Old theme tune bugging me!

[BadAmbassador]

It's a bit like Screen Test but definitely not that.

I THINK it was a quiz show or similar.

Bouncy and jaunty with a touch of bass drum.

Old, seventies but could be sixties.

Mr Benn?

The Good Life?

Ok I downloaded SoundHound and sang into it 😊

It's this

Thanks all for the guesses! That was going to keep me up all night!

Some mothers do 'ave 'em?:

For those that don't want to click it was Top of the Form, which I barely remember to be honest! Theme tune is Marching Strings by Ray Martin.

Oh.

I've never heard of that! Glad you solved it though OP.

Oh I remember Top of the Form! We won it.

Really?!

I was in my school's Top of the Form team. We were semi finalists but lost. Would have been the late 70s or very early 80s.

That's so exciting!

It was exciting at the time! I went to a less than desirable comprehensive school in a small, run down,mining town. It was a shock that our school was even selected and everyone (the team included to be honest) was sure that we would be annihilated in the first round. So we were minor local celebrities transiently when we actually did quite well! We narrowly lost the semi final to, if I recall rightly, the eventual winners. I don't remember a lot about the actual programmes except that the producer was Paul Mayhew Archer (who went on to write The Vicar of Dibley) and we all thought he was very posh, but he was kind.
It did have an impact on my life in so far as it made me realise that I could actually hold my own against people from more privileged backgrounds which gave me the confidence to apply for things in the future that I might otherwise thought were not for people from my background. Hearing the theme tune still makes me feel nervous though!

Yes, really! It was strange as we only met one team we played, everything else was on stage at our school with our opponents at their school. So we had no idea who we beat. So it felt a bit surreal to win it.

@PastMyBestBeforeDate
@MrsAvocet

Tell me more! Was it on tv, radio, or a regional heat etc?

My school took part in a local one that was on a local radio station. My two older sisters each took part but I didn't pass the qualifying test when my time came around and I was gutted 😂
It must have been terrifying 😀

It was on Radio 4 @BadAmbassador - or at least it was when I was in it. Though I believe there was a televised version for a while. As @PastMyBestBeforeDate says, it was recorded in each of the schools with some kind of radio link so you could hear the other team but not see them which was a bit odd. I remember a lot of excitement with the school carpark being full of BBC vans and lorries and wires running through the corridors on the recording days.
My parents had a tape recording of the episodes I was in but I don't know what happened to it. I expect it was thrown away when we cleared the house after they died. Shame, as it would be interesting to listen to now.
I was the next to youngest in our team. There were 4 of us - if I recall rightly the youngest was in 1st form (year 7 now) and the eldest was a 6th former, with 2 of us in between. I had a huge crush on one of the older boys in the team, which made all the lunchtime practices a lot better - not that he had the slightest interest in an uber geeky girl several years younger than him of course!
It was a bit scary, but it was fun too, and it was the only time in my school career when I was transiently slightly popular. Being clever was not cool at our school and I was the archetypal shy, un-sporty geek, complete with thick NHS glasses. School was largely not a happy place for me, but for a short while I really enjoyed the camaraderie of being part of a team and people being nice to me for a change.

I've still got the tapes! DH has digitised them for posterity. It was obvs a national radio thing.
I remember auditioning for the team. I'd missed them as I'd been off quite ill and one or two of my friends had persuaded the teacher to hang on making a decision until I was back. Fortunately she had a soft spot for me so she did and I nailed it.

Blockbusters?