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This is the original version of the theme used (with the telephone ring and guitar at the start), and was written by Mike Batt (he of Wombles fame!) - who incidentally gave away the largest 'swap' on the show's history - a large cardboard-cut-out camel!
This theme was used for the sixth and final series of Swap Shop. It was written by B.A. Robertson, who would go on to provide the theme for SuperStore.
The theme was on the B side of the Brown Sauce record 'I Wanna Be A Winner', which B.A. co-wrote with Noel Edmonds, and the full length version is below. Thanks to David Henderson for supplying this file.
Brown Sauce (which was of course Noel, Keith and Maggie) was formed to provide the musical interlude for the fourth Swap Shop Star Awards. Released as a single, it peaked at number 15 in the charts!
• Incidentally, this track was originally called 'I Want To Win An Award' when it was first aired on the Swap Shop Star Awards in 1981. Thanks to David Henderson for supplying this file.
This is the follow-up single to 'Winner' but without Noel, so 'Brown Sauce' became 'The Saucers'. Not a lot of people seem to remember this one, and its not surprising!
One of the little tricks that Noel liked to pull on Cheggers was to cross over to him suddenly at the Swaparama early in the programme - and nearly always caught him out!
Here's a collection of 3 short clips of The Goodies performing 'Funky Gibbon' at the Swap Shop Rock Garden Party held at the Jubilee Gardens on London's south bank on Spring Bank Holiday Monday 1978.
...and know what you're supposed to be doing! A trailer outtake that never made it to air.
This clip came off the 1979 BBC Christmas Tape (hence the BBC VT logo) and the 'Merry Christmas VT' reference is because Noel knew that's where the clip would turn up!
Here's another previously unbroadcast trailer for Swap Shop that didn't quite go to plan... Just watch out for the camera work, and Noel's quick thinking that turns this into an absolute classic outtake.
This clip came off the 1979 BBC Christmas Tape (hence the BBC VT logo)
...you don't succeed, probably a good time to give up and go home! Noel gets his tongue in a twist very quickly.
This clip came off the 1979 BBC Christmas Tape (hence the BBC VT logo) and the 'Merry Christmas VT' reference is because Noel knew that's where the clip would turn up!
Lucky Numbers, presented by Noel, started off life in October 1978 as a Saturday Tea-Time 'phone-out' quiz show. A second series was broadcast in early 1979 on Wednesday evenings just after Nationwide.
The show's concept was absorbed into Swap Shop offering two contestants a chance to win some prizes, and the jolly title sequence came along too.
Thanks to Ian Norman for supplying the recording that this clip came from.
1981 saw the fourth Swap Shop Star Awards, and these are the titles from that year.
Noel introduces the show from the Swap Shop set, and the titles use 'I Wanna Be A Winner' as the music - little did we know what was to come in the shape of Brown Sauce...
This comes from a complete VHS recording of the show.
The second Music Show was broadcast in May 1981, and again featured lots of specially recorded sessions for Swap Shop by some of the biggest names in music.
This comes from a complete VHS recording of the show.
At around 11am each week, it was time for the Top Ten Swaps Board.
One of the guests of the week (this time it was Snooker's Steve Davis) would read down the board, then the viewer was given more time to view with clips from the current top ten singles played over them.
Here's the whole board from 20 March 1982 - the week of the EuroSwap in Bruges.
For the third year running (and shortly after the final Swap Shop), they do the music show again - this time a two parter. Here's the rather smart looking set of titles from part one of the Music Show 1982.
This comes from a complete VHS recording of the show.
