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:
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