Posted on 01/26/2013 11:15:54 PM PST by Mike Darancette
No Politics here.
What were the best music score for a TV Show/Series?
I'll go first
Victory at Sea Cosmos The Civil War Memphis Beat
Captain Scarlet! With and without lyrics (without is better...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7VVJC6H89s
Rawhide
The High Chapparal
Rawhide for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHr4ubuD64
That was fun. Thanks! Loved the older shows. They got a little strange as the cast got older.
My favourite time of the Andy Griffith Show was the black and white Barney Fife days. After that, not so much.
Loved to watch Opie picking up that fish, wiping it off and sticking it in his pocket!
The Darlins were always a pleasure to watch on that show. That song is lovely.
Wow. Reminds me of the good, old, US of A before all the crap-ola. Of course, I was just a kid then....
Mission Impossible
Miami Vice
Mr. Lucky
St. Elsewhere
I have two CDs entitled Crime Jazz that may still be available. Really great stuff being composed for TV cop shows in the 1950-1970 period.
RawHIDE!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHr4ubuD64
Heard there was an ongoing fued between Andy Griffith and Francis Bavier. (Aunt Bea) Not sure how true that was.
Still... Seems like every small town has an Aunt Bea. we have one in the small town where I teach.
The Love Boat
Absolutely “Victory At Sea”.
Written by Richard Rodgers of Broadway fame.
My Dad, a WW2 Navy Veteran had the LP and played it all the time.
It was the only “Soundtrack” from a TV show he had in his vast Classical Music Collection.
As soon as you mentioned it, the music popped into my head from 55 YEARS ago!
The Brady Bunch theme does exactly what it sets out to do, and 40 years later, EVERYBODY knows it, even those who didn’t like the show.
Same could also be said for The Beverly Hillbillies.
No one mentioned Get Smart?! Rated #2 all time by TV Guide.
As a kid, I loved the short lived Logan’s Run theme, complete with Blaster Gun sound effects.
British Danger Man theme (”Highwire”), but also American “Secret Agent Man”.
I would also put in a plug for Crime Story featuring the great Del Shannon.
For obscurities, I would go with The Practice with Danny Thomas (Season 1) and Grady.
I repeat recommendations for Peter Gunn, The Prisoner, Perry Mason (love the piano playing behind those soaring horns), Rocky and Bullwinkle shows (Bullwinkle version). Spiderman theme also should get cartoon recognition.
Nothing wrong with The Munsters theme, either.
Not an American television show, but the theme to All Creatures Great and Small (based on the wonderful books by James Herriott) was fun.
Interesting how most of the shows mentioned are for shows 40 years or older...! My sister and I were talking about this the other day — it simply CAN’T be that long ago that those things were on, CAN IT? Wow.
And while we’re talking...how about The Mary Tyler Moore show?
Oh, hey! Here’s one that goes back...The Jackie Gleason Show.
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