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Title: TV Theme Songs Post by: Aegir on January 26, 2006, 06:13:04 PM I just love TV theme songs.. my newest favorite is the OC theme song, "California" by Phantom Planet (never seen more than five minutes of the show, though). I hate the chorus, though, but the verse melody (represented in the shortened version by the piano intro) is awesome.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: I. Spaceman on January 26, 2006, 06:14:50 PM I'll take the Monkees theme.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Jeff Mason on January 26, 2006, 06:15:29 PM Mission Impossible
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Chris D. on January 26, 2006, 06:23:24 PM Yeah, Monkees Theme is great.
Twin Peaks ("Falling") Knight Rider (lame show, great theme) Cops (hilarious song...so bad) "Them From Route 66" Seinfeld (great parody of lame sitcom themes, and mercifully short) Night Court (so bad, a comedy classic) I Dream of Jeannie Fuckin Dallas Gilligan's Island The X-Files Ren and Stimpy The Adventures of Pete and Pete Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: I. Spaceman on January 26, 2006, 06:26:25 PM Quote fodain Dallas Word UP! Anyone for People's Court (amazingly, a part of the score for a trash 70's combo beach-mad-girl-stalker flick called Malibu High, and reused for the Court)? Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: RobtheNobleSurfer on January 26, 2006, 06:34:51 PM Theme from the Monkees
Friends (i uded to do this in a medley with Pleasant Valley Sunday) Barney Miller MASH The Simpsons the version of Hnadbags and Gladrags used in the BBC office Monty Python (yes, I know it's Sousa's "Liberty Bell March") Marshall Crenshaw did a kick ass cover of "Bad Boy" for the american version of Men Behaving Badly. Cheers That 70's show (I like Cheap Trck's version of "In The Streets") and my all time favorite...... The Greatest American Hero ...... thank you Michael Moore for using this song so hilariously in Fahrenheit 911!! Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: I. Spaceman on January 26, 2006, 06:36:46 PM To be a little deja-vu (bringin' in two other threads), how about This Wheel's On Fire, from Absolutely Fabulous?
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: no on January 26, 2006, 06:37:08 PM Saved By The Bell: The College Years. The "today, today, today" bit does it for me.
But, seriously... The State Green Acres Swat Kats M*A*S*H Gigantor (Helmet's version, anyways) The Banana Splits (dreadful, but...) Adventures of Pete & Pete (so many memories of this one) Ren & Stimpy Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: no on January 26, 2006, 06:39:00 PM Ren and Stimpy The Adventures of Pete and Pete You beat me to it. I love these two, too. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Aegir on January 26, 2006, 06:40:15 PM I don't even remember the Pete and Pete theme song.
The Are You Afraid of the Dark? one is just chilling, though. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Chris D. on January 26, 2006, 06:40:52 PM Ren and Stimpy The Adventures of Pete and Pete You beat me to it. I love these two, too. Those are really great. Almost all of the Pete music was great. How can you not remember "Hey Sandy," Aegir? I forgot The Kids in the Hall. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: no on January 26, 2006, 06:43:11 PM The theme forHey Dude sucked, but it might be my favorite.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Chris D. on January 26, 2006, 06:45:29 PM The theme forHey Dude sucked, but it might be my favorite. Dude, just watch out for that killer cacti. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Aegir on January 26, 2006, 06:47:46 PM I can even remember full episodes of Pete and Pete.
I don't understand why the theme song has completely left my head. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: no on January 26, 2006, 06:55:30 PM Seasons 1 & 2 are available on DVD and great, as were nearly all programs from the golden age of Nick.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Chris D. on January 26, 2006, 06:58:34 PM Seasons 1 & 2 are available on DVD and great, as were nearly all programs from the golden age of Nick. They just cancelled season 3, though. And aside from Clarissa Explains It All, what are other old Nick shows are on DVD? Last time I checked there were none. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: no on January 26, 2006, 07:05:40 PM No Season 3? Poor sales?
I don't know of any other Nick shows on DVD, though there probably won't be anymore, seeing that Pete is probably one of the more requested titles and the sales are apparently still very low. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Sheriff John Stone on January 26, 2006, 07:06:16 PM "And Your Bird Can Sing" from The Beatles' cartoons and those songs at the beginning of The Three Stooges shorts...
