JBXMRN
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Post by JBXMRN on Aug 8, 2004 19:32:13 GMT -5
For all of you AT40 fans who were big fans of TV back in the 1970's, you may remember that Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley were very popular TV show back then. I find it fascinating that both the Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley theme songs were in the Top 40 at the same time back in June 1976.
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Post by markwmcneil on Aug 9, 2004 22:03:59 GMT -5
At the same time that the themes from "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley" were in the Top 40, the themes from "Welcome Back, Kotter" and "Baretta" were there as well. It was quite a good time for themes from ABC series.
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Post by Hervard on Sept 23, 2004 13:18:31 GMT -5
And it seemed that all these TV show themes zipped up and down the chart quickly. But by the 1980s, when there were fewer TV show themes on the chart, the ones that did make it stuck around for awhile (i.e. "Theme from 'Greatest American Hero' (Believe It Or Not)" by Joey Scarbury) Casey Kasem played a few of these TV show themes on AT10 this past weekend, but most of them were from the 1990s.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 25, 2019 17:16:32 GMT -5
With the recent passing of Laverne, I actually remember the theme song more fondly than the show itself. Question is whatever happened to great TV theme songs, which a lot of times I anticipated as eagerly as the program itself.
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Post by mga707 on Jan 25, 2019 17:31:26 GMT -5
With the recent passing of Laverne, I actually remember the theme song more fondly than the show itself. Question is whatever happened to great TV theme songs, which a lot of times I anticipated as eagerly as the program itself. Other than Barenaked Ladies' 'Big Bang Theory' theme, TV themes with lyrics are a thing of the past. Of course now someone's going to list another current example...  |
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Post by chrislc on Jan 25, 2019 22:15:40 GMT -5
With the recent passing of Laverne, I actually remember the theme song more fondly than the show itself. Question is whatever happened to great TV theme songs, which a lot of times I anticipated as eagerly as the program itself. I think it is our far shorter attention spans. TV programmers are probably worried that viewers would not have the patience to sit through a theme song - nowadays they go right into the dialogue. Watching the opening to Room 222 now is amazing - it feels like it goes on for at least five minutes. |
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Post by caseyfan100 on Jan 25, 2019 22:48:46 GMT -5
With the recent passing of Laverne, I actually remember the theme song more fondly than the show itself. Question is whatever happened to great TV theme songs, which a lot of times I anticipated as eagerly as the program itself. Other than Barenaked Ladies' 'Big Bang Theory' theme, TV themes with lyrics are a thing of the past. Of course now someone's going to list another current example... Not a current one but it's now on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries in reruns. That would be Psych which ran several years ago on USA Network. |
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Post by keithr63 on Jan 26, 2019 8:55:57 GMT -5
Norman Gimbel,who wrote the Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley themes ,died on December 19. He also wrote I Got A Name by Jim Croce ,Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack and Ready To Take A Chance by Barry Manilow Plus many more songs
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 26, 2019 10:09:09 GMT -5
Under the right circumstances, I believe Randy Newman's Emmy-winning "It's A Jungle Out There" (theme music from TV's Monk) would've reached the Top 40. In fact, if played on the radio, some Monk fans might've petitioned stations to also play the show's original theme, which won an Emmy as well.
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Post by johnnywest on Jan 26, 2019 10:58:39 GMT -5
And it seemed that all these TV show themes zipped up and down the chart quickly. But by the 1980s, when there were fewer TV show themes on the chart, the ones that did make it stuck around for awhile (i.e. "Theme from 'Greatest American Hero' (Believe It Or Not)" by Joey Scarbury) Casey Kasem played a few of these TV show themes on AT10 this past weekend, but most of them were from the 1990s. I remember one of these shows going into the “Happy Days” theme where Casey talked about “jumping the shark” and “Chuck Cunningham Syndrome.” |
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Post by doofus67 on Mar 9, 2020 22:56:02 GMT -5
Every Milwaukeean over the age of 50 -- like me -- must know these words:
1,2,3,4!
5,6,7,8!
Schlemiel! Schlimazel!
Hassenpfeffer Incorporated!
And I must go back sometime to see and touch the Bronze Fonz. 👍
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Post by darnall42 on Mar 10, 2020 9:39:31 GMT -5
As a kid i used to love Happy days ,especially when Suzi Quatro turned up as here in the UK she was a massive pop star with a couple of big number one hits in Can the can and Devil gate drive. it's odd that the excellent Stumblin' in - her big stateside hit bombed here in the uk (especially as chris norman's smokie were massive in the uk at the time)
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Post by mga707 on Mar 10, 2020 10:53:39 GMT -5
I'm probably an outlier here as I never liked either show, even before either 'jumped the shark'. Too 'ersatz nostalgia' for me. But I did love Lucas' "American Grafitti' film.
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Post by johnnywest on Mar 10, 2020 11:00:20 GMT -5
Norman Gimbel,who wrote the Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley themes ,died on December 19. He also wrote I Got A Name by Jim Croce ,Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack and Ready To Take A Chance by Barry Manilow Plus many more songs Norman also wrote the theme song to "Wonder Woman" with Charles Fox. Coincidentally, the man who did the voice for the agency's talking computer, Ira, was voiced by Tom Kratochvil who was also an AT40 staff member during the '70s, who Casey has mentioned several times in the credits. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Mar 10, 2020 16:17:28 GMT -5
I remember seeing "American Graffiti" in 1973-It was because of that movie that I got hooked on oldies music.
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