Blackadder: TV & Film: Works (original) (raw)

The BBC broadcast four series of the comedy Blackadder (Click here for the BBC pages), with Howard Goodall commissioned to write the title music for the first series – broadcast in 1983 – and subsequently to adapt it for the later generations of the Blackadder dynasty. As well as the four series there were a number of special shows – including Blackadder Back and Forth which was shown in the Millennium Dome in 2000.

LIST OF MUSICIANS AND SINGERS WHO PLAYED OR SANG ON BLACKADDER THEMES

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Adder 1: Singer Simon Carrington, organ Alastair Ross, percussion Nigel Shipway.

Adder 2: Singer Jeremy Jackman, electric organ Howard Goodall, guitar solo Ian Lawes or Tom Blades, oboe Sandra Mackay.

_Adder Christmas Special 198_8: Singers Sally-Anne Marsh, Lydia Cumber, Natalie Cramer, Costandia Costi, keyboards Howard Goodall & Mark Stephens, percussion Nigel Shipway & Judy Webber, wind Keith Thompson, cello Lesley Shrigley-Jones, oboe Sandra Mackay, bass Lucy Hare.

Adder 3: Singers Ritchie Pitts, Alison -‘_Where Love Lives_‘ – Limerick, Lyn Kieran, percussion Nigel Shipway & Richard Marcangelo, oboe Sandra Mackay, cello Lesley Shrigley-Jones, accordion Gavin Povey, bass Robbie Burns, harpsichord Helen Ireland.

Adder 4: the Band of the Third Royal Anglian Regiment.

Blackadder Back & Forth: Singer Giles Underwood.