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Chris D. on January 26, 2006, 07:08:14 PM No Season 3? Poor sales? I don't know of any other Nick shows on DVD, though there probably won't be anymore, seeing that Pete is probably one of the more requested titles and the sales are apparently still very low. I thought you were saying nearly all old Nick shows were on DVD. Paramount hasn't said why season 3 was cancelled. It was supposed to come out next month, I think. And I think their website still lists it, though that's apparently a mistake. Maybe it has something to do with an extra or some rights issue. If the sets sold poorly it's because Paramount did sh*t to get them out there. You can find both sets at Best Buy now, but when the first one came out it wasn't even in their system. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: no on January 26, 2006, 07:14:08 PM Paramount is horrible. And the Best Buy in my neck of the woods did not receive Pete Season 1 until late August. These sets were cursed.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: monkee knutz on January 26, 2006, 07:17:11 PM The Jeffersons (written by Jeff Barry) cracks me up for some reason. Maude, too.
To me, Mike Post's TV show themes were typically interesting. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Jeff Mason on January 26, 2006, 07:28:14 PM When I was five or so, I got my mom to get me the Rockford Files theme on a single. For some reason I loved that music.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Chance on January 26, 2006, 07:35:09 PM The Rockford Files was a hit single, I remember that, so was the theme from SWAT.
I love me some Pink Panther theme, which we can cite here since it was used in the TV cartoons, too. ;D I always liked the closing theme of the Monkees, "For Pete's Sake," tons better than the opening. Love Mick's vocal. Welcome Back, Kotter The Odd Couple Star Trek Dark Shadows Hill Street Blues Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Chris D. on January 26, 2006, 07:35:55 PM Paramount is horrible. And the Best Buy in my neck of the woods did not receive Pete Season 1 until late August. These sets were cursed. Exactly. Once 2 came out. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Don't Back Down on January 26, 2006, 07:47:40 PM Some of my favorites:
The Pink Panther Green Acres Andy Griffeth Seinfeld Everybody Loves Raymond (gotta love the keyboard) Peter Gunn Theme Batman: The Animated Series (the first series) Family Guy (the instrumental version during the end credits) oh there's others I just can't think of any at the moment Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: monkee knutz on January 26, 2006, 07:51:26 PM Green Hornet & Green Acres... Basically green themes.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Chris D. on January 26, 2006, 07:52:57 PM Green Acres rules.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Chance on January 26, 2006, 07:57:26 PM Oh, I forgot the Honeymooners, always loved that. What's it called, does anyone know? It must be on one of Gleason's albums.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Sheriff John Stone on January 26, 2006, 07:58:00 PM Some of my favorites: Batman: The Animated Series (the first series) Some Batman trivia... Guess who played drums on that great background music on the Batman series? Yes, Mr. Hal Blaine! Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: monkee knutz on January 26, 2006, 08:02:17 PM Munsters. Gonna get 'em one at a time as I clean house & think of 'em!
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Don't Back Down on January 26, 2006, 08:11:44 PM Some of my favorites: Batman: The Animated Series (the first series) Some Batman trivia... Guess who played drums on that great background music on the Batman series? Yes, Mr. Hal Blaine! that's freaking awesome! Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: LaurieBiagini on January 26, 2006, 08:15:20 PM Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley WKRP in Cincinnatti Barney Miller (cool bass) Beverly Hillbillies The Wonder Years The Facts of Life (the very first version) Land of the Lost The Bugaloos Friends (I loved this one at first, but then it got overplayed and I got sick of it) Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Swamp Pirate on January 26, 2006, 08:16:54 PM When Things Were Rotten- obscure 70's sitcom.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Lester Byrd on January 26, 2006, 08:19:01 PM The Courtship of Eddie's Father
"Love is All Around" from the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Written by Cricket Sonny Curtis, who also wrote "I Fought The Law." "Those Were The Days" from All in the Family. Spider-Man! (From the Bakshi cartoon series). Am I dating myself sufficiently? ;) Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Lester Byrd on January 26, 2006, 08:20:49 PM When Things Were Rotten- obscure 70's sitcom. Damn, great call! And when is that coming out on DVD? Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: monkee knutz on January 26, 2006, 08:23:28 PM The Courtship of Eddie's Father YES! Nilsson!Quote "Love is All Around" from the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Written by Cricket Sonny Curtis COOL! Didn't know that! Quote Spider-Man! (From the Bakshi cartoon series). I love Jewish superheroes! Irving Spiderman? :)Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: no on January 26, 2006, 08:57:58 PM One I forgot: The Young Ones.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: monkee knutz on January 26, 2006, 09:37:52 PM all TV themes written by Alan Thicke!
