Blue Peter "Sailors Hornpipe" was used instead. The opening theme has been updated several times. The following is a list of all the versions of the "Blue Peter" signature tune, "Barnacle Bill" that have been used on the show : The debut of a new version of the famous theme tune "Barnacle Bill" is sometimes accompanied with an introduction by the presenters at the time explaining the reasons behind the new rendition. Mike Oldfield appeared on the programme around 1979, and his version of the theme tune was so popular with viewers that the producers decided to record it for use as
Barnacle a delicacy in Spain and Portugal. The resemblance of this barnacle's fleshy stalk to a goose's neck gave rise in ancient times to the notion that geese, or at least certain seagoing species of wild geese, literally grew from the barnacle. Indeed, the word "barnacle" originally referred to a species of goose, the barnacle goose "Branta leucopsis", whose eggs and young were rarely seen by humans because it breeds in the remote Arctic. Additionally, the picoroco barnacle is used in Chilean cuisine and is one of the ingredients in "curanto". Barnacle A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the