Hey, hey, it’s LA Law,
Lawyer’s everywhere (everywhere),
They try cases too…
Don’t ask me why that stuck in my head.
Now, will someone please tell cadolphin that Crime Scene Investigation’s theme song by the Who is really Who Are You and not New Orleans? She won’t believe me.
Ok, all my life I sang the Bewitched theme the way you describe. Imagine my surprise in finding out it really does have lyrics, and the first line really is “Bewitched, bewitched.”
I remember watching it both originally (starting in 1974 or so - I didn’t get some of the jokes at that age) and endless times in reruns (where opening/closing segments were often butchered) and never remember any sung lyrics (I often thought it quite amusing that such a downbeat song about suicide was played in a breezy, uptempo manner for the closing credits).
One thing I keep forgetting to google - the words to the Original ‘Bob Newhart’ show (well, the Chicago Psychologist one), which does have lyrics since I (vaguely) remember them being sung on some TV awards show in the 80s…
That Girl had—at least early on—lyrics sung during the opening credits. A friend of mine always heard the line “She’s tinsel on a tree” as “She’s a tonsilectomy.”
I actually know the lyrics to the closing theme of All in the Family, a song called “It’s All Over Now.” Carroll O’Connor once sang it on some variety show (he had an excellent singing voice) and for some reason it stuck in my head.
The Andy Griffith Show theme was actually called “The Fishin’ Hole.” Here are the lyrics (and chords, no less). Check out the splendid version of the song by Henry Kaiser.
The closing theme on All in the Family is actually Remembering You (which does begin with the line “Got a feelin’ it’s all over now”), by Roger Kellaway and Carroll O’Connor. I bought the sheet music and used to play it on the piano.
The following all had lyrics:
Golden Girls (Thank You For Being A Friend)
Bosum Buddies (My Life, by Billy Joel)
Greatest American Hero (Walkin’ On Air)
Which, for some reason, reminds me of Albert Brooks and another guy singing lyrics to the theme from the National Geographic specials at the start of Twilight Zone: The Movie.
“Look at that old man,
He kinda looks like an ape!”
"Baby, if you’ve ever wondered…
wondered what ever became of me
I’m livin’ on the air in Cincinnatti
Cincinnatti, W.K.R.P.
Got kinda tired packin’ and unpackin’
town-to-town, up and down the dial…"
(Someone else can finish it :))
Here’s some topical trivia for you: the song they play over the closing credits for WKRP are not words at all - that band was just sining nonsense as part of a demo and was going to add lyrics later, but the producer (or whoever) liked it as is.
H - A - double R - I - G - A - N spells Harrigan
Proud of all the Irish blood that’s in me; Divil a man can say a word agin me.
H - A - double R - I - G - A - N, you see,
Is a name that a shame never has been connected with, Harrigan, That’s me!