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: halleluwah on January 26, 2006, 10:15:15 PM I love all the 70s blaxploitation-R&B derived cop show themes: SWAT, Starskey and Hutch, Baretta, etc. And the Barney Miller theme has an absolute badass bassline. Whenever I'm setting up for a gig and soundchecking my bass, I always end up playing that one eventually.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: mike thornton on January 26, 2006, 10:54:08 PM logan's run, mission impossible '88, and the munsters.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Bubba Ho-Tep on January 27, 2006, 05:46:53 AM Barney Miller. BOOO-YAAAA!!!
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Mitchell on January 27, 2006, 06:01:05 AM Get Smart
Spider-Man He-Man C.O.P.S. Saved By the Bell Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: punkinhead on January 27, 2006, 06:26:45 AM hogan's heroes
dallas muppet show greatest american hero petticoat junction st. elsewhere hill street blues flip wilson Show who's the boss? love boat CHiPs dukes of hazzard 90210 Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Sir Rob on January 27, 2006, 07:05:54 AM My favourite TV theme tune is the song used over the credits of the 1970s BBC sitcom 'Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?' 'Oh, what happened to you/Whatever happened to me?/And what became of the people we used to be?/ Tomorrow's almost over,/ Today went by so fast,/ Is the only thing to look forward to - the past?' It was written by Mike Hugg of Manfred Mann fame and perfectly captured the mood of the programme - two close youngish male friends who remain more attached to each other and their shared childhood and youth than the lives of mundane adult conformity that seem mapped out before them. With the passage of time the song sounds like an elegy for the folk memory of the 1970s and the programme itself.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: andrew k on January 27, 2006, 07:55:13 AM maybe i missed it reading though, but you are all missing Life Goes On - obla di. This has to be the only time a beatles song was liscenced as a theme song, right? i cant remeber though, i know there might have been addtional signing added, or was it an entirely new version?... didnt watch the show much and wasnt a big beatles fan.
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: donald on January 27, 2006, 08:03:45 AM Twilight Zone; this one is now in the collective unconcious for the weird or spooky
Bonanza Mr Rogers Neighborhood Taxi Tonight Show Theme (by Paul Anka) The Patty Duke Show Munsters Gilligans Isle Mr. Ed Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: richardsnow on January 27, 2006, 08:18:10 AM How about the "Crossroads" theme.
I gues only UK people have seen the show but you all know the music from MACCA's version on Venus and Mars. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: monkee knutz on January 27, 2006, 09:33:14 AM My brother bought the 45 for The Fall Guy theme!
Too bad that terrible show isn't in syndication. I was in love with Heather Thomas... so were 1,000,000 other people. She wanted me, though. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Noble Surfer on January 29, 2006, 10:19:20 AM Knight Rider (thought I fascinated my school band teacher by playing this on the piano :D)
Cops Theme Dallas(well, I like it cause Im from Dallas ;D) Gilligan's Island(I have to sing along every time) The X-Files Married With Children James Bond Theme King of The Hill Scooby Doo CHiPS Pink Panther Dukes of Hazzard Star Trek TNG and Star Trek movie Theme Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(I know I know, but I love it ;D) Batman movie and animated series themes Adams Family Wonder Years(gotta love Joe Cocker's version of this song) Muppet Show Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: forgetemarie on January 29, 2006, 04:22:38 PM Rockford Files
Hawaii Five-O Streets of San Francisco Mannix Mystery Movie Theme McCloud Miami Vice Man From UNCLE Secret Agent Man (American theme w/Johnny Rivers) The Prisoner Dick Van Dyke Show Andy Griffith Show Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: monkee knutz on January 29, 2006, 08:08:04 PM In a 70's trucker-kinda way-- the Merle Haggard tune from the TV show of the same name: Movin' On.
"10-4 good buddy, and we'll catch you on the flipside. I'm 10-10 on the side." Also: Lost In Space- 2nd season Twilight Zone Addams Family Nanny and the Professor Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: I. Spaceman on January 29, 2006, 08:08:40 PM Claude Akins OWNS!
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 08:17:19 PM Welcome Back Cotter
Happy Days Smallville (what can I say I am a geek) Twilight Zone Cops Simpsons Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: monkee knutz on January 29, 2006, 09:51:01 PM Claude Akins OWNS! You know it! :DTitle: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: sugarandspice on January 30, 2006, 04:25:44 PM Scooby Doo
Batman (animated) Flintsones xoxo suga Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: sugarandspice on January 30, 2006, 05:40:09 PM In West Philadelpiha born and raised on the playground is where I spend most of my days...( I love you fresh prince.)
