Olympic Games Music (Summer and Winter)

Thought I’d start a general request thread for music from the Olympic Games.
(I noticed there has been some posted to this board already)

(*Edited* Added the following links for convenience)
The following links go to music that was already posted on this message board in other threads:
1996 Atlanta – Honor and Glory – Basil Poledouris (http://www.forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=62453)
1996 Atlanta – Summon the Hereos – John Williams (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1206452&postcount=1265)
2002 Salt Lake City – American Journey – John Williams (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1206722&postcount=1274)
2008 Beijing – The Official Album for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (Thread 75319)
2008 Beijing – More music – 3 different albums (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1481608&postcount=16)
2010 Vancouver – Sounds of Vancouver 2010 – Opening Ceremony Commemorative Album (Thread 74063)
2010 Vancouver – Sounds of Vancouver 2010 – Closing Ceremony Commemorative Album (includes CTV’s theme "I Believe" as bonus tracks) (Thread 74456)
Olympic Movie Soundtracks:
16 Days of Glory – 2 CDs (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1206564&postcount=1266)
Miracle (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1243099&postcount=1297)
The First Olympics: Athens 1896 – Bruce Broughton (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1207260&postcount=1281)
Other Games:
Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1203936&postcount=1228) – 3rd album posted in that post

Anyone happen to have the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack for 2010?

And a couple questions:
Does anyone happen to know if albums were released for the following:
Athens 2004 Opening Ceremony
Torino 2006 Winter Games?
Thanks in advance.

Noticed online that albums exist for the Montreal ’76 games and the LA ’84 games as well. Anybody happen to have these or know what’s on them?

any1 have the ST from the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary (Canada):
(The Big Picture) Dream on the Horizon: A Tribute to the Olympic Spirit
& Calgary 88: Soon the Glory Begins

any1 have the ST from the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary (Canada):
(The Big Picture) Dream on the Horizon: A Tribute to the Olympic Spirit
& Calgary 88: Soon the Glory Begins

There’s an album for Calgary ’88? If there is, I’m very intrested. 🙂

I’m putting my own Calgary ’88 album together, but so far I’ve only got three tracks:
1. Winter Games (instrumental) by David Foster (Calgary 88 theme song)
2. Alberta Bound by Gordon Lightfoot – performed during Opening Ceremonies
3. Four Strong Winds by Ian Tyson – performed during Opening Ceremonies
I’d like to add the following two, but I’m still looking for them:
1. Can’t You Feel It? by David Foster – performed during Closing Ceremonies (It’s Winter Games with lyrics)
2. Turn Me Round by k.d. lang – performed during Closing Ceremonies
I can’t remember who else performed during the ceremonies, or if any of the instrumental stuff was ever released.

I thought I had Can’t You Feel It? on a CD somewhere, but I can’t find it. This version of Winter Games (with lyrics) is hard to find. The k.d. lang song shouldn’t be that hard to acquire.

any1 have the ST from the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary (Canada):
(The Big Picture) Dream on the Horizon: A Tribute to the Olympic Spirit
& Calgary 88: Soon the Glory Begins

Did some searching for this album. A very rare one in the Olympic Games music library. The correct name of the album is:

Dream on the Horizon: A Tribute to the Olympic Spirit

(this was the best image I could find of the cover)

by
The Big Picture
which consists of:
Alex Lifeson of Rush
Rik Emmet of Triumph
Liona Boyd
Produced by Keith Elshaw
(Craig Farraway’s track was added to it)

Looks like there are only five tracks. Two of the tracks are available online:
Dream on the Horizon – Craig Farraway (http://sites.google.com/site/farraway/CraigFarraway-DreamOnTheHorizon.mp3?attredirects=0) (192 kbps)
found on Craig Farraway’s site:
http://sites.google.com/site/farraway/mymusic

Hands of Man (Instrumental) – The Big Picture (Alex Lifeson) (http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/8/864051/TheBigPicture%28AlexLifeson%29-HandsOfMan%28instrumental%29.mp3) (128 kbps)
found on The Rush Is a Band blog:
http://www.rushisaband.com/display.php?id=1899

One of the other three songs is a vocal version of Hands of Man. Don’t know what the other two songs are. If anyone finds the complete album, post it here. 🙂

The only place you may likely find this album, is in a used record store in Calgary.

Here’s a clip on Youtube: Dream on the Horizon on the News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mScJ14BWAM)

So… anyone happen to have the Salt Lake 2002 albums in my original post?

So… anyone happen to have the Salt Lake 2002 albums in my original post?

I have both of them and will try to get them up tomorrow, possibly along with some other items of interest. 🙂

As for "Can’t You Feel It?", all I can find are some low-res YouTube vids:
– Closing Ceremonies (excerpt) – 1988 Calgary Olympics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ki16mEGvfQ)
– Winter Games – Calgary 1988 – Can’t you feel it? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvHUPQH9JZs&NR=1)

Also, while hunting around, I found references to two cover versions of "Winter Games":
– Robert Wells ("a Swedish composer, pianist, and singer"): Amazon link (with 30-sec audio sample) (http://www.amazon.com/Rhapsody-Rock-Complete-Robert-Wells/dp/B00008G4F2/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1275784241&sr=8-11)
– US Air Force Band (from the CD "Wintertime") (no audio sample) (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usafband.af.mil%2Fensembles%2 FBandDiscography.asp%3FalbumID%3D35&ei=bu0KTPWpDsGB8gaHm7WPBw&usg=AFQjCNGeExHUWWfjyjBau4f6C31YgrXarQ)

Salt Lake 2002 Official Music of the Games

Tracklist:
01. Light the Fire Within (LeAnn Rimes, Utah Symphony, Choristers Of The Cathedral Of The Madeleine Choir School)
02. Fragile (Sting, Yo Yo Ma, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Symphony)
03. Bugler’s Dream (Leo Arnaud – composer, Utah Symphony)
04. Tradition Of The Games (Mark Watters – composer, Utah Symphony)
05. Gold (Linda Eder)
06. Stomp Dance (Robbie Robertson, The Six Nations Women Singers)
07. Carry The Flame (Aretha Franklin)
08. Olympic Hymn (Spiros Samaras & Costis Palamis – composers, Utah Symphony, Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
09. The Fire within (Michael Kamen – composer, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Symphony, Choristers Of The Cathedral Of The Madeleine Choir School)
10. Olympic Medals Plaza & Ice Overture (Pierre F???ldes, Michael Montes)
11. American West Suite: Gathering Place (Mark Watters – composer, Utah Symphony, Eclipse)
12. American West Suite: Land Of enchantment (Mark Watters – composer, Utah Symphony, Choristers Of The Cathedral Of The Madeleine Choir School)
13. American West Suite: Rendezvous (Mark Watters – composer, Utah Symphony, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Eclipse)
14. Somewhere Over The rainbow (Harry Connick, Jr.)

Light Up the Land: An Inspirational Commemorative CD of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games

Tracklist:
01. This Is Our Time (Gladys Knight)
02. Brand New Year (SHeDAISY)
03. Live It Up (Marshall Dyllon)
04. Smile (Shawn King)
05. Everyday Heroes (Brooks & Dunn)
06. My Love Is A Fire (Donny Osmond)
07. It Just Takes Love (Paul Engemann & Children’s Choir)
08. Jubilee (Live) (Peter Breinholt)
09. From God’s Arms, To My Arms, To Yours (Marie Osmond)
10. This High Road (Northern Voices)
11. Sweetest Day (Julie De Azevado)
12. People (exBand)
13. Overtime At Home (McCoslyn & Paye)
14. Climb Ev’ry Mountain (The Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
15. Sage Of Lamberene (Kurt Bestor & Sam Cardon)
16. Light Up The Land (Jenny Jordan)

Light the Fire Within: The Governor’s Music & Education Program (Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games)

Tracklist:
01. Light The Dream (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
02. Story Of The Glory (Paul Engemann)
03. 2K2 (Jenny Jordan Frogley)
04. Rings Of Fire And Gold (The Golden Voices Gospel Ensemble)
05. See Us Shine (Jenny Jordan Frogley)
06. Dream With Me (April Meservy)
07. One World (Osmonds Second Generation)
08. I’ve Climbed A Mountain (Kelly Eisenhour)
09. I Played The Game (Randy Porter)

Children’s Program
10. Light The Dream
11. Story Of The Glory
12. Parade Of Nations (Inst.)
13. 2K2
14. Rings Of Fire And Gold
15. See Us Shine
16. Dream With Me
17. One World
18. I’ve Climbed A Mountain
19. I Played The Game
20. Light The Dream (Reprise)
21. Playoff (Inst.)

Music/lyrics written by Kurt Bestor, Sam Cardon, Michael McLean, David Tinney, John Batdorf, Don Stirling, Sam Frances, and Holli Bestor

^thx99, you’ve made my day! That is awesome! Thanks so much!

I will have some other requests for Olympic music but I have to locate the album art first.

In the mean time, anyone happen to have this one:

Rhythm of the Games – 1996 Olympic Games Album

Tracklist:
01. The Impossible Dream (Tevin Campbell)
02. Everlasting Love (Mary J. Blige)
03. Reaching For My Goal (Brian McKnight)
04. Imagine (Corey Glover)
05. Dreamin’ (Usher)
06. The Champions Theme (Kenny G)
07. You Gotta Believe in Love (Soul for Real feat. Monifah)
08. Reach (Gloria Estefan)
09. Wildflower (K-Ci Hailey)
10. You’re a Winner (Tony Rich)
11. What Am I Doing Here (Jordan Hill)
12. Star Spangled Banner (Boyz II Men)

Atlanta Reel ’96 (promotional CD single)

Tracklist:
01. Atlanta Reel ’96 (version 1)
02. Atlanta Reel ’96 (version 2)
03. Atlanta Reel ’96 (version 3)

Instrumental track written by Michael Omartian, featuring Vince Gill, Chet Atkins, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, and Paul Franklin

Also, anyone happen to have the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack for 2010?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Various_Artist_-_AT%26T_Team_USA_Soundtrack_%28Official_Album_Cove r%29.png

www.megaupload.com/?d=S20Z643X

(not my upload so credit goes to the original uploader)

Does anyone happen to know if albums were released for the following:
Athens 2004 Opening Ceremony

From the 2004 Athens opening ceremonies:

http://rapidshare.com/files/234218728/DJ_Tiesto_-_Parade_Of_The_Athletes.zip

(not my upload so credit goes to the original uploader)

thx99 you are awesome! Thanks for sharing those

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Various_Artist_-_AT%26T_Team_USA_Soundtrack_%28Official_Album_Cove r%29.png

www.megaupload.com/?d=S20Z643X

(not my upload so credit goes to the original uploader)

As for the AT&T soundtrack, I already have the 2008 one, which I’m assuming this is because it has a swimmer on it. AT&T released a team USA soundtrack for the Vancouver Winter Games and this is the one I’m looking for. This one that you put up might be different though. I’ll check it out anyways. This is all I could find graphic wise for the 2010 edition:

AT&T even had a pin with this design in Vancouver.

In my Olympic music research I stumbled upon another one for Athens 2004, In addition to the Unity and Harmony albums that were released here in North America, there was a 3rd official album released in Greece with Greek music. Here’s the album cover:

Phos: The Official Athens 2004 Olympic Greek Album

I’ve managed to find one track from this album and that’s about it.

And going back in time a little farther to 1988…

In addition to my requests in the previous posts, does anyone happen to have:
The Games Of The XXVII Olympiad Official Music From The Opening Ceremony
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Albums/Sydney2000AlbumWinCE.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Albums/Sydney2000coverWinCE.jpg
I believe the albums are the same, just a color variation of the cover. I actually do have this one but I’m looking for it in 320 kbps.

Also, does anyone happen to have this album:

Here’s the back cover art:

It’s not an official Sydney 2000 album, but was some promo/tie-in album to the 2000 Olympics. I’ve heard one track from it and from what I heard it sounded good. (Track #6, "Australia" is up on Youtube)

A few more Olympic Games albums I’m on the lookout for:

1972 Munich – Olympia Parade 2 by Kurt Edelhagen

The "2" on the cover art has me wondering if there is another Munich album, one that I haven’t discovered yet.

1976 Montreal – Games of the XXI Olympiad Original Soundrack – Music of the Official Ceremonies by Andr??? Mathieu & Victor Vogel

There is a torrent out there but it doesn’t seem there are enough seeds.

1980 Moscow

I can’t read Russian so I can’t tell you the name of the album

1992 Barcelona – Carlos Santos – Musica Para Las Ceremonias Olimpicas Barcelona ’92

An alternative cover:

Strange but so far I haven’t found any albums or official music for Sarajevo, Albertville, Lillehammer, Nagano, Torino. And so far I haven’t been able to locate any official music releases prior to 1972.

I did find the theme song for Lake Placid 1980, Chuck Mangione’s "Give It All You Got" from his album Fun and Games.

And if anyone is interested, I found the LA ’84 games album on a blog site:
http://totallyradicalsoundtrax.blogspot.com/2009/08/official-music-of-xxiiird-olympiad-los.html
The bit rates are all mixed. I think there is a torrent out there that’s at 192 and has the tracks in order.

I haven’t heard anything if there will be official albums released for London 2012, but there probably will be as these albums have become more popular in the last couple of decades.

I’ll be posting a few more goodies over the next week or so, including some of the above items.

I’ll be posting a few more goodies over the next week or so, including some of the above items.

Excellent! Can’t wait!

I did manage to get the Montreal ’76 torrent to work. The tracks are only in 192 kbps but sound not bad since they were ripped from vinyl. I’ll still be on the lookout for something higher, ideally 320.

I figured out the two album covers for the Sydney 2000 games. The white cover is actually a slip case for the black & orange cover.

Speaking of the Sydney games, even though there wasn’t an official album released for the closing ceremony, I’m slowly putting together my own with music from the concert segment. Still looking for a few tracks though, such as a good live recording of Slim Dusty performing Waltzing Matilda. The one I got a hold of is from one of his albums but the tempo is quicker. When he performed it live, it had a slower tempo with the audience sing-along.

Here’s another one I stumbled upon. The cover art and track list was posted on another board, unfortunately the tracks weren’t. It’s a promo CD featuring music by Mark Watters:

The track list for this one is as follows:

MUSIC FROM THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPICS

1. Countdown/Samuranch (1:40)
2. The Run Through Time (4:21)
3. The River (4:56)
4. The Storm (2:29)
5. Dignitaries Walk-On (1:07)
6. Earth Rise (2:25)
7. Faster, Higher, Stronger (4:20)*

* Jessye Norman, soprano ??? Lyrics by Lorraine Feather

??? 1996 Watter Friends For Music, Inc.
One thing I’d like to do is take all the Atlanta tracks I’ve managed to gather and put together an accurate track list for the opening ceremony. I’ve read thru the opening ceremony section in vol 2 of the official report, but it’s lacking some detail. I’m hoping I can track down an opening ceremony program and hope the music is listed in there in the correct order it was performed.

Music From the 1996 Summer Olympics

Tracklist:
1. Countdown/Samuranch
2. The Run Through Time
3. The River
4. The Storm
5. Dignitaries Walk-On
6. Earth Rise
7. Faster, Higher, Stronger*

* Jessye Norman, soprano ??? Lyrics by Lorraine Feather

On Wings of Victory (Japanese CD single) (1996)

Tracklist:
1. On Wings of Victory

Instrumental track composed by Michael Kamen, performed by the Atlanta Youth Symphony featuring Ann McPhail (soprano) and Tomoyasu Hotei (guitar)

^Thanks for those thx99!

Here’s one I stumbled upon:

Philip Glass – Orion

The music was performed during the Cultural Olympiad during the 2004 Athens Olympics.

I found it posted on two blogs:
256 kbps (http://vibe-o-tron.blogspot.com/2009/08/phillip-glass-orion-2005.html)
FLAC and 320 kbps (http://www.welove-music.net/2009/04/philip-glass-orion.html)

awesome thread.
Oh, I know an Albertville cd was released, also a Syd Closing one, with 3 or 4 tracks.
We’ll Be One, Advance Aust Fair, and Journey of Angels (as flag was marched round Stadium)

A few more Olympic Games albums I’m on the lookout for:

1972 Munich – Olympia Parade 2 by Kurt Edelhagen

The "2" on the cover art has me wondering if there is another Munich album, one that I haven’t discovered yet.

As I suspected, there was another Munich album.

I found these two on a blog site:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Albums/KurtEdelhagen-OlympiaParadekleinWin.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Albums/KurtEdelhagen-OlympiaParade2kleinaW.jpg
http://easylistening.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html
Problem is the files on rapidshare were gone. However, I did find Olympia Parade on another blog here:
http://loungelegends.blogspot.com/2009/09/kurt-edelhagen-olympia-parade-1972.html
Here’s the first Olympia Parade:

http://rapidshare.com/files/281069015/KE-Parade__1972_.rar
Format: 320 kbps mp3
Thanks to the original poster for that one 🙂

If anyone has Olympia Parade 2 it would be great to get it as well.

And just for curiosity, Olympia Parade has an alternate cover with a couple different photos on the front:

1988 Summer Olympics Album – One Moment in Time

Tracklist:
01. Olympic Spirit (John Williams)
02. One Moment In Time (Whitney Houston)
03. Fight (No Matter How Long) (The Bunburys)
04. Indestructible (The Four Tops)
05. Reason To Try (Eric Carmen)
06. Shape Of Things To Come (Bee Gees)
07. Peace In Our Time (Jennifer Holliday)
08. Willpower (Taylor Dayne)
09. That’s What Dreams Are Made Of (Odds And Ends)
10. Harvest For The World (The Christians)
11. Rise To The Occasion (Jermaine Jackson & La La)
12. Olympic Joy (Kashif)

N???de (Iver Kleive & Knut Reiersrud) (CD Single) [1994 Opening Ceremony]

Tracklist:
1. N???de

We’ll Be One (CD Single) [2000 Closing Ceremony]

Tracklist:
1. We’ll Be One (perf. by Nikki Webster & Sing 2001 Choir)
2. Under Southern Skies (perf. by Nikki Webster & Sing 2001 Choir)
3. Advance Australia Fair (perf. by Sing 2001 Choir & Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
4. Journey of Angels (perf. by Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

Also, does anyone happen to have this album:

Found it here: http://shareplace.com/?853C74837.

The site that directed me to it (http://uu.canna.to/cpuser/links.php?action=popup&kat_id=5&fileid=119955#) shows the files as Joint Stereo 208 kbps VBR mp3s.

(not my upload so credit goes to the original uploader)

A belated thank you, Howling Mad, for sharing the links above, and for your continuing research! Music from the Olympic Games is a passion of mine and the information you’re posting here has proven very interesting and helpful. 🙂

BTW, I still have more goodies to share and will get them up ASAP…

Several years ago, composer Kurt Bestor posted his "Flag Processional" from the 2002 Winter Olympic Games to his blog. It’s no longer available there, but I did find it here: http://www.dilettantemusic.com/audio/19575# (streaming format, but downloadable via RealPlayer’s "Download This Clip" feature or the like).

It’s a great piece, reminiscent of John Williams and James Horner, and is well worth adding to your collection!

And here’s a piece titled "Donner in Den Uhren" which is a "solo violin piece (performed by Igor Gruppman) commissioned for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and composed to honor the great Austrian skier Franz Klammer." Considering that Kurt Bestor himself appears to have uploaded it to the site, I’m guessing that he composed it!

