Top 5 TV Theme Songs 1975-1979

<v Speaker 1>From Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You
<v Speaker 1>Can't Be Serious Podcast. I don't know what music Jason's
<v Speaker 1>going to put for the introduction, but I hope it.
<v Speaker 2>Involves I've got to play something really crazy seventies because
<v Speaker 2>we're diving back to the seventies today.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So, guys, normally we do the eighties and nineties,
<v Speaker 1>and normally we do albums and movies, but we are
<v Speaker 1>doing something different today but still heavy on the gen X.
<v Speaker 1>We are bringing you today the first part of a
<v Speaker 1>three part series where we are giving our top five
<v Speaker 1>TV themes.
<v Speaker 2>Top five TV themes from nineteen seventy five to nineteen
<v Speaker 2>seventy nine.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, that's episode one. Episode two will be nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty four, and episode three will be nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 1>five to nineteen eighty nine, the time period that all
<v Speaker 1>us gen X freaks we're watching TV NonStop.
<v Speaker 2>I know, I'm excited to do this because this is
<v Speaker 2>back at a time when TV was sort of much
<v Speaker 2>more important in people's lives.
<v Speaker 1>Guys, if you are feeling the stresses of life right now,
<v Speaker 1>you know there's always seems like something else coming onto
<v Speaker 1>your plate, and it's just bearing down upon you spend
<v Speaker 1>just the next few minutes with us to forget about that,
<v Speaker 1>travel back in time to when you were a kid
<v Speaker 1>and the biggest worry was what breakfast cereal you were
<v Speaker 1>going to eat when you watched your Saturday morning cartoons.
<v Speaker 2>Just pretend like you're lying on the floor, you got
<v Speaker 2>your chin on your hands, and your dad tells you
<v Speaker 2>to go turn the knob to change the channel.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's what we're talking about when you were the
<v Speaker 1>remote control.
<v Speaker 2>That's exactly right.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So in this first part of the series, we
<v Speaker 1>got to kind of set some ground rules for our choices, right.
<v Speaker 3>Right, right, right.
<v Speaker 1>So if you've heard some of our other top five episodes,
<v Speaker 1>we had the top five songs of nineteen eighty three.
<v Speaker 1>Earlier this season, yep, we had the top songs of
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, we've also had top Super Bowl
<v Speaker 1>performformances as well. But we always establish a few ground rules.
<v Speaker 1>One of the ground rules is it needs to kind
<v Speaker 1>of fit in the time period that we're talking about,
<v Speaker 1>but it doesn't have to be exclusively in that time period, right,
<v Speaker 1>It's tricky. Yeah, we may have some songs that maybe
<v Speaker 1>were before seventy five, but spilled on over into seventy
<v Speaker 1>five through seventy nine. We may have some songs that
<v Speaker 1>kind of go past seventy nine. You just you don't
<v Speaker 1>know what it's going to be, But as long as
<v Speaker 1>it kind of feels right, that's where we're placing things.
<v Speaker 1>So conceivably with some of the longer series, say Magnum
<v Speaker 1>p I for example, that went from eighty to eighty eight,
<v Speaker 1>that could be in my episode two, and it could
<v Speaker 1>be in your episode three. We just don't know what
<v Speaker 1>this right.
<v Speaker 2>With that said, things like Scooby Doo and Gilligan's Island
<v Speaker 2>stuff we watched after school in the seventies and eighties,
<v Speaker 2>those are out because they're exclusively sixties.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there was a lot of Niked Knight stuff where
<v Speaker 1>we were picking up Brady Bunch and other themes like that,
<v Speaker 1>but we're talking about stuff that is new episodes in
<v Speaker 1>the time period that we're talking about exactly now.
<v Speaker 2>Then the other rule that we established is that it
<v Speaker 2>has to be written for the television show.
<v Speaker 1>And that is a big one. That was a booming
<v Speaker 1>sweep once we realized what we had done to ourselves
<v Speaker 1>because that excluded Golden Girls. Yeah, that excluded married with Children, right,
<v Speaker 1>that excluded the Wonder Years. Yeah, and then you pointed
<v Speaker 1>out to me it.
