My Music (radio programme)

My Music was a radio panel show which premiered on the BBC Home Service on 3 January 1967. It was a companion programme to "My Word!", and like that show featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir. The show was last recorded in November 1993 and broadcast in January 1994, then rebroadcast until 2011. It was also broadcast via the BBC World Service. There was also a television version on BBC2 which ran for seven series between 1977 and 1983.
"My Music" followed "My Word!"'s pattern of two teams of two competing in a series of challenges, based this time on music rather than words. Again, the quiz element was subordinate to the entertainment. In later years, each episode featured a final round in which each contestant was required to sing a song, regardless of his vocal ability. Initially, this was a genuine test of whether the contestants knew the songs, but later the songs were always ones that they were certain to know. Indeed, towards the end Denis Norden decided what song he would sing, supplying some rather bizarre ones. Many of these were written by the English music hall songwriters R. P. Weston and Bert Lee.
The teams were:
The show was hosted for its entire run by composer Steve Race, who also set the challenges (after an early period in which they were set by show creator Edward J. Mason) and provided piano accompaniment where appropriate (except in the first five series, in which accompaniment was provided by Graham Dalley on mellotron). Neither Race nor Wallace missed a single one of the more than 520 episodes broadcast.
Graham Dalley, the show's first accompanist, also composed the signature tune, and his original mellotron version was used from 1967 to 1975. A new arrangement of the theme, featuring trumpets, bass guitar, electric guitar, conga drums, and cabasa, was used from 1976, and was succeeded in 1983 by an arrangement for piano and harpsichord, composed by Steve Race.
Producers of the programme included Tony Shryane and Pete Atkin.
In the United States, the show was syndicated on the WFMT Fine Arts Network until 1 October 2013, when BBC ended US distribution.
Episode Guide.
Series 1 (3 January – 28 March 1967 - 13 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Tuesday night at 9.00 pm on the BBC Home Service and were recorded before an invited audience at the 'Paris' Studio, Lower Regent Street, London.
Series 2 (4 October 1967 to 10 January 1968 -  15 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Wednesday night at 7.00 pm and repeated the following Tuesday at 12.25 pm on BBC Radio 4.
There was no broadcast on Wednesday 22 November 1967; the evening was devoted to a recording of CARMEN from the 1967 Salzburg Festival which was made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio.  Researchers have indicated that while My Music was not broadcast on this date, it was broadcast in its repeat slot on 28 Nov 67. It would appear that this episode was not included in BBC Transcription Service LP’s of the programme.
Series 3 (29 April  to 22 July 1968 – 13 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Monday night at 7.00 pm and repeated the following Sunday at 12.25 pm on BBC Radio 4.
Series 4 (10 March to 2 June 1969 – 13 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Monday night at 7.00 pm and repeated the following Sunday at 12.25 pm on BBC Radio 4.
Series 5 (28 December 1969 to 29 March 1970  - 14 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Sunday night at 6.30 pm and repeated the following Friday at 7.00pm.
Series 6 (28 January 1971 to 22 April 1971 – 13 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Friday afternoon at 12.25 pm and repeated the following Monday evening at 7.30 pm
Series 7 (26 Dec ember 1971 to  – 15 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Sunday evening at 7.00 pm and repeated the following Thursday afternoon 12.25 pm
Special editions 
Series 8 (25 December 1972 to 25 March 1973 – 14 editions)
Special edition
Monday 25 December 1972  My Word! It’s My Music - A Christmas edition of the two radio panel games with Dilys Powell , David Franklin and Frank Muir who challenge Anne Scott-James , Ian Wallace and Denis Norden. In the chair Sir Jack Longland and Steve Race who compiled the questions. Broadcast at 7.30pm.
Series 18 (9 June - 1 December 1982)
Series 25 (27 November 1989 -  22 January 1989 – 8 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Monday afternoon at 12.25 pm on BBC Radio 4.
Series 26 (3 April 1990 – 22 May 1990 – 8 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Tuesday afternoon at 12.25 pm on BBC Radio 4.
Series 27 (2 December 1991 to 20 January 1992 - 8 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Monday afternoon at 12.25pm on BBC Radio 4.
Series 28 (6 October 1992 to 24 November 1992 - 8 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Tuesday  afternoon at 12.25pm on BBC Radio 4.
Series 29 (6 December 1993 – 24 January 1994 - 8 episodes)
The programmes were broadcast each Monday afternoon at 12.25pm on BBC Radio 4.
The Songs.
In the later editions, the four contributors performed their 'Party Pieces', songs or musical items. 
Series 17
Programme 1
Programme 2
Programme 3
Programme 4
Programme 5
Programme 6
Programme 7
Programme 8
Programme 9
Programme 10
Programme 11
Programme 12
Programme 13
Programme 14
Programme 15
Series 18
Programme 1
Programme 2
Programme 3
Programme 4
Programme 5
Programme 6
Programme 7
Programme 8
Programme 9
Programme 10
Programme 11
Programme 12
Programme 13
Programme 14
Programme 15
Programme 16
Programme 17
Programme 18
Programme 19
Programme 20
Programme 21
Programme 22
Programme 23/24 - unknown
Programme 25
Programme 26 - unknown
Series 19
Programme 1
Programme 2
Programme 3
Programme 4
Programme 5
Programme 6
Programme 7
Programme 8 - missing
Programme 9
Programme 10
Programme 11
Programme 12
Programme 13
Programme 14
Programme 15
Programme 16
Programme 17 - missing
Programme 18
Programme 19
Programme 20
Programme 21
Programme 22
Programme 23
Programme 24 - missing
Programme 25
Programme 26
1983 Christmas Special (21 December 1983)
Series 20
Programme 1
Programme 2
Programme 3
Programme 4
Programme 5
Programme 6
Programme 7
Programme 8
Programme 9
Programme 10
Programme 11
Programme 12
Programme 13
Programme 14
Programme 15
Programme 16 - unknown
Programme 17
Programme 18
Programme 19
Programme 20
Programme 21
Programme 22
Programme 23
Programme 24
Programme 25
Programme 26 - unknown
Christmas Special 
Series 22/23/24 - unknown
Series 25
Programme 1
Programme 2 - unknown
Programme 3
Programme 4
Programme 5
Programme 6
Programme 7
Programme 8 - unknown
Series 26
Programme 1
Programme 2
Programme 3
Programme 4
Programme 5
Programme 6
Programme 7
Programme 8 (The 500th Programme)
Series 27
Programme 1
Programme 2
Programme 3
Programme 4
Programme 5
Programmes 6/7/8 - unknown
Series 28
Programme 1
Programme 2
Programme 3
Programme 4
Programme 5
Programme 6
Programme 7
Programme 8
Series 29
Programme 1
Programme 2
Programme 3
Programme 4
Programme 5
Programme 6
Programme 7
Programme 8