# Sheet music to Survivor theme song?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 6, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheet-music-to-survivor-theme-song/227759 "2004-02-06T01:04:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Mike\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_B)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheet-music-to-survivor-theme-song/227759/1 "2004-02-06T01:04:49Z")

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Does anyone have the sheet music to Survivor? It’s a running joke 'round my house ever since the first one when we got on what exactly the lyrics are…something like ‘Oh-dee-oh-dee-dah…’

So, anyone have it, or know where I can find it?

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**Author:** ![Tradnor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@Tradnor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tradnor)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheet-music-to-survivor-theme-song/227759/2 "2004-02-06T03:04:20Z")

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The Survivor theme song is “Ancient Voices” by Russ Landau. I haven’t seen sheet music for it, but I doubt it includes ‘lyrics’. It does change slightly every season.

Interesting [note](http://www.tvweek.com/news/web031003.html#survivor):

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> The man behind the signature “Survivor Yell” heard during promos and opening credits for Survivor is suing CBS and Survivor Productions claiming he was never paid for his vocal work. Kim Strauss said he recorded vocal work, including the “Survivor Yell,” for a music demo for the show and was told that he would be asked to record a final version of the songs and be paid at least union scale if the music was chosen by Survivor producers.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheet-music-to-survivor-theme-song/227759/3 "2004-02-06T20:34:28Z")

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Another interesting note: Russ Landau was a former member of a group called The Paul Winter Consort. In 2001, Winter sued Landau, claiming the song _Ancient Voices_ featured excerpts from _Kurski Funk_ from the Winter Consort-Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble collaboration _Earthbeat_ used without permission. The show was also sued in 2001 by didgeridoo players who were angry the show’s producers used their music without credit or compensation. It seems _Survivor_ and music don’t mix.

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**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheet-music-to-survivor-theme-song/227759/4 "2004-02-06T21:17:07Z")

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Here it is for free:  
[Survivor:Ancient Voices](http://www.hamienet.com/score20609-4.html)