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Sep 26, 2019 · MGM Television via YouTube. The TV show Fame borrowed its theme song, as well as its name, from the original 1980 movie.By the time the show aired in 1982, the song was already a huge hit—it earned an Academy Award for Best Original Song the year prior—and the lyrics captured the aspirational theme of the series, which continued to follow the students at the fictional New York City High ...
Jul 1, 2020 · 227 (1985) Photo : Courtesy of NBC. “There’s No Place Like Home” was written by Ray Colcord and performed by 227 ‘s own Marla Gibbs. A multi-hyphenate with a career in music and TV that ...
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Serial TV theme composer Mike Post wrote this banger. And it's as amazing as Tom Selleck's impressive collection of short shorts.
You need something as insanely bombastic and bonkers as this tune for a show that featured Dirk Benedict and Mr T constantly on the run. Also, it's that man Mike Post again – what a legend.
Dudes, this tune is still totally bodacious AND rad after nearly 30 years. Catchy, rocking and it explains all four of the turtles' skills in a very short space of time. Though, we feel sorry that Michelangelo is limited to just being a 'party dude'.
A theme tune so good from Al Jarreau, that it became a hit single in its own right. Plus, it was produced by none other than Nile Rodgers and won two Grammy Awards.
OK, technically this began in 1978, but the version of the theme tune that we all know and love came in later, so we're counting it! It doesn't get much more 1980s nor spell out AMERICAN SOAP! than this right here. And all the 'slappadabass' action you can get.
Writer John Sullivan pulled off the amazing feat of creating not one, but TWO amazing theme tunes for the SAME SHOW. The intro has the Chas & Dave-style "na na na naa naa", while the outro has 'Hookey Street'. Both excellent in their own way. And sadly it's not Nicholas Lyndhurst singing, it's Sullivan himself.
This sunny show's second season brought in Survivor's Jimi Jamison to provide an epic power ballad that summed up the era perfectly, and still floods cheese night dance floors to this day. The first series made do with the less than thrilling 'Above The Waterline' by Kim Carnes.
This tune has it all. Crazily catchy, it sounds like the Hall & Oates hit we never had. It also has clever puns, amazing '80s power ballad vocals, saxophones AND a key change. Ooh-woo-woo!
Yep, our top five theme tunes of all time really do contain two shows starring David Hasselhoff. This is one of the best electro songsof all time, let alone theme tunes. Incredible.
It's one of those intros that will never get boring and you will always sing along. Gary Portnoy's theme tune has a strangely poignant quality to it, and we're still trying to find a pub where everybody knows our name. And preferably shouts it "Norm!" style whenever we arrive.
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- UB40 - 'Red Red Wine' UB40 - Red Red Wine (Official Video) You might not have realised it, but Neil Diamond first recorded this song back in 1967. UB40 feud: Reggae band's complicated history and why the Campbell brothers fell out.
- Phil Collins - 'Another Day in Paradise' Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise (Official Music Video) This ballad saw Phil Collins sing the tune from a third-person perspective, looking at a man crossing the street to ignore a homeless woman, imploring listeners not to turn a blind eye to those in need.
- Culture Club - 'Karma Chameleon' Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (Official Music Video) This was the song that made Boy George an even bigger star around the world.
- Rick Astley - 'Never Gonna Give You Up' Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video) If there's one song from the Stock, Aitken and Waterman era that has stood the test of time, it's Rick Astley's international number one smash.
- “Reading Rainbow Song” (Reading Rainbow) “Butterfly in the sky. I can go twice as high.” These lyrics sung by Tina Fabrique opened each episode of Reading Rainbow, which debuted on PBS in 1983.
- “Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now” (Perfect Strangers) In the late 1980s, ABC debuted its TGIF lineup of sitcoms that became so popular in the decade that followed.
- “As Long As We Got Each Other” (Growing Pains) Family sitcoms were the source of so many of the most-loved theme songs in the 1980s, and the Growing Pains theme was one of the best of the decade.
- "Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)" (The Greatest American Hero) This is a case where the theme song is more famous than the show it is associated with.
Apr 20, 2020 · 7. Diff’rent Strokes. The theme song for Diff’rent Strokes has one of the most iconic TV theme songs of not just the 80s – but of all time. Simply entitled “It Takes Diff’rent Strokes,” this song was composed by none other than the great Alan Thicke.
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Dec 14, 2022 · The 1980s were something of a golden age for television theme songs. In decades prior, the theme music was either a pleasant melody that played over the opening credits (such as I Love Lucy and ...
