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According to Harris, the program derived its name from "a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years ago. When they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the "old greys". The ones they could remember and could whistle having heard it just once or twice had passed the old grey whistle test".
Anne Nightingale took over as host in 1978, and Andy Kershaw, David Hepworth and Mark Ellen also took turns as presenters. In 1983 the programme title was shortened to Whistle Test. Although many felt that the show had run its course by the time it went off the air, it laid the template for many successive "serious" British music programs such as The Tube, Later with Jools Holland, etc.As of February 2004 the BBC has released three DVDDVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. DVDs are similar in appearance to compact discs. History During the early 1990s there were two high density optical sto compilations from the show. There are apparently no plans to release any more. In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes100 Greatest British Television Programmes was a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI) chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre ever to have been screene drawn up by the British Film InstituteThe British Film Institute BFI is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to "encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary lif in 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri, voted for by industry professionals, The Old Grey Whistle Test was placed 33rd.
The program's title music, with its distinctive harmonicaA harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ french harp simply harp or Mississippi saxophone ), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot of theme, was a track called "Stone Fox Chase" by a Nashville band, Area Code 615 .
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