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Various remixes, re-versions of the now famous theme to Strictly Come Dancing / Dancing With the Stars


- All works copyright McGrath / Phillips 2004 - 2020 (P) BBC  / Concord (UK/Europe)

Strictly Come Dancing / Dancing With the Stars (Versions)

Dan & Josh have been co-writing since 2004.
In that time they have composed the title themes and music for a cross-section of highly successful TV shows, including the smash hit BBC show Strictly Come Dancing / Dancing with the Stars, ITV's Take Me Out, All Star Mr & Mrs.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s search for, ‘Maria’, ‘Joseph’, ‘Oliver’ & ‘Dorothy’ plus ‘The Hairy Bikers Cook Off’, ‘Alan Carr - Chatty Man’, Shooting Stars with Reeves & Mortimer and the Vic Reeves CBBC series Ministry of Curious Stuff.
www.cannonstudios.co.uk

Dan McGrath & Josh Phillips - TV Themes

Dan McGrath & Josh Phillips - Songs

Dresden is taken from the new Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album 'English Electric'.

http://www.omd.uk.com/omd/story/dresden1

Dresden (Overload Mix)

Strictly Come Dancing - Title Theme (4' 20" - Extended Version)

DNA (Bounce Terrace Remix)

Main Theme to the CBS quiz show, 'Lingo' Hosted by RuPaul

RuPaul's LINGO - Main Theme 2022

Minimal, pop/funk groove. Vocals: Sam Tanner
(c) McGrath

'Won't Back Down' (Vocals: Sam Tanner)

From the original composers...our melancholy version of the famous theme from the hit TV series.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m8dq

http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars

Strictly Come Dancing Theme 'Lament'

Someone sent me these on a CD (remember those?) a few years back...God bless 'jingle fans'.
All very 'lo-fi' but that was the joke at the time I guess.

Bounce

Mon, Tues, Wed...

BBC, RADIO 1 Breakfast Show Jingles: 1995 - 1997 (Post Yewtree...)

Someone sent me these on a CD (remember those?) a few years back...God bless 'jingle fans'. All very 'lo-fi' but that was the joke at the time I guess.

18 Honk! Finale

32 Sexy Stabs

39 Wake up Boo!

75 Big 'Out'

Various remixes, re-versions of the now famous theme to Strictly Come Dancing / Dancing With the Stars


- All works copyright McGrath / Phillips 2004 (P) Imagem / Rock and Roll Stew Music

'Let's Go Dancing' - The Strictly Come Dancing Theme Song (12" Vinyl Club Mix)

'Open Your Eyes', is a message (from Mother Nature?) to all of us, living on what Carl Sagan referred to as 'The Pale Blue Dot'... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I
(c)Written by Dan McGrath 2016 Feat. Lee B Henry

Open Your Eyes

'Open Your Eyes'...

Take Me Out - (End Credits)

Take Me Out 'Winner sting'(Match)

TMO Sting 04.1

TMO Sting 02.1

As featured on the launch show, from the latest (2012) series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.

'Let's Go Dancing' - The Strictly Come Dancing Theme Song (Classic 7" Mix)

Title theme for the ITV dating series 'Take Me Out'.
Date: 2009 - Current
Composers: Dan McGrath / Josh Phillips

Take Me Out (Main Title Theme)

Title theme / music incidentals for the ITV series 'Take Me Out'

TMO Blackout Sting

TMO GenUpbeatBed 01

The theme from BBC TV's 'TMI' presented by Sam and Mark - full length version

Too Much Information (The Tmi Song)

A selection of jingles, created for the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio from 1997 - 2001

6 Till 9

A Jingle

Good Mornin', on Virgin

R.A.D.I.O.

Virgin…Breakfast!

Team list, Computer voice

Recorded in John's basement, London SW15. 
Gear: Roland TR707, Roland MC202, Sequential Circuits Pro One, Roland SH09, TASCAM 244, Simon's guitar, a mixer Dan built and a mono echo box.

See The Light (Remaster 2020)

Security (Remaster 2020)

Ritual (Remaster 2020)

Our Love (Remaster 2020)

It's So Easy (Remaster 2020)

Inside Out (Remaster 2020)

Fish City (Remaster 2020)

Dolphin Logic (Remaster 2020)

Celebrities are put through the grind as they pair up with professional dancers to compete in a ballroom dancing competition. Viewers vote for their favourites as one couple is voted off each week.
Date: 2004 - Current
Broadcaster: BBC (UK), and ABC (USA) series. 
Composed by Dan McGrath & Josh Phillips.
Note: This is faster than the original 2004 version, at the request of the US producers and was subsequently adopted by the UK (BBC) show.
Written in B minor, our brief was to create a piece of music which would be a 'call to action' from the opening note.
To answer the question...The Hey's & Ho's were performed by Dan McGrath...(If you check out the new 2019 DWTS arrangement there's a secret guest celebrity vocalist!) 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m8dq

Strictly Come Dancing 2004 - 2020 (Main Title Theme)

"Twenty of the UK’s award winning chefs champion more of our fabulous but forgotten British produce."
Date: 2010 - Current:
Broadcaster: BBC TV
Composer: Dan McGrath & Josh Phillips
Note: Josh's love of string arpeggios worked well for this, very British brief.

http://www.outlineproductions.co.uk/catalogue_detail.aspx?program=1925

The Great British Food Revival (Main Title Theme)

Chat show, hosted by comedian Alan Carr.
Broadcaster: Channel 4
Production Company: Outline Productions
Date: 2009 - Current
Composers Dan McGrath / Josh Phillips



Alan Carr, Chatty Man (Main Title Theme)

Andrew (Lord) Lloyd Webber and panel, search for the next 'Maria' for his West End version of The Sound Of Music.
Broadcaster: BBC TV
Date: 2006
Composer: Dan McGrath & Josh Phillips
Note: Take the essence of the original and kick it in the butt!

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? (Main Title Theme)

All Star Mr and Mrs is presented by Philip Schofield and Fern Britton. Celebrity couples compete to win a big cash prize for their chosen charities by answering questions about their partners. 
Broadcaster: ITV
2008 - Current
Composers: Tony Hatch, Dan McGrath, Josh Phillips

All Star Mr & Mrs - Main title theme (2012 Re-version)

Sam & Mark's TMi, is a British children's television show, presented by Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes (aka Sam and Mark). It originally aired on Saturday mornings on BBC Two from its launch on 16 September 2006, until the end of its fourth series on 19 December 2009. Sam & Mark were joined by Caroline Flack in the first three series.

TMI, 'Too Much Information' - (Main Title Theme)

'Only Dancing' - (Female Vocal - SALSA version)

Wrote this for the Spice Girls 'first' comeback, as an ode to their fans...(never got it to them)Then I saw Nikk on XFactor and suggested he needed a song, to record it and get out there... 

Written by: Dan McGrath & Josh Phillips
Vocals: Nikk Mager

Always Come Back To You.

Writers: Dan McGrath / Josh Phillips

Originally written for Gina G and her entry for The Eurovision Song contest. 

Studio 54

This is the updated version of the title theme requested by the US producers. We used Rimshot studios https://www.rimshotstudio.co.uk to record live brass, keys etc

Dancing With the Stars, Title Theme

Dancing With The Stars 2019 - Main Title theme

I'm a media composer, music producer and consultant. 

I've produced, written and co-written, music for all media, from BBC Radio 1 to Strictly Come Dancing, The Big Breakfast to TFI Friday, Ru Paul's Lingo to The London New Year's Eve Fireworks...

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