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Best TV Theme Song

dmargalotti said:
And I still find myself humming the Odd Couple theme.
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Sack beat me to the punch...The Odd Couple theme
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Actually i beat sack to the punch back on page 3.
Re: Best TV Theme Song
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Dukes of Hazzard (beginning & end themes)Waylon Jennings
Laverne & Shirley-Cinci Greco
Happy Days(Rock Around The Clock in it's entirety) not the newer "these days are ours" theme.
WKRP
"Without Us"-Johnny Mathis & Denice Williams starring in "Family Ties" theme.
Josie & the Pussycats
Sandord & Son
Mary Tyler Moore
(hated the show but)Growing Pains(in the butt) "As Long As We've Got Each Other-B.J Thomas & Jennifer Warnes
Joey Scarbury-Greatest American Hero
Welcome Back Kotter
Taxi
My Three Sons-"Music by Devol"
Bewitched
The Odd Couple
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Also liked the Adams Family theme
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Ben Casey
Eight Is Enough
 
Some of the TV theme songs I like include many already mentioned, but I'll these to the list:

Superman (George Reeves version from 1950's)
Dick Van Dyke Show
Honeymooners
Startrek (original series from 1966)
Huntley/Brinkley Report
Bonanza
Medic (from 1950's with Richard Boone)
Mr. Lucky
Sgt. Preston of the Yukon
Lone Ranger
 
MikefromDelaware said:
Some of the TV theme songs I like include many already mentioned, but I'll these to the list:

Superman (George Reeves version from 1950's)
Dick Van Dyke Show
Honeymooners
Startrek (original series from 1966)
Huntley/Brinkley Report
Bonanza
Medic (from 1950's with Richard Boone)
Mr. Lucky
Sgt. Preston of the Yukon
Lone Ranger
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Ahh "The Adventures of Superman" my all time favorite! :D
 
radioman148 said:
Another good theme song was "The Rookies".
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Now that you brought up The Rookies, I feel compelled to nominate the theme from SWAT - which actually charted back in the late 70s. I still remember that theme - definitely a classic.

Wasn't SWAT a spinoff of The Rookies? Seems like they were related. Both were good shows.

Of course my true favorites have already been mentioned many times above, but SWAT and The Rookies had great themes, as did Kojak and Starsky and Hutch.

Few shows now have good themes - by design. In the interest of cramming more loud and poorly done ads into a half-hour, most creators have maybe 15 seconds for a theme song. And, at the end, the closing theme is only for the eventual owners of the DVD because the networks step all over it, scrunch it into a corner, talk over it and run a promo over it. Terrible.

And to think, I used to get steamed when the announcer would cut into a closing theme for 10 seconds back in the late 70s. Now you can't even see the credits.... :mad:
 
BRNout said:
Few shows now have good themes - by design. In the interest of cramming more loud and poorly done ads into a half-hour, most creators have maybe 15 seconds for a theme song. And, at the end, the closing theme is only for the eventual owners of the DVD because the networks step all over it, scrunch it into a corner, talk over it and run a promo over it. Terrible.

And to think, I used to get steamed when the announcer would cut into a closing theme for 10 seconds back in the late 70s. Now you can't even see the credits.... :mad:
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What about when TV shows went into the first scene of the show before even running the opening credits? This was done to great effect in shows like CHiPs, but in many other shows, stopping the action (often after a good 5-10 minutes! ::)) to suddenly go into the opening credits only served to ruin the continuity of the show. It often felt like the networks screwed up, and forgot to run the opening theme! (Based on what I have since read on this board, I now believe that is altogether possible!)

Running an opening scene of a show even before the credits should be a teaser only, and should NOT get too deep into the show before interrupting the flow of the show to run the credits! :mad: This was often even more disrupting to the show than a commercial break would be! At least when they go to commercial, they are usually at a "stopping point"! ::)
 
firepoint525 said:
BRNout said:
Few shows now have good themes - by design. In the interest of cramming more loud and poorly done ads into a half-hour, most creators have maybe 15 seconds for a theme song. And, at the end, the closing theme is only for the eventual owners of the DVD because the networks step all over it, scrunch it into a corner, talk over it and run a promo over it. Terrible.

And to think, I used to get steamed when the announcer would cut into a closing theme for 10 seconds back in the late 70s. Now you can't even see the credits.... :mad:
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What about when TV shows went into the first scene of the show before even running the opening credits? This was done to great effect in shows like CHiPs, but in many other shows, stopping the action (often after a good 5-10 minutes! ::)) to suddenly go into the opening credits only served to ruin the continuity of the show. It often felt like the networks screwed up, and forgot to run the opening theme! (Based on what I have since read on this board, I now believe that is altogether possible!)

