The Chimes Quoted in Music
Many composers have used the NBC chimes as their signature for their news packages, many of which were made exclusively for NBC stations. Some songwriters have quoted the sequence as well, and NBC-owned radio stations such as WNBC (AM) incorporated the melody into their station ID jingle packages. A few examples include:
- NBC Stations by Edd Kalehoff
- The Tower by 615 Music
- The Rock by Stephen Arnold
- The NBC Collection by Frank Gari
- L.A. Groove by Groove Addicts
- Nothing But Class and The Only One by JAM Creative Productions
- "Let's Go" by Ray Charles on his 1961 album Genius+Soul=Jazz
- "Do Your Thing" by Isaac Hayes
- "Here's Love" from the Meredith Willson musical Here's Love. It plays during the lyric "from CBS to NBC."
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Famous quotes containing the words chimes, quoted and/or music:
“It was your severed image that grew sweeter,
That floated, wing-stiff, focused in the sun
Along uncertainty and gales of shame
Blown out before I slept. Now you are one
I dare not think alive: only a name
That chimes occasionally, as a belief
Long since embedded in the static past.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that “we, the people,” should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?”
—Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)