<v Speaker 2>Excludes Bosom Buddies, which is tragic because that was one
<v Speaker 2>of my favorite TV things too. I was looking through that,
<v Speaker 2>I was like, whoo, that one's out.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So all of these songs were specifically written for
<v Speaker 1>the series that they were the theme of. They were
<v Speaker 1>not some sort of rehash reboot thing. Yeah, exactly, Jason.
<v Speaker 1>The seventies for you was a little different than the
<v Speaker 1>seventies for me. Right, I think the seventies and I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>we're talking about the time period from my birth to
<v Speaker 1>the time that I was four, So that's a pretty
<v Speaker 1>tight window of knowledge for me. But I do remember
<v Speaker 1>a lot of these songs. The other things that I
<v Speaker 1>can remember from the seventies is my big wheel, I do.
<v Speaker 2>I had a green machine but yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Absolute boss right, and that thing out Neighborhood Street for
<v Speaker 1>the first time.
<v Speaker 2>Love it. I'll tell you what I did in the seventies. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>my big thing was Star Wars Guys.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I played with those things until my hands fell off.
<v Speaker 2>Star Wars Guys and Light Bright and Legos.
<v Speaker 1>So guys think about the time on your big Wheel,
<v Speaker 1>think about the time with your Star Wars Kinner action figures.
<v Speaker 1>As we go back in history to the nineteen seventies,
<v Speaker 1>we flip on the TV and Jason, what is your
<v Speaker 1>number five pick for the top five five?
<v Speaker 2>So my number five song from the seventies.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, we're gonna do this sort of quiz fashion too, right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna give me a little hint. I'm gonna try
<v Speaker 1>to guess.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>See this is tricky because there's not a lot you
<v Speaker 2>know here, but okay, okay. So this show ran from
<v Speaker 2>nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty four, okay, and it
<v Speaker 2>established what was cool in the seventies.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, and by that I mean.
<v Speaker 2>Punching a jukebox to make it start playing was cool?
<v Speaker 1>Sunday, Monday, Happy Days.
<v Speaker 3>Sunday, Happy Days Day, Happy Days Days, the weekend counts.
<v Speaker 3>I love it.
<v Speaker 1>Great, great answer, great number five. So tell me what
<v Speaker 1>you've got on Happy Days.
<v Speaker 2>So their first two seasons of Happy Days was actually
<v Speaker 2>Rock around the Clock by Bill Haley in the.
<v Speaker 1>Comments, yeah, which technically would violate our rules. But by
<v Speaker 1>season three they come up with their own songs.
<v Speaker 2>They did so they came up with a song called
<v Speaker 2>Happy Days, written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimble. Okay, now,
<v Speaker 2>these are the same guys who wrote Killing Me Softly
<v Speaker 2>by ROBERTA.
<v Speaker 3>Flack, killing me song, Hey wear this song song.
<v Speaker 1>With this song, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, I've got them
<v Speaker 1>coming up in a later mentioned but you keep.
<v Speaker 3>On going, okay.
<v Speaker 2>So the singers on this is called the Ron Hicklin Singers,
<v Speaker 2>and they actually back up the girl who sings little
<v Speaker 2>Erner Shirley song, which we may talk about here.
<v Speaker 1>In a few minutes, Cindy Grecody Greco.
<v Speaker 2>But if you pay close attention in the credits for
<v Speaker 2>Happy Days, the little forty five record comes up, starts playing,
<v Speaker 2>and you can read all of this information right there
<v Speaker 2>for you to see on the record. Nice grade five,
<v Speaker 2>Happy Days.
<v Speaker 1>Great one, and that one created by Gary Marshall. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>and I got another story coming up here in a
<v Speaker 1>little while that'll throw back to one of our more
<v Speaker 1>recent episodes. But we'll come to that one in a minute.
