fyi /ot : When these congressional hearings took place in early 1970s, I was at 7 and 8 years of age then so I never paid attention, but did get annoyed that I couldn't watch kids tv shows since these hearings took place at kids tv time and cable tv concept was just in early stages so there was no escape zone for kids whatsoever back then.
At least kids now have options these days in case congressional hearings do take place....and us US citizens (sane ones) are demanding enough congressional hearings and then some to help clear up the previous two years of shit caused by GOP criminals.
So Joy Reid (w/Joy Reed filling in for Rachel Maddow's TRMS) was running some old footage of NBC's news reports of the Watergate hearings,
and she pointed out that it had its own theme music. What she didn't mention was that the music they used was "The March to the Scaffold" from Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique. I LOL'd. Somebody at NBC News had a sly sense of humor.
"The March to the Scaffold"
Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium. The dose of narcotic, while too weak to cause his death, plunges him into a heavy sleep accompanied by the strangest of visions. He dreams that he has killed his beloved, that he is condemned, led to the scaffold and is witnessing his own execution. The procession advances to the sound of a march that is sometimes sombre and wild, and sometimes brilliant and solemn, in which a dull sound of heavy footsteps follows without transition the loudest outbursts. At the end of the march, the first four bars of the idée fixe reappear like a final thought of love interrupted by the fatal blow.
While NBC would play that music piece as introduction tune to congressional Watergate hearings, CBS would stick with teletype systems as it's intro just like what was done with CBS Evening News (news program intro used teletype systems) back then.
Other DU posters suggested opera music pieces, and one suggested John Williams' Star Wars "Imperial March"
But I agree with this music intro piece when future congressional hearings begin next year...the 'TRUMP CLOWN CAR IMPERIAL MARCH' it has nice caliope happy intro that fits in with the clown's illegitimate so called criminal presidency. As Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard character would say: "Make it so number 1 (Will Rykker). Engage."
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