Clark Shoes advert on UK Gold

[Mad-Jock2]

Tune sounds very 60s ish song about White horses any one know what it is called

[Leese]

It's called White Horses and is sung by Jackie Lee. You can download it here:

http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/ ... horses.mp3

[Bubsy]

It was also the title music from...guess what?

...an early 70's childrens program on BBC1 of the same name. It was foreign made with dubbed english. I am scrappoing the barrel of my mind but I think it was about a stables that got involved, through its' day to day running, in espionage and nasty people. But of coarse, the girls and boys on their 'White Horses' always won in the end.

[electricdave]

Yeah - I remember.... always used to be on in the school holidays. You knew if you heard that tune coming from the telly that there were good times ahead, 'cos it was half term and you didn't have to go in!

[trgz]

I always loved the song but could never get into the program (aka 'Ferien in Lipizza' from 1966 according to imdb.com) though as a young kid I loved the horses. Thanks for the mp3 link.
p.s. Digging around the 'net, Jacky Lee apparently recorded the title song for Rupert the bear, which rings kinda true now that I recall.

[trgz]

oops- double post - and an error saying I wasn't recognized - odd

[maz]

the programme that was on in the seventies was called follyfoot

[maz]

the programme that was on in the seventies was called follyfoot

[maz]

bvvvv

[Jayemm]

maz Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:00 pm Post subject: clark's shoes
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the programme that was on in the seventies was called follyfoot

I think you're at cross purposes here. The music from the Clarke's ad 'White Horses' is from the TV show of the same name. Filmed in Germany and dubbed into English, the story was essentially about a gang of gypsies who stole a Lippizaner horse and a young girls attempts to get it back.

'Follyfoot' was shown at about the same time on UK TV as 'White Horses' and was the one about a stables in England, which was a retirement home for unwanted horses. The theme tune to this was called 'The Lightening Tree'.

Now I bet those of 'a certain age' will already be humming the tune, so here's the first verse and chorus to really get you started!!!!

Down in the meadow where the wind blows free,
In the middle of a field stands a lightning tree.
It?s limbs all torn from the day it was born
For the tree was born in a thunderstorm.

Grow, grow, the lightning tree,
It?s never too late for you and me;
Grow, grow, the lightning tree,
Never give in too easily.