<v Speaker 1>Are you very good? Yeah? Okay, all right, So for
<v Speaker 1>myn number five, I realize that I'm making this extremely difficult,
<v Speaker 1>but I don't think there's any way for me to
<v Speaker 1>do it otherwise, Okay, that's fine, Okay, So the composer, no,
<v Speaker 1>I can't do it, No, okay, okay. This theme music
<v Speaker 1>played as you were driving behind cars on the California Highway.
<v Speaker 1>It is so incredibly definitive seventies gold that you would
<v Speaker 1>probably not be surprised to find it in a porn.
<v Speaker 2>Movie to be the theme song for Chips.
<v Speaker 1>You've Got It. Chips ran from nineteen seventy seven to
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty three. We had Eric Estrada and Larry Willcox's
<v Speaker 1>Paunch and John p. John Man.
<v Speaker 2>Those guys were studs back in the day.
<v Speaker 1>Pontarelli. No, okay, So that show was created by a
<v Speaker 1>guy named Rick Rosner. He gets credit for the movie
<v Speaker 1>that came out in twenty seventeen, not that anybody would
<v Speaker 1>take credit for that movie right now. The guy that
<v Speaker 1>wrote the theme music for this TV show is a
<v Speaker 1>guy I don't really have any information on. His name
<v Speaker 1>is John Carl Parker. He was only involved with the
<v Speaker 1>series from seventy seven seventy eight. But we have talked
<v Speaker 1>about the music in this before, and I'm wondering if
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna remember this. So the guy who kind of
<v Speaker 1>took over his spot when John Parker, the composer left.
<v Speaker 1>The guy who composed the music for the bulk of
<v Speaker 1>the episode we've talked about in one of our earliest episodes. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>Okay started out as a rock musician. He did this
<v Speaker 1>work with Chips, and then he started doing movie music
<v Speaker 1>and he was trying to establish himself with a Spielberg production.
<v Speaker 1>It was getting a little bit iffy. But this remember
<v Speaker 1>that Chips ended in eighty three. In eighty four, he
<v Speaker 1>did the theme music for a movie called Romancing the Stone.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, you got it, it's Alan Silvestri.
<v Speaker 1>That's exactly right. So even though Alan Silvestri did not
<v Speaker 1>compose the theme music to this, he did do the
<v Speaker 1>music for the bulk of this. Shut up, there you go.
<v Speaker 2>That's fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>Alan Silvestri, of course, did the theme music for Back
<v Speaker 1>to the Future, many of the Marvel million. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>he's ready player one.
<v Speaker 2>Fantastic, Yeah, all right, back to me, K to you four?
<v Speaker 2>All right, So my number four is a theme song
<v Speaker 2>that was associated with the television show that ran from
<v Speaker 2>nineteen seventy seven to nineteen eighty four. I still watch
<v Speaker 2>this show. I still think it's hilarious. This TV show
<v Speaker 2>is based on a British show called Man about the House.
<v Speaker 1>Oh all right, that's not what I thought you were
<v Speaker 1>going to say. Oh, okay, keep going, all right, allow me.
<v Speaker 2>Lonnie Anderson before WKRP Okay, auditioned for a main role
<v Speaker 2>in this TV show. Okay, and didn't get it because
<v Speaker 2>she was quote unquote too beautiful.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I kind of remember this. Keep going now.
<v Speaker 2>Then Joanna Kern's audition for the main role.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she didn't get it either. She got growing pains later.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, but I'll tell you who did get it, Suzanne Summers.
<v Speaker 1>This has to be Three's Company.
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna knock on our door down.
<v Speaker 1>I'm knock gonna do I'm and knock gonna do.
<v Speaker 3>Yes.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely.
<v Speaker 2>The music for this was written by Joe Riposo. He
<v Speaker 2>also wrote the theme for Sesame Street.
<v Speaker 1>That's a big one.
<v Speaker 2>He also wrote c us for Cookie That's a great one.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, okay.
<v Speaker 2>This was sung by Julia Rinker Miller and Ray Charles. No,
<v Speaker 2>not that Ray Charles, the other Rachel.
<v Speaker 1>I was like, what did you see the episode where
<v Speaker 1>there was some kind of misunderstanding upon an overheard conversation
<v Speaker 1>and Jack fell down a lot, and.
