Jennifer or Bailey.
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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Sure! those are from my youth.”don’t do the crime if you can do the time, yea, don’t do it”
Five-0 intro: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ9xfNn09eQ&feature=related
01. The Mickey Mouse Club March(circa 1955, I can STILL remember all the words!)
02. YES! The Peter Gunn theme is OUTSTANDING..one of the best ever.
03. The Perry Mason theme..soo good, still can hum it to this day..
04. The Theme from ALIAS..really really good.
05. The BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER theme..by the Nerfherders.. heh.. what can I say..Sarah Michelle Gellar..’nough said.
Jennifer or Bailey.
Mission Impossible or Hawaii Five-o. Peter Gunn was great, too.
No lyrics hurts, I guess.
Dragnet
Gilligan’s Island was lifted from an older song called “What shall we do with a drunken sailor?”
Here is one more to add, Theme from The Waltons.
"N-E-S-T-L-E-S. Nestles makes the very best...."
Those who like Ginger.
Those who like MaryAnn.
And those who see Ginger and think: "I don't CARE if they're on a dessssssserted island, those shoes just don't go with that purse!"
—— I let that and the theme from Dallas play through every time I watch either of those programs. -——
If you have Netflix, you can play it all you want. We play the “Five-O theme every Friday, as part of our family’s weekend kick-off ritual.
My teenage daughters call the close-up of the hips girls hips “embarrassing.” Girls have a different perspective than guys, I guess...
Oh yeah, and the shaky-cam zoom on McGarrett, on the apartment balcony is wonderful. It must have been groundbreaking.
And then there’s Kam Fong as Chin Ho... LOL.
I use “Gilligan’s Island’ to teach Chromatic Modulation. (With each successive verse, the entire song goes up one half step.)
Mission Impossible is in 5/4 time, like the groundbreaking Jazz Standard “Take 5” by Dave Brubeck. I LOVE that theme! :-)
Alfred Hitchcock’s theme is by George Gounod and was written in the 19th Century...”Funeral March For a Marionette” is the title.
So it probably couldn’t be in the running.
There were lyrics for “Bonanza” as well. The original plan was to have the Cartwrights sing the theme from horseback, until the producers realized how cheezy that would be.
Dragnet
Adam-12
Emergency
Davy Crockett, theme from Disney’s “Zorro”
Good choice, except I think that "The High Chaparrel" would just edge it out.
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