# TV themes sung by the cast **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559 "2014-04-20T20:05:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/61 "2014-04-22T05:11:20Z")
nvm I don’t know ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/62 "2014-04-22T05:36:26Z")
My daughter just informed me that the theme song for ICarly is sung by Miranda Cosgrove, who plays the title character. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/63 "2014-04-22T10:30:39Z")
Don’t think it’s been mentioned yet, but ‘Life Goes On’- the theme was ‘Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da’, as sung by the cast. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/64 "2014-04-22T13:45:11Z")
> [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](#): > > Didn’t Chuck Norris sing the theme for _Walker Texas Ranger_? Chuck Norris sings ALL the theme songs! ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/65 "2014-04-22T15:49:37Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Didn’t Drew Carey sing “Moon Over Parma” for his sitcom? And the Drew Carey Show also had another theme song, Cleveland Rocks, also performed by the cast. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/66 "2014-04-22T16:09:18Z")
“Space Ghost: Coast to Coast”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/67 "2014-04-22T17:17:11Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > And the Drew Carey Show also had another theme song, Cleveland Rocks, also performed by the cast. I thought that was The Presidents of the United States doing that, and the cast just lip-synched on camera while running around Cleveland. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/68 "2014-04-22T18:01:18Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > And the Drew Carey Show also had another theme song, Cleveland Rocks, also performed by the cast. > [@Sean\_Factotum](#): > > I thought that was The Presidents of the United States doing that, and the cast just lip-synched on camera while running around Cleveland. It was the PUSA. It’s on their album _Pure Frosting_. Although on one of the bloopers episodes, the original recording by Ian Hunter was played. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/69 "2014-04-22T21:18:23Z")
Lawrence Welk…OK, OK, no singing…but sort of my parents’ “The Monkees”. My parents were really a wild pair…They did gut up and dance to some of the songs, though. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/70 "2014-04-22T21:24:36Z")
Little known fact that the theme to Game of Thrones is hummed by all of the actors that have had their characters killed off on the show. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/71 "2014-04-22T21:29:39Z")
Ok, I have a real one… **Steve Earle** sang the opening theme song of The Wire, ["Way Down in the Hole,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFSKgb46UDM)" for the final season and also was an actor on the show (he played Bubbles’ NA sponsor.) Oh, and speaking of HBO things that Steve Earle was involved in - [“Treme’s” theme song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1Iagf3GSs) is sung by \*\*John Boutté \*\*who appears as himself many times during the series’ run. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/72 "2014-04-22T21:33:07Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > Lawrence Welk…OK, OK, no singing…but sort of my parents’ “The Monkees”. My parents were really a wild pair…They did gut up and dance to some of the songs, though. Hey, [LW could get wild sometimes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE)… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/73 "2014-04-22T23:41:20Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > Hey, [LW could get wild sometimes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE)… Heh, heh, a modern spiritual. I liked how Myron Floren cleared his throat as if he had just taken a few tokes during the commercial. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/74 "2014-04-22T23:52:37Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > He sang three or four variations of the closing ditty. I believe he wrote the lyrics as well, but was forbidden from mentioning any of the show’s elements, which is why “tossed salad and scrambled eggs” came about instead. Well, he does mention Seattle in the lyrics, which one could argue is a story element… ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/75 "2014-04-23T00:08:47Z")
Bill Shatner did the Star Trek theme. > [@](#): > > Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no mf has gone before. Yeah, it was a rap. Bill has that funky cadence in his speech. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/76 "2014-04-23T01:30:08Z")
I believe that Amy Jo Johnson sang the theme to _Felicity_. She played Julie on the show. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/77 "2014-04-23T03:34:30Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Bill Shatner did the Star Trek theme. > Yeah, it was a rap. Bill has that funky cadence in his speech. 😃 There were apparently lyrics originally written for the theme, but of course not used for the series. Decades later (in '91), Nichelle “Lt. Uhura” Nichols [recorded her own rendition.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrckNMfQj6c) Also, for the first year of the show **Facts of Life** , the theme song was sung by a chorus of girls who were ostensibly the students at the school. Charlotte Rae also chimes in as well. (And yes…I do hate myself for knowing this.) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/78 "2014-04-23T14:55:33Z")
BobLibDem: > [@](#): > > Also, New Girl theme by Zooey Deschanel. I thought it was Katy Perry. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/79 "2014-04-23T15:49:23Z")
Liv & Maddie…another Disney show theme sung by the lead (Dove Cameron) Why yes I have a tween daughter ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559/80 "2014-04-23T16:09:46Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Also, New Girl theme by Zooey Deschanel. > [@cmkeller](#): > > I thought it was Katy Perry. I’m pretty sure it’s Zooey. She does have her own band after all. And the girl can [sing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiGpMSkz0l8). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-themes-sung-by-the-cast/686559.md?page=5)