<v Speaker 2>They thought Jack was sleeping with that other girl and
<v Speaker 2>Jack fell down a lot. That's hilarious. I loved Three's
<v Speaker 2>Company as a kid.
<v Speaker 1>I honestly, they were they were definitely in the running
<v Speaker 1>for me, but I knew you'd put him on your list,
<v Speaker 1>so I just went ahead and left it. Okay, So
<v Speaker 1>back to me, number four, number four. My number four
<v Speaker 1>is a spinoff of a series. Okay, all right. The
<v Speaker 1>series that it's a spin off of also had a
<v Speaker 1>very memorable introduction song that was actually sung by the
<v Speaker 1>two main characters in the TV series as they sat
<v Speaker 1>at a piano.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so the two main characters that sung the song
<v Speaker 2>and Saturday a piano, that has to be Archie Bunker
<v Speaker 2>Archie and Edith Bunker.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Yes, the name of the series was All in
<v Speaker 1>the Family. Yep. He had a neighbor that he absolutely
<v Speaker 1>couldn't stand because he was this racist. His neighbor was
<v Speaker 1>named George Jefferson.
<v Speaker 2>Moving on.
<v Speaker 3>Dude, Moving on up.
<v Speaker 1>Moving on up. That's number four for me. That Jefferson's
<v Speaker 1>ran from nineteen seventy five to nineteen eighty five, created
<v Speaker 1>by Don Nicol, who did all in the Family and
<v Speaker 1>Three's Company Okay, and developed by Norman Who's I mean
<v Speaker 1>I ran into if you were playing a drinking game.
<v Speaker 1>With the research I did on this, Norman Lear would
<v Speaker 1>be one of those names.
<v Speaker 3>Uh huh.
<v Speaker 1>The guy who came up with a theme song. Born
<v Speaker 1>Joel Adelberg, but changed his name to Jeff Berry. Good choice.
<v Speaker 1>I think he did a lot of work with a
<v Speaker 1>guy that we've talked about before named Phil.
<v Speaker 2>Spector, Crazy Phil Steal your Shoes Specter.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Work that he did with him included the song
<v Speaker 1>do what did he did? He? Uh huh. Jeff Berry,
<v Speaker 1>with other writers, wrote the song Leader of the Pack. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>also wrote a song that we talked about in our
<v Speaker 1>Hysteria episode sung by the Archies, Chug Sugar You Got It.
<v Speaker 1>And he wrote this song Moving On Up, with the
<v Speaker 1>singer of the song, Janet du Boi. Now Here's when
<v Speaker 1>we were looking into it. I was like, shut the
<v Speaker 1>front door a little bit earlier. I asked you if
<v Speaker 1>you had watched the TV series Good Times.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I know, MI hid done a Mike you got
<v Speaker 2>It in Janna Jackson.
<v Speaker 1>So Janet Dubois, the one who sings Moving On Up.
<v Speaker 1>She played the part of Willona Woods, that neighborhood gossip
<v Speaker 1>that was always over stir in the pot. That was her.
<v Speaker 1>She was the actress that played that part, and she
<v Speaker 1>was the one sang moving on up. She's got a
<v Speaker 1>great voice.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that surprises me.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that's good. I like that. That's very nugget.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So we're back to me, back to you.
<v Speaker 2>We're number three three yeah, three, okay. So this show
<v Speaker 2>ran from nineteen seventy six to nineteen eighty three.
<v Speaker 1>It too, was a spin off.
<v Speaker 2>The singer for this song, yes, was discovered at six
<v Speaker 2>Flags Magic Mountain.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, do you know it? Well if it relates to
<v Speaker 1>a song that you've already mentioned, then yes, I know
<v Speaker 1>it does it? It does? Okay. This is also my
<v Speaker 1>number three all right, great. This is the song depending
<v Speaker 1>on whether we're talking about the album or the series.
