VISION ON TEE SHIRTS
The classic Vision On grasshopper logo drawn by Tony Hart in the late 1960s has been exclusively licensed by Trunk Records for tee shirts and that.
Each tee shirt comes with the official Tony Hart logo. You’ll also be pleased to know that a royalty from each tee shirt goes to the great man himself.
Rather than produce anything radically modern and possibly a bit crap, Trunk has produced these tee shirts in the classic 1970s ‘ringer’ style, you know, those tee shirts with the coloured neck and sleeve bands. They come in a small variety of colours, and the quality of cotton tee shirt is high. Sizes are small, medium, large and XL.
If you want one of these shirts please contact Jonny direct right here.
Phillip Crymble contacted Jonny. Phillip wrote:
Delighted to hear you've acquired the marketing rights to Tony Hart's iconic Vision On grasshopper logo. I'm very much interested in purchasing one or possibly two t-shirts and was hoping you could write back with a list of available colour combinations and a shipping estimate to the US. Much like yourself, I'm a library music enthusiast with an obsessive/nostalgic interest in media texts and artifacts from the last half of the 20th century. I'm also a published poet (Wide Boy, my debut collection, was released by Lapwing Publications, Belfast in April). The poem I've pasted below entitled "Library Scene" is a celebration of 'library culture" that references many of the still uncollected backing sequences from Vision On. Just thought you'd be interested in seeing it, and if you feel it might be something you'd like to post on the Trunk Records site (in conjunction with the T-shirt promotion or elsewhere) I'd be thrilled as I can't think of a more appropriate venue for it.
Here is Phillip's poem:
Library Scene by Phillip CrymbleCavatina's best remembered as a melody for strings -
Stanley Myers' signature recording made its debut
in The Walking Stick, won an Ivor, climbed the pop
charts as a single. Some mileage for the rewrite
of a failed John Williams' piano piece. For those
obsessed with incidental music, "p-as-b" sheets,
Ampex film stock, and the move to colour broadcasts
on the BBC, it's from Vision On. A treasure trove
of lounge sound and a bugger to collect, the backing
sequence analogue recordings for the programme's
short vignettes are held by Chappell, Standard Music,
Studio G, and KPM. The opening's Sylvester's,
Guerney Slade's an old Fontana track, Cavatina's
on Amphonic - De Wolfe supplied the flute score
used for Humphrey and Suzanne. They turn up now
and then on bootleg compilation discs: the cocktails
from It's Prof Again, Wayne Hill's Gallery Theme
and Merry Ocarina sandwiched in between new
masters of the interludes and countdowns played
on ITV, background music captured from source
acetates of adverts, British transport films and Schools.
Clean originals of dealer list LPs like London Life
and Beat Industrial change hands for loads of money.
Take your time. Dig through the boot fair crates -
for pence, a jazz-funk fusion Watch with Mother theme
or string-drenched Test Card masterpiece awaits.
