# Easy one: ID this TV theme song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924 "2005-11-27T15:50:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/1 "2005-11-27T15:50:21Z")
Geez, I’m posting way too many CS threads in too short a time. This is the last one for a while, I promise. There was some sort of cop show on in the 70s with a theme song that went like this: It starts out with a synthesizer playing a note, then doing a glissando up an octave (while opening up a high-pass VCF), then back down, then up, several times. In half notes. Yo-wee-yo-wee-yo-wee-yo-wee. It then resolves in a jazzy brass riff. It was used in both Kill Bill movies. Wazzat from? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/2 "2005-11-27T16:13:25Z")
I’m not up on all the musical terms you’re using but for some reason the “yo-wee-yo-wee” business made me think of “Theme from SWAT.” [Soundtrack listing from KB1](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/soundtrack) doesn’t list it though. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/3 "2005-11-27T16:21:58Z")
I think that it’s the beginning of the theme song from “Ironside”. That’s the Aaron Burr detective show where he’s confined to a wheelchair. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/4 "2005-11-27T16:23:06Z")
> [@Guy Incognito](#): > > I think that it’s the beginning of the theme song from “Ironside”. That’s the Aaron Burr detective show where he’s confined to a wheelchair. I meant to say that the character that Burr plays is confined to a wheelchair. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/5 "2005-11-27T16:30:08Z")
The theme from “Ironside,” a San Fran-based detective show starring Raymond Burr, was used in both \*\*Kill Bill \*\* movies. Written by the ever-jazzy Quincy Jones. On preview, I see that Guy Incognito got there first, mostly. Although a wheelchair-bound Aaron Burr detective show would have been damn cool. _“Ah, my arch-nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, the Napoleon of Crime.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/6 "2005-11-27T19:14:43Z")
[Here’s the Ironside theme. (MP3)](http://mythemes.tv/series/themes/opening/ironside.mp3) I don’t think that’s the one the OP is looking for, however. And I can hear the theme in my head that he’s thinking of. I’m trying to find it right now as my brain is fuzzy. I believe the one you’re thinking of sounds more like a Mike POst theme, right? Or is it the Ironside theme? Let me know so I can stop obsessing about this. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/7 "2005-11-27T19:33:04Z")
I got it. [The theme to the NBC Mystery Movie.]([http://www.tvsgreatesthits.com/singletheme.asp?tvshow=NBC](http://www.tvsgreatesthits.com/singletheme.asp?tvshow=NBC) Mystery Movie, The) It’s by Henry Mancini. This is a rather crappy MIDI, but you can hear the synth that you described. Is this it? ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/8 "2005-11-27T23:32:08Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > [Here’s the Ironside theme. (MP3)](http://mythemes.tv/series/themes/opening/ironside.mp3) > > I don’t think that’s the one the OP is looking for, however. And I can hear the theme in my head that he’s thinking of. I’m trying to find it right now as my brain is fuzzy. I believe the one you’re thinking of sounds more like a Mike POst theme, right? > > Or is it the Ironside theme? Let me know so I can stop obsessing about this. 😃 Sorry about hijacking,but what a great site.David Cassidy,Man Undercover,indeed ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/9 "2005-11-28T03:59:46Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > On preview, I see that Guy Incognito got there first, mostly. Although a wheelchair-bound Aaron Burr detective show would have been damn cool. _“Ah, my arch-nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, the Napoleon of Crime.”_ \ I don’t know what the hell I was thinking when I wrote “Aaron Burr” instead of “Raymond Burr” in both of my posts. Think of the possibility of Aaron Burr playing Perry Mason and Alexander Hamilton playing Hamilton Burger. Bring a whole new meaning to the term “legal battle”. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/10 "2005-11-28T04:55:46Z")
I have no idea what all those musical terms mean. However “70’s cop show” and “Yo-wee-yo-wee-yo-wee-yo-wee” made me instantly think of [this.](http://themes.andybateman.co.uk/themes/kojak.wav) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-one-id-this-tv-theme-song/332924/11 "2005-11-28T05:19:30Z")
Kill bill soundtrack with samples [http://tinyurl.com/8963b](http://tinyurl.com/8963b) The Ironside theme is different to the one posted by **Rico.**