The Apple Theme Song

November 6, 2005 by Dr. Macenstein
Filed under: Humor 

Posted by Igor

“What a feelin’!”

Here’s a little gem guaranteed to make even the biggest Apple fanatic consider buying a Dell. In the early 80’s, Apple used this song as its theme song in some of its corporate meetings. With killer lyrics like “We are Apple! Leading the way! We are Apple! And we’re making a better today! What a feelin’! And we’ve only begun, in believin’ that tomorrow’s much brighter, ’cause Apple is leading the way!” it’s only a matter of time before this gem shows up in the iTunes music store.


UPDATE: A reader has alerted us that there is also a video of this monstrosity. Warning, this is not for the faint of heart.
WE ARE APPLE Video

Also, Apple has apparently been cranking out the tunes for years. ZDNet has a link to more of Apple’s greatest hits. It would appear Apple owned a lot of stock in Casio Keyboards back in the early days…

ANOTHER UPDATE
WOW!
That video was WAY more popular than we thought.
We have been forced to move it to another server now, since we have just used about 5 GB of bandwidth in 24 hours.

If any of you want to help us out by posting mirror links to the video, let us know.

Or, if anyone wants to send us a couple bucks towards purchasing a little extra bandwidth, that would be awesome.

there’s a Paypal link to the right. (might have to scroll down a bit)

It is only $4 a Gig of bandwidth.
Any help would be appreciated.

-Dr. M

ANOTHER UPDATE
OK, we moved it and THAT site ran out of bandwidth…
Over 100,000MB so far….
well, third times a charm.
new link, but this is it. When this runs out we gotta pull it.
Please consider offering a mirror site or donating $4 a GB for some extra bandwidth.
Thanks

-Dr. M

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32 Comments on The Apple Theme Song

  1. Jay on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 5:40 am

    2. I cannot figure out how to download this song.

  2. Dr. Macenstein on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 9:14 am

    3. Sorry, should be fixed now.

  3. dude on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 11:35 am

    4. I couldn’t even finnish listening to it it was so awful. Funny that that was really their offical corporate song though, well sad really… I wonder if this was post-Steve?

  4. P. Ramm on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 11:52 am

    5. Great Caesar’s Ghost… among wretched corporate anthems, this is the longest one I’ve ever heard; could Apple be subject to the same laws of success and failure as the rest of us? Not likely to humble the Creative Brahmins of Cupertino, though.

  5. baggss on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 11:53 am

    6. Sadly, I can remember that…

  6. DMann on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 12:56 pm

    7. Remarkable similarities, both thematically, harmonically, and in content
    with “What a Feeling” from the movie “Flashdance.” Pretty bold indeed!

  7. Wolfman Mac on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 1:03 pm

    8. Looks like the Lugz ad isn’t the first thing Apple copied…

  8. Anonymous on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 2:48 pm

    9. Ahh, the 80’s.

  9. Trump's Baby on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 3:10 pm

    10. AAAHHH!!
    I just clawed my eyes out!

  10. steveH on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 3:42 pm

    11. The song was released (or escaped) shortly before Steve left Apple the first time; roughly around the time that the Apple//c was introduced, or a bit earlier.

  11. P. Ramm on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 4:44 pm

    12. And that, my children, is what used to be called a multi-image presentation… 35mm slides, fifteen or twenty projectors, controlled by an AVL or Arion microcontroller.

  12. mose on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 4:52 pm

    13. haha, it was very fun. I’m going to sing it all day.

    :)

  13. Wolfman Mac on Mon, 7th Nov 2005 5:58 pm

    14. That other song on the ZDNet song sound liek the same woman. Think she had pictures of Steve with a goat or something?

  14. Me Grimlock on Tue, 8th Nov 2005 12:41 am

    15. the end is the best, where it breaks it on down with the lasers.
    I wonder if anyone was killed during the making of this?

    I hope so….

