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Sailing By is a short piece of light music composed by Ronald Binge, which is famous amongst British radio listeners. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (687x996, 129 KB) Summary Newer version of zones for Shipping Forecast article. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (687x996, 129 KB) Summary Newer version of zones for Shipping Forecast article. ...
Light Music is a generic term applied to a mainly British musical style of light orchestral music, which began post-World War One and had its heyday during the mid-20th Century, although arguably lasts to the present day. ...
A composer is a person who writes music. ...
Ronald Binge (1910 - 1979) was a British composer of light music. His best known compositions are probably Elizabethan Serenade and Sailing By - the latter notably from its use as the music which to this day is played at 0045 each morning, before the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4. ...
Context and usage
Sailing By is played every night on BBC Radio 4 at around 00:45hrs before the late Shipping Forecast. Its tune is repetitive, assisting in its role of serving as a signal for sailors tuning in to be able to easily identify the radio station. It also functions as a buffer - depending on when the final programme before closedown finishes, Sailing By (or part of it) is played as a 'filler' as the shipping forecast starts at 00:48hrs precisely. BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...
The Shipping Forecast is a regular feature of BBC Radio 4 and is provided by the UK Meteorological Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. ...
A sailor is a member of the crew of a ship or boat. ...
Popularity Besides its intended function, Sailing By is thought of affectionately by many British radio listeners as it is considered a soothing accompaniment to bedtime. Surprisingly, the lead singer of the Britpop band Pulp, Jarvis Cocker chose Sailing By as one of his Desert Island Discs, saying for many years he had used it "as an aid to restful sleep". Britpop was a British alternative rock and cultural movement which gained popularity in Great Britain in the mid 1990s, characterised by the prominence of bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. ...
Pulp are a British Britpop band, formed in Sheffield, England, in 1978 by then 15-year-old school-boy Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar). ...
Jarvis Cocker (born September 19th, 1963, in Sheffield, England) is a British pop music star, best known for fronting the band Pulp. ...
Desert Island Discs is a long running BBC Radio 4 programme. ...
The piece is to feature as the second track on a single recorded by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia in a quest to save the Radio 4 UK Theme. In 1993 there was a similar reaction by BBC listeners when Sailing By was temporarily taken off the air. The BBC Radio 4 UK Theme is a piece of music played at 5:30 every morning when Radio 4 starts broadcasting, taking over from the BBC World Service which provides overnight programming on Radio 4s frequencies. ...
See also The Shipping Forecast is a regular feature of BBC Radio 4 and is provided by the UK Meteorological Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. ...
The BBC Radio 4 UK Theme is a piece of music played at 5:30 every morning when Radio 4 starts broadcasting, taking over from the BBC World Service which provides overnight programming on Radio 4s frequencies. ...
External links - Clip of Sailing By from Radio Times online
- BBC Radio 4 Help
- Jarvis Cocker on BBC Desert Island Discs
- Information about the single
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