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 Bill (song) Elks Rendezvous Band) recorded a clean version in 1938. In the first Fleischer "Popeye" cartoon, "Popeye the Sailor" (1933), "Barnacle Bill" was used as the recurring theme for the Bluto character. A later Fleischer "Popeye" cartoon, "Beware of Barnacle Bill" (1935), is a mock operetta based around a toned-down version of the song. Although versions differ in their content "Barnacle Bill" is structured as an exchange between Bill and a "fair young maiden." Each verse opens with inquiries by the maiden and continues with Bill's response. This version is credited to Anonymous and appears in "Immortalia" (1927). It is published