ghost_of_fl 237 Report post Posted July 8 I'll start. Hill Street Blues (theme) Featuring Larry Carlton on guitar Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MissouriPicker 358 Report post Posted July 9 Lots of great tunes from the past. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brucebubs 39 Report post Posted July 9 The Pink Panther and Mission Impossible came to me straight away. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tx-ogre 337 Report post Posted July 9 One of my all-time favorite theme songs. Love the baseline and a theme song I have enjoyed learning and playing. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ghost_of_fl 237 Report post Posted July 9 Angela by Bob James (Taxi) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Gibson 547 Report post Posted July 9 1 hour ago, MissouriPicker said: Lots of great tunes from the past. I have this one,good stuff. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelly campbell 272 Report post Posted July 9 The Rockford Files Theme song was very popular in the 70's 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelly campbell 272 Report post Posted July 9 Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield was the theme song for the movie "The Excorsist". 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
btoth76 336 Report post Posted July 9 The theme song for the movie "The outsider" by Ennio Morricone. Bence. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ghost_of_fl 237 Report post Posted July 9 For the first 2 seasons of "Happy Days", this was the opening theme song. Later replaced by "Sunday, Monday, Happy Days...". 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
saturn 361 Report post Posted July 9 Hawaii Five 0 Get Smart 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelly campbell 272 Report post Posted July 9 I dont know that this would qualify as a "song" but maybe the most recognizable of all time is the "Twilight Zone"...pretty amazing for basically only what four notes. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fortyearspickn 369 Report post Posted July 9 Five O was my pick too. Along with the visual. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ghost_of_fl 237 Report post Posted July 9 Bosom Buddies - Billy Joel's "My Life" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pinch 353 Report post Posted July 9 2 hours ago, kelly campbell said: I dont know that this would qualify as a "song" but maybe the most recognizable of all time is the "Twilight Zone"...pretty amazing for basically only what four notes. I wonder if today's young 'uns still recognize those four notes? Then again, I remember the "Twilight Zone" as good stuff, and I'm often surprised at how well-versed kids today are in the quality old-school stuff. They have an instant overview at their hands with the Internet. Whereas us in our middle-40s watched pap like "He-Man" IF we were lucky, because dadgurnit, there was only one channel. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ghost_of_fl 237 Report post Posted July 9 (edited) The Twilight Zone theme was composed by Bernard Herrmann. You might recognize some of his other work: "An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other films, including Citizen Kane, Anna and the King of Siam, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, Fahrenheit 451, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (composing for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs, including Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun – Will Travel." Edited July 9 by ghost_of_fl Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaxson50 615 Report post Posted July 9 Look up Patrick Williams, he has passed away, but he was the most prolific of writer arrangers directors of movie and tv sound tracks, SCORES & PARTSAVAILABLE NOW VISIT THE STORE PATRICK WILLIAMSMOMENTS IN TIME GET THE LATEST UPDATES FROM PATRICK WILLIAMS VISIT THE BLOG ABOUT PATRICK WILLIAMS Musician/Composer/Educator Having composed the music for over 65 feature films, 100 television films, 25 television series, as well as 19 albums and 30 concert works, Patrick Williams has established himself as one of the most accomplished and prolific composers in the music industry today. He has received four Emmy awards with twenty-two nominations and two Grammy awards with twenty-one nominations, two of which come from his latest release, “Home Suite Home”. He has also been nominated for both an Academy Award and the Pulitzer Prize in music. He is a recipient of the Richard Kirk Award from BMI and the Golden Score Award from the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers. Born in Missouri, Williams grew up in Connecticut and received a degree in history from Duke University. His first love, however, was always music, and when he went on to Columbia to study music composition and conducting, his passion became his profession. He quickly became busy as an arranger in New York, and then in 1968, he moved to California to pursue work in the film and television industry while continuing to write and arrange jazz albums.Proficiency in composing for