Author: John Chivers via YouTube
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In 1968, the UK’s Central Office of Information (the UK government’s marketing and communications agency) produced a public information film (PIF) called "Keep it to Yourself", in which a young Roy Hudd, dressed as a mysterious spy-type character, ran around discarding litter for now apparent reason, while a group of young people dressed in white uniforms, called LDV – litter defence volunteers (a clear play on the World War 2 Local Defence Volunteers or what later became the Home Guard) pursued him, collecting his discarded litter and ultimately encouraging him to discard his litter in a bin and thereby transform from his drab, mysterious outfit into one of their uniforms, accompanied by the facial expression for which Roy Hudd was famed.
The original PIF can be seen at https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/keep-it-to-yourself/
This PIF was still running on TV when I was a child and the accompanying mysterious spy-type music, resplendent with blaring Hammond organ, has stayed with me since.
I did try to establish the composer and performer of the music, but could establish no information to that end.
The music in the PIF is a mere 40 or so seconds long, but it was enough to sow the seed in my own head of how a full version of the tune might sound – at least my version of it, so I set to work writing some extra parts and arranging it accordingly, and this is the result.
Recorded in Cubase with various virtual instruments and with drums recorded using the Alesis Crimson 2 electric drum kit triggering samples from Superior Drummer 3.