Link: http://www.dilettantemusic.com/audio/19567#
(streaming format, but downloadable via RealPlayer’s "Download This Clip" feature or the like)

Edit: This piece was featured on Kurt Bestor’s and Sam Cardon’s CD titled Innovators 2: Keepers of the Flame, so indeed, it was composed by Bestor (and Cardon).

A belated thank you, Howling Mad, for sharing the links above, and for your continuing research! Music from the Olympic Games is a passion of mine and the information you’re posting here has proven very interesting and helpful. 🙂

BTW, I still have more goodies to share and will get them up ASAP…

No problem! The Olympic games music collecting bug bit me this year when we hosted the winter games here in BC. But I was actually interested in it ever since the ’88 games in Calgary. What makes it interesting is the music is harder to find than regular mainstream music or OSTs – because they go OOP very quickly, for instance, the Sydney 2000 CD is only available thru Amazon Marketplace and it’s starting at $80 for new copies (there’s currently only two available).

I recently found an archived webpage that was compiled by someone named Olympic Bob. It’s an almost comprehensive list covering music from 1908 to 2002. A couple highlights on this list:

There was a 2-disc release for the Sydney 2000 opening ceremonies.
An 82-disc set for the Salt Lake Games featuring music played at the venues. Yes, that is not a typo; 82 discs featuring over 1500 songs. Only 19 sets exist as this music was only played at the venues.

There’s some really cool stuff on that list. Here’s the link to the page:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040907054245/http://members.aol.com/olympicbob/myhomepage/
Just note that right now it’s not working, perhaps later this evening when traffic slows down. I did save the text as a word file so at least I got that to go by.

Olympic music is actually what brought me to this board. There’s a lot of great stuff scattered around this board. What I’ll do is update the first post in this thread with organized links (by Olympiads) to those posts.

And thanks thx99 for your new additions!

Olympic music is actually what brought me to this board. There’s a lot of great stuff scattered around this board. What I’ll do is update the first post in this thread with organized links (by Olympiads) to those posts.

Ok, I updated the first post with links to Olympic Games music in other threads on this board. 🙂
If I find any others I’ll update it. I’ll also incldue Olympic video game music. I think Mario and Sonic at the Winter Games is floating around on the board somewhere… just got to locate it.

Gonna deviate a little, but still stay within the topic of the Olympics. Here’s soundtracks to Olympic Games inspired movies:

The links just go to blogs or posts where I found them, so you will find the download links from there.

1981 – Chariots of Fire

http://www.shareseeking.com/Vangelis-Chariots-Of-Fire-1981-_405697.html
It’s available in mp3 and APE on that link.
There is an expanded score to this one floating around out there, but I haven’t been able to find a link that works yet.

1993 – "Feel the Rhythm, Feel the Rhyme, Get on up, It’s Bobsled time… COOL RUNNINGS!"
(one of my favourite movies)

One of the downers of the Vancouver 2010 games, these boys didn’t qualify this year 🙁 Hopefully Rasta Rocket gets to ride in Sochi.
http://www.downloadost.com/Ost-2009-10-25-689-rasta-rockett-cool-runnings-ost.html
Format is mixed, 168 to 218 kbps mp3.

2004 – Miracle

Great movie, got to watch it one of these days again. It’s actually posted on this board right here:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1243099&postcount=1297

2005 – Munich

Not one that you would really associate with sport, but it’s related to the ’72 Munich games.
http://filmmusic.ru/2007/09/28/soundtrack-munich/
What’s interesting about Munich (the city, not the movie), earlier this week they were declared an official candidate city by the IOC to host the 2018 Winter Games, along with Annecy, France and PyeongChang, South Korea. The 2018 host is supposed to be announced next year. If Munich wins, would this be the first time a city has hosted both the summer and winter games?

Here’s one that I’m on the lookout for. It would be great to find this one in 320 kbps because it was released to CD. Note the different covers:

From the Seoul 1988 Olympic Summer Games…

Hand in Hand – single release
(The official theme song)

I’m guessing this one is a single too:

Multi-track ??

And another alternate cover:

The track list is as follows:

Format: CD Album
Country of manufacture: Made in Germany
Released: 1988
Producer: Giorgio Moroder
Label: Polydor Records
Cat.-No.: 836 111-2

1.) Hand In Hand
2.) Stay
3.) Love Away
4.) Loving You, Loving Me
5.) Restless Heart
6.) Victory
7.) Listen To Your Heart
8.) Live My Life
9.) Running Like The Wind
10.) Call My Name

So if anyone happens to run into this one (hopefully in 320) it would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

I recently found an archived webpage that was compiled by someone named Olympic Bob. It’s an almost comprehensive list covering music from 1908 to 2002.
Yes, Olympic Bob! I had brief contact with him many years ago, and recall his music listing. I too copied it off at some point but considering how long ago that was, my version is obsolete by now, so thanks for posting the "fresh" link.

Musica Para Las Ceremonias Olimpicas Barcelona ’92

Tracklist:
01. Obertura Hola
02. Fanfarra Promenade (Entrega De Medalles)
03. Fanfarra Atletes
04. Fanfarra Maragall
05. Fanfarra Medieval
06. Fanfarra Coob
07. Fanfarra Jurament
08. Fanfarra Montju???c
09. Fanfarra Torxa
10. Fanfarra Del Rei
11. Fanfarra Marat???
12. Fanfarr Clausura

Expo Sevilla:
13. Marrajo (Pasodoble)
14. La Notaria De Utrera

Cabalgata Joan Font para Expo ’92:
15. Piromusical

The Games Of The XXVII Olympiad: Official Music From The Opening Ceremony (2000)

Tracklist:
01. The Flame (Tina Arena)
02. Dare To Dream (Olivia Newton-John & John Farnham)
03. Heroes Live Forever (Vanessa Amorosi)
04. Under Southern Skies (Nikki Webster)
05. Countdown Fanfare (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
06. The Man From Snowy River – Olympic Version (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
07. Fanfare (James Morrison and Swing City)
08. Advance Australia Fair (Human Nature, Julie Anthony, James Morrison, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Sydney University Musical Society & Sing 2001 Choir)
09. Deep Sea Dreaming (Sydney Children’s Choir & The Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
10. Awakening (Djakapurra Munyarryun. Don Nundihirribala, David Page, Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjarra & Yankunytjatjara Women & Doonooch Dance Co.)
11. Fire (Michael Askill & Fire Percussion)
12. Nature (Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Chorale & National Boys Choir)
13. Tin Part 1/Tin Part 2 (Ian Cooper & John Frolich & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & National Boys Choir)
14. Arrivals (PeeWee Ferris)
15. Eternity (David Hirschfelder)
16. Games 2000 Fanfare (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
17. Olympic Hymn (The Millennium Choir Of The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Of Australia & The Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
18. "Tibi Omnes" From Berlioz’s Te Deum (Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Sydney University Musical Society, Sing 2001 Choir & Sydney Children’s Choir)

Call of the Champions (radio edits) & John Williams interview clips (2002)

Tracklist:

"Call of the Champions" (John Williams) radio edits:
01. Edit without choir intro
02. Edit with choir intro
03. Excerpt with main fanfare
04. Excerpt with choir 1
05. Excerpt with choir 2

John Williams interview clips on "Call of the Champions":
06. His history of composing Olympics music
07. What the games mean after 9/11
08. The games bring nations and cultures together
09. Working with Utah Symphony and Mormon Tabernacle Choir
10. How 9/11 has affected him and his music
11. How the choir part came together
12. What the Latin Olympics motto means
13. How it sounds when sung by the choir
14. Contrast between choir and orchestra
15. Musician/athlete similarities part 1
16. Musician/athlete similarities part 2
17. The difference between composing for events and movies
18. On conducting at the Olympics opening ceremony, Feb 8th, his 70th birthday

American Journey Suite and Full CD:
19. Origins of the American Journey Suite
20. The release of the music on the CD
21. What is great about the music coming out on CD now

^thx99, thanks for those!

I was doing some more Olympics music research and stumbled upon these additional Beijing 2008 albums (sorry no links to files, I just found the cover art):

A single ‘Friends’:

The Collection of Songs From Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Those must be those CGIed firework footprints from the opening ceremonies on the cover. 😉

Theme Songs for the Opening and Closing Cermeonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympics an Paralympics

The Live Concert for Beijing 2008 Olympics Games
(I’m not sure if this is an actual music album or a DVD of a live concert)

I found this info on a flickr account:

To mark the beginning of the 100-day countdown to the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games, a large-scale star-studded concert was held in front of the Working People’s Culture Palace on April 30, 3008. Close to 100 artists from across Asia gathered for this grand event to perform their award-winning Olympics songs and show support for the upcoming games. The long list of top stars present include Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Gigi Leung, Karen Mok, and Joey Yung from Hong Kong; Jay Chou, Leehom Wang, Jolin Tsai, Amei Chang, 5566, Emil Chau, Fan Wei Qi, Vivian Hsu, Landy Wen, Kenji Wu, and Peter Ho from Taiwan; JJ Lam, Stefanie Sun, and A-do from Singapore; Jang Nara from Korea; and Chris Li, Bibi Zhou, Sun Nan, Han Hong, Yu Quan, Huang Xiaoming, Wang Feng Na Ying, Anson Hu, Fan Bingbing, Kym, and Super Junior’s Han Geng from China. This unprecedented collection of stars also gave rise to some exciting collaborations like Huang Xiaoming and Jolin Tsai’s "Right Here" and Han Geng, Peter Ho, A-do, Sky Wu, Pan Long, and Su Xing’s "Brothers, Bottoms Up". All the artists joined voices for a mass rendition of the night’s theme song "Beijing Welcomes You".

And Jackie Chan gets his own album…
The Official Album for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Jackie Chan Edition

I’m very interested in listening to this one. Wonder if he can sing his own songs like he performs his own stunts. 🙂

Super Hero

Info from the same flickr account:
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/27563720@N06/2758631265/in/set-72157606698302856/)

In commemoration of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, MBC Sports presents a special collection of songs to celebrate milestone moments and victories. Super Hero contains a total of 19 inspirational tracks that befit the ceremonial occasion such as Clay Aiken’s On My Way Here, Krystal Meyers’s Make Some Noise, Mario Frangoulis’s Here’s To The Heros, Donna Summer’s Stamp Your Feet, Scorpions’s The Game Of Life, Sarah McLachlan’s Angel, John Mayer’s Say, plus many more. An alluring musical extravaganza, Super Hero will let you relive the moments of jubilation as some of your favorite athletes set out to make history in the world of sports.

I have no idea what the track lists are for these albums as I couldn’tread the Chinese that was on the site where I found them. It’s possible a lot of this stuff is repeated on the other albums that were already posted to this message board (see the first post in this thread for links to those). All I got to say is wow! BOCOG released probably the most official albums out of all the Olympic organizing committees so far.

Juegos de la XXV Olimp???ada Barcelona 1992 – M???sica Ambiental (2-CD)

Disc 1 Tracklist:
01. Ambiental 1
02. Ambiental 2
03. Ambiental 3
04. Ambiental 4
05. Ambiental 5
06. Ambiental 6
07. Ambiental 7
08. Ambiental 8
09. Ambiental 9
10. Ambiental 10
11. Ambiental 11
12. Presentaciones

Disc 2 Tracklist:
01. Ambiental 12
02. Ambiental 13
03. Ambiental 14
04. Ambiental 15
05. Ambiental 16
06. Ambiental 17
07. Ambiental 18
08. Ambiental 19
09. Ambiental 20
10. Cierre 1
11. Cierre 2

Estudios RTEM, Javier Aguirre (producer)

Juegos de la XXV Olimp???ada Barcelona 1992 – M???sica Deportiva

Tracklist:
01. Entradas Atletas
02. Entradas Jueces
03. Galope Caballos
04. Calentamiento Gimnasia 1
05. Calentamiento Gimnasia 2
06. Calentamiento Gimnasia 3
07. Calentamiento Gimnasia 4
08. Calentamiento Gimnasia 5
09. Calentamiento Gimnasia 6
10. Calentamiento Gimnasia 7
11. Calentamiento Gimnasia 8
12. Anuncio de Record

Estudios RTEM, Javier Aguirre (producer)

I believe this topic should be moved to the download links section.
What do you think?

I believe this topic should be moved to the download links section.
What do you think?

Yup, sounds good. I was thinking about PMing one of the mods and suggesting that a couple days ago since the thread has evolved a bit.

Thanks for the new addition thx99 🙂

Anybody have more info about this one?

Olympic Barcelone ’92 – Andromeda Project

I found this one-and-only picture of the cover and a track list. Further Google searching for more info came up dry. Looks like it was a promo CD as it was released in 1991.

Also, anyone happen to have this:

I’m actually interested in the last track on the album. It’s "Call To All Nations" which was played at the start of the Atlanta ’96 opening ceremony. If I recall it was in the segment just after the countdown – the segment where they had those Olympic color spirits pop up around the edge of the stadium and they were using those wind machines that they used in the movie Twister.

Olympic Barcelone ’92 (Andromeda Project)

Tracklist:
01. Fiesta Olimpica
02. Salados de Barcelona
03. El Ramillete
04. Alegria y Lagrimas
05. El Ganador
06. La Llama
07. El Primero
08. Por Los Laureles
09. La Rambla
10. Gaudi
11. Plaza de Catalunya
12. El Exito
13. Romance Anonimo
14. Fraternizar
15. La Victoria

Music composed/arranged by T. Eyk

^Thanks thx99. I had a listen to that CD. It almost sounds like music from a video game. lol

Here’s one I found in my library. I remember I got this one from the Sochi 2014 website, when they were still in the candidate city phase.

Sochi 2014 Theme (Candidate City phase)

Format: 256 kbps mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/403463314/SochiRu2014.rar.html

pw=ruskydom

The music video is on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKy5KrTg1Io
PS: I dare you to hit the soccer ball on the Youtube controls… 🙂

If anyone is interested, here’s the 3rd Vancouver 2010 album:
(the two other Vancouver 2010 albums are already posted on this board, check the first post in this thread for the links)

Canada’s Hockey Anthems: Sounds of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games

Just note that it’s not my upload. Not sure what the format is:

http://sharingmatrix.com/file/1634677/VA-Sounds_Of_The_Vancouver_2010_Olympic_Winter_Games-Canadas_Hockey_Anthems-2010.rar

Track list:

First Period
01. Naturally 7 – The Hockey Theme 00:55
02. Nickelback – Burn It To The Ground 03:29
03. The Tragically Hip – Fifty-Mission Cap 04:10
04. Stompin’ Tom Connors – The Hockey Song 02:12
05. KISS – Rock And Roll All Night 02:56
06. Tom Cochrane & Red Rider – Big League 04:38
07. Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe 03:11
Second Period
08. 2 Unlimited – Get Ready For This 03:44
09. Bachman-Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet 03:53
10. Iggy Pop – Lust For Life 05:11
11. Quiet Riot – Cum On Feel The Noize 04:48
12. Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop 02:06
13. Billy Talent – Nothing To Lose 03:39
14. Trooper – Raise A Little Hell 03:43
Third Period
15. Great Big Sea – Helmethead 02:45
16. Barenaked Ladies – If I Had A $1,000,000 04:27
17. Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Pump It Up 03:17
18. Tag Team – Whoomp! There It Is 03:43
19. Europe – The Final Countdown 05:09
20. Steam – Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye 04:07
Overtime
21. Alan Frew & Stephan Moccio – Free To Be (Canada’s Song) 02:59
22. Iron Maiden – Run To The Hills 03:56

For you Vancouver 2010 completists:

Open Happiness (the unofficial 2010 Torch Relay theme)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Albums/open-happiness1.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Albums/TorchRelayLogo.jpg

I called it an unofficial theme because the Torch Relay didn’t have an official theme song, however, this song was played at all the community celebrations and from the Coke truck that was part of the relay. It was also played in the Coke Pavilion in Vancouver.

Track list:
1. Open Happiness (English)
2. Open Happiness (French)
3. He Shoots He Scores

Format: 320 kbps mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/403511204/Coke2010.rar.html

pw=OpenHappiness
These three tracks were available on the iCoke website for free, before and during the games. He Shoots He Scores is just a short instrumental promo song they used in commercials during the games.

Multi-track ??

So if anyone happens to run into this one (hopefully in 320) it would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

I did find Koreana – Hand in Hand. I’ll post it later today if anyone is interested.

Also for the ’88 summer games, I found that these two albums exist:

88 Seoul Olympic Music by Kim Soo-Chul

Olympics XXIV: Olympic Themes By Charlie Skarbek 1988 Seoul Olympics

Anyone happen to have these?

1980 Moscow

I can’t read Russian so I can’t tell you the name of the album

I found some info on a Blog about this album. Even though I don’t know Russian, apparently the title translates to "My Love is Sport":
http://www.leaderdialog.com/blog/index.php?blog=173&title=the_funeral_services_for_jon_frederick_k&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

1980

The Official 1980 Olympic Album (cover translation: "My Love [is] Sport"), produced by Alexandra Pakhmutova and sold following the Games (includes the two Living Sound songs mentioned above). These Living Sound songs were also included on the Official 1980 Olympic Gold Medalist Film and shown across the Soviet Union in 1980. Mike McKibben and Don Moen actually sat in a large Moscow cinema, saw the film and heard the Living Sound songs on their next trip described below. A special extended play "EP" album that included these songs was also distributed by Melodiya Records.

The blog posting includes a link to this site:
http://www.pakhmutova.ru/songs/l_m_sprt.shtml
The site, all in Russian, has download links. I’m assuming the tracks with the Moscow ’80 logo next to them are from the album maybe? If anyone knows Russian, please feel free to jump in and give us a translation.

I did find Koreana – Hand in Hand. I’ll post it later today if anyone is interested.
I’m interested! 😀

Olympics XXIV: Olympic Themes By Charlie Skarbek 1988 Seoul Olympics

I have this CD and will post it as soon as I can (may be a few days).

Seoul ’88 – Koreana – Hand in Hand

Track List:

1.) Hand In Hand
2.) Stay
3.) Love Away
4.) Loving You, Loving Me
5.) Restless Heart
6.) Victory
7.) Listen To Your Heart
8.) Live My Life
9.) Running Like The Wind
10.) Call My Name

Format: 256 kbps mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/404226839/Seoul88HiHKor.rar.html

pw=Hodori

1976 Montreal – Games of the XXI Olympiad Original Soundrack
Music of the Official Ceremonies by Andr??? Mathieu & Victor Vogel

Track List:

1. Official Olympic Anthem
2. March of the Athletes #1
3. Ballet of the Closing Ceremony
4. Ballet ‘Homage To The Athletes’ Rock Movement
5. March of the Athletes #2
6. Olympic Chimes – Olympic Cantata
7. March of the Athletes #3
8. Farewell Song

Format: 192 kbps mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/404260727/Montreal76.rar.html

pw=TheBigOwe

Thanks for the two above, Howling Mad!! Much appreciated.

