Who sang the first song about television?
This question was asked in the BBC staff newspaper, Ariel: Here’s looking at whom? In the Diary article by Dallas Bower (Ariel, October 29) about the start of the television service, he made reference to the opening song, Here’s Looking at You, sung by Adele Dixon. I’ve heard an audio cut of this sequence and the announcement is: ‘Now you’re going to see and hear someone you know well, Miss Helen McKay’. So who did sing the song? Paul Deacon, Music Library This drew the reply: Paul Deacon’s letter (Ariel, November 12) expresses confusion over who sang the BBC Television song Here s Looking at You. Was it Helen McKay or Adele Dixon? A sound recording he heard is ambiguous. Of course the song mentioned was sung by Helen McKay during the Radiolympia broadcasts of August 1936. Adele Dixon later opened BBC Television with the familiar ‘Magic Rays of Light’ song, correctly entitled Television. The scene of Miss Dixon that is constantly re-run is from a pre-filmed sequence and not the actual
