[sparky_75]

Jim Stokoe (I believe that’s the correct spelling) also co-composed some of the Central jingles and at least one of the ITV Schools tracks from 1986.

I take it he created the music from 1988?  Im sure the late Aug/early September  85 rebrand used alot of stuff from a library.  However there were other piece like Herald = was that one he made?  A shortened version ended up on one of the libraries.

From what I was aware, Jim was head of Promotions at Central - having worked in either Graphics and Promotions for ATV; and on the side happened to compose music too.

He and his team were responsible for the Autumn 1985 re-brand - when the 'Cake' first appeared; the various updates thereafter and that of the rebrand of the Schools Programmes.

Much of the music used from 1985 onwards - as far as I was aware came from a Music Library.

So it's possible, he composed the pieces and published them through a library.
Bruton and Regency seem to spring to mind.

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At some point I obtained MP3s of some of the original 1982 Central themes and idents. The metadata on these credits the composers as P Bennett / J Stokoe / M Moran, so, assuming this is correct, he was composing Central music right from the beginning.

As Milkshake mentions though, they did use a lot of library music with the cake idents. I seem to remember some heavy use of the Bruton library in the early days of the cake.

I’ve always felt many of the otherwise wonderful cake idents were let down by some rather naff and cheap library music.

Totally agree, I wasn't set on the music used with the Cake idents.

As mentioned in a previous post; Jim had worked for ATV since sometime around 1972-73ish.
He - alongside Peter Bennett composed "Busy Highway" in 1975 - which was used in a re-jazzed up version for the replacement 'striped' and 'old counties' titles used on ATV-Today (midlands local news) between Aug 1976 & Aug 1980.

The Central 1982 brand was composed specifically for Central, by Bennett/Stocko/Moran.

From 1985 - the re-brand work seemed to feature a lot of music from Bruton/Regency/Library. Sadly.