Composer Marc Aramian has kindly uploaded the music he composed for the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics on his site:

Go to http://www.aramian.com/
Click on "START"
Click on "CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF GENRES"
Click on "Genre: Sports"
Click on "Barcelona Olympics Flag Ceremony"

Unfortunately I don’t have a download in this post, but just thought I’d show you what I’m trying to compile. With thanks to this board and thx99 for providing the Mark Watters Atlanta album, and reading thru the Atlanta ’96 official report on the LA ’84 Foundation’s website, I was able to compile this list for the opening ceremonies:

1. Countdown-Samuranch – Mark Watters
2. Call of the Nations – Mickey Hart
3. Summon the Hereos – John Williams
4. Ruffles and Flourishes – US Army Herald Trumpets
5. Star-Spangled Banner
6. Georgia on My Mind – Gladys Knight
7. Segment: Southern Summer Night
8. Segment: The River – Mark Watters
9. Segment: The Storm – Mark Watters
10. Segment: Rebirth and Celebration
11. Hallelujah
12. When the Saints Go Marching In
13. Segment: Centennial segment – Tribute to original Olympics
14. Segment: Parade of Athletes
15. Segment: Opening Remarks (Dignitaries Walk-on – Mark Watters)
16. Simple Gifts (Shaker Hymn)(played during entrance of the Olympic flag)
17. Segment: World Peace segment featuring Martin Luther King’s "I have a dream" speech
18. Segment: Centennial Olympian Segment – former gold medal Olympians entrance
19. Segment: Arrival of the Olympic Flame
20. Ode to Joy – Beethoven (played during final leg of torch relay)
21. Segment: Olympic Oath segment
22. The Power of the Dream – Celine Dion
23. Faster, Higher, Stronger – Jessye Norman (composed by Mark Watters, lyrics by Lorraine Feather)

I’m still on the lookout for a bunch of these tracks and further researching what was performed. I still have to watch a bunch of the vids on Youtube to see what was performed in what segment.

If anyone has "Call to All Nations" by Mickey Hart, that would be awesome. I just know that it was released on his Best Of album, but it looks like it’s OOP now.

If anyone has any info to add to this list, please do so. 🙂

Here’s one I stumbled upon:

Barcelona Gold

Track list:

01 – Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe – Barcelona
02 – Tevin Cambell – One Song
03 – Anita Baker – How Fast How Far
04 – Dj Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Higher Baby
05 – Keith Sweat – Keep It Comin???
06 – En Vouge – Free Your Mind
07 – Damn Yankees – Don???t Tread On Me
08 – Rod Stewart – Go Out Dancing
09 – Travis Tritt – Texas Flyer
10 – Randy Travis – The Heart To Climb The Mountain
11 – Marc Cohn – Old Soldier
12 – Madonna – This Used To Be My Playground
13 – Luis Miguel – No Se Tu
14 – Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
15 – Natalie Cole – Love Is Here To Stay
16 – Jose Carreras & Sarah Brightman – Friends For Life

Format 192 kbps mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/?ni2dt4mfmez

Not my upload, but I found it on this site:

http://potablava.byethost32.com/recopilatorios.html

Anyone happen to have this one in 320 kbps?

Another one I found…

From Lillehammer ’94:

Gift of Love by Sissel Kyrkjeb??? featuring the Lillehammer ’94 theme song Fire In Your Heart

Track list:

01) Fire In Your Heart
02) The Gift Of Love
03) If
04) Breakaway
05) Need I Say More
06) Dream A Little Dream Of Me
07) Moonlight
08) Here, There and Everywhere
09) Miracle Song
10) Solitaire
11) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
12) Calling You
13) More Like You

Not my upload, but it’s here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/8y0ibp

Format is varied, 193 kbps mp3 and higher.

Olympic Themes by Charlie Skarbek – 1988 Seoul Olympics
Including the music used during the BBC TV Olympic coverage

Tracklist:
01. Intro (New World Theme)
02. Seoul (The Power And The Glory)
03. Chariots Of Fire
04. The Final Furlong
05. New World (Brave Theme)
06. Riptide
07. Running Man
08. Hidden City
09. Seoul (Reprise)
10. New World (Conclusion)
11. Bare New World

^Thanks thx99

I found the cover art for the David Foster Calgary 88 LP album that contained only three tracks:

1. Winter Games
2. Four Strong Winds
3. Alberta Bound

This album is pretty much impossible to find, so I made my own with some added tracks:

1. Winter Games – David Foster (performed during opening ceremony)
2. Alberta Bound – Gordon Lightfoot (performed during opening ceremony with Ian Tyson)
3. Four Strong Winds – Ian & Sylvia Tyson (performed during opening ceremony with Gordon Lighfoot)
4. Turn Me Round – k.d. lang (performed during closing ceremony)
Bonus Tracks: From the album: Dream On The Horizon: A Tribute To The Olympic Spirit!
5. Dream on the Horizon – Craig Farraway
6. Hands of Man (Instrumental) – The Big Picture (Alex Lifeson)
Note that tracks 2 and 3 were just taken off other albums. These were not the versions performed in Calgary. #4 is from k.d. lang’s album Reintarnation – this one sounded very close to what was performed at the closing ceremony.

It’s still missing some tracks though. To make it a bit more complete I’m still looking for the following to add to it:

1. Come Together in Calgary
2. Can’t You Feel It? – David Foster (vocal version of "Winter Games" – performed during closing ceremony)
3. Share the Flame (Torch Relay theme)
plus the other 3 missing tracks from Dream on the Horizon.

Anyway, here’s the 6 Calgary tracks.

Format: varied kbps mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/404669544/Calgary88.rar.html

pw=Hidy&Howdy

Here are a few more odds and ends I ran across today…

1972 Munich:

Musical selections featured on the site Die Spiele der XX Olympiade Munchen (http://www.olympia72.de/):

"Olympic Fanfare" (Composer: Herbert Rehbein, played by the Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio and members of the Air Force ‘s Corps Neubiberg, headed by Willy Mattes):
http://www.olympia72.de/olympia-fanfare.mp3

"The theme song to the Olympic Quiz ‘The most beautiful female athletes’ the ARD-Olympia Studios: ‘If you could read my mind’ from the Spotnicks:
http://www.olympia72.de/spotnicks.mp3

Opening Ceremony – Entrance of the Nations – Overture (Orchestra Kurt Edelhagen):
http://www.olympia72.de/ouvertuere.mp3

Opening Ceremony – Entrance of the Nations – Finale (Orchestra Kurt Edelhagen):
http://www.olympia72.de/finale.mp3
(from http://www.olympia72.de/eroeffnungsfeier2.html)

Closing Ceremony – Munich Fanfare March (Big Band der Bundeswehr):
http://www.olympia72.de/march.mp3

Flash videos:

Opening Ceremony in its entirety:
http://www.olympia72.de/eroeffnungsfeier5.html

Closing Ceremony:
http://www.olympia72.de/schlussfeier-video.html

2004 Athens (Music by Julian Scott):

http://www.julianscott.com/Projects/Olympics/AthletesParade.JPG

Opening and Closing Ceremonies (main page) (http://www.julianscott.com/Projects/Olympics/Olympics.htm)

Olympics Countdown (http://www.julianscott.com/Projects/Olympics/Countdown/Countdown.html)

Drums for the Olympics (http://www.julianscott.com/Projects/Olympics/Drums/Drums.html)

Olympic Bells (http://www.julianscott.com/Projects/Olympics/Bells/Bells.htm)

Olympics – Glass Orchestra (http://www.julianscott.com/Projects/Olympics/GlassOrchestra/GlassOrchestra.html)

Olympic Games – Case Study (page 1) (http://www.julianscott.com/CaseStudies/OlympicGames/OlympicGames.html)

Olympic Games – Case Study (page 2) (http://www.julianscott.com/CaseStudies/OlympicGames/OlympicGames_2.html)

2008 Beijing Olympic Torch Relay (Music by Julian Scott)
http://www.julianscott.com/Projects/OlympicTorch/Beijing_Torch.html

http://www.julianscott.com/Projects/OlympicTorch/torch2008.gif

"Julian was commissioned to score the music for the finale of the London leg of the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay. The music, just under 6 minutes long, presented the final four torchbearers. Four interlinking sections were composed with overlapping sections alllowing timing adjustments to match the runners pace.

The four torchbearers were Ellen MacArthur, Danny Crates, Theo Woolcote and Kelly Holmes. The cauldron was lit at a ceremony besides the O2 Dome in Greenwich, East London.

The event was directed by Robert Alge.

Watch:
Torch Relay Finale Video 110MB
Torch Relay Finale Video (Small) 55MB

Listen:
Torch Relay Music 13MB"

"The theme song to the Olympic Quiz ‘The most beautiful female athletes’ the ARD-Olympia Studios: ‘If you could read my mind’ from the Spotnicks:
http://www.olympia72.de/spotnicks.mp3

One of the best Gordon Lightfoot songs. It’s a nice instrumental version. One of my favourites was the disco version that was in the movie 54.

It’s funny, I got all the Munich tracks already. I think they were posted on another message board (Gamesbids?) where I got them.

2004 Athens (Music by Julian Scott):
2008 Beijing Olympic Torch Relay (Music by Julian Scott)

I’ve been to the Julian Scott site too, but I have no means of extracting those files. Can anyone extract them?

I think I made my way over to the Julian Scott site from the Gamesbids message board.

I have some other odds and ends I’ll post too. I found I got one track from Albertville and one track from Torino I found in my library.

I’m still looking for one track to make my Vancouver 2010 collection complete. Someone included the Russian Hymn in with the closing ceremony album as a bonus track on the board, but what I’m looking for is the Sochi 2014 handover segment, which can be seen here on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwtyYN-k-I8
Someone said it’s available on iTunes, but I haven’t been able to find it – maybe because it was only available on the US version of iTunes?

I have that Micky Hart cd that has Call to Nations, not entirely sure where, I’ll have to have a hunt around to find it.

I’d be quite interested to see if the Klaus Badelt piece used during the Beijing closing ceremony (as images of the past 16 days of competition was projected onto the roof rim) can be found – I thought it was a great piece of music.

I have that Micky Hart cd that has Call to Nations, not entirely sure where, I’ll have to have a hunt around to find it.

I’d be quite interested to see if the Klaus Badelt piece used during the Beijing closing ceremony (as images of the past 16 days of competition was projected onto the roof rim) can be found – I thought it was a great piece of music.

That would be great if you could find the Mickey Hart CD. 🙂

I’ll take a look thru the Beijing albums if the Klaus Badelt piece is on there, but I don’t remember seeing it in the lists. Great composer – loved his soundtrack for the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

I’ve got one track I’m posting from the Atlanta ’96 opening ceremony because I’m hoping someone may have a better version of it, and, I actually don’t know the name of the song…

This piece is from the segment with the marching bands and the cheerleaders. The name of the song eludes me. Anyone know? Is it "Welcome to the World" or something like that? It also has John Williams’ Olympic Fanfare and Theme from the LA ’84 games mixed in as well.

Format: 128 kbps mp3
Size: 7.09 MB (uncompressed)

http://rapidshare.com/files/404811566/Atlanta96MarchingBandSegment.rar

pw=Izzy

Just note that someone recorded this off the live broadcast so it’s not the greatest quality. Anyone happen to have this in a better version?

This was probably my favourite segment of the whole Atlanta opening ceremony. Here’s the segment on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po9AV3p7qkU&feature=related
I Googled the song title but couldn’t find anything. Instead it came up with a different song done by some rapper.

^In addition to my previous post regarding the Atlanta ’96 Opening Ceremony music, just found this very helpful blog with song listings, in performance order, not just for Atlanta, but other games as well:
http://olympicceremonies.wordpress.com/1996-atlanta-opening-ceremony-music-list/

🙂

So here’s a long-shot, but I wonder if anyone can help me out here.

It’s not strictly Olympic Ceremony music, but NBC uses a cue package that’s a re-record of the Williams Olympic Fanfare/Theme from ’84. It’s far better in sound than the original, but I can’t find it anywhere, even though it seems like they’ve been using it since 2002.

I’ve been able to find a few LQ cuts of another mini-package they never really used that was an inferior re-record of Summon the Heroes (’96), but none from that original theme package.

If anyone’s ever able to turn anything up, I’d be eternally grateful.

So here’s a long-shot, but I wonder if anyone can help me out here.

It’s not strictly Olympic Ceremony music, but NBC uses a cue package that’s a re-record of the Williams Olympic Fanfare/Theme from ’84. It’s far better in sound than the original, but I can’t find it anywhere, even though it seems like they’ve been using it since 2002.

I’ve been able to find a few LQ cuts of another mini-package they never really used that was an inferior re-record of Summon the Heroes (’96), but none from that original theme package.

If anyone’s ever able to turn anything up, I’d be eternally grateful.

Try track #16 on disc 1 of the 16 Days of Glory soundtrack which one of the board members posted here:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1206564&postcount=1266
It’s in 320 kbps and sounds much better than on the LA ’84 album – it’s probably the best version I’ve heard. 🙂

A few pieces from my collection

*Call to All Nations
Mickey Hart
Atlanta 96 Opening Ceremony

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ub3xs4

* Prosesjon
Lillehammer 94 Handover in Albertville

http://www.sendspace.com/file/w8t6se

* A Day in the Life of Sydney
Sydney handover in Atlanta

http://www.sendspace.com/file/22wnzj

Try track #16 on disc 1 of the 16 Days of Glory soundtrack which one of the board members posted here:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1206564&postcount=1266
It’s in 320 kbps and sounds much better than on the LA ’84 album – it’s probably the best version I’ve heard. 🙂

Appreciated, and yes, it is better quality…but still not quite what I’m looking for. There are certain elements to that specific re-record that I really like. So, if anybody does have the NBC cuts for the original theme…please post. Thanks.

A few pieces from my collection

*Call to All Nations

* Prosesjon
Lillehammer 94 Handover in Albertville

* A Day in the Life of Sydney
Sydney handover in Atlanta
Thanks for posting these, but for the life of me, I cannot get them to open in any audio software. I either receive errors prohibiting playback or they play as silent files. Are they protected files or something? Anyone else able to play them?

Thanks for posting these, but for the life of me, I cannot get them to open in any audio software. I either receive errors prohibiting playback or they play as silent files. Are they protected files or something? Anyone else able to play them?

Same here. I can’t play them either. I tried converting them to mp3 but that didn’t work either – an error came up.

Just an interesting little article I found regarding Vancouver 2010 music:
About.com: Music of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
The Most Memorable Songs (http://top40.about.com/od/top10lists/tp/2010winterolympicssongs.htm)

Thought I’d put this up for reference since I finally found a track listing.

This is for the 2010 AT&T Team USA Soundtrack

* 3 Doors Down ??? ???Shine???
* The All-American Rejects ??? ???Move Along (remix by Chad Hugo of the Neptunes)???
* David Banner ??? ???In the Zone (feat. BJ the Chicago Kid)???
* Gloriana ??? ???The World Is Ours Tonight???
* Green River Ordinance ??? ???Rise Up???
* Honor Society ??? ???Can???t Box Me In???
* Hoobastank ??? ???Never Be Here Again???
* Mariah Carey ??? ???100%???
* Puddle Of Mudd ??? ???Shook Up the World???
* Rascal Flatts ??? ???Unstoppable (Olympics Mix)???
* Sugarland ??? ???Wide Open???
* Train ??? ???The Finish Line???

I’m still looking for these tracks myself.

A few tracks…

From the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games

Give It All You Got by Chuck Mangione (the official theme song)
Format: 256 kbps mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/405239855/LakePlacid1980.rar

pw=Roni

And from Torino…

1. Fun and Fame by Ajad (128 kbps mp3)
2. Living in My City by Eiffel 65 (the official theme song of Torino 2006) (320 kbps mp3)

http://rapidshare.com/files/405240249/Torino2006.rar

pw=Neve&Glitz

The track Fun and Fame was available on the Torino 2006 website. This was known as the athlete’s song. There was also another track available, but I wasn’t able to download it before the website faded into history – this track was music used during the medal ceremony and cauldron lighting. Anyone happen to have this track?

And I’ll deviate from the Olympics a little. Here’s something from another world-wide sporting event. Click the vuvuzela for a surprise (not my upload and no, you will not hear a vuvuzela ;))
(http://filmmusic.ru/2010/06/19/listen-up-the-official-2010-fifa-world-cup-album/)
PS: If you go to the homepage of that site, you’ll find a few albums from past World Cups.

Anyone happen to have the 3 (actually 4) official Athens 2004 albums in 320 kbps:
Unity
Harmony
Phos
&
Pass the Flame single (contains 3 tracks)??

Nice thread peoples….came on here to volunteer a couple of bits but everyone here waaaaay ahead of me already – excellent stuff, and thanks for the 16 Days of Glory….fantastic album.

There’s a couple of short tracks by a couple of Russian rappers on the Sochi 2014 site:
http://sochi2014.com/en/sochi-live/downloads/
The tracks are meant as ringtones and are on the bottom of the page.

Did some searching for this album. A very rare one in the Olympic Games music library. The correct name of the album is:

Dream on the Horizon: A Tribute to the Olympic Spirit

(this was the best image I could find of the cover)

by
The Big Picture
which consists of:
Alex Lifeson of Rush
Rik Emmet of Triumph
Liona Boyd
Produced by Keith Elshaw
(Craig Farraway’s track was added to it)

Looks like there are only five tracks. Two of the tracks are available online:
Dream on the Horizon – Craig Farraway (http://sites.google.com/site/farraway/CraigFarraway-DreamOnTheHorizon.mp3?attredirects=0) (192 kbps)
found on Craig Farraway’s site:
http://sites.google.com/site/farraway/mymusic

Hands of Man (Instrumental) – The Big Picture (Alex Lifeson) (http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/3/8/864051/TheBigPicture%28AlexLifeson%29-HandsOfMan%28instrumental%29.mp3) (128 kbps)
found on The Rush Is a Band blog:
http://www.rushisaband.com/display.php?id=1899

One of the other three songs is a vocal version of Hands of Man. Don’t know what the other two songs are. If anyone finds the complete album, post it here. 🙂

The only place you may likely find this album, is in a used record store in Calgary.

Here’s a clip on Youtube: Dream on the Horizon on the News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mScJ14BWAM)

It’s Craig here. I am the writer of the song, "Dream on the Horizon". I thought of the title during a long car ride, out of boredom. It was the next day when I got a call to write the song. They then used the title for the album. I can verify all of this if you send me a pm. on youtube. (CraigTube) I have one copy of the album (not for sale) but I can put it online somewhere and provide you with a high resolution pic of the cover, both sides. Cheers.

Here’s a few more albums that I found exist:

Go For Gold 2008

A Musical Tribute to the Olympics – 2008

I take it this is different than the one that was posted to this message board

Mikis Theodorakis – Canto Olympico

Anyone happen to have these?

I take it this is different than the one that was posted to this message board

Yes, this is a compilation of music composed mostly by Lee Holdridge for the series of documentary-style films titled 16 Days of Glory. The previously-posted compilation of Olympics music is different, though it took its title from these films.

I found it here (@ 192kbps):

http://rapidshare.com/files/326421242/16_Days_Of_Glory._The_Spirit_of_the_Olympics.rar

pw=somerapidsharelinks.blogspot.com

(not my upload so credit goes to the original uploader)

Mikis Theodorakis – Canto Olympico

I found it here (@ 160kbps):

http://rapidshare.com/files/189958461/Theodorakis-1992-Canto_olympico.rar

no pw

(not my upload so credit goes to the original uploader)

WOW! Incredible thread!
Many thanks to those who have posted some of these great albums!

I found it here (@ 160kbps):

http://rapidshare.com/files/189958461/Theodorakis-1992-Canto_olympico.rar

no pw

(not my upload so credit goes to the original uploader)

Anyone happen to unzip this one properly? It seems there is something wrong with the second track.

