1971-2006 Being a musical variety show with a 35-year history, it only makes sense that the show had a lot of original theme songs. For now, let’s just list the official theme songs used from 1971-2006. 1971-1973: “Hot Potatoes”, by King Curtis, and later redone by the Rimshots. 1973-1975: “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)”, composed [...]
1960-1968 Now here’s a classic. The Andy Griffith Show, starring Andy Griffith, of course, was a CBS sitcom about a widowed sheriff in a fictional small community called Mayberry in North Carolina. Its theme song is a whistled version of “The Fishin’ Hole”. It was composed by film and television composers Earle Hagen and Herbert [...]
Original run: 1965-1986; Syndicated: until 1999 Chances are you might not be familiar with this theme song, but once your hear it, it’ll feel like you’ve known it for a while. The song is very wacky/comedic/fun. Wikipedia elusively lists Steve Kaplan as the original composer—”Later versions … of the original theme by Steve Kaplan.” But [...]
So apparently, time was when National Geographic was just a show on PBS. I guess that was in the eighties (as NGC was launched in 1997). Anyway, the “National Geographic Theme Song” (that’s what it’s called) is all over the internet. Rephrase: There’s an abundance of information about the theme song net-wide. So cut the [...]
1975-1982 Well, I wasn’t really around when this show aired but I must admit it has got a jammin’ theme song. Barney Miller was a comedy series about NYPD captain Barney Miller and his attempt to keep sane while leading the 12th precinct detectives. It starred Hal Linden as Barney Miller, Ron Glass, Jack Soo, [...]
1998-2006 Rank your Halliwells according to hotness. Mine: Paige>Prue>Phoebe>Piper. Anyway, the theme song for Charmed, which is not really trivial, is the version of the song “How Soon Is Now?” by the band Love Spit Love. Love Spit Love was the group formed by Richard Butler when The Psychedelic Furs disbanded. “How Soon Is Now?” [...]
2001 Band of Brothers is that 2001 HBO World War II miniseries that lasted a lifetime. Anyway, let’s get straight to the point. It had a theme song that was appropriate for its theme—slow, sad, gloomy. Alright fine, Band of Brothers was quite cool. All of its songs, ergo, its theme song, was composed by [...]
Alright, now we welcome a new category—Games. For our first game, Kingdom Hearts. Kingdom Hearts is an action-adventure series of role-playing games developed by Japanese game publishing company, Square Enix, and Disney Interactive Studios. As a Japan-USA collaboration, the games have Japanese and English theme songs for its different geographical releases. One thing about the [...]
Extreme Championship Wrestling Not really a wrestling fan, but we need to earn a buck. I know of two ECW theme songs to date. One is “Bodies” by American band Drowning Pool. It was the official theme song for SummerSlam 2001, One Night Stand 2005 and 2006, December to Dismember 2006, and ECW on Sci [...]
2004-present Hello y’all, how’s it hangin’? Last month was a postless month—I know, been busy with other projects—but rest-assured, Theme Songs is and will always be alive. So anyway, for my “return of the comeback,” something for the kids. The Backyardigans is a Canadian-American CGI-animated television series. I’ve been checking out clips of it from [...]