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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

Posted on 01/24/2024 4:42:39 AM PST by vespa300

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KEYWORDS: americansportsman; themesong
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To: vespa300

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.


41 posted on 01/24/2024 6:12:43 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: vespa300

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


42 posted on 01/24/2024 6:18:51 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: vespa300
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,

43 posted on 01/24/2024 6:22:03 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: vespa300

Same here.


44 posted on 01/24/2024 6:33:15 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: dfwgator

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


45 posted on 01/24/2024 6:33:58 AM PST by vespa300
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To: alexander_busek

To each his own


46 posted on 01/24/2024 6:34:26 AM PST by vespa300
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To: vespa300

Actually it was CBS for tennis not ABC.


47 posted on 01/24/2024 6:35:17 AM PST by vespa300
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To: Fresh Wind

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


48 posted on 01/24/2024 6:36:38 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fresh Wind

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.


49 posted on 01/24/2024 6:37:11 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: vespa300
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.

50 posted on 01/24/2024 6:38:20 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: vespa300

Theme for Highway Patrol, with Broderick Crawford.

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


51 posted on 01/24/2024 6:38:33 AM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: dfwgator

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


52 posted on 01/24/2024 6:38:52 AM PST by vespa300
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To: nuconvert
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)

53 posted on 01/24/2024 6:44:38 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

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


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


54 posted on 01/24/2024 6:46:08 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 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


55 posted on 01/24/2024 6:46:26 AM PST by vespa300
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To: FLT-bird
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."

56 posted on 01/24/2024 6:46:50 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: vespa300

Was always partial to the How The West Was Won theme

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


57 posted on 01/24/2024 6:46:56 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: vespa300

The Rawhide song is my favorite.


58 posted on 01/24/2024 6:56:02 AM PST by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

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


59 posted on 01/24/2024 6:57:53 AM PST by heylady
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To: vespa300

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


60 posted on 01/24/2024 7:07:35 AM PST by drwoof
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