Thanks for those additions thx99.

The Official Album for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: Jackie Chan Edition

He does his own stunts… and he sings!

Not my upload but I found it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/231044096/2008_The_Official_Album_For_Beijing_2008_Olympic_G ames__Jackie_Chan_Edition_-_VA.rar

no password

Format: various mp3 (above 128 kbps)

Here’s the track list (sung in Mandarin, some in english):
1. We are Ready
2. Zhang Qi Lai (Stand Up)
3. Xiang Xi Zi Ji (Believe Yourself)
4. Shao Nian Qian (Youth Strong)
5. Zhong Guo Kan Jian (China Sees)
6. Da Kai Tian Kong (Open the Sky)
7. Sheng Si Bu Li (Not Seperate)
8. Long de Meng Xiang (Dragon’s Dream)
9. Beijing Huan Ying Ni (Beijing Welcome You)
10. Shao Nian Qiang (Youth Strong)

Please reupload "16 Days of Glory – 2CD".
Link is Broken.
Thank you.

Anyone happen to unzip this one properly? It seems there is something wrong with the second track.

Thanks for those additions thx99.

My pleasure!

FWIW, the Canto Olympico RAR file extracted perfectly for me using 7Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/).

It’s Craig here. I am the writer of the song, "Dream on the Horizon". I thought of the title during a long car ride, out of boredom. It was the next day when I got a call to write the song. They then used the title for the album. I can verify all of this if you send me a pm. on youtube. (CraigTube) I have one copy of the album (not for sale) but I can put it online somewhere and provide you with a high resolution pic of the cover, both sides. Cheers.

How did I miss this post? Must’ve posted at the same time. 🙂

Craig, Welcome! It’s a very good song you wrote. If someone didn’t mention it here in the third post, I would’t have even known there existed an album for the Calgary ’88 games. Then I Googled it, and only a small mention of it came up on two Rush blog sites and your site. Then I found it listed on Olympic Bob’s Olympic Music List. That would be excellent if you could share and provide more info. I’d love to see a better pic/scan of the cover art myself and the titles of those other three tracks. That’s great! Thanks in advance.

Please reupload "16 Days of Glory – 2CD".
Link is Broken.
Thank you.

It still works. Just go to rapidspread and try the megaupload link:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1206564&postcount=1266

Pass the Flame (2004 Torch Relay Theme Song)

This is a three-track single, unfortunately I only have two tracks. If anyone has the 2nd track, "Na to Fos" (Greek version of Pass the Flame), it would be greatly appreciated. And if anyone has these in a higher bitrate, that would be appreciated too!

http://rapidshare.com/files/406827386/TorchRelay04.rar

pw=Athena&Phevos

Format: 191 kbps (track 1) & 128 kbps (track 2) mp3

Track listing:
1. Pass the Flame (english)
2. Na to Fos (Greek) – missing track
3. Pass the Flame (instrumental)

It still works. Just go to rapidspread and try the megaupload link:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1206564&postcount=1266

Thank you.
This is the great album.

Thank you.
This is the great album.

Just note that it may be fan made. Some of the tracks are mislabled such as "Past the Time" is a actually "Pass the Flame".

UNITY: The Official Athens 2004 Olympic Games Album

First off, this isn’t my upload so thanks to the original uploader. Secondly, unfortunately it’s only in 192 kbps. I’ve been hoping to find this one and the other three Athens albums in 320 but so far no luck.

http://rapidshare.com/files/173535190/UNITY_-_The_Official_Athens_Olympic_Games_Album_2004.zip

no password

Track list:
1 Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door 2:52
2 I Know 3:50
3 By Your Side 4:19
4 Universal Prayer 4:05
5 A Thousand Years 5:05
6 All the Way 3:59
7 Issues 3:43
8 Love Together 4:41
9 Eyes on the Prize 4:14
10 We Want Peace 3:55
11 Oh Yeah 3:56
12 MKLVFKWR 3:23
13 Stand 4:03
14 Everlasting 4:17
15 Still Standing 4:30
16 Pass the Flame – The Official Torch Relay Theme 4:13

I found I got a few tracks from the Athens opening ceremony, but I won’t have time to post them until next week as I’m leaving on a short road trip tomorrow.

Sorry for the late.

Here is the Olympic Hymn.
http://rapidshare.com/files/408417079/Citius__Altius__Fortius.zip.html

It also includes 2 versions.
One is instrumental only, and the other is a capella version (only performed by a chorus group). The hymn was created by the Greek composer Spyros Samaras.

Sorry for the late.

Here is the Olympic Hymn.
http://rapidshare.com/files/408417079/Citius__Altius__Fortius.zip.html

It also includes 2 versions.
One is instrumental only, and the other is a capella version (only performed by a chorus group). The hymn was created by the Greek composer Spyros Samaras.

Excellent! Thanks for that.

Someone passed the following link onto me from another board…

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Albums/KurtEdelhagen-OlympiaParadekleinWin.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Albums/KurtEdelhagen-OlympiaParade2kleinaW.jpg

http://rapidshare.com/files/219806746/Kurt_Edelhagen_-_Olympia_Parade__Munih_72__1_2.rar

no password

The file contains both Olympia Parade and Olympia Parade #2

Format: 192 kbps mp3

Previously, on the first page of this thread, I posted a link to the first Olympia Parade in 320 kbps mp3.

NBC Vancouver 2010 Coverage Music

Music from NBC’s coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games:

1. One Day – Matisyahu – 203 kbps mp3
2. Free – Elliott Yamin – 256 kbps mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/408685247/NBCVancouver2010.rar

pw=Lauer&Costas

I’m nost sure if there was more music used in NBC’s coverage of the games besides these two. Anyone know? If so, I could add them to the file.

The one and only track I have from the Albertville ’92 Olympic Winter Games.

The track is tagged with this album title:
Ceremonies d’ouverture et de cloture des XVIe Jeux Olympique d’Hiver d’Albertville 1992

"Patineurs"
Format: 193 kbps mp3
I can’t remember where this track played or what it is associated with. Sounds like ambient music from one of the ceremonies.

http://rapidshare.com/files/409081061/Albertville92.rar

pw=Magique

On the topic of Albertville, anyone happen to have this album or any other music from the ’92 Olympic Winter Games?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Albums/Albertville58199.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Albums/Albertville58200.jpg

Some info about this album here: http://www.encyclopedisque.fr/disque/43051.html

Regarding Vancouver 2010, I just read on another board that some extra music has been made available on iTunes. Apparently it’s medal ceremony music by Dave Pierce. I also read that there’s some extra stuff for the Sochi 2014 handover ceremony that was performed during the 2010 closing ceremony. Gonna have to take a look myself if I can get iTunes to work on my laptop.

I have that Micky Hart cd that has Call to Nations, not entirely sure where, I’ll have to have a hunt around to find it.

Any luck finding the Mickey Hart CD?

Does anyone happen to know if there was any music released for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games that just wrapped up in Singapore?

Music From the 1996 Summer Olympics

Tracklist:
1. Countdown/Samuranch
2. The Run Through Time
3. The River
4. The Storm
5. Dignitaries Walk-On
6. Earth Rise
7. Faster, Higher, Stronger*

* Jessye Norman, soprano ??? Lyrics by Lorraine Feather

I was just listening to this album and watching clips on Youtube from the Atlanta opening ceremonies. Does anyone happen to know when "Earth Rise" played during the ceremony? I’m assuming it was during the Summertime segment with "The River" and "The Storm", but the stuff I was listening to on Youtube sounds a little different. So, anyone know? I’m trying to piece together a track list for the OC and am not sure where to put it.

thanks for all the great olympic music. i really like the epic orchestral fanfares. they are quite amazing! no better place for them than the olympics.

so thanks again to everyone that contributed, especially the official albums.

Found a couple of obscure ones, soundtracks actually.

White Rock (1977)

From Wikipedia:

White Rock is a 1977 documentary film about the 1976 Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck, Austria.

Not my upload, but it can be found here:

http://djkoppig.blogspot.com/2008/07/rick-wakeman-1977-white-rock.html

(download link is on the blog page)

no password
Format 160 kbps mp3

White Rock II (1999)

Released in 1999, a rescore of the 1977 film.
Again, not my upload but it can be found here.

http://rapidshare.com/files/277343953/1999_-_White_Rock_2000.rar

no password
Format 192 kbps mp3

Just note that the White Rock II rar file also has another R. Wakeman album with it. And the tracks may not be in order in this one.

Beijing 2008 – Travel Lounge Art Magic

Not my upload but found it here:

http://www.alexdang.com/2008/09/va-beijing-2cd-2008.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/120513428/VA.Beijing.2008.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/120513309/VA.Beijing.2008.part2.rar

no password

Format: MP3 VBR kbps 44khz Stereo
Size: 134 Mb

Tracklist

CD 1 (Day)
01. Sueno de Amor – Roberto Sol & Chris Blanc ft. Ines
02. You Have to Care About Love – Massivan ft. Bea Luna
03. Me & Mrs Jones (Bossa Version) – Sarah Jane Morris
04. Negro – S-Tone Inc ft. Toco
05. Spread Your Love – Paolp Fedreghini & Marco Bianchi
06. Chi Sei (Roots) – Dario Serafino
07. Sunday Drive – Stephane Pompougnac
08. High Time – Life Project ft. Angie Giles
09. Danse Macabre – Kraak & Smaak
10. Ride My Camel – Spy from Cairo
CD 2 (Night)
01. Getaway – Massivan
02. Northwest – AIM ft. Niko
03. Still Here – AUral Float
04. Message in a Bottle – Le Berry
05. Wastersong – Fous de La Mer
06. Intoxicated – Groovecatcher ft. Manuela Van Geenhoven
07. Fall I the Water – Zimpala
08. Adios – Zimpala
09. Atelier (Wayne Coleman Rmx) – Alberto Benati & Danilo Venturino
10. Here’s to You (Acoustic Version) – Stephane Pompougnac ft. Linda Lee Hopkins

Anyone happen to have this one?

The 1984 Summer Olympics – 16 Days of Glory

Released: 1986
Format: 192 kbps mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/416546668/1984-16Days.rar

pw=SamTheEagle

Tracklist:

A01 Theme From ’16 Days Of Glory’
A02 Triumph
A03 The Highest Step – Interlude
A04 Hymn Of The Nations
B01 The Women’s Marathon
B02 The Lighting Of The Torch
B03 Dawn – Interlude
B04 Entrance Of The Nations
B05 Decathlon – The Finale

Just a note that there are some minor pops and scratches heard on the tracks as it was recorded from the LP. And also, a few of these tracks also appeared on the other 16 Days of Glory album found here:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/olympic-games-music-summer-winter-76023/3.html#post1505584

Mikis Theodorakis – Canto Olympico

Anyone happen to have these?

I found it here (@ 160kbps):

http://rapidshare.com/files/189958461/Theodorakis-1992-Canto_olympico.rar

no pw

(not my upload so credit goes to the original uploader)

Anyone happen to unzip this one properly? It seems there is something wrong with the second track.

Thanks for those additions thx99.

My pleasure!

FWIW, the Canto Olympico RAR file extracted perfectly for me using 7Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/).

Just want to let you know that the Canto Olympico file is not complete. The first track is half the length than what it should be. Also, the last two tracks are shorter than they should be. the track labeled "01b" is not playable. I tried using 7Zip and winrar, but had the same results when I unzipped the rar file. Does anyone have this album complete?

1992 Albertville Closing Ceremonies – Lillehammer Handover Presentation Music

http://rapidshare.com/files/418175797/AlbertToLille.rar

pw=Sissel

2 versions of Molde Canticle by Sissel
01 Molde Canticle (from the album Sissel) – 201 kbps mp3
02 Molde Canticle (live version from the album In Symphony – 128 kbps mp3

A.K.A. Prosesjon. Hoping to find a better version from the In Symphony album (in 320). There is a FLAC torrent out there but for some reason I couldn’t get it to un-FLAC.

If anyone’s lucky to find the Sissel album Innerst i sjelen, it has three 1994 Winter Olympics songs on it: Fire In Your Heart (duet with Pl???cido Domingo), Prosesjon, and Hymne Olympique. I’m looking for it myself. Maybe I’ll make a request in the request thread. Here’s it’s full track list on wiki: Innerst i sjelen – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innerst_i_sjelen)

Are there any records from the 50s or 60s Olympic Games published?

Are there any records from the 50s or 60s Olympic Games published?

There are! For instance I saw this one listed on eBay:

However, a bit pricey. It was listed for $500! Here’s a few more I found listed on eBay that exist:

Jazz at the Olympics – Ralph Sutton Quartet – 1960

And another one that was listed on eBay:
1896-1960 Songs of the Olympic Years

I think there were albums released for Innsbruck and Squaw Valley as well.

If I remember correctly the Long John Baldry Mexico song was used as the BBC signature tune to its coverage. This was before the BBC began comissioning music for its Olympic coverage.

And there is also from the 60s the soundtrack of the documentary film Tokyo Olympiad.

While searching around online I found there exists two more albums for Sydney 2000. Does anyone happen to have these two?

Fun and Games – Syd, Millie, and Olly Sing Their Favourite Olympic Songs

Olympic Record – Sydney 2000

Another shot of the case I found:

According to the sticker, it’s got the Torch Relay song on it.

I stumbled upon this one:

Visions of Eight – Henry Mancini (1973)

According to answers.com (http://www.answers.com/topic/visions-of-eight-the-olympics-of-motion-picture-achievement):

This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world’s most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch and John Schlesinger. Each director concentrated on events that were of interest to him and filmed in his own style. For instance, Foreman focused on the comic aspect of the games; Lelouch kept his sights on the losers rather than the winners; and Mai Zetterling examined obsession in the form of weightlifting. The movie does not attempt to comprehensively document the ’72 Olympics and does not aim for a unified vision. Instead, it showcases the talents of these directors under the inspiration of this most dramatic of gatherings.

http://rapidshare.com/files/418374055/VisOf8.rar

pw=Munich72

Format 320 kbps mp3

Track List:
01 Ludmilla’s Theme
02 Pretty Girls
03 Spaced Out
04 Warm Up
05 Soft Flight
06 The Race
07 Salute To The Olympians
08 Olympic Village
09 Ludmilla’s Theme (Reprise)
10 Hurdles And Girdles
11 Theme For The Losers
12 Salute To The Olympians (Finale)

In addition to my previous post, I found another two albums that exist for Sydney 2000.

The first one is an unofficial release:

Koala – Australia 2000

Back cover:

I did hear one track from this album before. It’s pretty much all dance music.

The next one is an official Sydney 2000 release as it has the logo on the cover:

Olympic Arts Festival

It’s a 2CD set featurig classical music.

Anyone happen to have these?

Hard to believe that ten years ago today, Sept 15, the Sydney Olympic Summer Games began. Wow does time fly! Well done Sydney! You still got one of the best games to date.

Having said that, does anyone happen to have the "A Day In the Life of Sydney" track from the handover segment in Atlanta? Someone posted it earlier in the thread, but the file didn’t work.

I was doing some searching around for additional Torino 2006 music, for which there was very little released, and I stumbled upon this interesting entry on this blog:
Torino 2006 Olympic Games Blog (http://www.torino2006blog.com/item/48)

The official Olympic anthem ‘VA’
‘Va’ is the name of the official song for the games, written by the famous singer / songwriter (at least in Italy…) Claudio Baglioni. ‘Va’ in Italian basically means Go! and the upcoming English version will not surprisingly be titled ‘Go’. According to the Toroc, the Torino organizing committee, the song will play a central part in the opening ceremony on the 10th February where the Maestro Baglioni will conducta symphonic orchestra and a choir of 120 singers performing his anthem. He has previously also written the anthem for the Swimming World Championship in 1994 with the song ‘Acqua nell’Acqua’ (something like ‘Water in water’) and the Football World Championship in 1998 ‘Da me a te’ (‘From me to you’).
The question remains though, if the Italians need more than a song to evoke the somewhat lacking passion for the upcoming games. At least they now have an anthem to be inspired by.

VA’
COME MUSICA
CHE CI ILLUMINA
FUOCO DELLA VITA
BAGNA L’ANIMA
LUNGO LA SALITA

Go,
like the music
which illuminates us,
The fire of life
touches the soul
along the climbing road.

As the observant reader may have discovered the song is not particularly revolutionising, but fits nicely into the genre of Olympic Anthems. (I think however, that it lacks clear references to Torino and the Games here, and thus could basically fit any Olympic game!)

Gonna have to keep my eyes (and ears) open for this one.

Well, with a little searching, I found it.

Torino 2006 – V??? by Claudio Baglioni

http://rapidshare.com/files/419340500/Torino06.rar
PW=Neve&Gliz

Format 320 kbps mp3

I’m still surprised very little music was released for these games, and that goes for Nagano too. There’s a vid on Youtube for this song, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3xMU2FJxcs
and as it was performed at the opening ceremonies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQUcbFECFs

Atlanta 1996 – Puedus Llegar (single)

Atlanta ’96’s theme song "Reach" sung in spanish by Gloria Estefan, Roberto Carlos, Placido Domingo, Julio Eglasias, Ricky Martin, Alejandro Fernandez, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Jon Secada, Patricia Sosa, Carlos Vives.

http://rapidshare.com/files/419866026/Atlanta96PL.rar
PW=Atlanta96

Format: 128 kbps mp3

This song is also included on Voces Unidas, The album contains 15 tracks.

I found about three download links for this one, but they were all dead. Anyone happen to have this one?

Just a heads-up if anyone is haveing trouble with Rapidshare – they just changed the look of their website. IE is blocking the pop-up window for file downloads. if it happens to you, here’s the remedy:
Go to "Tools". Then "Internet Options". Click the "Security" tab. Click the "Customs Level" button. Scroll down to "Downloads" and select "Enable". Click on OK, and then again on OK.

Thought I’d post it here since most of the stuff in this thread is on rapidshare.

As a reply to an earlier question in regards to the piece *earth rise* from the Atlanta ceremonies. The piece is actually one of the bits of music used in two Olympic ceremonies, the Atlanta closing and the Salt lake closing.
In the Atlanta ceremony it was used just before the spectators performed the card stunt which revealed an Atlanta olive wreath which *crowned* the athletes . It was around the time *reach* was performed.

In the closing ceremony of Salt Lake, the piece was used as the heliospheres went up into the air, with athletes hanging from them. It’s an awesome small piece of music.

As a reply to an earlier question in regards to the piece *earth rise* from the Atlanta ceremonies. The piece is actually one of the bits of music used in two Olympic ceremonies, the Atlanta closing and the Salt lake closing.
In the Atlanta ceremony it was used just before the spectators performed the card stunt which revealed an Atlanta olive wreath which *crowned* the athletes . It was around the time *reach* was performed.

In the closing ceremony of Salt Lake, the piece was used as the heliospheres went up into the air, with athletes hanging from them. It’s an awesome small piece of music.

Thanks! I was wondering where that track played.

If I have some time later tonight, I’ll upload something.

La Fleur De L’Impossible (Albertville ’92 theme song)

http://rapidshare.com/files/423152433/AlbertvilleTheme.rar

pw=Magique

Format=192 kbps mp3

This is just the one track. I haven’t yet found the instrumental version of it.

