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juwndrgcy sirnvcz — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:34 -0000

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Connie — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:04:39 -0000

Forgive me if it's been covered and I've overlooked it somehow, but is it possible to have a conversation about TV show theme songs and not mention the theme to the Brady Bunch?

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blue girl — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:22:01 -0000

I'm going to try to record me singing that theme song and post it on my blog so that I can get help figuring out what it is. This new Mac I've got is supposed to do everything! We'll see if I can record something.

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OutOfContext — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:07:17 -0000

Oh, I forgot The Newlywed Game. That was a good one.

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brushabrusha — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:59:46 -0000

Give me a little more to work with blue girl! Sha Na Na? Remember that one?

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OutOfContext — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:47:50 -0000

blue girl, for some reason I guessed Match Game when I read your tone-less da-na-na-nas, but after listening to it, that can't be right.
I'm hard pressed to think of any other game show themes.

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blue girl — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:57:18 -0000

Hey brusha brusha! I actually meant to add Love American Style and forgot. And I've had a theme song running through my mind since I wrote this that I cannot place. I SWEAR it was The Dating Game, but the youtube videos prove me wrong.

It goes like this...

da-na-na-na (downbeats)
DA-DA-DA-DA (more dramatic)
da-na-na-na
DA-DA-DA-DA

:)

I wish I could figure it out. It's been driving me nuts!

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brushabrusha — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:51:20 -0000

Has anyone mentioned
"Love, American Style"?
LOVE Courtship of Eddies Father! A favorite for sure!

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sean — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:21:01 -0000

When I was 7 yrs old I loved the Mannix theme, (Lalo Schifrin, like Misson Impossible), I also liked The Wild West, Mary Tyler Moore (kinda precious just like Mary herself), Dr. Who, Good Times. Do spoken word themes count like that annoying control voice on the Outer Limits? Or The Twilight Zone?
Last TV theme to get stuck in my head: Nerf Herder's taut, Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

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Jim Tourtelott — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:37:56 -0000

Among recent theme songs, I'm partial to "We Used to be Friends a Long Time Ago" from Veronica Mars, which I am sadly unlikely ever to hear broadcast again.

When I was a kid, I loved the theme from Perry Mason deeply.

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blue girl — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:31:33 -0000

Jennifer, I have no idea if I'm getting these lyrics right or not -- but, The Jetson's song morphs into Gilligan's Island every time I sing it.

Meet George Jetson!
His boy Elroy!
Jane, his wife!
The Movie Star
The Professor and Mary Ann!
Here on Gilligan's Isle!

LOL.

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Jennifer — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:49:04 -0000

I love them all, can't narrow them down, but I do believe The Jetsons must be added to the list.

The Green Hornet (Flight of the Bumblebee) just popped into my head. Wasn't that Al Hirt?

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blue girl — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:23:58 -0000

TRULY The Last Great Show.

I miss it to death.

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flem — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:09:07 -0000

OMG, that is so hilarious. I totally forgot how
funny it was!

I'm dyin' over here!

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blue girl — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:54:34 -0000

Laugh. Out. Loud.

Flem, click here.

Watch when he raises his shoulders and sways his head back and forth.

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flem — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:46:23 -0000

The Greatest American Hero is a fave for two reasons.
1) Its a catchy theme song
2) and more importantly, George Costanza used it (slightly bastardized) on his answering machine and kept letting the machine answer the phone over and over! I still laugh at that..."believe it or not, George isn't at home...!"

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OutOfContext — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:10:32 -0000

Yeah, Batman! Amazed that hasnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t come up yetÃ¢â‚¬Â¦. I would direct you to comment four...and this post from The World of Kane.

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billy pilgrim — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:49:55 -0000

The themes from "petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" too.

Both created by the master of the Porkarina, Vic Mizzy.

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Tom Watson — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:27:45 -0000

Here's a little bit of trivia I just found on the series of tubes:

The theme song, originally used in the 1968 Odd Couple movie, was composed by Neal Hefti, who also composed the theme for "Batman."

Yeah, Batman! Amazed that hasn't come up yet....

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blue girl — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:05:15 -0000

Dan Leo! It's what you get for Patty Duke! Hey, anytime you want to be driven crazy, just come see me.

TW, The Odd Couple. The show. Oh man. I forgot about that one. Knock one of those off my list above and add it.

I've always been a sucker for Neil Simon.

I should've written in my post. The theme songs were all great to me. Great audio cues. But, I also loved the visuals.

There might be another post there. Take it on, TW.

:)

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Tom Watson — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:20:06 -0000

The theme song I often hum walking around New York came from the movie, so I don't know if it counts.

Odd Couple

It sticks. The perfect NY walking hum.

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Dan Leo — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:31:31 -0000

Dearest Blue Girl,
Just want you to know that thanks to your delightful piece my own brain has been a non-stop jukebox from TV hell all day. (Most disturbing of all, the five-second vocal theme-snippet at the end of "Still Standing" keeps erupting from my vocal cords.) I want just to put on "Don Carlo" really really loud to try to drown out this infernal symphony but I'm waiting for a friend to come by and I don't want to miss her door-buzz. Thanks a lot, girlfrunga!

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Claire — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:09:31 -0000

Other great themes from mid-80s, early 90s cartoons:

Duck Tales
Animaniacs
Tiny Toons

These shows were great. Memories of Saturday afternoons are flooding back.

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Shayera — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:58:28 -0000

No Silver Spoons? No Facts of Life? "You take the good, you take the bad, you take them all and then you have the Facts of Life!"
I used to have wav files for lots of the early 80s themes in my early computing days.

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Brando — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:06:01 -0000

Claire, great call on Dr. Who.