<v Speaker 1>If we're talking about the TV series, the song is
<v Speaker 1>called We're Gonna Make It. If we're talking about the album,
<v Speaker 1>the song is making our dreams come true.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's interesting because I to me, it's making our
<v Speaker 2>dreams come true.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, So they when they put it on the show,
<v Speaker 1>they called it We're Gonna Make It. But yes, Schlamiel
<v Speaker 1>Schla Maazel Haws and pep incorporated by Slamaz has incoporated.
<v Speaker 2>This is the theme song from Laverne and Shirley.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, which we talked about on our previous episode on
<v Speaker 1>Big Penny. Marshall was the director of that and of
<v Speaker 1>course she had gotten her big break when she and
<v Speaker 1>Cindy Williams played double dates of the Fawns and Richie
<v Speaker 1>and the crowd love them so much they decided to
<v Speaker 1>give them their own show. This was that show, and
<v Speaker 1>a key ingredient was this awesome introduction.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, it's fantastic. So I've got a story for
<v Speaker 2>you on this, Yeah, go ahead. Gary Marshall talks about
<v Speaker 2>how he came up with the idea for la vernon Shirley. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>So he came back from Korea and he was on
<v Speaker 2>a date and he was at a restaurant and the
<v Speaker 2>girl he was with got crossed with another girl in
<v Speaker 2>the restaurant, somebody they didn't know. The other girl said
<v Speaker 2>something rude to his date, and his date said, Gary,
<v Speaker 2>would you mind holding my coat for me please? And
<v Speaker 2>then a fistfight broke out between his date and the
<v Speaker 2>other girl.
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>He's like, I couldn't believe that two girls got in
<v Speaker 2>a fistfight at a restaurant.
<v Speaker 1>That is fantastic, and he goes, So.
<v Speaker 2>That sort of spawned the idea of these sort of
<v Speaker 2>two blue collar, rough and.
<v Speaker 1>Tough girls, girls who work in a brewery. Yep. I
<v Speaker 1>threw this idea out to my brother throw you know, hey,
<v Speaker 1>what don't think just say top eighties theme songs, right, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>this one came up and he's like, I remember that.
<v Speaker 1>Mom and I used to always sing this, and I
<v Speaker 1>was like, it's the only Yiddish I know. Schlemil schlamazl
<v Speaker 1>does that might have no idea?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I got one more nugget for you on this song.
<v Speaker 2>So you talked about how the guys who wrote this
<v Speaker 2>song are Charles Fox and Norman Gimbell.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, real quick, you mentioned that they both wrote Killing
<v Speaker 1>Me Softly fantastic song.
<v Speaker 2>Right.
<v Speaker 1>Charles Fox also wrote the theme for the Love Boat,
<v Speaker 1>another big seventies yes, and at this one the original
<v Speaker 1>Monday Night football theme.
<v Speaker 2>Really fantastic, you go Okay. They also wrote the Barry
<v Speaker 2>Manilow song Ready to Take a Chance Again, which was
<v Speaker 2>the theme for the movie foul Play, Oh with Chevy
<v Speaker 2>Chase Cha Yeah, which I'm getting ready to go onto
<v Speaker 2>the Film.
<v Speaker 1>By podcast and talk about guys. Be sure and go
<v Speaker 1>over to the Film by podcast check out Jeff and
<v Speaker 1>Brad and some of their co hosts as they cover
<v Speaker 1>movies that are all awesome, but it's like the lesser
<v Speaker 1>known movies of the directors we all know. So Jason,
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna be talking about foul Play with them? I am.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's gonna be the last episode of the year,
<v Speaker 2>so it's down the road a bit.
<v Speaker 1>But foul Play, great movie. Can't wait to talk about
<v Speaker 1>that sounds awesome. So we mentioned before. This song was
<v Speaker 1>sung by Cindy Greco is her only charting song, but
<v Speaker 1>it reached number twenty five on the Hot one hundred.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Charles Fox was at six Flags and heard her singing.
<v Speaker 1>It's crazy, It's crazy, you never know ye all right? Okay,
<v Speaker 1>so that covers both of our number three. Shall I
<v Speaker 1>go to my number two? Or are you gonna go
<v Speaker 1>to your number two? Oh? Whatever you want to do,
<v Speaker 1>go for it. Okay, I will go to my number two.
