Soul Limbo Soul Limbo Soul Limbo is the seventh studio album by the American R&B band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released in 1968 on Stax Records. The album was the first Stax LP issued after the label severed its ties with former distributor Atlantic Records in 1968. The title track is perhaps best known in the UK as the theme tune for BBC Television's cricket coverage and later for "Test Match Special". It features a marimba solo by Terry Manning. Its composition is somewhat similar to a song by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires. The song was later covered by the
Radio 4 UK Theme at approximately 5:54 am on weekdays (starting from Thursday 23 November 1978), before the first programme of the day ("News Briefing") began at 6:00 am. At weekends it was played later than this (Saturday programmes in November 1978 starting at 6:30 am and Sunday programmes at 7:15 am). With the extension of the "Today Programme" to start at 6:00 am, the Shipping Forecast and the UK Theme with it were broadcast earlier. Towards the end of the "UK Theme"'s life it was played at 5:30 am every day, when Radio 4 took over from the BBC World Service, which has