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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

For the Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, ABC bought the rights for “Bugler’s Dream”, a composition by French composer Leo Arnaud from a larger composition “The Charge Suite”. This is the familiar seven note theme associated with the Olympics, the Olympic theme song. For the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, the organizing committee commissioned John Williams to update the fanfare and theme for the Olympics. His composition, “Olympic Fanfare and Theme” encompasses “Bugler’s Dream” arranged by a full orchestra, rather than the simpler original version which only included tympani and horns. Williams’ composition starts with Arnaud’s original composition with an added cymbal crash at the start, and then replays the theme with a full orchestra.

After the success of the 1984 theme, William’s went on the write additional music for the Olympic Games in Seoul (1988), Atlanta (1996) and Salt Lake City (2002). Although his dissonant composition “Summon the Heroes” was heavily played during the Atlanta games, it fell short of the patriot furver that was generated by “Olympic Fanfare and Theme”.