Words to old sitcom themes

[Weirddave]

In a recent conversation with my wife, GingeroftheNorth, she told me that she always thought the lyrics to the theme from the sitcom Bewitched were:

"Be-witched, bewitched, bewitched,bewitched,bewitched"

and so on. I admitted that I always thought the same. In addition to that, I always sung the lyrics to I Dream of Jeanie:

"I dream, I dream of Jeanie. I dream, I dream of Jeanie...etc"

Does anyone else do this? We can't be the only ones who do this, can we? Also, are there any other shows where you made up lyrics to fith the theme?

[Rico]

An old girlfriend used to sing this to LA Law:

Hey, hey, it's LA Law,
Lawyer's everywhere (everywhere),
They try cases too...

Don't ask me why that stuck in my head.

Now, will someone please tell cadolphin that Crime Scene Investigation's theme song by the Who is really Who Are You and not New Orleans? She won't believe me.

[lesa]

Ok, all my life I sang the Bewitched theme the way you describe. Imagine my surprise in finding out it really does have lyrics, and the first line really is "Bewitched, bewitched."

Link:

http://www.geocities.com/tvshowtheme...tchedSong.html

[Walloon]

Some television theme songs that we know only in instrumental versions actually have lyrics.

Star Trek
Leave It to Beaver ("The Toy Parade")
M*A*S*H
Bewitched
That Girl

[scm1001]

I always thought the Mash song did have lyrics on the TV program (suicide is painless.....) at least for one or two lines- am I wrong?

[SirRay]

Originally posted by scm1001
I always thought the Mash song did have lyrics on the TV program (suicide is painless.....) at least for one or two lines- am I wrong?

I remember watching it both originally (starting in 1974 or so - I didn't get some of the jokes at that age) and endless times in reruns (where opening/closing segments were often butchered) and never remember any sung lyrics (I often thought it quite amusing that such a downbeat song about suicide was played in a breezy, uptempo manner for the closing credits).
One thing I keep forgetting to google - the words to the Original 'Bob Newhart' show (well, the Chicago Psychologist one), which does have lyrics since I (vaguely) remember them being sung on some TV awards show in the 80s...

[scm1001]

I must be thinking of the movie MASH then

[evilskippy]

SirRay, The M*A*S*H song is "Suicide is painless". It was never sung in the t.v. show, but it was sung in the original movie.

[Eve]

That Girl had—at least early on—lyrics sung during the opening credits. A friend of mine always heard the line "She's tinsel on a tree" as "She's a tonsilectomy."

[Eve]

I actually know the lyrics to the closing theme of All in the Family, a song called "It's All Over Now." Carroll O'Connor once sang it on some variety show (he had an excellent singing voice) and for some reason it stuck in my head.

[plnnr]

...Hoss and Joe and Adam know that Cartwright is the name...

That's all I can recall of the song "Bonanza."

I'm also partial to Bill Murray's lyrics to the theme song from "Star Wars":

"Star Wars
Those crazy Star Wars..."

[LurkMeister]

Originally posted by plnnr
...Hoss and Joe and Adam know that Cartwright is the name...

That's all I can recall of the song "Bonanza."

Lyrics to "Bonanza"
There was a TV special (which I may or may not have on tape) which included a clip of the cast singing the theme.

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

The Andy Griffith Show theme was actually called "The Fishin' Hole." Here are the lyrics (and chords, no less). Check out the splendid version of the song by Henry Kaiser.

[Walloon]

The closing theme on All in the Family is actually Remembering You (which does begin with the line "Got a feelin' it's all over now"), by Roger Kellaway and Carroll O'Connor. I bought the sheet music and used to play it on the piano.

[Chefguy]

The following all had lyrics:
Golden Girls (Thank You For Being A Friend)
Bosum Buddies (My Life, by Billy Joel)
Greatest American Hero (Walkin' On Air)

[mobo85]

Originally posted by plnnr
I'm also partial to Bill Murray's lyrics to the theme song from "Star Wars":

"Star Wars
Those crazy Star Wars..."

