Who wrote the Olympic theme song?

Question

What's the title?

Answer 1

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/arti...

Answer 2

I actually believe it was John Williams (of Star Wars / Jaws / everything else) fame.  And it's just the theme to the Olympics to the best of my knowledge...

Answer 3

Nope. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the creators of the gorrilaz.

I Watched a programme On It.

Answer 4

It was John Williams, It can found on his greatest hits album.  It was first composed for the 1968 winter games.

Answer 5

This will tell you: http://ask.yahoo.com/20060216.html

Answer 6

You know the Olympic theme, right? “Bum-BUM-ba-bum-bum-bum-bum.” You’ve heard it a billion times; everybody has. It’s called “Bugler’s Dream,” and it was written in 1958 by French composer Leo Arnaud. It’s a part of a longer piece called “The Charge Suite.”  In 1968, ABC needed theme music for its TV coverage of the Winter Games in Grenoble, France. They bought the rights to use the minute-long piece as part of their broadcast. Instantly, the seven-note theme with the rhythmic tympani intro became synonymous with the Olympic Games.

The 1984 Olympic organizing committee commissioned composer John Williams to write a new fanfare and theme for the games.

Williams’ composition, “Olympic Fanfare and Theme,” starts with a new arrangement of Arnaud’s “Bugler’s Dream” for full orchestra. Arnaud’s original fanfare was arranged for tympani and horns only. Williams’ arrangement starts with Arnaud’s fanfare essentially as it was originally written (he added cymbal crashes to punctuate the tympani at the beginning) at slightly increased tempo, then repeats the theme with full orchestra, using the strings and winds to back up the horns. He then launches into his own horns-and-percussion fanfare that segues into an entirely new theme of soaring beauty. Never having studied music, I don’t have the vocabulary to describe it. It’s just really neat.

The Games of the XXIII Olympiad opened on July 28, 1984. It took about three seconds for the new “Olympic Fanfare and Theme” to become permanently associated with the Games.

Answer 7

John Williams? I think it is him     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Willia...

Answer 8

If you mean NBC's themes, they use mainly three themes for its Olympic Coverage:

Bugler's Dream is the principal theme composed by Leo Arnaud in the late 1960s.

John Williams' 1984 "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" for the Los Angeles games is the other principal theme.

The third theme is Williams' "Summon the Heroes", the official theme for the Atlanta Centennial Games in 1996.

All this music is available on CD. "Olympic Fanfare" has been a popular staple in Pops concerts around the world and has been recorded many times by numerous orchestras and symphonic bands. My personal favorite recordings you can find them in Sony Classical's album "Summon the Heroes" with the Boston Pops Orchestra which you can easily find on any record store in the classical section.