Running an opening scene of a show even before the credits should be a teaser only, and should NOT get too deep into the show before interrupting the flow of the show to run the credits! :mad: This was often even more disrupting to the show than a commercial break would be! At least when they go to commercial, they are usually at a "stopping point"! ::)
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It's still done today on some shows, specifically "Rescue Me"
 
All That Glitters:
One morning the Lord, she woke up to say,
“I feel like I want to be creative today.”
So by virtue of the power I vested in Me,
I make the heaven, earth and the deep blue sea.
Sink swim fly walk fly creep and crawl.
Now I better make someone to name them all.
Yes a human was needed in the neighborhood,
So the Lord made woman and it was good.
She said, “The Garden of Eden is no place to be alone."
so
From the rib of the madam came Adam full grown.
Time went by this groom and bride
Followed the instructions and multiplied.
She hunt, he cooked, she worked, he played.
While she administered the government he crocheted.
She bore the males.
He wore the veil.
Her head was crowned.
His feet were bound.
He concubined and walked behind.
She was the pardon the expression, the mastermind.
So is it any wonder why the men complained,
When from the dawn of time it’s been a women’s domain.
 
radioman148 said:
It's still done today on some shows, specifically "Rescue Me"
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Fontella Bass has her own TV show? ???

(I could follow that with one of my "you younger posters..." lines. ;))
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
radioman148 said:
It's still done today on some shows, specifically "Rescue Me"
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Fontella Bass has her own TV show? ???

(I could follow that with one of my "you younger posters..." lines. ;))
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Don't laugh, everytime I watch an episode of "Rescue Me" I tell my wife "Fontella Bass is on tonight". ;D
 
Theme from Love American Style-Cowsills
Love Boat Theme-Jack Jones(the actual "theme" version, not the alternate radio version).
Hart To Hart Theme..." 'cause when they met...it was MOY-DAH!" ;D
Knight Rider Theme-(liked it way before every station & it's brother used it as a traffic bed)...also liked
The Jetsons Theme(same as above)
Theme from Friday Night Videos...killer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNQ2OWaJd2U
 
Even though it is kind of wimpy, I will vote for "Love Is All Around", the Paul Williams song from the Mary Tyler Moore show. However, if memory serves, a couple of seasons they removed the vocals completely and just ran the instrumental version! :'(
 
searadiofreak said:
Even though it is kind of wimpy, I will vote for "Love Is All Around", the Paul Williams song from the Mary Tyler Moore show. However, if memory serves, a couple of seasons they removed the vocals completely and just ran the instrumental version! :'(
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You're right the theme is wimpy, but the show was good.
 
radioman148 said:
searadiofreak said:
Even though it is kind of wimpy, I will vote for "Love Is All Around", the Paul Williams song from the Mary Tyler Moore show. However, if memory serves, a couple of seasons they removed the vocals completely and just ran the instrumental version! :'(
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You're right the theme is wimpy, but the show was good.
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A group called Husker Du did a serious rock and roll version of the MTM theme that was anything but wimpy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFyy3XB_3Y4
 
"The Rockford Files" (by Mike Post)
"Hill Street Blues" (also by Mike Post)
"Miami Vice" (by Jan (Yon) Hammer)
"Charlie's Angels" (Henry Mancini I think?)
"Happy Days" (by Pratt and McClain)
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (Funeral March for a Marionette)
"The Lone Ranger" (William Tell Overture)

Also:
"WKRP in Cincinnati"
"E.R."
"Star Trek"
"Monty Python's Flying Circus" (The Liberty Bell March by John Philips Sousa....pffittt!)
"Quantum Leap"
"The Monkees"
"Skippy" (Australian 1960s series seen in the '90s on Animal Planet)
"Cannonball" (Canadian late 50s/early 60s trucking series distruibuted in the U.S. by ITC)
"The Littlest Hobo"(another Canadian series in the mid 60s distributed in the U.S by Storer Broadcasting's sydnication unit)
"Highway Patrol" (complete with Art Gilmore's announcing and produced in the 50s by Fred Ziv's company)
"The Cisco Kid" (awww Pancho....'eh Cisco!)
"The Super 6" (by Gary Lewis and The Playboys..mid 60s animated series from DePatie-Freleng)
 
radioman148 said:
searadiofreak said:
Even though it is kind of wimpy, I will vote for "Love Is All Around", the Paul Williams song from the Mary Tyler Moore show. However, if memory serves, a couple of seasons they removed the vocals completely and just ran the instrumental version! :'(
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You're right the theme is wimpy, but the show was good.
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Well the show wasn't meant for the punk rocker bunch, so the theme obveously wasn't gonna be cutting edge metal. ::)
I thought the "Who can turn the world on with her smile" was better than the "How will you make it on your own" version...either way the reverb was cranked on both!
 
>>I thought the "Who can turn the world on with her smile" was better than the "How will you make it on your own" version...either way the reverb was cranked on both!>>

Agree on that.
 
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