<v Speaker 1>Okay two, And I will tell you that the composer
<v Speaker 1>of this song was the key to the best selling
<v Speaker 1>album of all time that we talked about in our
<v Speaker 1>very first episode.
<v Speaker 2>So the best selling album of all time. I'm guessing
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna.
<v Speaker 1>Say that's Thriller. Yes, And he's the composer of Thriller.
<v Speaker 1>He was a key ingredient in Thriller. Quincy Jones. Correct, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I got nothing. What are we talking about here? So
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna blow your mind because I didn't know that
<v Speaker 1>this was by him as well. So in the late
<v Speaker 1>sixties early seventies, he was still living in England, just
<v Speaker 1>had a baby over there, was trying to get back Rashida.
<v Speaker 1>Might have been, might have been okay, yeah, could have
<v Speaker 1>been okay. And he while in England fell in love
<v Speaker 1>with his very popular TV show called Steptoe and Son.
<v Speaker 1>Steptoe and Son, Yeah okay, And so he actually looked
<v Speaker 1>into getting the rights to do this show in the States,
<v Speaker 1>but somebody else already had it. They end up calling
<v Speaker 1>him back and saying, hey, would you write the theme
<v Speaker 1>music for us? Okay? I love I love the anticipation.
<v Speaker 1>I'm just going to keep on going and give you.
<v Speaker 1>I have a guest out there. I have a guest,
<v Speaker 1>keep going, keep going, he skill me up. So's He's like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>well tell me who you've got playing these parts. And
<v Speaker 1>the producer, Aaron Rubin says it's a Red Fox and
<v Speaker 1>Quincy Jones like, you can't put him on TV. He's
<v Speaker 1>like that there isn't a word that he says that's
<v Speaker 1>allowed to be said on TV. He's like, I used
<v Speaker 1>to work with that guys. I used to run the
<v Speaker 1>same circuit together. You can't put Red Fox on public television, No, sir,
<v Speaker 1>Sure enough they did, but they said, do you want
<v Speaker 1>to see the first episode before you composed the theme song?
<v Speaker 1>And he said, no, I know exactly what it needs
<v Speaker 1>to sound like, because I know what Red Fox sounds like. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>which is where you get.
<v Speaker 2>That's Sanford and sonon.
<v Speaker 1>So listen to this song. I can't help but think
<v Speaker 1>of Doctor Teeth an electric mayhem. Oh yeah, very good,
<v Speaker 1>Sanford Son nineteen seventy two to nineteen seventy seven. The
<v Speaker 1>theme written by Quincy Jones, is called the Backstreeter. The
<v Speaker 1>story was based on an English series named Steptoe and
<v Speaker 1>Son created by Aaron Rubin and Norman Lear again develops
<v Speaker 1>the show.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>Okay. So we're on to my.
<v Speaker 1>Number two, onto your number two, all right, go ahead, okay.
<v Speaker 2>So this show ran from nineteen seventy six to nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty one. Yes, and frankly, I'm astonished that we haven't
<v Speaker 2>come across it with you yet, and maybe we still will.
<v Speaker 2>So this song played at the beginning of every episode
<v Speaker 2>and the end of every episode, okay, and always had
<v Speaker 2>a different stinger with a character at the end before
<v Speaker 2>the show started.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, I got nothing. You're gonna have to keep going,
<v Speaker 1>all right.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So imagine with me arches okay, and then we
<v Speaker 2>back up, and there's more arches, and then we back
<v Speaker 2>up and there's more arches, and everybody is singing this song.
<v Speaker 2>You got zuoit on the sacks, you got Rolf on
<v Speaker 2>the piano.
<v Speaker 1>This is the Muppet Show tonight.
<v Speaker 2>It's time to play the music, it's time to dress
<v Speaker 2>up right. Great song, and you've got Gonzo who at
<v Speaker 2>the end of every song does something funny with his
<v Speaker 2>horn and bubbles come out, or a chicken falls off
<v Speaker 2>the stage or something happens.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, great show.
