# Old TV themes/commercials you can sing from memory **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711 "2015-03-10T18:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/21 "2015-03-10T21:47:36Z")
Look at what’s happened to me I can’t believe it myself Suddenly I’m up on top of the world Should’ve been somebody else Believe it or not I’m walking on air I never thought I could feel so free-ee-ee Flying away on a wing and a prayer Who could it be? Believe it or not, it’s just me! ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/22 "2015-03-10T21:58:28Z")
There is no one who doesn’t know this one: \*Here’s the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls all of them had hair of gold, like their mother. the youngest one in curls. Here’s the story of a man named Brady Who was busy with three boys of his own. They were four men living all together yet they were all alone Till the one day when the lady met this fellow. And they knew that it was much more than a hunch, That this group must somehow form a family, That’s the way we all became the Brady bunch. The Brady bunch, the Brady bunch. That’s the way we became the Brady bunch.\* Also, Three’s Company: \*Come and knock on our door, (Come and knock on our door) We’ve been waiting for you. (We’ve been waiting for you) Where the kisses are hers and hers and his Three’s company too. Come and dance on our floor, (Come and dance on our floor) Take a step that is new. (Take a step that is new) We’ve a loveable space that needs your face Three’s company too. You’ll see that life is a ball again, Laughter is calling for you-. Down at our rendezvous (Down at our rendezvous) Three’s company too. Down at our rendezvous (Down at our rendezvous)\* ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/23 "2015-03-10T22:18:41Z")
I even know the lyrics to _Bonanza_, but only because Mad Magazine made fun of them with their parody _Bananaz_. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/24 "2015-03-10T22:21:23Z")
Who is that nut who flies around in pajamas? That’s no nut, boy, that’s Captain Nice. Nice, nice, nice, nice… **NICE!** ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/25 "2015-03-10T22:25:58Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > “It’s about time, it’s about space, > About to land in the strangest place…” “About \*\*two men \*\*in the strangest place,” isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/26 "2015-03-10T22:27:06Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Heck yes; doesn’t everyone (those of us of a certain age that is)? > > It’s kind of the same with my brother and me. He’ll usually remember the words if I bring up the song but if I didn’t bust out the Jack in the Box jingle (Jajajack Jajajack Jajajack Jack in the box, now you’re cookin’) it would all be lost in the sands of time. > I feel a game thread coming on; finish this lyric: > > “Here we come on the run . . .” With a burger on a bun and a dab of cole slaw on the side. Oh, your taste we will tickle with a cold dill pickle. And all of our potatoes are French fried, fried, fried. Our burgers can’t be beat cause we (something) our own meat **Line wiped from memory** And when you drive away with a tip upon our tray We hope you (something) _repeat_ (burpo whiffs it in the home stretch) In the Thunderbolt Greaseslapper he is on your tail He won’t quit because you know there’s no such word as “Fail” to [who is it, folks?} ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/27 "2015-03-10T22:32:26Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > “About \*\*two men \*\*in the strangest place,” isn’t it? Second-grade Catholic school had a marvelous version of this: It’s about time, it’s about space It’s about time I slapped your face _POW_ (Sister, burpo hit me!) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/28 "2015-03-10T22:40:18Z")
Afraid you’ll have to be from southern California to remember my favorite. What a sight In a laboratory Late one night There began the story Lightning flashed, and something missed A poor old crazy scientist Had dropped a bag of jellybeans Into his Frankenstein machine And **Shrimpenstein** Was created in just half the time That it takes to make a Frankenstein And so you see, He’s half the size of you and me And though he’ll try, he can’t be mean He’s just a little walking jellybean. Shrimpenstein! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/29 "2015-03-10T22:45:10Z")
On top of old Horror Hill in a secret laboratory Professor Wierdo and Count Kook are in their monstrous glory! Fiddle-diddle-dee, fiddle-diddle-day, It’s just like a holiday, Fiddle-diddle-dee, fiddle-diddle-day, Herman’s here to stay! When Katnip the Kat Sees Herman the Mouse Katnip the Kat Packs his bags to leave the house! Heroes, heroes, mighty men of war, Sons of all the heroes of the war before! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/30 "2015-03-10T22:49:46Z")
