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Schwartz felt that the Ray Ellis-penned closing theme Today, which had been used for the program since 1971 (and was also used as the show's opening theme starting in 1976), was lifted from the classic Godspell song "Day by Day". Using the chimes as his template, Ellis composed a new theme song, which stuck.
In 1851, the chime was adopted by Edmund Beckett Denison (an amateur horologist, and graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was familiar with the Great St Mary's chime) for the new clock at the Palace of Westminster, where the bell Big Ben hangs. From there its fame spread. It is now one of the most commonly used chimes for striking clocks ...
The chimes are found in many early English bracket and longcase clocks. The melody was not given the name "Whittington Chimes" on domestic clocks until the late Victorian period onwards. [citation needed] Whittington chimes found on domestic clocks are variations on the eight-bell melody, [2] and there are at least four variations of this chime ...
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. [1] Their sound resembles that of church bells , carillons , or a bell tower ; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the sound of church bells within an ensemble. [ 2 ]
Tommy Dorsey's recording in 1937 went to number one in the United States. [1]One of the best-known recordings was made by Patti Page in 1952 (on Mercury 5867).; The song was revived in doo-wop style by the Chimes in 1960, and their version peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1961.
Chimes is the eighth extended play by Hudson Mohawke on 29 September 2014 through Warp Records. The EP includes a 170 bpm Gammer remix of the track with UK hardcore influences, as well as two more new productions titled "Brainwave" and "King Kong Beaver".
The final song on The New Christy Minstrels' May 1964 Columbia Records album Today, [4] the title track was released as the single Columbia 43000 with the B side "Miss Katy Cruel". The record peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard magazine "Hot 100" chart and No. 4 on the magazine's Adult Contemporary chart. [5] [6]
Chimes, the sounds produced by a striking clock to announce the hours; Bar chimes (also known as "mark tree"), a series of many small chimes of decreasing length, arranged horizontally; Chime bars, individual instruments similar to glockenspiel bars but with resonators; Macintosh startup chime, the sound a Macintosh computer makes on startup