Which, for some reason, reminds me of Albert Brooks and another guy singing lyrics to the theme from the National Geographic specials at the start of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

"Look at that old man,
He kinda looks like an ape!"

[The Man With Two Brains]

Bill Murray once mimicked a lounge singer on SNL who played the music to Star Wars and invented the words:

"Star Wars... nothing but Star Wars.."
so it sounded also like "Feelings...nothing but feelings

[Tim Winker]

WKRP in Cincinnatti had lyrics:

"Baby, if you've ever wondered...
wondered what ever became of me
I'm livin' on the air in Cincinnatti
Cincinnatti, W.K.R.P.

Got kinda tired packin' and unpackin'
town-to-town, up and down the dial..."

(Someone else can finish it )

Here's some topical trivia for you: the song they play over the closing credits for WKRP are not words at all - that band was just sining nonsense as part of a demo and was going to add lyrics later, but the producer (or whoever) liked it as is.

[Reeder]

From the early 60's..Harrigan and Son..

H - A - double R - I - G - A - N spells Harrigan
Proud of all the Irish blood that's in me; Divil a man can say a word agin me.
H - A - double R - I - G - A - N, you see,
Is a name that a shame never has been connected with, Harrigan, That's me!

[Vlad Dracul]

The other guy at the start of the Twilight Zone movie was Dan Ackroyd.

The final WKRP verse is:

"Baby, you and me were never meant to be.
Just maybe think of me, once in a while.
I'm at WKRP in Cincinnati."

[Tim Winker]

Originally posted by Reeder
From the early 60's..Harrigan and Son..

H - A - double R - I - G - A - N spells Harrigan
Proud of all the Irish blood that's in me; Divil a man can say a word agin me.
H - A - double R - I - G - A - N, you see,
Is a name that a shame never has been connected with, Harrigan, That's me!

That must be where Gilligan got it from that Gilligan's Island episode...

G -- I - double L - I...G - A - N spells Gilligan.

[BurnMeUp]

Hawaii 5-0 had words too it was called "you can count on me" i have an MP3 of sammy davis jr singing it

[rocking chair]

i remember when a few friends and i found out that the theme to star trek (os) had words. they were in one of the multitude of "about star trek" books that every serious trek fan would buy and read, and read, and read.

we decided the next time we watched an episode we would try singing along...

we didn't get past the second syllable, the music takes quite a leap there and we were laughing way to hard to continue. i still laugh about it when i think of it.

i could swear i remember uhura singing part of the theme song in one of the episodes. perhaps it was one of those vulcan harp moments.

[Lute Skywatcher]

Originally posted by Tim Winker

That must be where Gilligan got it from that Gilligan's Island episode...

G -- I - double L - I...G - A - N spells Gilligan.

Both got it from George M. Cohen.

[Walloon]

Cohan

[NoClueBoy]

Fred Sanford

Fred Sanford had a son

Named Lamont

And they lived in a junkyard

And Grady was their crazy friend....





It fits if you do it right

[the O-man]

I had a friend who used to sing: "Dum Da Da da Da, it's the Odd Couple Theme song." I don't think he got any further than that one line, but it used to drive me crazy. We were in the play together in high school.
Wow, and here are the actual lyrics: http://www.geocities.com/tvshowtheme...oupleSong.html

[Mehitabel]

During the Woodlawn Boneyard Crawl, we visited the simple grave of Harrigan himself, Edward Harrigan, and his family. Of course, the guide said, everybody who knows who he was starts to sing the song.

[Lute Skywatcher]

Originally posted by Walloon
Cohan

Thanks! I tried Google to get the right spelling, I guess there's too many who use the wrong one. No wonder I couldn't find him on the Internet Broadway Database.

[koeeoaddi]

My 10 year old self remembers:

Perry may-son STINKS!
Perry may-son STINKS!

[ThatDuckIsEvil]

I know the entire lyrics to Car 54 Where Are You? Thank you, Nick at Nite.

