I wanna know (Hey!) the name of the song (Hey!) they used in a musical number (Hey!) at the beginning of one episode (Hey!) about going to work. (Hey!)
I also wanna know (Hey!) who wrote it (Hey!) and sung it. (Hey!)
I hope you know (Hey!) which one I mean. (Hey!)
Five O’Clock World, originally by the Vogues
That sounds right. They ran that episode again here on FOX 11 this week and I never saw a credit for it.
If you like country (and not too twangy, either), there was a good remake by Hal Ketchum a few years back. Let’s see how I can do off the top of my head . . .
Up every morning just to keep a job,
Gotta fight my way through the bustling mob,
Sounds of the city running through my brain
While another day goes down the drain . . . .
[Chorus] But it’s a five o’clock world when the whistle blows,
No one owns a piece of my time,
And there’s a long-haired girl who waits I know,
To ease my troubled miiiind . . .
Yodelling
I think “The Drew Carey Show” must hold the unofficial record for the most different theme songs for a sitcom. They had the original “Moon Over Parma,” then “Five O’Clock World,” and now “Cleveland Rocks.”
(Well, “Happy Days” had a couple of different ones too, now that I think about it.)
At the beginning of one episode, they also did a number using “What Is Hip?” by Tower of Power. Though, that might have been from an all-musical-numbers episode (I can’t remember which it was).
Yes, What is Hip appeared as a music video at the beginning of one show, though it never became the theme song. Five O’Clock World and Cleveland Rocks!(as performed by the Presidents of the USA) became theme songs after appearing as cast music videos on the show. The Drew Carey Show has done a couple other sorts of things at the beginning of episodes that have nothing to do with the plot, such as a humorous fantasy sequence involving Drew fighting his coworkers-turned-aliens, and a live action-animation mix involving Daffy Duck’s job interview. (I think Daffy’s the only person in the world who could fall in love with Mimi.)
Rhino Records has a collection out called “Cleveland Rocks! Music from ‘The Drew Carey Show’” that contains all the theme songs (including the long version of “Moon Over Parma”), songs used for the big musical productions, and even some of the songs done on the show (like the Horndogs’s version of “A Taste of Honey”). Highly recommended.
Wasn’t there an Alien version of “Moon over Parma” that ran for a few lines before switching over to “Cleveland Rocks”?
The Cosby Show had a different theme song every year. I think. I quit watching it when it became was taken over by TNN.
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Technically true, but the Cosby theme was always just a re-working of the exact same instrumental tune.
The first year or two of Murphy Brown had a different Motown song every show.
Does the Rhino Records collection include the alien version of “Moon over Parma”?
What the heck is the “alien version” of MOP?? Sung by aliens? I have no idea what version you’re talking about.
For the record, here’s the song list:
In the alien-fighting sequence that opened one episode I mentioned before, it turns out the alien-fighting Drew was all a dream…but not by the normal Drew, but an alien who looks like Drew. After Alien Drew and Alien Mimi have a normal conversation (including a literal take on the phrase “bite me, doughboy”), we see a few seconds of a version of the first opening sequence with an alien head replacing Drew’s head before cutting to the (then)standard Five O’Clock World opening.
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Imagine a stereotypical Martian voice (kind of high pitched, electronic sounding). It goes something like “Moon over Zarcon, bring your…”, and there isn’t much more than a line or two. (Zarcon probably isn’t the correct name.)
Oh, now I remember. No, it’s not on the album (see above).
Neither is “Let’s Do the Time Warp Again” from *The Rocky Horror Picture Show." In one episode, Drew, Kate, Lewis and Oswald go in costume to a midnight showing of RHPS only to find it’s been replaced by Pricilla, Queen of the Desert, which Mimi and some cross-dressers have come to see. They argue over which movie is better, and the argument becomes a dance-off combining “Time Warp” with “Shake Your Groove Thing.” It ends with some of the guys getting arrested. It’s a great musical sequence.