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And Your Choice for the Best TV Theme Song Ever Is... 'Gilligan's Island'!
Yahoo ^ | 4/12/13 | David Nemetz

Posted on 04/12/2013 8:55:50 AM PDT by MissTed

We started our Theme Song Thunderdome bracket with 32 of the greatest TV theme songs ever. You responded with more than 277,000 votes. And now that the dust has settled, Yahoo! TV users have officially selected one theme song as the best of all time: "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle," from "Gilligan's Island."

We admit it: We clearly misjudged this perennial favorite, saddling it with a lowly 12-seed in the bracket. But it proved us wrong by rolling through the tournament, knocking off heavy hitters like "Diff'rent Strokes," "The Addams Family," and "The Andy Griffith Show" on its way to the final round. And even going up against an all-timer like the "Cheers" theme song in the finals, "Gilligan" found a way to squeak out a narrow win, cementing its status as your favorite TV theme song ever.

The enduring legacy of "Gilligan's" jolly sea-shanty theme is, of course, its impossible-to-forget lyrics (we know, we've tried) that told the entire tale of the S.S. Minnow's ill-fated "three-hour tour" in a single minute. And that was Sherwood Schwartz's intention from the start. Schwartz not only created the series, but also co-wrote the theme song (along with composer George Wyle), which Schwartz crafted as a quick way to get new viewers caught up without having to waste time on exposition. Schwartz went on to repeat this approach with another beloved '60s TV classic: "The Brady Bunch."

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There's no way "Gilligan's Island" beats the "Theme from Peter Gunn".
1 posted on 04/12/2013 8:55:51 AM PDT by MissTed
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To: MissTed

Speed Racer?


2 posted on 04/12/2013 8:56:59 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: MissTed

... or “Secret Agent Man”


3 posted on 04/12/2013 8:57:29 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: MissTed

I was always kinda partial to “Room 222” song myself(Karen Valentine was a BABE!).


4 posted on 04/12/2013 8:57:59 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: MissTed
I have always enjoyed the theme from Barney Miller, or Sanford and Son. Although, they are instrumentals.
5 posted on 04/12/2013 8:58:01 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: MissTed

Come on! EVERYONE knows Gilligan’s Island. If you don’t, you’re probably a millenial.


6 posted on 04/12/2013 8:58:12 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: MissTed

Hogan’s Heroes.


7 posted on 04/12/2013 8:58:19 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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To: MissTed

O and I was(am) a “Mary Ann” kinda guy. Ginger didn’t do much for me.


8 posted on 04/12/2013 8:58:53 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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I would vote 12O'Clock High as the best instrumental theme for television.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubEuPhti-I

Followed by the third season of Wagon Train.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubEuPhti-I

9 posted on 04/12/2013 9:00:16 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubEuPhti-I


10 posted on 04/12/2013 9:00:45 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubEuPhti-I


11 posted on 04/12/2013 9:01:05 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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To: Flick Lives

or “Rawhide”


12 posted on 04/12/2013 9:01:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: MissTed

13 posted on 04/12/2013 9:01:58 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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I guess I will show my age and vote for the theme from Gunsmoke. I like the radio version over the TV version.


14 posted on 04/12/2013 9:03:20 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: MissTed
Amen to that.

The Peter Gunn theme like the show was groundbreaking stuff.
At age 17 or so, the jazzy theme and Edie were what dreams were made of.

15 posted on 04/12/2013 9:04:45 AM PDT by Tupelo (Old, Bald, Ugly, Fat and Broke in Arizona)
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To: mware

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkAk_JCe9XQ


16 posted on 04/12/2013 9:04:48 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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By the way notice who the guest star was on Wagon Train that episode.


17 posted on 04/12/2013 9:06:33 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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To: MissTed

“Long Hard Road to Come” from Justified.


18 posted on 04/12/2013 9:06:48 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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I don’t dance. I am not a dancer. You hear that. I don’t dance.

But every time the theme for King of the Hill plays, my foot starts tapping and I have absolutely no control over it.


19 posted on 04/12/2013 9:07:08 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!!)
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To: MissTed

The theme from Growing Pains.


20 posted on 04/12/2013 9:07:23 AM PDT by Oratam
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