The Apple Theme Song
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
November 7th, 2005 at 5:40 am
I cannot figure out how to download this song.
November 7th, 2005 at 9:14 am
Sorry, should be fixed now.
November 7th, 2005 at 11:35 am
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?
November 7th, 2005 at 11:52 am
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.
November 7th, 2005 at 11:53 am
Sadly, I can remember that…
November 7th, 2005 at 12:56 pm
Remarkable similarities, both thematically, harmonically, and in content
with “What a Feeling” from the movie “Flashdance.” Pretty bold indeed!
November 7th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
Looks like the Lugz ad isn’t the first thing Apple copied…
November 7th, 2005 at 2:48 pm
Ahh, the 80’s.
November 7th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
AAAHHH!!
I just clawed my eyes out!
November 7th, 2005 at 3:42 pm
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.
November 7th, 2005 at 4:44 pm
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.
November 7th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
haha, it was very fun. I’m going to sing it all day.
November 7th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
That other song on the ZDNet song sound liek the same woman. Think she had pictures of Steve with a goat or something?
November 8th, 2005 at 12:41 am
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….
November 8th, 2005 at 5:49 am
I think it is a good song, makes me want to go back to the happy 80s
November 8th, 2005 at 8:15 am
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November 8th, 2005 at 11:27 am
uh-oh!
Apple stock is down $1.60 since this song came out!
November 8th, 2005 at 4:01 pm
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
November 9th, 2005 at 11:58 am
Guys. Just put the thing on bittorrent and let the net handle the bandwidth. Bittorrent isn’t just a haven for pirates after all.
November 9th, 2005 at 1:01 pm
Might be a good idea.
We try to stay clear of BitTorent though.
hopefully someone else will put it up there.
November 9th, 2005 at 1:04 pm
Another mirror:
http://www.cinemafia.net/video/We_Are_Apple.mov
November 9th, 2005 at 1:05 pm
Thanks CineMafia
November 9th, 2005 at 9:45 pm
really—-unusual
January 19th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
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.
February 16th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Could you re-post the audio version of this? The link you have can’t find the file.
March 29th, 2006 at 2:39 am
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May 15th, 2006 at 4:12 am
One Word. LOL…, wel, er actually 3… never mind
May 15th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
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
October 5th, 2006 at 5:43 am
$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.
January 6th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
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.
August 12th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
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August 21st, 2007 at 10:36 pm
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