Can someone put the The Games Of The XXVII Olympiad: Official Music From The Opening Ceremony (2000) on 4shared

Not directly related to the Olympics, but thought it might interest someone…

Taken from this site:
A R Rahman – Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 Theme Song – 320 kbps in AvaxHome (http://www.avaxhome.ws/music/Commonwealth_theme_arrahman_pulsrate.html)

A R Rahman – Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 Theme Song
Single | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 04:16 | 8.85 MB

http://rapidshare.com/files/416572391/CWG_Theme_ARR_varsh.rar

Mirror
Hotfile.com: One click file hosting: CWG_Theme_ARR_varsh.rar (http://hotfile.com/dl/66424403/c480037/CWG_Theme_ARR_varsh.rar.html)

Not directly related to the Olympics, but thought it might interest someone…

Taken from this site:
A R Rahman – Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 Theme Song – 320 kbps in AvaxHome (http://www.avaxhome.ws/music/Commonwealth_theme_arrahman_pulsrate.html)

A R Rahman – Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 Theme Song
Single | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 04:16 | 8.85 MB

http://rapidshare.com/files/416572391/CWG_Theme_ARR_varsh.rar

Mirror
Hotfile.com: One click file hosting: CWG_Theme_ARR_varsh.rar (http://hotfile.com/dl/66424403/c480037/CWG_Theme_ARR_varsh.rar.html)

Cool. Thanks thx99. Was there any soiled studios and child labour associated with this track? 😉

Hi, I know Im kinda late in finding this awesome thread, but I have been looking everywhere for the First Olympics soundtrack and the 16 Days of Glory, I am wondering if anyone could re-post them because the links are dead. It would be much appreciated, Im glad I found other people with the same passion for Olympic music as i do!

La Flamme, music played in Albertville 1992 Opening Ceremony during the lighting of the caudron

La Flamme (http://hotfile.com/dl/79629938/383a0ae/La_Flamme.mp3.html)

Vancouver 2010 Medal Ceremony music – Dave Pierce

I’m a bit short on time right now to upload to rapidshare, but here it is on Youtube:
YouTube – Vancouver 2010 Medal Ceremony Theme OFFICIAL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9TToBW_Apw)
Just copy the link into Bender Converter here:
YouTube Converter to Mp3, Avi, iPod, iPhone (http://benderconverter.com/)
Choose either mp3 or wav, it’ll convert it for you and provide a download link. 🙂

I’m also looking for "The Games Of The XXVII Olympiad 2000 Music from the Opening Ceremony"
It’s rarely to find.

Did this ever get posted, would love a better version than my tired Cassette.

Thanks
Jeff

Olympic Themes by Charlie Skarbek – 1988 Seoul Olympics
Including the music used during the BBC TV Olympic coverage

Tracklist:
01. Intro (New World Theme)
02. Seoul (The Power And The Glory)
03. Chariots Of Fire
04. The Final Furlong
05. New World (Brave Theme)
06. Riptide
07. Running Man
08. Hidden City
09. Seoul (Reprise)
10. New World (Conclusion)
11. Bare New World

Vancouver 2010 Parade of Nations music

For you Vancouver 2010 completists…
It’s here on Youtube in a time lapse video showing the preperation inside BC Place. The music was heard looped during the parade of nations, and then capped off with Canadian Athletes (which is available on the official CD):
YouTube – Vancouver 2010 In Time Lapse (BC Place Stadium) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0I5MDTGd8c)
And copy the link into Bender Converter to rip the music:
YouTube Converter to Mp3, Avi, iPod, iPhone (http://benderconverter.com/)

If anyone has any luck ripping this to a WAV file let me know. I tried but Bender Converter was having some issues this evening.

Hello,
desperatly looking for the incredible piece of music (with choir), composed by Angelo Badalamenti for the opening ceremony of the Barcelone Games. There was also a nice composition from Ryuchi Sakamoto in the same opening show.
If someone can find those ones, that would be very impressive!!

Did this ever get posted, would love a better version than my tired Cassette.

Thanks
Jeff

Not an upload but here is my youtube vid to track 5 – New World YouTube – New World by Charlie Skarbek 1988 Olympics BBC Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95jAhfAJ7RQ)

Hello,
desperatly looking for the incredible piece of music (with choir), composed by Angelo Badalamenti for the opening ceremony of the Barcelone Games. There was also a nice composition from Ryuchi Sakamoto in the same opening show.
If someone can find those ones, that would be very impressive!!

I SECOND THIS — has it been found??

Yes, it has been found!

There is a compil of Badalamenti music recorded in Belgium conducted by the excellent Dirk Brose.
So, here is the track.
Enjoy

MEGAUPLOAD – The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OLSQGWCS)

Yes, it has been found!

There is a compil of Badalamenti music recorded in Belgium conducted by the excellent Dirk Brose.
So, here is the track.
Enjoy

MEGAUPLOAD – The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OLSQGWCS)

Fantastic! Thank you! Really gets great once the chrous kicks in….

La Flamme, music played in Albertville 1992 Opening Ceremony during the lighting of the caudron

La Flamme (http://hotfile.com/dl/79629938/383a0ae/La_Flamme.mp3.html)

Anybody happen to have this one? I missed it, was removed from the server.

Anybody happen to have this one? I missed it, was removed from the server.

I post it on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6KWxEkpMiY)

Hey everyone I am wondering if anyone has this album, I have been looking for it for quite some time.
http://images.swap.com/images/music/40/209840.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.swap.com/CDs/artist/michael-omartian/43171/&usg=__H4CooUMfBXiT05kaNOpRikHyUTc=&h=170&w=170&sz=20&hl=en&start=5&zoom=0&tbnid=yoBM22za0I07DM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=99&ei=4_x6TcrGCYeglAea2ZDhBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Done%2Bvoice%2Bolympic%26hl%3Den%26saf e%3Doff%26rlz%3D1T4ADBF_enUS294US294%26biw%3D1276% 26bih%3D598%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1

It’s Called One Voice: Olympic Album
Tracklist:
1. Atlanta Reel ’96 – Michael Omartian Feat. Vince Gill, Chet Atkins, Alison Krauss, Bella Fleck & Paul Franklin
2. One Song – John Berry
3. Every Kinda People – Amy Grant/Patty Loveless
4. One Down, With One More To Go – Lorrie Morgan
5. It’s Everything – Mac McAnally
6. Excerpt From The Fiddle Concerto – Mark O’Connor
7. We Must Believe In Magic – Willie Nelson/Marty Stewart
8. From A Distance – Nanci Griffith/Donna Summer/Raul Malo
9. You Believed In Me – Karla Bonoff/The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
10. The Flame – Trisha Yearwood
11. 1986 Life’s Highway-Steve Wariner – From The Vaults: Decca Country
12. 1987 Ocean Front Property-George Strait – From The Vaults: Decca Country
13. 1988 If Ole Hank Could Only See Us Now-Waylon Jennings – From The Vaults: Decca Country

Atlanta 1996 – Puedus Llegar (single)

Atlanta ’96’s theme song "Reach" sung in spanish by Gloria Estefan, Roberto Carlos, Placido Domingo, Julio Eglasias, Ricky Martin, Alejandro Fernandez, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Jon Secada, Patricia Sosa, Carlos Vives.

http://rapidshare.com/files/419866026/Atlanta96PL.rar
PW=Atlanta96

Format: 128 kbps mp3

This song is also included on Voces Unidas, The album contains 15 tracks.

I found about three download links for this one, but they were all dead. Anyone happen to have this one?

I found this one today, and downloaded it from 4shared. All tracks seem to work. Here is the link:
[1996] – Voces Unidas – Somlivre.rar – 4shared.com – online file sharing and storage – download (http://www.4shared.com/file/dU2yTiJi/1996_-_Voces_Unidas_-_Somlivre.htm)

Hey everyone I am wondering if anyone has this album, I have been looking for it for quite some time.
http://images.swap.com/images/music/40/209840.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.swap.com/CDs/artist/michael-omartian/43171/&usg=__H4CooUMfBXiT05kaNOpRikHyUTc=&h=170&w=170&sz=20&hl=en&start=5&zoom=0&tbnid=yoBM22za0I07DM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=99&ei=4_x6TcrGCYeglAea2ZDhBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Done%2Bvoice%2Bolympic%26hl%3Den%26saf e%3Doff%26rlz%3D1T4ADBF_enUS294US294%26biw%3D1276% 26bih%3D598%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1

It’s Called One Voice: Olympic Album

I’ve heard of it and I know it exists, but I haven’t been able to locate it yet myself.

Thanks for the link for Voces Unidas!

Anybody know if anything has been released for London 2012 yet? Promo music? Anything?

I’m looking for the Salt Lake CDs shown in this (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/olympic-games-music-summer-winter-76023/#post1489437) post. I used to have physical copies, but I’ve lost the actual CDs. I now only have empty cases sitting on my shelf.

1976’s Montreal Olympics was the first to ever have an original soundtrack for it various ceremonies. Andre Matthieu was an all but forgotten Canadian child prodigy whose music was transcribed/interpolated by Victor Vogel. During the opening ceremony the television hosts could not keep their mouths shut, commenting more on the incredible music than the spectacle in the stadium.

Recently there has been a resurgence of Mathieu’s lush, romantic (with curious, mysterious, emotional anecdotes attached) music. The second movement of his 4th piano concerto is the stand out source for the ‘March of the Athletes’ (occasionally with a 70’s funk twist).

I have two copies of this soundtrack on vinyl but have failed to properly transfer them to CD, knowing full well ‘Polydor’ will never bother to do so. Thus I wonder, has anyone else refurbished this LP and has it available sans clicks & pops? Some years ago I had two different LPs transferred by a company found on the Internet that did an immaculate job- but have since forgotten the name and Url.

1976’s Montreal Olympics was the first to ever have an original soundtrack for it various ceremonies. Andre Matthieu was an all but forgotten Canadian child prodigy whose music was transcribed/interpolated by Victor Vogel. During the opening ceremony the television hosts could not keep their mouths shut, commenting more on the incredible music than the spectacle in the stadium.

Recently there has been a resurgence of Mathieu’s lush, romantic (with curious, mysterious, emotional anecdotes attached) music. The second movement of his 4th piano concerto is the stand out source for the ‘March of the Athletes’ (occasionally with a 70’s funk twist).

I have two copies of this soundtrack on vinyl but have failed to properly transfer them to CD, knowing full well ‘Polydor’ will never bother to do so. Thus I wonder, has anyone else refurbished this LP and has it available sans clicks & pops? Some years ago I had two different LPs transferred by a company found on the Internet that did an immaculate job- but have since forgotten the name and Url.

I have a copy of the LP although I haven’t listened to it in years, let me go take a look at the quality.

Ahhhh, my non-tsk-tsker!

I had two compilation LPs by a famous film composer- and as the legend goes, someone entered the studio vaults and walked off with the master tapes. Hence I had my copies ‘professionally remastered’, declicked & depopped by a most excellent service discovered via the Internet. The results were so startling fine that I swear the sound was better than if the music had been pressed on compact disc from the original tapes.

Today people not only have their own software for doing such things (though I remain dubious about quality) as well as turntables- however my own was dumped over 20 years ago.

I still have these 1976 LPs (one for back up, I dimly remember).

Nevertheless, for the novelty, I suggested locating the Mathieu 4th piano concerto on ANALEKTA label and be bowled over when you hear the music from the 1976 Olympics within.

As the story goes, after a recent performance of the concerto the pianist was approached by an elder woman with a paper sack. She claimed to have been the composer’s last lover and she had private recordings that Mathieu had made, which she felt the pianist should now own. The bag was passed, her name was never offered, and she quickly disappeared.

It’s got some clicks and pops on some of the quieter passages but overall it’s quite listenable.

I’m downloading this torrent at the moment, but don’t know how long it will take…

Andr??? Mathieu [Victor Vogel] (1976) – Games Of The XXI Olympiad, Montr???al 1976, Original Soundtrack

A01 – Official Olympic Anthem.mp3 6.8 MB
A02 – March Of The Athletes #1.mp3 10.5 MB
A03 – Ballet Of The Closing Ceremony.mp3 9.9 MB
B01 – Ballet ‘Homage To The Athletes’ Rock Movement.mp3 3 MB
B02 – March Of The Athletes #2.mp3 7 MB
B03 – Olympic Chimes – Olympic Cantata.mp3 8.3 MB
B04 – March Of The Athletes #3.mp3 4.2 MB
B05 – Farewell Song.mp3 3.9 MB

I wish I had the ability to tidy up my own Lps (I have only 4- having tossed out the rest long ago). And I wish I could upload these marvelous albums that contain suites composed & conducted by this very famous film composer- which I had remastered to near perfection. I was told the copyright had run out, refuse to make profit, yet still would like to share. Just am clueless about this downloading/uploading music biz.

Another anecdote: I was working at the perfidious computer while the radio played… when I heard this music, glanced up as years seemed to melt away when recognizing the tunes, which turned out to be the 2nd movement of Mathieu’s piano concerto. I had a friend make a (sadly crappy) copy of the 1972 Lp and sent it as well as my information to the Public Radio station. The knowledge was never passed on to the host of the program… and for all I know the pianist who has become the grand advocate of Mathieu’s work probably is also lacking in this bit of ‘ancient trivia’.

I do remember watching all of this play out on the television and wished that Jim MacKay would just SHUT UP about the music so we could HEAR MORE of the music. Ahhhh…. nostalgia. (and people at Public Radio should be clobbered)

Ballet ‘Homage To The Athletes’ Rock Movement is a frightening reminder of that Love Boat, Fantasy Island, ChiPs musical rut we were in back in 1976.

That is the CURSE of the 70s- along with bad hair cuts & clothes. Probably the ONLY film score with that 70’s ‘funk’ sound that I enjoy entirely is from the original TAKING OF PELHAM 1, 2, 3. It works in that gritty, fun film. Yet the ‘funk’ sound even shows of in the score for A MAN CALLED HORSE which doesn’t fit big time.

This is the mistake that is commonly made in film production & music- ignoring the possibility of longevity. Blade Runner, though made in the 1980s, remains a testament to the future by its reflection of the 1940s past. Doctor Zhivago, while admitted a fine film, is lamented today by its production staff for the attention to detail except for the make up & hair for the women which will always look like the 1960s.

Thus when Hitchcock fired Herrmann on Torn Curtain because he was not, as requested, inserting ‘pop themes or a song’ shot himself in the foot in multiple fashions. Herrmann was the very ‘sound’ of the director’s films, elevating even those which were sadly on the decline.

First offficial song for London 2012? The Official Torch Relay song, Spinnin’ for 2012 by Dionne Bromfield & Tinchy Stryder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6P3a60mJzE
Posted on Youtube just 6 days ago.

First offficial song for London 2012? The Official Torch Relay song, Spinnin’ for 2012 by Dionne Bromfield & Tinchy Stryder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6P3a60mJzE
Posted on Youtube just 6 days ago.

Here’s a remix, the Ad Brown Club Mix of Spinnin’ for 2012:
http://blog4djmusic.blogspot.com/2011/08/dionne-bromfield-spinnin-for-2012-ad.html
Notice the player has a download button. 🙂

I’m uploading my Opening Ceremony Sydney 2000 cd now.

———- Post added at 05:16 PM ———- Previous post was at 04:23 PM ———-

Games of the XXVII Olympiad Sydney 2000.rar – 4shared.com – online file sharing and storage – download (http://www.4shared.com/file/0VkOBav7/Games_of_the_XXVII_Olympiad_Sy.html)

There it is.

From Athens 2004 OC Fanfare From King Lear
Free Music, Listen to Music Free (http://www.we7.com/#/song/Claude-Debussy–USSR-Ministry-of-Culture-Symphony-Orchestra/Fanfare-From-King-Lear)
(Click on cd cover to listen it)
I don’t know how to download it.

thanks for all the great shares

Getting closer to games time. Anything new out there for London 2012?

Hi!

Somebody postet the link to the Athens Medal Ceremony. Unfortunately this link is down… 🙁

Could anybody upload this song again?

Thanks a lot!

With best regards
Schilfi

Hi!

Somebody postet the link to the Athens Medal Ceremony. Unfortunately this link is down… 🙁

Could anybody upload this song again?

Thanks a lot!

With best regards
Schilfi

Where was it ?.

Hello Howling Mad,

sorry for my terrible english. I???m from germany. Since 24 years i search for the song "COME TOGETHER IN CALGARY". It was a song for the olympic-games 1988.
PLEASE…..can you or other people here tell me where i can find this song ???
Thank you

First official album of the London 2012 Olympic Games, releasing June 18:

[QUOTE=Howling Mad;1498456]^Thanks for those thx99!

Phillip Glass – Orion (2005)

The music was performed during the Cultural Olympiad during the 2004 Athens Olympics.

I found it posted on two blogs:
256 kbps (http://vibe-o-tron.blogspot.com/2009/08/phillip-glass-orion-2005.html)

Obrigado

There’s a promo song Coke did for the 2012 games that’s now floating around online. Called "Anywhere in the World" by Mark Ronson feat. Katy B. I guess it’s available for free thru sites like icoke.

Alternate cover:

An article on Yahoo about the music they will be using during the 2012 Games in London:
London wants music to rock the Games, not wreck them – Yahoo! Eurosport UK (http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/london-wants-music-rock-games-not-wreck-them-162121748–nba.html)
Apparently they’ll be using a total of 2012 songs. I wonder if they are planning to release any more official albums, for instance, music from the opening and closing ceremonies?

1 month to go!

Can anyone re-up some of the intial page albums? The links are generally dead

Just had a listen to the Official London 2012 theme song by Muse called "Survival". LOCOG… I think you could’ve have chosen a better song. That Coca Cola promo song sounds better!

Another album for London 2012:

On a blog:
[Pop] Various Artists (http://www.musicbot.net/2012/03/pop-artists-fit-2011-itunes-aac-m4a/)

More albums for London are popping up. There’s a bunch listed here:
Universal Music – London 2012 (http://www.umtv.co.uk/london2012/)

Got word on another board that LOCOG will be releasing albums for both the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies. A digital version of the opening ceremony will be available after midnight, after the opening ceremony concludes next friday. The albums for the ceremonies will be called:
Isles of Wonder (opening)
A Symphony of British Music (closing)
🙂

Hope that those albums contains a lot of the instrumental music. Is David Arnold that’s doing the music for the ceremonies, right?

Hope that those albums contains a lot of the instrumental music. Is David Arnold that’s doing the music for the ceremonies, right?

I’m actually not sure if David Arnold is doing the ceremonies. Looks like the Opening ceremony album has only 8 tracks. I guess some of these will be long orchestral compositions.
*Edited* Just found this page with more info about the ceremony albums:
http://www.backstagepass.biz/2012/07/london-2012-opening-closing-ceremony.html

Some more London 2012 official tracks out there circulating:
Youtube – Good Life by Delphic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCupFe9rEYc)
Youtube – Velodrome Theme by The Chemical Brothers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-abq9dlJKU)

Altogether there are 4 or 5 official songs (including Survival by Muse). Apparently one of these is an Elton John song.

to my knowledge he has composed some music for the ceremonies

Great posts. Any chance to reupload The First Olympics: Athens 1896 – Bruce Broughton. Links dont seem to work. Thanks!!!