Jem Sesame Street xoxo suga oh yeah x-men is awesome too.. both eveloution and the one from my hay day.... Gotta love the odd couple as well... I Love Lucy Unsolved Mysteries Mash Family Guy Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: cabinessence on January 30, 2006, 09:42:17 PM Perry Mason's theme is maybe my absolute favorite. It swaggers suavely like Raymond Burr in the courtroom (back before he was fat and Ironside. I like his theme too.)
If it has to be a 'song' for the thread , put Ozzy Osbourne's 'Perry Mason' lyrics on top: different song but same 'theme' One more pure musical one. Ennio Morricone's "Men from Shiloh Theme" for the last radically retooled (enter Stewart Granger and Lee Majors) set of episodes for The Virginian has to be the coolest: The Only spaghetti western music ever for an American television horse opera , and written by the maestro himself! This rocks. Also, Dallas, the National Geographic Theme, The Prisoner, The Munsters, the "we gotta be free" tag at the end of The Monkees. Here's more of the rest, heavy on early childhood headbanging music Mighty Hercules (sung by Johnny Nash) Astro Boy ("Everything is GO!") Speed Racer Beany & Cecil (I love how the animator plugged himself every seven minutes: "A Bob Clam-pett Cartuuune!" Worth noting that the music and songs within the shows were always way above average: from bongo abstract expressionist jazz through coffee house folk trio ballads to that great tin pan alley rock and roll number "Rag Mop") Beverly Hillbillies Big World of Little Adam It's About Time (It's About Space) I also liked how Soupy Sales' competitors Sandy Becker and Chuck McCann in New York did tons of hip 'music videos' in the Ernie Kovacs style to trip out the kids and amuse-dismay the elders, like Sandy's chromakeyed interpretation of "Mister Bass Man" (Sandy in Sgt. Pepper uniform with a baton and cokebottle glasses leaping about against psychedelic backdrops ), and especially Chuck's truly amazing take on "Flowers on the Wall" by The Statler Brothers. It featured Chuck from the neck down in grotty underclothes ,feet up on a coffee table filled with solitaire cards spilling everywhere, empty beer bottles, and an overflowing ashtray, chain smoking and watching TV to go with the lyrics: "Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo, nothin' better to do ", and sure enough Chuck was also featured on the tube playing the Captain himself, making incredibly inane (on target) small talk with "Mister Bunny Rabbit"! (BTW 'Captain Kangaroo' in context meant you'd stayed up all night staring at the tube past the 'Late Movie' until slightly past dawn, adult dark night of the soul melodramas melting into second childhood with gentle kiddy hosts waiting to take you away, ah ha! The original tune, I must say, is the most insightful sixties commentary on depressive-addictive TV Watching patterns ever writ, and McCann (an undersung genius who played an all night movie Projectionist in a cult film of that name and era) totally got its point and translated it into video! Brian Wislon would probably understand and agree.) Is this only archived in my head? Were the tapes wiped? I hope not. I'd sacrifice the other takes of Helter Skelter just to see and hear this again! EDIT: R.I.P. Nam June Paik, dead a couple days ago. He wasn't 'musical' or on TV exactly but he invented the idea of TV Music Video if anybody did (him, Ernie Kovacs, Sandy Becker and Chuck McCann, anyhow), a name everyone invoked when MTV was still young: (http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/assets/img/data/1812/bild.jpg) Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: I. Spaceman on January 31, 2006, 09:48:57 AM (http://images.art.com/images/-/Lynda-Carter---Wonder-Woman--C10102422.jpeg)
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: king of anglia on January 31, 2006, 10:02:57 AM QUANTUM LEAP
Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: henrymoon on January 31, 2006, 11:37:21 AM To me, Mike Post's TV show themes were typically interesting. Anyone remember The Greatest American Hero? For this side of the Atlantic, The Sweeney was The Business... Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: Evenreven on February 02, 2006, 08:42:05 AM EDIT: R.I.P. Nam June Paik, dead a couple days ago. He wasn't 'musical' or on TV exactly but he invented the idea of TV Music Video if anybody did (him, Ernie Kovacs, Sandy Becker and Chuck McCann, anyhow), a name everyone invoked when MTV was still young: I hadn't noticed this. Thanks for posting. (http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/assets/img/data/1812/bild.jpg) R.I.P. Nam June Paik, you will be missed. Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: mark goddard on February 03, 2006, 11:45:05 AM Angela's theme by Bob james for the show Taxi
also Barney Miller Title: Re: TV Theme Songs Post by: psychedelia on March 05, 2006, 06:09:13 AM Don't know if it has been mentioned but, Best Friend by Harry Nilsson is great!
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