Songfacts®:

• In 1964, when the BBC covered the Olympic Games extensively, it used a new composition by the German composer Helmut Zacharias (1920-2002) to introduce the relevant programs. Although "Tokyo Melody" does not have any words as such, it does contain some excellent vocal harmonies which give the music a distinctly Japanese flavor, though curiously the five note octave based theme is brass and horn rather than string dominated, as one might have expected from the man once dubbed "the best jazz violinist in the world."
• Backed by "Teatime In Tokyo", the theme song was released in both the UK and his native Germany by Helmut Zacharias & His Orchestra on the Polydor label.
  
  According to David Ades of The Robert Farnon Society, it sold over 13 million copies worldwide - likely a very inflated number. >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2