Posted on 07/15/2023 1:13:23 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Gilligan's Island (1963–1967)
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that I can remember most of the pre 1970 themes but cannot find my house keys 🤗.
Wow, hats off to whoever did the graphics for that.
Is there 100 great TV Shows. Maybe in the 70 years of Television?
Anyhow..
What’s My Line?
Get Smart
All In the Family
Sanford and Son.
Good Times. Shuck’n and a jiv’n.
On Friday night you wanted to be sitting in front of the tv early just to hear “Dallas”
They left off
Route 66 (Nelson Riddle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nbRoyJXSfQ
NBC Mystery Movie (Henry Mancini)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbCg5ZFxgDM
Amazing Stories (John Williams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVCYanmEKKE
(an a musical nod to Vaughan Williams’ The Wasps)
Jonny Quest
Beverly Hillbilly’s
Green Acres
Petticoat Junction
Bat Man
SUper Man
The Muppets
Ooops....
The Beverly Hillbillies
Twilight Zone
Science Fiction Theater
I think Mancini did the theme for the Newhart Show? also should be included.
A good theme songs are great devices. They set up a show and give you a feel for what may be coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svbjS7YZ7sc
The original "Jonny Quest" theme song was by Hoyt Curtin. Said to have been written to be impossible for the trombonists to play it correctly.
ROTFL.....Its Howdy Doody Time.
Hill Street Blues
Ditto!
The Greatest American Hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzfockTg57g
Peter Gunn theme was Mancini who was a friend of Blake Edwards, the producer.
No Peter Gunn?!?
I first heard the Crash Test Dummies singing the intro theme for a Canadian themed series (True North?) anyway I can find the words:
Winter Song
Winter Song
I can’t say that I miss my old dog much
And I’ve never looked back since I left home long ago
But I hoped a trip into the country
Would help remind me all the things I used to know
That’s what I came for
That’s what I hoped for
There once was good blood in the breeze here
We rode across the lake each new year
What have I remembered
What did this used to be
The ice, it used to shine upon our river
It was a mirror that the cold dark water ran way deep beneath
And here were many years of winter drownings
I kept track of these things as they were told to me
And that’s what I came for
That’s what I hoped for
There once was good blood in the breeze here
We rode across the lake each new year
What have I remembered
What did this used to be
The changes of the year were once a blessing
Well this year they’re the seasons of my discontent
But I cannot rewrite my old diaries
I can only recall all the things that came & went
And that’s what I came for
That’s what I hoped for
There once was good blood in the breeze here
We rode across the lake each new year
What have I remembered
What did this used to be
(2x)
You don’t get it when you buy the album on Apple but here it is on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqM1TUfOfmU
-PJ
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