Could anyone please re-upload the Vancouver Olympics albums? I’d love to get that version of "The Maple Leaf Forever". 🙂

Can anyone reup the 1984 Los Angeles album, or the 16 Days of Glory albums? I am searching for the original Olympic Fanfare and Theme from John Williams, before Bugler’s Dream got added to it. I have only found it mp3 128…:(

Does anyone have the segment music "Pandemonium" played by Evelyn Glennie, from the Opening Ceremony of London 2012 ?

Regards 🙂

Does anyone have the segment music "Pandemonium" played by Evelyn Glennie, from the Opening Ceremony of London 2012 ?

Regards 🙂
I have to second this. I was completely blown away by that Pandemonium segment of the opening ceremony and finding it very hard to find. Here’s a low-quality youtube of the music. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3IpdeuT4g)

Does anyone have the segment music "Pandemonium" played by Evelyn Glennie, from the Opening Ceremony of London 2012 ?

Regards 🙂

Maybe it’s the 4th track from Underworld "And I Will Kiss"? It’s 17min long.

Tracklist for Isles of Wonders
iTunes – Music – Isles of Wonder: Music For the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games by Various Artists (http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/isles-wonder-music-for-opening/id548480746)

CD1

1 I Still Believe Frank Turner
2 Jerusalem / Flower of Scotland / Danny Boy / Bread of Heaven Four Nations Choirs
3 Nimrod LSO On Track
4 And I Will Kiss (feat. Dame Evelyn Glennie) Underworld
5 Tubular Bells / In Dulci Jubilo Mike Oldfield
6 Chariots of Fire London Symphony Orchestra
7 Sundowner Blanck Mass & London Symphony Orchestra
8 Bonkers Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden
9 Nimma Nimma (feat. Jaspreet Jasz) A.R. Rahman
10 Heaven Emeli Sand???
11 Abide With Me Emeli Sand???
12 I Bet You Look Good On the Dance Floor Arctic Monkeys
13 Come Together Arctic Monkeys
14 Caliban???s Dream (feat. Dockhead Choir, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Only Men Aloud, Elizabeth Roberts, Alex Trimble) Underworld

CD2

1 Galvanize (Beginning) The Chemical Brothers
2 Moon Watcher High Contrast
3 Always Loved a Film (Instrumental) Underworld
4 Dark and Long (Dark Train) Underworld
5 West End Girls Pet Shop Boys
6 Minneapolis (High Contrast Remix) Underworld
7 Reach High Contrast
8 Ghost Dance High Contrast
9 Confusion the Waitress (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix) Underworld
10 Traktor (feat. L) [Radio Edit] Wretch 32
11 Olympians (High Contrast Remix) F Buttons
12 Can???t Stop This Fire High Contrast
13 Moon In Water (Instrumental) Underworld
14 Crocodile (High Contrast Remix) Underworld
15 Where the Streets Have No Name (High Contrast Remix) U2
16 For Years High Contrast
17 Dirty Epic (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix) Underworld
18 The Long Way Home High Contrast
19 Dark and Long (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix) Underworld
20 Rez (High Contrast Remix) Underworld
21 Heroes David Bowie
22 Galvanize (Ending) The Chemical Brothers

what is David Arnold music?

Thank you very much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David Arnold is the Music Director of the closing ceremonies, not the opening ceremonies.

and the closing ceremonies are the disappointing digital-only release right? its a shame to never have proper quality versions of that 🙁

I take it CD1 is the ceremony, and CD 2 is the parade of nations/athletes music?

CD1 is missing one track… the James Bond theme!

It may not be available yet, but you can listen to "And I will Kiss" by Underworld (the Satanic Mills portion) here:
London 2012 Opening Ceremony Music – And I Will Kiss – Underworld (ft. Dame Evelyn Glennie) – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NVGh9MRfNw)
I want a good copy of this track badly. FLAC hopefully. This segment was awesome! And I want Kenneth Branagh’s stogie. That was one big stogie!

I watched the opening ceremony …. was amazing , and the choice of music was fantastic… its made me proud to be British !! and made me feel emotional i it seems to have really shown the rest of the world who we are and where we have come from and how we have developed , any way just had to get that out of my system ..

Various London 2012 Tracks

To get you in the two-week party mood!

1. Whole Lotta Love – London 2012 Beijing Handover Ceremony
2. Spinnin’ for 2012 – Official Torch Relay song
3. Spinnin’ for 2012 (Ad Brown Club Remix)
4. Survival
5. Anywhere in the World – Coca Cola 2012 Promo song

https://rapidshare.com/files/1735881707/London 2012.rar

PW: Wenlock

Also looking for other Official 2012 songs:
Good Life by Delphic
Velodrome Theme by Chemical Brothers
To add to this folder. If anyone has these, would love to get ahold of them.

I may have uploaded some of these before, just can’t remember which.

Ladies and gents, here it is…

Isles of Wonder

CD1: Act 1 Isles of Wonder.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/?v8b69uzts49lmrt)
CD2: Act Two of Isles of Wonder.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/?x0ijjg7ux3a0lbv)

It’s in m4a format.

Not my upload. Found it here: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/download?before=1343501444

Excellent music. I can just picture Kenneth Branagh marching around with his stogie while listening to this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Olympics/London_Olympic_Ope_1556235a.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v46/doleted/Funny/queen-elizabeth-and-james-bond-parachute-into-the-olympic-opening-ceremony-sort-of.jpg
Well done London!

Ladies and gents, here it is…

Isles of Wonder

CD1: Act 1 Isles of Wonder.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/?v8b69uzts49lmrt)
CD2: Act Two of Isles of Wonder.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/?x0ijjg7ux3a0lbv)

It’s in m4a format.

Not my upload. Found it here: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/download?before=1343501444

Excellent music. I can just picture Kenneth Branagh marching around with his stogie while listening to this.

Awesome post, i was waiting for someone to post this. It’s still downloading but i know it’ll sound good.

Many thanks

Thanks !!!!!!!!!!

Ladies and gents, here it is…

Thanks for this & your previous bonus post Howling Mad!

You have my many thanks, Howling Mad! Just what I needed for!

I’ve been looking all around the internet and I only found torrents that were not working. Thanks for those DD!!

In addition to the opening and closing ceremony albums there’s a number of Official London 2012 songs, being released as singles. The first of these is Survival by Muse which is already available. They’re all not available yet but here is what I think is the complete list and they’re release dates:
Survival by Muse – now available
Good life by Delphic – now available
Velodrome Theme by The Chemical Brothers – available today
Scream by Dizzee Rascal ft. Pepper – available August 5
I’m not sure if this is a complete list though. I read online that an Elton John song was amongst these, but I have no idea what the title is.
Would be great if someone found Good Life and Velodrome Theme.

I’m not even sure if these will be released as a physical EP CD or not.

maybe someone can rip only the music from the ceremony (in 5.1?) for a complete set of music?
maybe there is a tv capture out now… ?

maybe someone can rip only the music from the ceremony (in 5.1?) for a complete set of music?
maybe there is a tv capture out now… ?

There are a number of torrents out there already, including one from the BBC that does not have commentary and commercials.

In addition to the opening and closing ceremony albums there’s a number of Official London 2012 songs, being released as singles. The first of these is Survival by Muse which is already available. They’re all not available yet but here is what I think is the complete list and they’re release dates:
Survival by Muse – now available
Good life by Delphic – now available
Velodrome Theme by The Chemical Brothers – available today
Scream by Dizzee Rascal ft. Pepper – available August 5
I’m not sure if this is a complete list though. I read online that an Elton John song was amongst these, but I have no idea what the title is.
Would be great if someone found Good Life and Velodrome Theme.

I’m not even sure if these will be released as a physical EP CD or not.

Did some searching and yes, there is a fifth official London 2012 track, and yes it is by Elton John. Here’s the full title:
Good Morning to the Night (Pnau’s Rock The Games Extended Mix) by Elton John vs Pnau

Just a question regarding Isles of Wonder on disc 2 "Where the Streets Have no Name" by U2… has this one successfully unzipped for anyone? I tried and getting a corrupt file message.

Just a question regarding Isles of Wonder on disc 2 "Where the Streets Have no Name" by U2… has this one successfully unzipped for anyone? I tried and getting a corrupt file message.
This file is definitely bad. I downloaded the ZIP twice and had the same problem. I’m trying to grab the file from a torrent to see if it’s good… very slow going, though.

This was a splendid opening ceremony which I saw outside on a huge TV screen between a ruined castle and a McDonald’s. The highlight for me was to see the Queen (aged 86) in her first acting role. I wonder if saying "Good evening Mr Bond" will get her into the IMDb! The London Symphony Orchestra were brilliant as always and
Evelyn Glennie drumming in good form despite being profoundly deaf.

Here is the full M4A-256 download with the missing U2 track and digital booklet (credit to Alien at hoodoola.com):

Zippyshare.com – VA-IOW12.part1.rar (http://www31.zippyshare.com/v/60521974/file.html)
Zippyshare.com – VA-IOW12.part2.rar (http://www36.zippyshare.com/v/29029478/file.html)
Password: www.hoodoola.com

CD 1
1. I Still Believe – Frank Turner [3:49]
2. Jerusalem / Flower of Scotland / Danny Boy / Bread of Heaven – Four Nations Choirs [3:39]
3. Nimrod – LSO on Track [3:31]
4. And I Will Kiss – Underworld with Dame Evelyn Glennie [17:15]
5. Tubular Bells / In Dulci Jubilo – Mike Oldfield [11:26]
6. Chariots of Fire – London Symphony Orchestra [4:26]
7. Sundowner – Blanck Mass & London Symphony Orchestra [3:32]
8. Bonkers (radio edit) – Dizzee Rascal & Armand Helden [2:55]
9. Nimma Nimma – A.R. Rahman with Jaspreet Jasz [3:59]
10. Heaven – Emeli Sand??? [4:12]
11. Abide with Me – Emeli Sand??? [4:33]
12. I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor – Arctic Monkeys [2:51]
13. Come Together – Arctic Monkeys [3:07]
14. Caliban’s Dream – Underworld with Dockhead Choir, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Only Men Aloud!, Elizabeth Roberts, Alex Trimble [7:15]

CD 2
1. Galvanize (Beginning) – The Chemical Brothers [2:24]
2. Moon Watcher – High Contrast [3:18]
3. Always Loved a Film (instrumental) – Underworld [3:04]
4. Dark and Long (Dark Train) – Underworld [3:46]
5. West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys [2:25]
6. Minneapolis (High Contrast remix) – Underworld [6:12]
7. Reach – High Contrast [4:16]
8. Ghost Dance – High Contrast [2:39]
9. Confusion the Waitress (Darren Price & High Contrast remix) – Underworld [1:22]
10. Traktor (radio edit) – Wretch 32 with L [2:05]
11. Olympians (High Contrast remix) – F Buttons [4:56]
12. Can’t Stop This Fire – High Contrast [4:08]
13. Moon in Water (instrumental) – Underworld [2:42]
14. Crocodile (High Contrast remix) – Underworld [2:39]
15. Where the Streets Have No Name (High Contrast remix) – U2 [4:15]
16. For Years – High Contrast [3:24]
17. Dirty Epic (Darren Price & High Contrast remix) – Underworld [2:56]
18. The Long Way Home – High Contrast [3:15]
19. Dark and Long (Darren Price and High Contrast remix) – Underworld [3:27]
20. Rez (High Contrast remix) – Underworld [6:23]
21. Heroes – David Bowie [3:18]
22. Galvanize (Ending) – The Chemical Brothers [0:38]

This was a splendid opening ceremony which I saw outside on a huge TV screen between a ruined castle and a McDonald’s. The highlight for me was to see the Queen (aged 86) in her first acting role. I wonder if saying "Good evening Mr Bond" will get her into the IMDb! The London Symphony Orchestra were brilliant as always and
Evelyn Glennie drumming in good form despite being profoundly deaf.

Here is the full M4A-256 download with the missing U2 track and digital booklet (credit to Alien at hoodoola.com):

Zippyshare.com – VA-IOW12.part1.rar (http://www31.zippyshare.com/v/60521974/file.html)
Zippyshare.com – VA-IOW12.part2.rar (http://www36.zippyshare.com/v/29029478/file.html)
Password: www.hoodoola.com

CD 1
1. I Still Believe – Frank Turner [3:49]
2. Jerusalem / Flower of Scotland / Danny Boy / Bread of Heaven – Four Nations Choirs [3:39]
3. Nimrod – LSO on Track [3:31]
4. And I Will Kiss – Underworld with Dame Evelyn Glennie [17:15]
5. Tubular Bells / In Dulci Jubilo – Mike Oldfield [11:26]
6. Chariots of Fire – London Symphony Orchestra [4:26]
7. Sundowner – Blanck Mass & London Symphony Orchestra [3:32]
8. Bonkers (radio edit) – Dizzee Rascal & Armand Helden [2:55]
9. Nimma Nimma – A.R. Rahman with Jaspreet Jasz [3:59]
10. Heaven – Emeli Sand??? [4:12]
11. Abide with Me – Emeli Sand??? [4:33]
12. I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor – Arctic Monkeys [2:51]
13. Come Together – Arctic Monkeys [3:07]
14. Caliban’s Dream – Underworld with Dockhead Choir, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Only Men Aloud!, Elizabeth Roberts, Alex Trimble [7:15]

CD 2
1. Galvanize (Beginning) – The Chemical Brothers [2:24]
2. Moon Watcher – High Contrast [3:18]
3. Always Loved a Film (instrumental) – Underworld [3:04]
4. Dark and Long (Dark Train) – Underworld [3:46]
5. West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys [2:25]
6. Minneapolis (High Contrast remix) – Underworld [6:12]
7. Reach – High Contrast [4:16]
8. Ghost Dance – High Contrast [2:39]
9. Confusion the Waitress (Darren Price & High Contrast remix) – Underworld [1:22]
10. Traktor (radio edit) – Wretch 32 with L [2:05]
11. Olympians (High Contrast remix) – F Buttons [4:56]
12. Can’t Stop This Fire – High Contrast [4:08]
13. Moon in Water (instrumental) – Underworld [2:42]
14. Crocodile (High Contrast remix) – Underworld [2:39]
15. Where the Streets Have No Name (High Contrast remix) – U2 [4:15]
16. For Years – High Contrast [3:24]
17. Dirty Epic (Darren Price & High Contrast remix) – Underworld [2:56]
18. The Long Way Home – High Contrast [3:15]
19. Dark and Long (Darren Price and High Contrast remix) – Underworld [3:27]
20. Rez (High Contrast remix) – Underworld [6:23]
21. Heroes – David Bowie [3:18]
22. Galvanize (Ending) – The Chemical Brothers [0:38]

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Theme for Velodrome – London 2012

Theme for Velodrome by the Chemical Brothers
Official Song of the London 2012 Summer Games (single)

https://rapidshare.com/files/3084296624/Velo.rar

PW: ChemBros

That Coca Cola is absolutely laughable. The first time I heard it in a commercial I thought it was a parody of some sorts.

Top thread 🙂

Big fan of Underworld, so this was heaven for me.

Now if someone could find a better version of the 1984 Games …

Does anyone have the name of the music at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, when the London bus enters on the stadium ?

Top thread 🙂

Big fan of Underworld, so this was heaven for me.

Now if someone could find a better version of the 1984 Games …

I’ve got it in 192 kbps. I haven’t been able to find anything better.

A blast from the past…

Atlanta 96 Opening Ceremony

There never was a CD(s) released for the opening ceremony nor the parade of nations. This is a work in progress, cobbled together from a number of sources. There are a few tracks missing which I hope to find one day and add to the playlist.

1. Countdown/Samuranch
2. Call to All Nations
3. Summon the Heroes
4. Four Ruffles and Flourishes, Hail to the Chief
5. The Star Spangled Banner (live)
6. Strike Up The Band
7. Welcome to the World (live)
8. Missing Track
9. The River
10. The Storm
11. The Tradition of the Games
12. Call to All Nations – Return of the Olympic Spirits
13. The Run Through Time
14. Dignitaries Walk-on
15. Simple Gifts
16. Olympic Hymn
17. Missing Track
18. Ode to Joy
19. The Power of the Dream
20. Faster, Higher, Stronger

Track 17 should be Georgia on My Mind as sung by Gladys Knight but I haven’t been able to find it yet. Track 8 was part of the cultural/historic segment with The River and The Storm, but I haven’t been able to locate this track yet either.

https://rapidshare.com/files/1004708947/Atlanta96Opening.rar

PW: Izzy

Atlanta 96 Parade of Nations

Another work in progress. A few tracks from the Parade of Nations. If anyone knows what the other tracks are, would be good to know.

1. Bugler’s Dream
2. Santorini (first third)
3. Chariots of Fire
4. Standing in Motion
5. Chronologie Part 4
6. US Team Walk-on – Olympic Fanfare and Theme
7. US Team Walk-on – The Star and Stripes Forever

https://rapidshare.com/files/2523903549/Atlanta96ParadeOfNations.rar

PW: Izzy

I’ve got it in 192 kbps. I haven’t been able to find anything better.

Does your version have a large crack in the track "Grace" by Quincy Jones?
The version linked to in one of the first posts has, and it’s one of my favorite tracks.

Does your version have a large crack in the track "Grace" by Quincy Jones?
The version linked to in one of the first posts has, and it’s one of my favorite tracks.

I had a listen to it. Doesn’t sound like it’s there. Some very minor noise from the vinyl-rip though, but you can barely hear it.

London 2012 – Additional

Two more of the official London 2012 songs

Good Life – Delphic
Good Morning to the Night (Pnau’s Rock the Games Extended Remix) – Elton John vs. Pnau

https://rapidshare.com/files/3326325945/London2012Add.rar

PW: Wenlock

One more track is to be released on Aug 5

Regarding Isles of Wonder, there is a torrent out there now with it in 320 and includes a digital booklet.

Did anyone watched yesterday the women’s all-around gymnastic finals?

As you know there’s always a musical accompaniment in the women’s floor exercise, but the fun fact is that it was used more than once music from movies. One of the Japanese gymnasts did it with a medley playing the James bond theme and the Pink Panther theme. And there was another, i think it was one of the Russians, in which she did the floor with a theme from the last of the mohicans score.
That was pretty cool to see (and hear!).

I haven’t seen the whole competition, probably there was not used more themes from movies. Yet i recognized a theme that was from a Pink Floyd song 😀

Longshot, but here goes. There’s this little snippet or edit to the Williams’s Bugler’s Dream on NBC’s primetime showing (usually after the scenic aerial clips of the host nation and after Bob Costas finishes his preview for the night’s schedule), usually accompanied by some fancy video editing and the London logo coming up at the end. Anyone know if this is available anywhere or if it’s just an NBC cue?

Edit: Found a clip that should help. 2000 Olympics Sydney NBC Intro (9.16.00) – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAbJejOZIBk), at the 1:33-1:53 mark.

solid_ace, the track is titled "Prime Time Tease", recorded for the NBC broadcast of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics. If you can access/download binaries, search alt.binaries.sounds.tv or alt.binaries.sounds.tv-themes for the title and you’ll find a broadcast CD featuring the track as well as other great pieces, including "Contemporary Tease" (THE highlight of the bunch IMO).

solid_ace, the track is titled "Prime Time Tease", recorded for the NBC broadcast of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics. If you can access/download binaries, search alt.binaries.sounds.tv or alt.binaries.sounds.tv-themes for the title and you’ll find a broadcast CD featuring the track as well as other great pieces, including "Contemporary Tease" (THE highlight of the bunch IMO).

