Vanity: Greatest beautiful even majestic TV theme song ever. Finally found. The original American Sportsman Theme Song. Circa 1960. High Quality

Youtube ^ | 1960s | ABC Unknown

[FLT-bird]

Here’s one I’m really going to miss starting next season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSLU1JX3vHc

I wish the conference had bought the theme song and kept it.

[dfwgator]

I loved it when CBS Sports Spectacular used ELO’s “Fire On High”, then they used ELP’s “Fanfare For The Common Man”.

[alexander_busek]

Sounds like it was recorded live, in a sleezy nightclub. Lyrics are schmalzy. Visuals would better fit a cigarette commercial.

Give me some of that "thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat!"

Regards,

[wally_bert]

Same here.

[vespa300]

Yep, where I grew up it was Sunday Nights. Wrapup the weekend sports. Tennis had some good themes too. ABC played this for tennis many times as a theme. It was during disco but it worked for me. And the CBS had that classic voice for intros...I think his name was John Robertson......he would go........”Live from the Boca Rotund tennis complex.....CBS sports presents the Lipton Tennis Finals”...and this song would play in the background:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqKYl8aEwwI

[vespa300]

To each his own

[vespa300]

Actually it was CBS for tennis not ABC.

[dfwgator]

The World At War theme was the best, so haunting.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

LOVED this album as a kid! I consider this to be the modern day “Planets Suite” by Holst. Victory At Sea very likely influenced John Williams’ JAWS.

[Fiji Hill]

These are my favorite TV theme songs:

1. Avant de Quitter Ces Lieux (when I quit these Parts)--from "Lassie"

2. If I Could Tell You/In My Garden--from "The Voice of Firestone"

3. Theme for "The Twentieth Century," a CBS News documentary program that began in the late 1950s. In '60s the arrangement was changed and didn't sound as good.

[Scrambler Bob]

Theme for Highway Patrol, with Broderick Crawford.

Tour of Duty used to use Paint it Black. But re-runs use some bland garbage.

[vespa300]

CBS used to have good bumper music during NFL games. Like when a time out was called or end of the quarter and the music would play........they played this one many times as they ended the quarter announced the score and said don’t go away....we’ll be right back...circa 70s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDdhzgoi-kI

[Alberta's Child]

For majestic -- and just fantastic by any measure -- TV theme music, it doesn't get any better than this:

'Gathering Crowds' (This Week in Baseball)

[dfwgator]

Tour of Duty used to use Paint it Black. But re-runs use some bland garbage.

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One of the reasons that WKRP in Cincinnati isn’t available for streaming is the music licensing issues.

[vespa300]

And of course the NBC Mystery Movie Theme from 1971. Columbo, McMillan and wife, etc.

Good theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VI9mUyG_f0

[Fiji Hill]

White Southerners not being portrayed as hateful, stupid, backwards, etc. We just can’t have that!!!!

Now even Nikki Haley is telling stories about how she and her family were teased and pestered by stupid backward white bigots in her "small Southern town."

[RckyRaCoCo]

Was always partial to the How The West Was Won theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfXYndNky6k&t=274s

[IAGeezer912]

The Rawhide song is my favorite.

[heylady]

Phil Harris, Ernest Borgnine and Jimmy Dean (as in Jimmy Dean’s pork sausage) The first guy could be Ed Ames but not sure

[drwoof]

Thanks for posting this. Reminds me that yes, there was in fact a world that I understood somewhere back in the misty past.