{"id":183,"date":"2007-10-27T20:16:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T20:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=183"},"modified":"2007-10-27T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T20:16:52","slug":"morse-code-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/27\/morse-code-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Morse Code In Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a well known fact, commonly stated in recent weeks due to the death of its creator <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ronnie Hazlehurst\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronnie_Hazlehurst\">Ronnie Hazlehurst<\/a>, that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Theme music\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theme_music\">theme tune<\/a> to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Some_Mothers_Do_%27Ave_%27Em\">Some Mothers Do &#8216;Ave &#8216;Em<\/a> (which is horrible to type due to the apostrophes) incorporates the show&#8217;s title in morse <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Morse code\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morse_code\">code<\/a> in its opening bars. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"BBC\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC<\/a> has published this image proving it:<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/hsx\/images\/Some%20Mothers%20Do%20%27Ave%20%27Em%20Morse%20Code.html','popup','width=416,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/hsx\/images\/Some%20Mothers%20Do%20%27Ave%20%27Em%20Morse%20Code.html\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/hsx\/images\/Some%20Mothers%20Do%20%27Ave%20%27Em%20Morse%20Code.html','popup','width=416,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/hsx\/images\/Some%20Mothers%20Do%20%27Ave%20%27Em%20Morse%20Code.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 20px; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Some-Mothers-Do-Ave-Em-Morse-Code-thumb-425x204.jpg?resize=425%2C204\" alt=\"Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Morse Code\" width=\"425\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/span> It&#8217;s not the only show that does this of course. Another famous one is the tune for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inspector Morse\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inspector_Morse\">Inspector Morse<\/a> &#8211; however, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barrington Pheloung\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barrington_Pheloung\">Barrington Pheloung<\/a> included names that either revealed the killer or threw people off the scent apparently.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/7026637.stm\" target=\"blank\">BBC News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a well known fact, commonly stated in recent weeks due to the death of its creator Ronnie Hazlehurst, that the theme tune to Some Mothers Do &#8216;Ave &#8216;Em (which is horrible to type due to the apostrophes) incorporates the show&#8217;s title in morse code in its opening bars. The BBC has published this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,13,17,20],"tags":[84,286,372,380,384,1520,1800,2043,2083,2214,2592,2793,2953,2994],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-gibberish","category-humour","category-linkage","category-music","tag-84","tag-arts","tag-barrington-pheloung","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-inspector-morse","tag-linkage-2","tag-morse-code","tag-music-2","tag-october","tag-ronnie-hazlehurst","tag-some-mothers-do-ave-em","tag-television","tag-theme-music","post_format-post-format-audio","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-2X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}