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
The Wonderful Tune using the manuscript copy, and printed in "Irische Land- und Seemärchen" (1986). The protagonist appears as "Moritz Connor". A French translation entitled "L'air merveilleux" appeared in Loys Bruyere, "Contes populaires de la Grande-Bretagne" (1875). The Wonderful Tune The Wonderful Tune is an Irish fairy tale collected in Thomas Crofton Croker's "Fairy Tales and Traditions of the South of Ireland" (1825–28). Andrew Lang included it in "The Lilac Fairy Book", and Ruth Manning-Sanders included it as "The Magical Tune", in "A Book of Mermaids". Maurice Connor, a blind man, was the finest piper in Munster, and knew a tune that when