And I can't NUMBER the variations my sisters and I made up to The Brady Bunch Theme.....some of them X-rated. I can hear my mother now yelling from the kitchen: "KNOCK IT OFF!" or "DOLLAR!!" (the charge for using a bad word in her presence)

[Gatopescado]

Originally posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew
The Andy Griffith Show theme was actually called "The Fishin' Hole." Here are the lyrics (and chords, no less). Check out the splendid version of the song by Henry Kaiser.

I truly believed I would be the only one to come up with gem!

The thing that makes the Kaiser version so good is the vocal talet of (I forget her name exactly, I think its Cary Sheldon (?), was involved with the Dead and possibly teaches music in the Bay area).

A performance so sweet, it'll rot your teeth. <-- those teeth, too!

I also forget the exact album title. Something about Knowing History and Being Condemmed to Repeat It. Find it, hear it, love it.

____________
How is Rap like Porn? Both are better with the sound turned off.

[panamajack]

Falling, the theme from Twin Peaks, actually has words written by David Lynch.

More in the spirit of the OP :

"Here's the A-Team!
It's the A-Team!
They're an A-Team,
escaped from Vietnam." (I know they didn't do that, but I don't care.)

[Julius Henry]

They're My Three Sons,
Not your three sons,
Not his three sons,
Just My Three Sons.

First is Rob
And then there's Chip
And Ernie, too,
They're My Three Sons.

That was before I knew about the ABC years, of course.

[mobo85]

I believe I read once that the composer of the theme to The X-Files made up lyrics to it for his own enjoyment that began:

The X-Files is a show.
Its theme is by Mark Snow.

[Isabelle]

www.geocities.com/tvshowthemelyrics/

I really love the theme to Courtship of Eddie's Father and to Cops.

[rowrrbazzle]

Morey Amsterdam wrote lyrics for the Dick Van Dyke theme, but I don't think they were official. They sang them on a recent reunion show.

So you think that you've got trouble?
Well, trouble's a bubble,
So tell old Mr. Trouble to get lost...

[mobo85]

Originally posted by Rico
Now, will someone please tell cadolphin that Crime Scene Investigation's theme song by the Who is really Who Are You and not New Orleans? She won't believe me.

If it was the latter, they'd obviously save it for another inevitable spinoff: CSI: New Orleans. (Sounds good, but it's no Law and Order: Elevator Inspectors Unit.)

[USCDiver]

Slightly off topic... from that movie with Jack Lemon and James Garner as Ex-Presidents:

"Hail to the Chief, he's the Chief and he needs hailing."

[BurnMeUp]

Originally posted by koeeoaddi
My 10 year old self remembers:

Perry may-son STINKS!
Perry may-son STINKS!

I heard some comedian singing it as:

Perrrrrry -MASON
Perrrrrry - MASON
He always gets his man but he's to faaaat to CHASE EM

[randwill]

Uhura sings "Beyond Antares"(sp?), which sort of sounds like the "Star Trek" theme, but whether she actually sang words to the theme, I don't know.

Try singing this to the theme of "Superman" movie:

Look up in the sky,
Is it bird?
Is it a plane?
It's SUPERMAN!

Hah!

[zamboniracer]

Originally posted by USCDiver
Slightly off topic... from that movie with Jack Lemon and James Garner as Ex-Presidents:

"Hail to the Chief, he's the Chief and he needs hailing."

I prefer the version from the movie, "Dave", from Dave singing in the shower, "Hail to the Chief he's the one we all say 'Hail' to..."

[Shemem]

Originally posted by mobo85
I believe I read once that the composer of the theme to The X-Files made up lyrics to it for his own enjoyment that began:

The X-Files is a show.
Its theme is by Mark Snow.

I read that in TV Guide, and it's exactly what I sing when the show comes on.

I also sing to Bewitched: "Bewitched, Bewitched, the theme song from Bewitched (x2) ..."

Then ad-lib something, usually about how Darren #1 is better than Darren #2, and at the final flourish, "On Nick ... At ... Night!"

This may be why I am still single.