symphony orchestras as well as jazz bands has offered Williams an opportunity to create a wide variety of works. Among his critically acclaimed compositions are An American Concerto, a piece featuring a jazz quartet and symphony orchestra, for which he received a 1977 Pullitzer Prize nomination; Gulliver, featuring a symphony orchestra with narrator, for which he received a Grammy nomination (narration by Larry Gelbart and performed by Sir John Gielgud); Suite Memories, which features a solo trombone with symphony orchestra and won a Grammy award; Theme for Earth Day, an overture, recorded by the Boston Pops; Spring Wings, a double concerto written by saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and pianist Dave Grusin with symphony orchestra; Romances, a concerto for jazz saxophonist Tom Scott and orchestra; A Concerto in Swing for big band and clarinet, which was dedicated to and premiered by Eddie Daniels; Adagio for Orchestra composed in 2004; and August composed in 2005. He recently completed a ballet, Ziji, with choreographer Edgar Zendejas to honor the 60th Anniversary of the College of the Fine Arts at the University of Utah.Some of Williams’ big band recordings are considered classics of contemporary big band instrumentals, such as Threshold for which he received a Grammy in 1974; Too Hip for the Room, for which he received a Grammy nomination in 1983; Tenth Avenue which received a Grammy nomination in 1987 and Sinatraland, a big band tribute to Frank Sinatra for which he received a Grammy nomination in 1998. In 2006, he received two Grammy nominations for the album Elevation with Tom Scott and Eddie Daniels.In September 2001, he won an Emmy for his song, “A Dream That Only I Can Know,” from the film, Yesterday’s Children. In 2002, he received an Emmy nomination for his score for “We Were The Mulvaneys” and a Grammy nomination for “The Theme from Blonde” from the sountrack album for the TV miniseries Blonde, a portrait of Marilyn Monroe. In 1992, Williams won the Emmy for the mini-series “Jewels”. He has composed and arranged themes and scores for television series including The Streets of San Francisco, Lou Grant, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, the Bob Newhart Show, Columbo, Slap Maxwell, The Tony Randall Show, and the Magician. Recent television projects include Hercules, starring Sean Astin, The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story; When Angels Come To Town and Finding John Christmas starring Peter Falk; James Patterson’s First to Die; Power and Beauty;The Thin Blue Lie; The Three Stooges with Michael Chiklis and A Cooler Climate starring Sally Field and Judy Davis. Of the 65 plus films Williams has scored in his career, a few include Breaking Away, for which he received a 1978 Oscar nomination; All of Me, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Swing Shift, Cuba, Violet’s Are Blue, Casey’s Shadow, The Cutting Edge, Cry-Baby, and The Glass Harp.Williams is also an accomplished arranger with extensive credits. The album, For Ella featuring Patti Austin, which he co-produced and arranged, was nominated for a 2003 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal album. He was chosen by Frank Sinatra to act as Musical Director/ Arranger- Conductor for his final studio recordings, Duets and Duets II. He has arranged recordings for Michael Bublé, Jack Jones, Andrea Bocelli, Paul Anka, Peter Cincotti, Natalie Cole, Neil Diamond, Gloria Estefan, Michael Feinstein, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Thomas Hampson, Barry Hay, Monica Mancini, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, John Pizzarelli, Brian Setzer, Barbara Streisand, Traincha, and Russell Watson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Gibson 547 Report post Posted July 9 Hee Haw All our parents tortured us by making us watch it,mostly because there was only one channel. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ghost_of_fl 237 Report post Posted July 9 Quincy Jones - The Streetbeater (Sanford and Son) 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hall 120 Report post Posted July 9 Third Man's Theme, Mag 7 and Kotter 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jaxson50 615 Report post Posted July 9 Listen to the entire arrangement of the Streets of San Francisco, It's really a big band jazz masterpiece 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Summerisle 141 Report post Posted July 9 My wife is angry that Applebees is using the theme tune from Welcome Back, Kotter in its cheesy ad campaign. I have to listen to this griping several times a night. It's enough to make me boycott Applebees, but I think the last time I was in an Applebees was at Newark airport in 2002, so I'm guessing the chain can live without welcoming me back. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ghost_of_fl 237 Report post Posted July 9 The Muppet Show theme written by Jim Henson and Sam Pottle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mihcmac 667 Report post Posted July 11 (edited) Just tasteful... full version.. Edited July 11 by mihcmac 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
