are included in the 1965 compilation movie Laurel and Hardy's Laughing Twenties produced by Robert Youngson.

Copyright Expired Recordings

The 50 year period of broadcast copyright under the UK's Copyright Acts 1956 and 1988 has expired for all broadcast items included in this collection: · Copyright Act 1956, section 14(2): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1956/74/section/14/enacted · Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 14(2): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/14

Episodes, in broadcast order

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  1. Baby Jumbo : Playout Music from The Clitheroe Kid

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