  15. HÃ¥kan Palm on Tue, 8th Nov 2005 5:49 am

    16. I think it is a good song, makes me want to go back to the happy 80s :)

  16. Venera7.com » Blog Archive » Apple: grandes éxitos de ayer y hoy on Tue, 8th Nov 2005 8:15 am

    17. [...] davía. ¡Hay también un vídeo! (retro futuro alert!) La noticia original podéis leerla aquí. Publicado por Nando el Martes 8 Noviem [...]

  17. Wolfman Mac on Tue, 8th Nov 2005 11:27 am

    18. uh-oh!
    Apple stock is down $1.60 since this song came out!

  18. Dr. Macenstein on Tue, 8th Nov 2005 4:01 pm

    19. WOW!
    That video was WAY more popular than we thought.
    We have been forced to move it to another server now, since we have just used about 5 GB of bandwidth in 24 hours.

    If any of you want to help us out by posting mirror links to the video, let us know.

    Or, if anyone wants to send us a couple bucks towards purchasing a little extra bandwidth, that would be awesome.

    there’s a Paypal link to the right. (might have to scroll down a bit)

    It is only $4 a Gig of bandwidth.
    Any help would be appreciated.

    -Dr. M

  19. Jonathan N. on Wed, 9th Nov 2005 11:58 am

    20. Guys. Just put the thing on bittorrent and let the net handle the bandwidth. Bittorrent isn’t just a haven for pirates after all.

  20. Dr. Macenstein on Wed, 9th Nov 2005 1:01 pm

    21. Might be a good idea.
    We try to stay clear of BitTorent though.
    hopefully someone else will put it up there.

  21. Cinemafia on Wed, 9th Nov 2005 1:04 pm

    22. Another mirror:

    http://www.cinemafia.net/video/We_Are_Apple.mov

  22. Dr. Macenstein on Wed, 9th Nov 2005 1:05 pm

    23. Thanks CineMafia

  23. gearbox on Wed, 9th Nov 2005 9:45 pm

    24. really—-unusual

  24. D on Thu, 19th Jan 2006 2:30 pm

    25. Who digitized this? Can you trace down who owns the original video tape of this? I’m sure quality could be improved by using better equipment.

  25. Mediaright on Thu, 16th Feb 2006 8:18 pm

    26. Could you re-post the audio version of this? The link you have can’t find the file.

  26. davintosh » Macenstein » Macenstein Archive » The Apple Theme Song on Wed, 29th Mar 2006 2:39 am

    27. [...] I didn’t know that Apple had their own Theme Song. After watching the video of it, I kinda wish I didn’t know it. [...]

  27. Whatthehellswithwindows on Mon, 15th May 2006 4:12 am

    28. One Word. LOL…, wel, er actually 3… never mind

  28. Boris on Mon, 15th May 2006 3:15 pm

    29. Wow!
    I’m not yet earn enough to afford any of MACs but i will work hard to became a proud owner of one! This song is amazing, inspires me to create pretty looking programs :)))

    Boris, Moscow,
    State Technical University n.a. Bauman
    Software Development department

  29. Anonymous on Thu, 5th Oct 2006 5:43 am

    30. $4 a Gig of bandwidth? You’re joking… My current host charges me just $1 for 18.75GB of bandwidth (that’s 5.3 CENTS per GB), and that’s if you consider my dedicated server which I get in the same price to be completely free of charge.

    $4 a GB is daylight robbery. You’re paying 75 TIMES what you should be. I suggest you look elsewhere.

  30. HubmaN on Sat, 6th Jan 2007 11:48 pm

    31. Urrgh. This is far, far, far, far, far, far worse than that “Apple Is Breaking Through Song”. I was unlucky enough to hear it in person.

  31. Did you know Apple had a “theme song” « myBlog on Sun, 12th Aug 2007 3:29 pm

    32. [...] November 7th, 2005 · No Comments Saw this on Macenstein. [...]

  32. Arran McDonald on Tue, 21st Aug 2007 10:36 pm

    33. there is a full version of this now on youtube that sounds like it came of the cd the video for it is just effects but check it out if u like the mp3 on this site and iv u like it give Al a comment http://youtube.com/watch?v=vn478zn9Z20

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