There’s a hold up in the Bronx, Brooklyn’s broken out in fights There’s a traffic jam in Harlem That’s backed up to Jackson Heights There’s a scout troop short a child Kruschev’s due at Idlewild… **Car 54 where are you?** ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/31 "2015-03-10T22:50:00Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > _Ohhhhh_, do I have this talent. As a former boss of mine used to say, “Mind full of garbage.” > > I could fill the page with a list of the TV themes and jingles I can sing from memory. But instead I’ll just challenge you with some of the more obscure ones I know: > > Mighty Hercules \ I regret to inform you _Mighty Hercules_ was given a new theme song, sung by Johnny (I Can See Clearly Now) Nash. IT. IS. AWFUL! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/32 "2015-03-10T22:55:02Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > “Who is the tall dark stranger there? Maverick is his name…” > [@koeeoaddi](#): > > backed up to Jackson Heights My personal mondegreen of the \*Maverick \*theme is the revelation that, despite the show’s western setting, he is “livin’ on Jackson, Queens.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/33 "2015-03-10T23:00:02Z")
> [@funky\_little\_lee](#): > > My brother thinks I’m some sort of savant because I can sing, word for word, the themes to _The Banana Splits, The Flintstones, The Monkees, The Bugs Bunny-Roadrunner Hour,_ and _The Jetsons,_ and, if called upon, can do _Hawaii FIve-O,_ complete with horn and flute riffs. All of those, plus… _Gilligan’s Island Lost In Space McHale’s Navy I Dream Of Jeannie Land Of The Lost My Three Sons Room 222 Beverly Hillbillies U.F.O Space: 1999 It’s About Time The Brady Bunch George Of The Jungle Super Chicken Batman Green Acres The Andy Griffith Show F-Troop Maverick_ And others. I see the Freakies Cereal theme mentioned. Yup, that too. (Loved Freakies when I was a kid!) The Big Mac song, of course. Seriously, theme songs and commercial songs pop into my head all the time – much to the annoyance of the SO. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/34 "2015-03-10T23:21:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > All of those, plus… > > _Gilligan’s Island > Lost In Space > McHale’s Navy > I Dream Of Jeannie > Land Of The Lost > My Three Sons > Room 222 > Beverly Hillbillies > U.F.O > Space: 1999 > It’s About Time > The Brady Bunch > George Of The Jungle > Super Chicken > Batman > Green Acres > The Andy Griffith Show > F-Troop > Maverick_ > > And others. > > I see the Freakies Cereal theme mentioned. Yup, that too. (Loved Freakies when I was a kid!) The Big Mac song, of course. > > Seriously, theme songs and commercial songs pop into my head all the time – much to the annoyance of the SO. Both versions of _Lost in Space_? Nobody believes me: the piano part in _My Three Sons_ is “Chopsticks”; _Room 222_ theme had some kick-ass time changes; I have the soundtrack album from _Space: 1999_. Not bad stuff. I could whistle the theme from _Bearcats_ on command; Plus, both versions of _Land of the Giants_. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/35 "2015-03-10T23:24:34Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Nobody believes me: the piano part in _My Three Sons_ is “Chopsticks” Who doesn’t believe that? I thought it was obvious. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > _Room 222_ theme had some kick-ass time changes It’s sorta-kinda “Fool on the Hill” in 7/4. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/36 "2015-03-10T23:40:06Z")
Lemon Pledge cleans so easy Puts a shine down lemon good Lemon Pledge and your dusting lends a luster to the wood ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/37 "2015-03-10T23:43:33Z")
Not a tv theme but a commercial for a local car dealership. They played this one for decades. Anybody from Detroit will know it right away. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Wa0WsxWACuc/hqdefault.jpg "Roy O'Brien Ford Original Jingle") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa0WsxWACuc) ---
**Author:** ![chaika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chaika/32/405_2.png) [@chaika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaika)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/38 "2015-03-10T23:49:13Z")
Put Delta in, take washers out. Forget about those washers you used to worry about. Once you learn (once you learn) Delta’s name (Delta), you won’t have to worry about washers again. Delta faucets, the name you can trust. For worry-free faucets ask your plumber for us. ---
**Author:** ![chaika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chaika/32/405_2.png) [@chaika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaika)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/39 "2015-03-10T23:55:58Z")
This one was only on the west coast, I think: Franz bread, the good bread, flavor beyond compare! ---
**Author:** ![chaika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chaika/32/405_2.png) [@chaika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaika)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711/40 "2015-03-11T00:04:20Z")
C & H pure cane sugar from Hawaii, sweet Hawaii, grown in the sun. When you cook, when you bake, for goodness sake get C & H, pure cane sugar C & H, pure cane sugar, that’s the one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tv-themes-commercials-you-can-sing-from-memory/714711.md?page=3)