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TALK RADIO SHOW THEME SONGS

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alg2468

What are the names of the theme songs that are used on popular talk shows?

For example, Rush Limbaugh's show has the Pretenders "My City was Gone".
Jim Bohannon's show has (or once had) a song from 1983 that has his last name in the song - I cannot remember what the name of the song.


What about Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Mike Savage, Mike Doyle's shows?
 
Perhaps a better question ... what songs do you or your talent use for your locally produced shows? I use Rebel Rouser by Duane Eddy.
 
OK, that's not a better question at all, so let's answer the guy's original question.

Michael Savage's show starts with Metallica's "Master Of Puppets", I believe. Then a spoken part about "adult content, adult language, and psychological nudity", then two other songs, rather awkwardly montaged.

Sean Hannity's show begins with Martina McBride's "Independence Day", then some classical thing I can't recall, then Steve Winwood's "The Way It Is."
 
George Noory/Art Bell and subs seems to use a bunch of rotating tunes they play about half way through, before Mr. Announcer starts rattling off the 23 phone numbers they use "West of the Rockies" "East of the Rockies""South of the Bering Strait".
 
The classical bit on Hannity's show may be Wagner.

Part of the Doyle intro is (remix of?) Elvis' "A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action"

Not sure if she still uses it but Stephanie Miller uses/used "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister.

Laura Ingraham: John Hiatt's "Smashing a perfectly good guitar"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5begHSoQ1s&feature=related

Dennis Miller: (IIRC) New Radicals, You only Get What You Give
 
alg2468 said:
What are the names of the theme songs that are used on popular talk shows?

For example, Rush Limbaugh's show has the Pretenders "My City was Gone".
Jim Bohannon's show has (or once had) a song from 1983 that has his last name in the song - I cannot remember what the name of the song.


What about Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Mike Savage, Mike Doyle's shows?
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Jim Bohannon used to have a rotation of three theme songs. The one I think you're talking about is Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" (where the chorus sounds like "Bohannon, Bohannon").

Coast to Coast AM's theme, only played at the start of the show (excluding the Mike Siegel era, when it was played once every hour) is Giorgio Moroder's "The Chase."

Neil Boortz uses Huey Lewis' "The Heart of Rock & Roll," Clark Howard uses the Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy," Dave Ramsey uses Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" and Mark Levin uses Linkin Park's "Somewhere I Belong."
 
...for the entire 14-years-plus of his syndicated show, Tom Leykis used "Enter Sandman," either the Metallica original or, after Metallica raised hell with some file-sharing site, a tribute band version Leykis himself downloaded from the site Metallica griped about ;-) ...
 
HardCore said:
Sean Hannity's show begins with Martina McBride's "Independence Day", then some classical thing I can't recall, then Steve Winwood's "The Way It Is."
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"The Way it Is" is by Bruce Hornsby & The Range, not Steve Winwood.
 
Ultimajock said:
...for the entire 14-years-plus of his syndicated show, Tom Leykis used "Enter Sandman," either the Metallica original or, after Metallica raised hell with some file-sharing site, a tribute band version Leykis himself downloaded from the site Metallica griped about ;-) ...
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As late as 2006, Phil Hendrie parodied Leykis - dubbed "Comb-over Boy" - with the actual "Enter Sandman" as the theme, but for his Art Bell impersonations, Phil used ABBA's "Dancing Queen" as an intro instead of "The Chase."

I can never hear his current show anyway, so idk if he still does these impersonations from time to time.
 
I chuckle when Mark Levin opens to his themesong of "Somewhere I Belong" by Linkin Park. It's amusing to hear some lame old white man on the radio open his show to nu metal or emo rock.
 
Some more local talk show hosts-

Doug Hoerth in Pittsburgh used "Hello Hello" by either Tim Tiny or Sopwith Camel. He said he stole it from a guy from New York.

Perry Marshall would close with "The Entertainer."

Scott Paulsen used to use his own produced music with a fun diddy that went "We're from the Burgh! Proud of the place where we come from THE BURGH! Four fer the fingers and one for the thumb- Where do yinz come from? Hon, we're from the Burgh! Praud of the place we come from!!!!"

Mark Madden has used a variety of songs, most notably UFO's "Hard Bein' Me" and Kid Rock's "Cowboy." He also used the theme of pro wrestling's Road Dogg.

Steve Somers of WFAN used the theme to the old "Captain Midnight" radio show to begin his show, which used to begin at 12:00 a.m.

Cleveland's Mike Trivisonno used the song "Boom Boom Mancini" by Warren Zevon as one of his many themes. He also had a song that had to be one of those CDs stations buy for jingles and bumper music that went "HEY SPORTS FANS (hey sports fans)! HEY SPORTS FANS (hey sports fans)! THE WHOLE NATION- IS WATCHING YOU! SPORTS FANS WATCHA GONNA DO?"

His mentor, Pete Franklin, closed his show with Jimmy Durante singing "Good Night!"- but without the Mrs. Calabash reference.

In Bristol, VA Scott Robertson had a short-lived talk show at WXBQ-AM (now WFHG) in 1995. He closed with Steam's "Na Na! Hey Hey- Goodbye!" that is often sung at Chicago White Sox games when the South Siders have the game won.

Papa Joe Chevalier of the old "One on One" sports network used "When the Saints Go Marching In." Don Helman of WXSM in the Tri-Cities, TN uses AC/DC's "Hells Bells," because that was the theme song East Tennessee State's football team ran out to and it is his way of saying ETSU should bring back football.

For the life of me, I cannot remember the theme of the old "Farrell on the Bench" show but I remember he played cuts of great, lively sportscasts- most notably Russ Hodges' "The Giants Win the Pennant!" call of Bobby Thomson's famous home run to win the '51 NL pennant.
 
I've never understood these talk show hosts using music that was written under the influence of illegal narcotics then railing against potheads, etc... Hell Hannity has Charlie Daniels as part of his Freedom Tour promotion...
 
Les Kinsolving used to open his show on WCBM in Baltimore with a Mossad march.
 
Leebo65 said:
I've never understood these talk show hosts using music that was written under the influence of illegal narcotics then railing against potheads, etc... Hell Hannity has Charlie Daniels as part of his Freedom Tour promotion...
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...probably the most clueless was Jerry Bott at WISN Milwaukee in the '80s -- he used a sloppy edit of "2-4-6-8 Motorway" by The Tom Robinson Band, a major British hit single of 1977. Robinson is an LGBT activist of long standing, while Bott was as homophobic as they came...
 
raccoonradio said:
Not sure if she still uses it but Stephanie Miller uses/used "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister.
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After the election she started using "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves.
 
Well, remember Rush Limbaugh chose his theme because in addition to a driving bass beat that would command attention and be distinctive, it was written by Chrissy Hynde, who is about as liberal as they come.

The idea was it would get people talking- "Why this theme?"

To be honest, the song is probably now more identifiable with Rush than with The Pretenders.
 
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