Haven’t used usenet in sometime. Wish there was an easier way but I’ll give it a try. Thanks!

Longshot, but here goes. There’s this little snippet or edit to the Williams’s Bugler’s Dream on NBC’s primetime showing (usually after the scenic aerial clips of the host nation and after Bob Costas finishes his preview for the night’s schedule), usually accompanied by some fancy video editing and the London logo coming up at the end. Anyone know if this is available anywhere or if it’s just an NBC cue?

Edit: Found a clip that should help. 2000 Olympics Sydney NBC Intro (9.16.00) – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAbJejOZIBk), at the 1:33-1:53 mark.

Sounds familiar. Could be on one of the Salt Lake City ’02 albums. I’ll have a listen.

PS: THX99, welcome back!

does anyone knows this song (in the background)?
Table Tennis – Women Singles Bronze & Final – London 2012 Olympic Games – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLAC509C4D2723C93A&v=N81eMLw5LrI&feature=player_detailpage#t=54s)

the song is played before every table tennis match in the olympics in london

does anyone knows this song (in the background)?
Table Tennis – Women Singles Bronze & Final – London 2012 Olympic Games – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLAC509C4D2723C93A&v=N81eMLw5LrI&feature=player_detailpage#t=54s)

the song is played before every table tennis match in the olympics in london
YouTube video is unavailable in the US. 🙁

YouTube video is unavailable in the US. 🙁

mh, I use the firefox plugin "anonymox" with an US IP and the "Ghost" attribut.
I thought that the video is available for users in the US.

this video should work (with google chrome)
2012 Li Xia Xia(CHN) – Ding Ning (HKG) – Videolar – T???rkiye Yasaka (http://www.turkiyeyasaka.com/videolar/2012-li-xia-xiachn-ding-ning-hkg)

First Video (1. Set), the Music in the background at the beginning

anyone recognize it?

this video should work (with google chrome)
2012 Li Xia Xia(CHN) – Ding Ning (HKG) – Videolar – T???rkiye Yasaka (http://www.turkiyeyasaka.com/videolar/2012-li-xia-xiachn-ding-ning-hkg)

First Video (1. Set), the Music in the background at the beginning

anyone recognize it?

I had a listen. Interesting. Chemical Brothers maybe? Would be nice to have a full list of venue music somewhere.

The fifth and last offical London 2012 song is supposed to be released today; Scream by Dizzee Rascal ft. Pepper. I’m keeping an eye out for it.

Also, CTV in Canada is using these tracks for their broadcasts:
1. The Game – Alyssa Reid
2. Let It Go – Dragonette
3. Meant to Fly – Eva Avila
4. Any Moment Now – Finger 11
5. One Life – Hedley
6. A Thousand Suns – Hey Rosetta!
7. Better – K’naan
8. Firecracker – Michael Bernard Fitzgerald
9. When We Stand Together – Nickelback
10. Oh I Say – Redeye Empire
11. So Close – Shawn Hook
12. Summer Paradise – Simple Plan ft K’naan
13. Unkind – Sloan
14. Jumpstart – These Kids Wear Crowns
15. Can’t Stop – Tupelo Honey
16. Star In You – Wanting
17. Enter Through The Sun – Young Empires
18. White Doves – Young Empires

And ‘A Symphony of British Music – Music For The Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games’ will be released midnight on August 12. I haven’t read anywhere if they are doing any albums for the Paralympic Games.

I’ve got it in 192 kbps. I haven’t been able to find anything better.

Cool 🙂 may I ask you the link, please ?

I had a listen. Interesting. Chemical Brothers maybe? Would be nice to have a full list of venue music somewhere.

found the song with a little help (no instrumental)

British Artist Labrinth with Earthquake
Labrinth – Earthquake ft. Tinie Tempah – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0fk6syQ7iY)

in the comments somebody wrote that the song was played during the opening ceremony…

Cool 🙂 may I ask you the link, please ?

Here it is…

The Official Music of the XXIIIrd Olympiad (LA ’84)

01. Olympic Fanfare and Theme – John Williams
02. A Chance for Heaven – Christopher Cross
03. Courtship – Bob James
04. Moodido (The Match) – Toto
05. Reach Out – Giorgio Moroder
06. Grace (Gymnastics Theme) – Quincy Jones
07. Junku – Herbie Hancock
08. Street Thunder – Foreigner
09. Power – Bill Conti
10. The Olympian-Lighting of the Torch – Philip Glass
11. Bugler’s Dream (Charge Suite) – Conducted by Felix Slatkin
12. Nothing’s Gonna Stop You Now – Loverboy

192 kbps

https://rapidshare.com/files/1289343221/LA84.rar

PW: SamTheEagle

Someone requested the Vancouver 2010 ceremony music. I’m trying to put together a complete playlist for the opening. There is one piece of music I want to add to it. I know it’s on Youtube in the official IOC channel of the opening ceremonies, but I don’t know how to rip it from that video. It starts at about the 1:48:48 mark and goes to about the 1:51 mark, features the woman singing that’s playing the harp, starts with the Donald Sutherland narration. Here’s the link Opening Ceremony – Complete Event – Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxZpUueDAvc&t=1h48m48s)
If anyone knows how to rip it, would be awesome to add to the playlist.

Thank you very much mister Howling Mad 😀 😀

Digging around on my harddrive I found some tracks from the Athens 2004 opening ceremony.

Athens 2004 Opening Ceremony – a few tracks

In no particular order…

Zeibekiko Olybiabas – the song heard at the begining when all the drummers enter the stadium. This is a different recording, but it is the song.
Klepsydra – heard during the parade thru Greece’s history – one of the highlights of this opening ceremony.
Oceania by Bjork
Olympic Hymn (live)
Olympic Oath Introduction (live)
Opalita – heard just after the cauldron was lit.

https://rapidshare.com/files/3902170100/Athens04.rar

PW: Bankrupt

This was a great games, but it bugs me seeing some of the current pictures from Athens and what state the venues are in now. Very sad. 🙁

^I realized I copied and pasted the wrong link for the Athens tracks. I just updated the previous post with the right link.

Thanks a lot howling mad for the 84 and 2004 games music! Your posts are great! Would like to really find out if you or anybody could post the broughton 1896 music soundtrack as well. It’s a bit offbeat from the current games but I remember it was a pretty nice series!

Here it is…

The Official Music of the XXIIIrd Olympiad (LA ’84)

01. Olympic Fanfare and Theme – John Williams
02. A Chance for Heaven – Christopher Cross
03. Courtship – Bob James
04. Moodido (The Match) – Toto
05. Reach Out – Giorgio Moroder
06. Grace (Gymnastics Theme) – Quincy Jones
07. Junku – Herbie Hancock
08. Street Thunder – Foreigner
09. Power – Bill Conti
10. The Olympian-Lighting of the Torch – Philip Glass
11. Bugler’s Dream (Charge Suite) – Conducted by Felix Slatkin
12. Nothing’s Gonna Stop You Now – Loverboy

192 kbps

https://rapidshare.com/files/1289343221/LA84.rar

PW: SamTheEagle

Someone requested the Vancouver 2010 ceremony music. I’m trying to put together a complete playlist for the opening. There is one piece of music I want to add to it. I know it’s on Youtube in the official IOC channel of the opening ceremonies, but I don’t know how to rip it from that video. It starts at about the 1:48:48 mark and goes to about the 1:51 mark, features the woman singing that’s playing the harp, starts with the Donald Sutherland narration. Here’s the link Opening Ceremony – Complete Event – Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxZpUueDAvc&t=1h48m48s)
If anyone knows how to rip it, would be awesome to add to the playlist.

can someone re-upload the John Williams 1996 Atlanta "Summon the Heroes" album? thx.

Thanks a lot 🙂

found a complete tracklist for the opening ceremony for London 2012

The full track listing from the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony (http://www.asseenonthetv.co.uk/the-full-track-listing-london-2012-olympics-opening-ceremony)

Double post

Anyone know the song played before the medal ceremony?

Eurovisionsports.tv/london2012 – Access Restrictions (http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html?video_id=8159)

forward to 6:42:42

found a complete tracklist for the opening ceremony for London 2012

The full track listing from the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony (http://www.asseenonthetv.co.uk/the-full-track-listing-london-2012-olympics-opening-ceremony)

Thanks for that complete list! It’s amazing how much I missed due to the broadcast being tied-up with either commentary or switching to commercials. At some point the IOC should be uploading the entire OC without commentary and commercials to their Youtube channel ( they do have the entire ceremonies for Vancouver on Youtube). It will be interesting to watch the ceremony again as soon as they upload it.

Does anyone here have the Olympic Anthem (or Olympic Hymn) from this year’s opening ceremony? This Olympiad, they played an instrumental version.

Longshot, but here goes. There’s this little snippet or edit to the Williams’s Bugler’s Dream on NBC’s primetime showing (usually after the scenic aerial clips of the host nation and after Bob Costas finishes his preview for the night’s schedule), usually accompanied by some fancy video editing and the London logo coming up at the end. Anyone know if this is available anywhere or if it’s just an NBC cue?

Edit: Found a clip that should help. 2000 Olympics Sydney NBC Intro (9.16.00) – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAbJejOZIBk), at the 1:33-1:53 mark.
Yeah, I love that part, too. Four years after I started looking for that, I found it in two videos. I have the newer version (whose first two notes sound much closer to where they should be) in lossless, but it has SFX from the direct TV recording. Want it? You’ll have to wait a week, though. You can have it in any format.

Anyone know the song played before the medal ceremony?

Eurovisionsports.tv/london2012 – Access Restrictions (http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html?video_id=8159)

forward to 6:42:42
I cannot view that site, but I assume you mean that new version of Chariots of Fire.

please i need summon the heroes, does anybody have it???

please i need summon the heroes, does anybody have it???
torrentz.eu/EF13E1EC112F81A09B44611B7BDB86B84D93843E

can someone please re-upload 16 days of glory? Or where can I find it?

some of the albums are already down. hopefully mirrors will be provided. Thanks for sharing! 😀

Here’s the last of the official London 2012 songs

Scream

Scream (radio edit)* – Dizzee Rascal ft. Pepper

*A longer version of the song exists but haven’t found it yet

https://rapidshare.com/files/1284242952/London2012SCM.rar

PW: Scream

Here’s the last of the official London 2012 songs

Thanks!!!

Here’s the last of the official London 2012 songs

Did I say last of the official London 2012 songs? I forgot one more, along with a few other songs I found, various commercials that aired during the past two weeks…

London 2012 – More Additional Songs, from around the world and the Opening Ceremony

In no particular order…

On a Rainbow – The Offical London 2012 Mascot Song
Share the Beat – 2PM (Official Coca Cola promo song from South Korea)
Devinire (P&G Commercial – Ludovico Einaudi
Break these Chains (Gymnastics) – ??? Played during gymnastics events I guess?
Team SIII (South Korean commercial for Samsung)
The Ecstasy of Gold (Rona Canada commerical) – From The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Hey Jude (live from the opening ceremony) – Paul McCartney – even has the audio glitch at the beginning!

https://rapidshare.com/files/3700585402/London2012Additional.rar

PW: Wenlock

I’m still looking for these official albums, but they’re hard to find on this side of the pond (and don’t have access to them on iTunes) (if any of you are in the UK, would be great to get ahold of these)
Great British Winners – A Celebration of British Songs and Songwriters
National Anthems London 2012
Music for London – All-time Classics Celebrating Our Great City
Rainbow to the Games
The Workout Mix – Our Greatest Team

I do have these:
Get Fit
London 2012 – 20 Classic Songs of the City
Olympic Dreams (unofficial album)

And don’t forget, sometime tomorrow after the closing ceremony concludes :(, A Symphony of British Music – Music for the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games will be available. Hopefully it will find its way here quickly as Usain Bolt winning his gold medals.:)

^^ Sweet, Thanks again!!!!

Have you the 2012??

Digging around on my harddrive I found some tracks from the Athens 2004 opening ceremony.

Athens 2004 Opening Ceremony – a few tracks

In no particular order…

Zeibekiko Olybiabas – the song heard at the begining when all the drummers enter the stadium. This is a different recording, but it is the song.
Klepsydra – heard during the parade thru Greece’s history – one of the highlights of this opening ceremony.
Oceania by Bjork
Olympic Hymn (live)
Olympic Oath Introduction (live)
Opalita – heard just after the cauldron was lit.

https://rapidshare.com/files/3902170100/Athens04.rar

PW: Bankrupt

This was a great games, but it bugs me seeing some of the current pictures from Athens and what state the venues are in now. Very sad. 🙁

Wrong password ! Can you edit it ?

Rather enjoying David Arnold’s contributions to the closing ceremony, so far!

Wrong password ! Can you edit it ?

Ok, I’ll fix it in a bit.

Anyone recognize the tune they played when they extinguished the flame? Twas from Dances with Wolves!

A nice tribute to John Barry from David Arnold, that.

Anyone recognize the tune they played when they extinguished the flame? Twas from Dances with Wolves!

Yes it was 😀

I really enjoyed the closing ceremony, even more than the opening. It was a great who’s who parade of british music from the last decades. Every brit should be proud of the games and the ceremonies. You did not disappointed 😉

I think i’ve found the closing ceremony, but not sure if it’s restricted on some areas since it’s an eurovision channel.

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html?video_id=2633

If someone knows out there a place to watch or download an HD rip of the ceremony let me know about that!

So I suceeded at recording almost all broadcast fanfares and the credits in high quality. I need to edit hours worth of audio now (14.3 GB), and find a recording of the Olympic Hymn from the Opening Ceremony. If anyone wants anything in particular, please tell me now. I also recorded the whole Closing Ceremony broadcast.(NBC)

Does anyone have a recording of the London Symphony Orchestra version of the Olympic Hymn?

Feb. 7, 2014…

Parade Of The Athletes is easily the best piece of music David Arnold has ever written, full stop. The guy is still full of themes. How disappointing and disgusting that his symphonic contributions to the closing ceremony totalled just six minutes, and that the studio system isn’t allowing him to write glorious music like this for film any more.

Don’t worry…Nick Cave and Trent Reznor are clearly more vital to the future of film music than David Arnold…our future is in good hands!!
😛

For those who have been waiting for it …

A Symphony Of British Music – m4a-256 – 2CDs in one file:

Download mirrors for VA_-_A_Symphony_of_British_Music.rar – Mirrorcreator – Upload files to multiple hosts (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/3BL8LPYT/VA_-_A_Symphony_of_British_Music.rar_links)

Not my rip, best thanks to: exystence (http://exystence.net/)

For those who have been waiting for it …

A Symphony Of British Music – m4a-256 – 2CDs in one file:

Download mirrors for VA_-_A_Symphony_of_British_Music.rar – Mirrorcreator – Upload files to multiple hosts (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/3BL8LPYT/VA_-_A_Symphony_of_British_Music.rar_links)

Not my rip, best thanks to: exystence (http://exystence.net/)

Thank’s Man…. cheers!

Hello,

Anyone may upload "Summon the heroes" at 320?
I???ve tried to get with the torrent, but not download the last 4 Mb (and I???ve been waiting a week).

Thank you very much.

Regards.

Hello,

Anyone may upload "Summon the heroes" at 320?
I???ve tried to get with the torrent, but not download the last 4 Mb (and I???ve been waiting a week).

Thank you very much.

Regards.

That’s bad, considering the fact that I’m seeding. I should note that the torrent is only 192, not 320. I’ve been looking too, man.
Keep in mind that it is also called The Sound of Glory

So I suceeded at recording almost all broadcast fanfares and the credits in high quality. I need to edit hours worth of audio now (14.3 GB), and find a recording of the Olympic Hymn from the Opening Ceremony. If anyone wants anything in particular, please tell me now. I also recorded the whole Closing Ceremony broadcast.(NBC)

Does anyone have a recording of the London Symphony Orchestra version of the Olympic Hymn?

Feb. 7, 2014…

I too have been looking everywhere for the Opening Ceremony Olympic Anthem by The LSO. So good!

I didn’t notice God Save The Queen from the Closing Ceremony on A Symphony of British Music. I would love that as well.

Looking forward to your release. Thanks!

For those who have been waiting for it …

A Symphony Of British Music – m4a-256 – 2CDs in one file:

Thanks for sharing!

I didn’t notice God Save The Queen from the Closing Ceremony on A Symphony of British Music. I would love that as well. Now, I have that. What format would you prefer it in?

Now, I have that. What format would you prefer it in?

Awesome! AAC would be great.
Thanks again

That’s bad, considering the fact that I’m seeding. I should note that the torrent is only 192, not 320. I’ve been looking too, man.
Keep in mind that it is also called The Sound of Glory

I???m downloading one in 320 AAC. I think, finally I will purchase… 🙁

Thank you anyway.

Best regards.

I???m downloading one in 320 AAC. I think, finally I will purchase… 🙁

Thank you anyway.

Best regards.
Oh yes, I know that torrent. If you purchase it, could you share it in HQ? Possibly lossless?

can someone please re-upload 16 days of glory? Or where can I find it?

Here ya go.

http://www.peejeshare.com/files/363266370/16_Days_Of_Glory.zip.html

Also, if you guys can be patient for about a week I can upload Summon the Heroes in FLAC or whatever format you prefer. Just need to go dig the CD out of my parents basement this weekend.

Here ya go.

http://www.peejeshare.com/files/363266370/16_Days_Of_Glory.zip.html

Also, if you guys can be patient for about a week I can upload Summon the Heroes in FLAC or whatever format you prefer. Just need to go dig the CD out of my parents basement this weekend.
In FLAC! You’re awesome! Thanks for 16 Days of Glory, too!

Hopefully I’ll have some time later tonight to fix the Athens file.

Here’s a question, anyone happen to have the Rio handover music? I see Seu Jorge performed (he was in the white suit). For those of you that don’t know who Seu Jorge is, he was the guy that did all the acoustic versions of the David Bowie songs in the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

The last song played in the Rio section, right after the logo of the Rio games shows up, is called ‘Aquele Abra???o’. I don’t have the version played in the ceremony and i haven’t found any vid of it yet, but it’s pretty famous Brazilian song and you can find plenty of versions on youtube, but none from the olympics so far.

There’s a coincidence on this song, has it was composed by Gilberto Gil during the Brazilian military regime at the time when he exiled himself in… London!

Hello.

I’ve been trying to download Mikis Theodorakis’ composition ‘Canto olympico’, but on the only link I found, the last track is not complete : does anyone have either the full album or at least the last track (which is ‘Hymn to the Earth’ and is about 7 minutes long) ? I would love to have it.

Thank you very much in advance !

Oh yes, I know that torrent. If you purchase it, could you share it in HQ? Possibly lossless?

Sure. Yesterday I asked in a store, but nothing. Maybe the next month I will buy it.
I will let you know.

Regards.

please i need summon the heroes, does anybody have it???

Summon the Heroes in FLAC. Enjoy!

http://www.peejeshare.com/files/363272129/Summon_The_Heroes.zip.html

Summon the Heroes in FLAC. Enjoy!

http://www.peejeshare.com/files/363272129/Summon_The_Heroes.zip.html
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AWESOME!!!

thanks!

The Paralympic ceremony has just begun, and there’s some interesting music in it. I wonder if they’ll release any of it.

