Some favorite TV theme songs

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Wild World of Animals (particularly the end theme)

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“Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow”

Yes, very awesome.

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Hell yeah! He did the What’s Happening theme music!

Longer version without the TV show intro:

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It’s so generation-dependent. This meant I might be allowed to stay up late.

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And just for the hell of it

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Lalo Schifrin was an awesome composer.

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I had a thing for Baretta in general, but one reason was that theme song. It was so obviously a REAL song, not some ditty created to played while the credits rolled.

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And didn’t the movies change it from 5/4 to a tin-eared common time? :frowning:

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Best news theme ever.

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leads inexorably to

A Quinn Martin Production!

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Quincy Jones’ finest hour gave us the greatest TV theme song of the 1970s, hands down:

Funkiest groove I ever did hear.

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I though this was the funkiest thing I’d ever heard as a kid.

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Brian May’s kid was into this show and I -think- I have this album somewhere:

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I’d say Sanford & Son was a tie with Barney Miller for funkiness, but then Barney Miller would win simply because they recorded multiple different takes and used them all over the course of the show’s run.

[edit/additional thought: when I listen to this theme song, I really imagine the musicians enjoying themselves in the studio, it sure sounds like they are just getting off on that groove.]

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Here’s the theme from the UK show that Sanford and Son was based on, for comparison

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Weekly segment?

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Speaking of PBS shows… Not quite a theme song, but while I can’t remember the address of the house I spent the first 11 years of my life in, I’ll have some Boston TV studio’s PO box burned in my memory until the day I die:

Write Zoom Z double-o M box 350 Boston, Mass 02134 Send it to ZOOM!

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