If you’ve tuned into a broadcast of the Olympics in the past 25 years, you certainly have heard the famous theme song that goes with the Games. But do you know the history behind the iconic timpani ...

As in every Olympics, however, that telecast theme song is the dominant music. It is potent on its own, as a call to glory and as a symbol: of the Olympics, of our childhoods, of a time when we didn't ...

French composer Leo Arnaud is most remembered for the Olympic theme song "Bugler’s Dream." After a career in Hollywood, he retired and was buried in Yadkin County. GERMANY TODAY, SO LOTS GOING ON AND ...

The British band Belle and Sebastian has released its own theme song for the Summer games in Rio, an instrumental called “Olympic Village, 6 am.” There’s a joke to be made about that being the hour ...