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Sep 15, 2022 · 20th Television. There are a few amazing, iconic, and pretty long traditional theme songs that have been created in the last couple of decades. To name a few: "The Ballad of Serenity" from Firefly ...
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Apr 21, 2021 · Licensing issues have gutted the soundtracks of many beloved series on streaming services, resulting in bewildering music cues and missing theme songs. Share full article. “Dawson’s...
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt "Unbreakable"
- The Partridge Family "C'mon Get Happy"
- Batman "Batman Theme"
- The Love Boat "Love Boat"
- Rawhide "Rawhide"
- Welcome Back, Kotter "Welcome Back"
- Phineas and Ferb “Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day”
- The Jeffersons "Movin' on Up"
- Hannah Montana "The Best of Both Worlds"
- The Brady Bunch "The Brady Bunch"
Once upon a time, a group of musicians called the Gregory Brothers (consisting of three brothers and one of their wives) thought it would be funny to use Auto-Tune on random news clips, turning interview subjects into singers. They added some green screen footage of themselves, played around a bit, then put some of the videos on YouTube. Good choic...
Come on now and meet everybody / and hear us singin' / Nothing better than being together / when we're singin' Sound familiar? Not so much, probably. Here's the one everybody recognizes: Hello, world, here's a song that we're singin' / C'mon get happy / A whole lotta lovin' is what we'll be bringin' / We'll make you happy We had a dream we'd go tra...
"Word and music by Neil Hefti." That was the description of the theme song by one of the eight singers who recorded it for the 1960s cult TV series Batman, since it featured only one single word, "Batman." Of course that's if you don't count "na na na na na na na na ... " as words, which technically, they are not. It took Hefti, a former head of A&...
Who doesn't remember the oh-so croon-y theme song to The Love Boat? It promised its weekly guests adventure, romance, and most of all, love, for everybody who boarded the Pacific Princess. Critics hated the show with a passion, but the ratings soared. Composer Charles Fox had created dozens of TV and movie themes, as well as the Grammy-winning “Kil...
This is the oldest song on our list, and we might not have included it at all were it not for its 1980 resurrection by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Rawhide, a show about a group of cattle drivers in the 1860s, premiered in 1959, and ran for eight seasons. Today, it's best known as the show that launched Clint Eastwood's career. The theme song was ...
Back in the 1970s, producer Alan Sacks was looking for a theme song for a new show called Kotter, starring Gabe Kaplan, about a guy who returned to his neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, to teach the type of slacker high school kid that he once used to be. The show would launch the career of John Travolta, and create a new set of high school arche...
You don't need to be a kid to appreciate the joys of Phineas and Ferb. Every week brought inventive stories, unforgettable characters, running jokes with taglines that never got old, and a steady stream of catchy songs. The theme song was performed by Bowling For Soup, who also co-wrote it. The show's creators, Dan Povenmire and Swampy Marsh, were ...
The Jeffersons was a spinoff of All In The Family, and took George and Louise Jefferson out of the Bunkers' Queens neighborhood and on to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, thanks to George's success as a businessman. The theme song, "Movin' On Up," reflected the joy of the move with an infectious beat and a sense of celebration. It was written by J...
Before she twerked, before she rode a wrecking ball naked, before she smoked pot on stage at an awards show, Miley Cyrus was a sweet 13 year-old starring in a smash TV series called Hannah Montana. She auditioned to play one of Hannah's friends, but was asked to try out for the lead, then told she was too young for the part. But when the producers ...
Written by show creator Sherwood Schwartz and veteran composer/arranger (and actor) Frank De Vol, the theme for The Brady Bunchwas originally sung by a slightly obscure band called The Peppermint Trolley Company. By season two of the show, the producers got smart and decided they'd be better off having the actual cast sing the song. (Interestingly,...
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Jan 23, 2008 · January 23, 200812:54 PM ET. From. By. WNYC Soundcheck. Listen. Sit right back and you'll hear the tale — of the long-lost television-show theme song. If you're a TV viewer of a certain age,...
As time has gotten lost due to advertising encroachment, theme songs have gotten shorter and shorter until they started to disappear. Shows would rather not lose any more time from the proper show. You'll notice that none of the shows you named with longer themes are on ad-supported television.
Mar 30, 2017 · Go to YouTube and look up an old theme song you love. Try and stop yourself from looking at another one. Few pop cultural artifacts have quite the lasting permanence TV theme songs do.
Aug 12, 2021 · 3. B ack in the Golden Age of Television (otherwise known as my youth) many of the sitcoms I watched kicked off with a jaunty theme song that told you everything you need to know about the show ...