The Paralympic ceremony has just begun, and there’s some interesting music in it. I wonder if they’ll release any of it.

yes

Music from tonight’s opening ceremony for the London Paralympics Games – which is set to feature Professor Stephen Hawking (not musically of course) – will be released as a digital album, Enlightenment – Music For The Opening Ceremony Of The London 2012 Paralympic Games, at midnight following the events in the stadium. Coldplay are set to play the closing ceremony.
source: Paralympics opening ceremony to be released as album, Elvis’ dirty underpants up for sale, Kanye wins lawsuit thanks to Nietzsche, Missy Elliott returns… Daily Hot List – News – QTheMusic.com (http://news.qthemusic.com/2012/08/paralympics_opening_ceremony_t.html)

For those who have been waiting for it …

A Symphony Of British Music – m4a-256 – 2CDs in one file:

Download mirrors for VA_-_A_Symphony_of_British_Music.rar – Mirrorcreator – Upload files to multiple hosts (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/3BL8LPYT/VA_-_A_Symphony_of_British_Music.rar_links)

Not my rip, best thanks to: exystence (http://exystence.net/)

Does this have the digital booklet? I downloded it off iTunes, but for some reason the booklet didn’t download.

Ohhhhhhh!!!!!!! Spirit In Motion by Errollyn Wallen, from the Opening Ceremony. What a GLORIOUS piece. Easily the musical highlight of the whole of London 2012. Just stunning. 😀

Anyone happen to have a track list for what was played during the 2012 Paralympics Opening Ceremony Parade of Nations? I hear it starts off with Galvanize (as it was used for the Olympic OC), then followed by Spectrum by Florence + The Machine. After that not sure what the tracks are until Team GB came out and they played David Bowie’s Heroes. There are a few tracks in there that I recognize, but not too many. Unfortunately, the album for the OC, Enlightenment, did not include the Parade of Nations.

Anyone happen to know if there is an album for the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympics?

Is this still available? Can’t seem to find a link…I’ve been struggling trying to find "Salt Lake 2002 Official Music of the Games."

Any help would be appreciated!

Just curious, has anyone seen any music out there for Sochi 2014 yet? Since the games next year aren’t in an english speaking country, will be harder to track down any music for them.

The opening ceremony probably isn’t remotely close to finalized yet. I wouldn’t even expect a playlist before the games actually open.

Are there any functioning links for the 2002 Salt Lake Games CDs?

I don’t suppose anyone could re-up the Vancouver 2010 links? Thank you in advance 🙂

Hi, mxwll. I cant download "The Official Music of the XXIIIrd Olympiad (LA ’84)" from rapidshare and returned a file not found message. Would you share this album to me? My e-mail : [email protected] a lot

Any music out there for Sochi 2014?

Any music out there for Sochi 2014?

Did the Village People do a song for it ?.

Please could anyone upload again Munich and Melbourne?

Hello. Will someone re-upload the 320 MP3 version of the 2-CD soundtrack album to 16 Days of Glory? Thanks.

Hello. Will someone re-upload the 320 MP3 version of the 2-CD soundtrack album to 16 Days of Glory? Thanks.

I’d love this, too!

sochi music showing for piratebay – VA – Official Album Of Sochi 2014 Olympic Games [iTunes AAC] 201 (download torrent) – TPB (http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9561505/VA_-_Official_Album_Of_Sochi_2014_Olympic_Games_)[iTunes_AAC]_201

sochi music showing for piratebay – VA – Official Album Of Sochi 2014 Olympic Games [iTunes AAC] 201 (download torrent) – TPB (http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9561505/VA_-_Official_Album_Of_Sochi_2014_Olympic_Games_)[iTunes_AAC]_201

Cool! I don’t think I’ve even seen it listed on the official Sochi 2014 online store.

Could anyone upload it to uploaded.to or mega or the likes?
Thaaanks 😀

Can anyone name the classical music pieces that were used throughout the Sochi Opening Ceremonies?

Thanks

Can anyone name the classical music pieces that were used throughout the Sochi Opening Ceremonies?

Thanks

There were pieces from both Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Also, during the sports constellation segment just before the torch came in, they played Daft Punk’s "The Game Has Changed" from TRON Legacy. The Russian team marched in to a remix of tATu’s "Not Gonna Get Us".

Can anyone name the classical music pieces that were used throughout the Sochi Opening Ceremonies?

Thanks

Some of the music is mentioned on the wiki page:
2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Winter_Olympics_opening_ceremony)

being there album released for opening/closing ceremony music, like as london ceremony?

There is an album on iTunes of music from and inspired by the opening ceremony. US$9.99

A pity most of the links in this thread are dead. :/

Some of the music is mentioned on the wiki page:
2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Winter_Olympics_opening_ceremony)

Since I posted this last night, the wiki page has been updated with a full list of the music used.

Complete music of the Sochi 2014 opening ceremony:
All music from Sochi 2014 opening ceremony – ??? ?????? ? ????????? ???? 2014 – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG1iLMi0Do0)

Does anyone know what music NBC uses for their bumpers during the prime time telecast? "Coming up, back to the bla bla to see the men give the Gold another shot". It’s not Williams, or the Bugler theme… it’s higher in tone and I think it’s strings. Anyone?

ETA: Nevermind, I found this:

http://www.altoriot.com/the-music-behind-nbcs-sochi-olympic-promos-the-greatest-sports-theme-no-one-can-name/

Sochi 2014 – Olympic Games (Radio remix) by DJ Boyko as performed at the medals plaza Feb 8 and 9 available here in 320:
DJ Boyko ? Olympic Games (http://luxemusic.su/dj-boyko-olympic-games/)

The Jamaican Bobsled Team’s The Bobsled Song, available here:
Jamaica Tourist Board ? The Bobsled Song (http://www.bobsledsong.com/)

Here’s the vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71JHunY8rI

Does anyone know what music NBC uses for their bumpers during the prime time telecast? "Coming up, back to the bla bla to see the men give the Gold another shot". It’s not Williams, or the Bugler theme… it’s higher in tone and I think it’s strings. Anyone?

ETA: Nevermind, I found this:

The Music Behind NBC’s Sochi Olympic Promos – the Greatest Sports Theme No One Can Name | Alto Riot (http://www.altoriot.com/the-music-behind-nbcs-sochi-olympic-promos-the-greatest-sports-theme-no-one-can-name/)
I have so many of those bumpers, you have no idea. One of which, is my ringtone right now. But I mean the smaller <10 second cues.

Sorry for the late.

Here is the Olympic Hymn.
http://rapidshare.com/files/408417079/Citius__Altius__Fortius.zip.html

It also includes 2 versions.
One is instrumental only, and the other is a capella version (only performed by a chorus group). The hymn was created by the Greek composer Spyros Samaras.

Could someone please reupload this? And maybe the FLAC 16 Days of Glory? And does anyone know where that one olympic piece at the beginning of NBC’s broadcasts comes from? Not the Bugler’s dream Olympic Fanfare and Theme piece, but this (first 9 seconds): watch?v=ZUxQS5GftLQ It is still used at the start of Daytime, Primetime, and Encore broadcasts, as well as after the last commercial break when announcing the copyright of the IOC. It is from the first part of the charge suite called "Bugler’s Dream", but is some newer recording. Anybody know?

Does anyone have the LSO version of the Olympic Hymn from the 2012 Opening Ceremony?

Could someone please reupload this? And maybe the FLAC 16 Days of Glory? And does anyone know where that one olympic piece at the beginning of NBC’s broadcasts comes from? Not the Bugler’s dream Olympic Fanfare and Theme piece, but this (first 9 seconds): watch?v=ZUxQS5GftLQ It is still used at the start of Daytime, Primetime, and Encore broadcasts, as well as after the last commercial break when announcing the copyright of the IOC. It is from the first part of the charge suite called "Bugler’s Dream", but is some newer recording. Anybody know?

Does anyone have the LSO version of the Olympic Hymn from the 2012 Opening Ceremony?

Hi, Link.

What you posted was theme B of "Bugler’s Dream."

Is there a recording of "Theme B" somewhere?

Yes, I am looking for the recording of Theme B that NBC uses. It has more brass than the usual version.

Anything released for Rio 2016 yet?

^Not yet, Rio Olympic Games related soundtracks may be released a month or two before the opening ceremony, and the opening ceremony soundtrack should be released on the day of or the day after the opening ceremony

Kinda sort of Olympics related. One of the albums for Eddie the Eagle was posted Here:
Thread 201866
Thanks to the OP.

Anything for Rio out there?

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Anything for Rio out there?

There appears to be four official albums for Rio 2016:

All four Rio 2016 albums are on iTunes, along with the official Torch Relay song. Having a listen to them right now.

Would anyone be able to reupload any of the music that’s been posted in this thread? So much has been posted, and all of the links are dead… I would love to get my hands on anything and everything I don’t already have, and I don’t really have a lot (Opening Ceremonies for London, Vancouver, Beijing, Salt Lake City, and Sydney, the Closing Ceremonies for London and Vancouver, and the Harmony and Unity albums from Athens). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Oh, and I did find what sounds like the version of "Pirogov Suite Finale" that was used for the lighting of the cauldron at the Athens ’04 Opening Ceremony, or at least decent edit of the original that someone made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J_dk23NgfQ

All four Rio 2016 albums are on iTunes, along with the official Torch Relay song. Having a listen to them right now.

Any chance you might be able to upload them? They’re not available on iTunes in the US… 🙁

thanks for all the shares

Melbourne 2006 – The Opening Ceremony re-up please !

Please, any re-ups of anything would be nice!

Sorry for the double-post, but I’ve gotten a lot of Olympic music lately and I thought I would share it. I’m new at this so please be nice. I am going with MP3 files since that’s what I know, I’m not skilled enough to get the other file formats. I’ll take this one album at a time.

My first album is "16 Days of Glory." A different version of this was posted years ago and is no longer available; I’m sharing the one I have. Here’s the link (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_NH7NPAkpn6S3hEU2V6QVBzd1U), hopefully it works! If this works, then I’ll have some more albums to share in the upcoming days.

It won’t let me upload the album artwork, but you can find it at this link ().

All music by Lee Holdridge & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
1. Theme from 16 Days of Glory
2. Triumph
3. Gunde Svan Triumphs
4. The Highest Step: Orchestral Interlude
5. Korean Olympics Tribute
6. Hymn of the Nations
7. The Women’s Marathon
8. The Spirit of the Olympics
9. The Lighting of the Torch
10. Nordic Celebration
11. Dawn: Orchestral Interlude
12. Entrance of the Nations
13. Decathlon – The Finale

Even if you’re not interested, please reply back to tell me if my link works or not. Thanks!

Sorry for the double-post, but I’ve gotten a lot of Olympic music lately and I thought I would share it. I’m new at this so please be nice. I am going with MP3 files since that’s what I know, I’m not skilled enough to get the other file formats. I’ll take this one album at a time.

My first album is "16 Days of Glory." A different version of this was posted years ago and is no longer available; I’m sharing the one I have. Here’s the link (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_NH7NPAkpn6S3hEU2V6QVBzd1U), hopefully it works! If this works, then I’ll have some more albums to share in the upcoming days.

It won’t let me upload the album artwork, but you can find it at this link ().

All music by Lee Holdridge & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
1. Theme from 16 Days of Glory
2. Triumph
3. Gunde Svan Triumphs
4. The Highest Step: Orchestral Interlude
5. Korean Olympics Tribute
6. Hymn of the Nations
7. The Women’s Marathon
8. The Spirit of the Olympics
9. The Lighting of the Torch
10. Nordic Celebration
11. Dawn: Orchestral Interlude
12. Entrance of the Nations
13. Decathlon – The Finale

Even if you’re not interested, please reply back to tell me if my link works or not. Thanks!

File downloaded fine for me. Thanks.

thanks.fine job.

Thank you very much!!!

My second album isn’t strictly an Olympics album, but it has an Olympic theme in it, and there’s not really much place else to put it, so I’m posting it here. It’s called "The Best of John Williams," and you can find it here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_NH7NPAkpn6ZFdsU3B6NXd0Wk0). It’s cover versions of famous John Williams music, including the Olympic Fanfare.

All tracks by the Philharmonic Rock Orchestra under the direction of Richard Hayman. Album art here ().
1. Liberty Fanfare
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. The Accidental Tourist (Love Theme)
4. The Cowboys Overture
5. E.T.
6. Olympic Fanfare
7. The Accidental Tourist (End Credits)
8. Empire of the Sun
9. Superman
10. Return of the Jedi (Parade of the Ewoks)
11. Jaws
12. The Mission
13. Raiders of the Lost Ark

thank many!

Has anyone "SOngs of the sea" Regatta-Suite by Jeff Rona for olympics 2008 in a lossless format?

My next album is called USA: Including the "Olympic Fanfare". You can find it here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_NH7NPAkpn6a1c1dU12bXJlbjQ). Trust me when I say that my albums will get better as the days go along, and the grand finale will be pretty awesome. These are just appetizers as my music comes rolling in.

All music by The Concert Arts Symphonic Band conducted by Felix Slatkin. Album art here ().
1. Olympic Fanfare (from "Bugler’s Dream")
2. American Patrol
3. Semper Fidelis
4. Under the Double Eagle
5. Bagpipes and Drums Medley
6. National Emblem
7. The Stars and Stripes Forever
8. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
9. Fifes and Drums Medley
10. El Capitan
11. Washington Post
12. The Star-Spangled Banner

For my next album I give you "Light Up the Land" – 2002 Olympic Commemorative CD here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_NH7NPAkpn6alZsTjJ2RTdrSzg). There’s more albums to come too, just be patient!

Album art here ().
1. This is Our Time – Gladys Knight
2. Brand New Year – SHeDAISY
3. Live it Up – Marshall Dyllon
4. Smile – Shawn King
5. Everyday Heroes – Brooks & Dunn
6. My Love is a Fire – Donny Osmond
7. It Just Takes Love – Paul Engemann/Children’s Choir
8. Jubilee (Live) – Peter Breinholt
9. From God’s Arms, To My Arms, To Yours – Marie Osmond
10. This High Road – Northern Voices
11. Sweetest Day – Julie De Azevedo
12. People – The Ex-Band
13. Overtime At Home – McCoslyn and Paye
14. Climb Ev’ry Mountain – Mormon Tabernacle Choir
15. Sage of Lamberene – Kurt Bestor & Sam Cardon
16. Light Up the Land – Jenny Jordan

More music! Now I have Harmony: The Official Athens 2004 Olympic Games Classical Album here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_NH7NPAkpn6VXRoRG5lNzFQckk)! I’m not going to bother posting the other such album from Athens 2004 – Unity – since it is easily found on iTunes. But this one isn’t, so I figured I’d let you have a listen!

Album artwork here ().
1. Olympic Dream (Eden Mix) – MakSim
2. Jenkins: Adiemus – Mariam Stockley; Karl Jenkins: London Philharmonic Orchestra
3. Time to Say Goodbye (Con Te Partito) – Sarah Brightman
4. Adje Jano – Nigel Kennedy & The Kroke Band
5. Maria Elena, Corazon, Corazon, Fina Estampa – Placido Domingo
6. Rota: Romeo & Juliet – Love Theme – Andre Rieu
7. Qui Radames verra… O patria mia – Maria Callas
8. Prizeman: Voca Me – Ian Tilley; Robert Prizeman: Libera
9. Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
10. Happy Valley (The 1977 Reunification Overture) – Vanessa-Mae
11. Po Karekare ana – Kiri Te Kanawa
12. Bach/Batt: Tocatta & Fugue in D Minor – Vanessa-Mae
13. Pie Jesu – Charlotte Church
14. Handel: Harpsichord Suite in D Minor, HWV 437 – Sarabande With Variations – Julia Thornton
15. Song of our Homeland – Izzy
16. Jenkins (K): Agnus Dei – Karl Jenkins: London Philharmonic Orchestra
17. Auld Lang Syne – Helmut Lotti

Still more to come!

thank many share! can telling for quality? (320mp3, 192aac, etc)

I’m sorry, I’m not sure about the exact quality of the music, I just know that they’re in MP3 format. I’m new to this so all I’m hoping for is for you to enjoy the music. I’ve got a really rare album that I’ll be posting soon.

Very nice thread.
The theme for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics was of course composed by maestro John Williams, and it appears in the 2-CD compilation from 1999. Plus, in 1996, there was John Williams conducting The Boston Pops Orchestra released CD, Summon The Heroes, with Olympic themes. The latter is a must have. I have it and it’s in a storage unit somewhere…

My next album is the 1988 Summer Olympics Album: "One Moment in Time." This has a different rendition of John Williams’ "The Olympic Spirit," which is definitely a must-listen. I’m not a huge Whitney Houston fan, but I like her song on this album. Some of the songs are a bit cheesy, but it’s worth a listen. You can find it here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_NH7NPAkpn6NXNoNGR2eFZDdEk).

1. Olympic Spirit – John Williams
2. One Moment in Time – Whitney Houston
3. Fight (No Matter How Long) – The Bunburys
4. Indestructible – The Four Tops
5. Reason to Try – Eric Carmen
6. Shape of Things to Come – Bee Gees
7. Peace in Our Time – Jennifer Holliday
8. Willpower – Taylor Dayne
9. That’s What Dreams Are Made Of – Odds And Ends
10. Harvest for the World – The Christians
11. Rise to the Occasion – Jermaine Jackson
12. Olympic Joy – Kashif

Another edition of the Winter Olympics is here. I’ve been looking around online to see what official albums have been released for PyeongChang 2018 and so far have found nothing, except for the official Torch Relay theme song which can be downloaded off the official website here:
https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/torch-relay/olympic-torch-relay/official-song

Each zip file for the normal and dance version has the mp3 and wav files.

Anyone know if anything will be released from the opening ceremony?

On Wings of Victory (Japanese CD single) (1996)

Tracklist:
1. On Wings of Victory

Instrumental track composed by Michael Kamen, performed by the Atlanta Youth Symphony featuring Ann McPhail (soprano) and Tomoyasu Hotei (guitar)

I would love a link for this if anyone can supply one, thank you!

I would love a link for this if anyone can supply one, thank you!

It’s possible I might have it on an external drive. I’ll have a look around.

Hi.All these links are dead.I’d really like to have these but they’re all dead.Can someone please post working links?

Thanks so much!

I have more music but I haven’t posted it due to lack of interest. In particular I have the Beijing 2008 3-CD pack that I may post in the future. My question is, anyone have the new tease music that NBC’s been using? It sounds like a march version of "Summon the Heroes" but is definitely new since 2016. I’d like to at least know what it’s called and where to buy it. If anyone knows what I’m talking about, please respond, and I’ll try to post the music I have.

If anyone is interested, the Jamaican bobsled team has a theme song on iTunes right now. Proceeds help the team. The song is Run the Track, It’s Bobsled Time.

There’s a thread on another online forum that has similar information for those who are interested. The forum is part of a web site with news about bids for future Olympic Games. The discussion thread about Olympic ceremonies music can be found here: https://www.gamesbids.com/forums/topic/4194-music-collection-of-the-olympic-ceremonies/.

You will need to create an account and log in to view the links.

I know this is old, but it there any chance I could get hold of this? Also, was this ripped from a CD or LP? Thanks!

I know this is old, but it there any chance I could get hold of this? Also, was this ripped from a CD or LP? Thanks!

Which music are you looking for in particular?

Which music are you looking for in particular?

So Sorry… I should have replied with quote… The Official Music of the XXIIIrd Olympiad (LA ’84) originally posted here Thread 76023

Thanks!