I haven’t even tried to Google for it, but does the theme for Craig Ferguson’s late night show have a name?
This thread is for questions and answers about such theme music.
I do know that MAS*H’s theme is Suicide is Painless, if that helps.
And before anybody else suggests it, TelevisionTunes.com andTV Land are great resources for the old shows. Got to be many others, too.
Does anybody else get a lump in their throat from Mannix - Long Theme Song - TelevisionTunes.com ?
The Benny Hill theme tune is Yakety Sax
Roger that. Know who recorded that first?
Of course you do. Says so in the link. Sorry!
Says in the linked article, “a 1963 45 rpm single written by Boots Randolph and James Q. “Spider” Rich, and recorded by Boots Randolph.”
“Who are You?” - CSI
“Tear Drop” - House M.D.
“Strict Machine” - Nip/Tuck
The theme to the “Mary Tyler Moore Show” was called “Love is All Around.” The opening theme to “All in the Family” was called “Those Were the Days,” and the closing theme was called “Remembering You.”
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That’s how I remember it, too. Sorry my edit didn’t arrive in time.
Exactly. Good ones, too.
I think Gunsmoke’s theme is/was “Old Trail.” (Could be wrong, though.)
The Peter Gunn theme by Mancini is a classic.
And the theme for “Greatest American Hero” was “Believe it or Not.”
None finer. Unless it was Mr. Lucky.
Bosom Buddies had Billy Joel’s My Life as its theme.
But isn’t that just called “Peter Gunn Theme?”
The Lone Ranger (and his faithful Indian companion Tonto) used to ride onto our TV screens to the sound of the William Tell overture by Rossini.
Marvellous.
CSI Miami uses the Who too (Won’t get fooled again), and so does CSI New York (Baba O’Reilly)
The theme for Welcome Back, Kotter is Welcome Back, by John Sebastian, which, in the context of the OP, is interesting - the series was just going to be called Kotter, but after Sebastian wrote the song, which he made more general, because he couldn’t come up with a rhyme for ‘Kotter’, they decided to rename the series.
The show sucked but I loved the music in Adventures in Paradise Theme Song - TelevisionTunes.com
Will there ever be one to top
The theme for “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” was Funeral March of a Marionette by French composer Charles Gounod. The story behind the piece was that two marionettes supposedly had a duel, one was killed, and the march represented the funeral procession as the other marionettes bore their friend to the graveyard. In the middle of the piece there’s a lighter part where the marionettes stop off in a tavern and get drunk.