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Television themes

Post by jchitty » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:13 am

Anyone have a You Tube of their favorite television show themes, whether old or new?Here's one of mine..."The Avengers."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUBTF6qk ... re=related

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Post by davewalton » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:33 am

Aug 18, 2008, 7:13am, jchitty wrote:Anyone have a You Tube of their favorite television show themes, whether old or new?Johnny Quest! One of the coolest themes around...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV_-u9sxYZM(And I still want a laser rifle and a flying back pack thingy)

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Post by jchitty » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:10 am

Hey, good one, Dave. As a kid, I loved watching Johnny Quest too...such intricate plots for a cartoon show...well, except for Scooby Do.

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Aug 18, 2008, 8:15am, sgs4u wrote:





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Kinda like this forum today.Good one, Steve. My husband changed the words and always sang it, "The Drunk Boat."

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Post by sgs4u » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:25 am

Aug 18, 2008, 8:21am, jchitty wrote:Good one, Steve. My husband changed the words and always sang it, "The Drunk Boat." Why does any phrase from you mentioning your husband, remind me of Hall & Oates?

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Post by jchitty » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:27 am

Aug 18, 2008, 8:25am, sgs4u wrote:Aug 18, 2008, 8:21am, jchitty wrote:Good one, Steve. My husband changed the words and always sang it, "The Drunk Boat." Why does any phrase from you mentioning your husband, remind me of Hall & Oates? I guess you can tell that my hubby likes to come up with risque and off the wall lyrics...he is the REAL songwriter in the family.

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Post by suzdoyle » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:00 am

I love the old TV themes, especially "The Muppet Show" and "Spiderman". Here's a fun web site that has a huge collection of TV themes:http://www.televisiontunes.com/And, just for fun -- did you know that the original Star Trek theme song (which is uber fun to play as a jazz combo piece) also has lyrics (written by Gene Roddenberry himself)? Here they are (and, as Dave Barry often says, "I am NOT making this up!"):STAR TREKBeyond the rim of the starlightMy love is wandering in star flight.I know he'll find in star-clustered reachesLove, strange love, a star woman teaches.I know his journey ends never;his Star Trek will go on forever.But tell him, while he wanders his starry seas,remembers . . . remember me . . . . . . . .'splains a lot about Captain Kirk's galavanting-ness . . . ,Suz

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Post by sgs4u » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:11 am

Spiderman and the Flintstones, Sat morn cartoons. Playing the Flintstones theme at about 220bpm, is fun, but for trained professionals only...Then I noticed this, and of course, my non-smoking wagon is seriously wobbling.Are there any musical artists, brave enough to allow a cigarette company to sponsor them now?

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Post by crs7string » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:51 am

"The Flintstones" is based on the chord changes to "I Got Rhythm" by George Gershwin.Jazzers like to play this one. If somebody knows the melody, everybody can play the tune.Writing a new melody to existing chord changes became popular during the bebop era and is still used as a compositional device to write jazz tunes today.Chuck
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