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Nation's Largest Fireworks Show Uses TV Themes As Its Soundtrack

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BDBopper

Last night the Kentucky Derby Festival was kicked off with Thunder Over Louisville. It's billed as the nation's largest Fireworks display. This year's theme for the soundtrack was the sounds of Television. The soundtrack was filled almost entirely with TV theme songs. This is the best video of the whole thing without it being split into parts. I'll edit when something better is uploaded.

http://youtu.be/Q6e9XH_iaRE

It's interesting to listen to which themes got the cut and which ones didn't. I'm sure it was a difficult choice. While some of them seemed to be popular songs that I don't think are TV themes at all.

Some that did not make the cut that I thought would:

Addams Family
Munsters
Green Acres
American Bandstand
Sesame Street
Cheers
The Flintstones
Friends
Dallas
Wheel of Fortune
Jeopardy
The Price is Right

and others...but I thought they did a pretty good job of trying to eppeal to to a wide audience. I think they should have introduced "When You Wish Upon A Star with "Walt Disney's Disneyland" and doing a sign off before the National Anthem at the end would have been a nice touch.
 
"There's a holdup in The Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights,
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
that backed up to Jackson Heights,
There's a Scout troop short a child,
Kruschev's due at Idlewild,
Car Fifty-Four where are youuuuu?" (N. Hiken, 1961)

Somebody said TV themes...this is one I belt out at parties! Of course to anyone under 45, I have to explain who Nikita Kruschev was and what Idlewild Airport is named today.
 
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