<v Speaker 2>Love the show.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, fantastic show. Good call. I didn't. It didn't make
<v Speaker 1>my radar. I actually thought about it, but it didn't.
<v Speaker 1>It didn't get dipped in, so great, great pick for
<v Speaker 1>number one.
<v Speaker 2>I actually checked this show out from the library, showed
<v Speaker 2>it to my kids. They fell in love with Alice
<v Speaker 2>Cooper because of this show that you know, the muppets
<v Speaker 2>are singing Welcome to My Nightmare. They was singing Welcome
<v Speaker 2>to my Nightmare. Yes, and my kids just thought Alice
<v Speaker 2>Cooper was the funniest.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, all right, So that's that means we're to me
<v Speaker 1>that completes my number two. Okay, So I've done my
<v Speaker 1>number two, you've done your number two. We're onto honorable mentions, Yes,
<v Speaker 1>we are. I can tell you my honorable mentions. They've
<v Speaker 1>both been discussed. My honorable Okay. My honorable mentions were
<v Speaker 1>Happy Days and Three's Company. So you tell me what
<v Speaker 1>have you got? So one of my honorable mentions is
<v Speaker 1>Chips nice okay, good.
<v Speaker 2>California Highway Patrol with the porno music in the background.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Paunch and John great great song.
<v Speaker 2>Loved it, Okay, all right.
<v Speaker 1>My other honorable mention is.
<v Speaker 2>A TV show based on a movie.
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay.
<v Speaker 2>The movie is called Moon Runners from nineteen seventy five.
<v Speaker 1>The movie is called moon Runners. That's right, that's got
<v Speaker 1>nothing okay? Oh oh wait, as in like moonshine Runners.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe is that it? That's it? Okay. I may come
<v Speaker 1>back and discuss that particular song with you in a
<v Speaker 1>future episode, But you've got to be talking about Dukes
<v Speaker 1>of Hazzard just a good old bone.
<v Speaker 3>They haven't made in no harm.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, absolutely, I'm talking about The Dukes of Hazzard, which
<v Speaker 2>ran from nineteen seventy nine to nineteen eighty five, with
<v Speaker 2>a little break in the middle with Vans and Koy.
<v Speaker 1>Remember when uh scabs Bow and Duke Bow and Luke
<v Speaker 1>got kicked out for a few episodes and then Vance
<v Speaker 1>and Koy came in.
<v Speaker 3>That didn't work.
<v Speaker 2>But the song is called good Old Boys. It's based
<v Speaker 2>on a movie called moon Runners. Waylon Jennings actually narrated
<v Speaker 2>that movie, and so they invited him back to narrate
<v Speaker 2>The Dukes.
<v Speaker 1>Of Hazzard as well as sing the theme song. Absolutely, absolutely, yes, sir,
<v Speaker 1>and I love that it starts off with the guitar, right,
<v Speaker 1>that's the first thing. How many times do you give
<v Speaker 1>so much credit to the theme music that you actually
<v Speaker 1>show the guy playing his guitar before you do. Scenes
<v Speaker 1>from the TV su point right, great point.
<v Speaker 2>This was released as a single in August of nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty reached number one on the Country Hit chart in
<v Speaker 2>November nineteen eighty. I'm including it in the set, but
<v Speaker 2>it was very, very easy to put it on the
<v Speaker 2>eighties as well.
<v Speaker 1>For sure. So be sure and tune into our future episodes.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe we've got more tidbits for you coming up, are okay?
<v Speaker 2>All right?
<v Speaker 1>So now we're onto my number one, Yes, and your
<v Speaker 1>number one and my number one? Okay, you go first, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>all right. One.
<v Speaker 2>So this comes from a television show that ran from
<v Speaker 2>nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty okay, starring an actor
<v Speaker 2>with local ties to you and I. In fact, there's
<v Speaker 2>a statue of him in downtown Norman, Oklahoma.
<v Speaker 1>I know exactly what it is. This is great because
<v Speaker 1>in our future episode, I'm going to be talking about
<v Speaker 1>the composer of that particular song. He is. Again, if
<v Speaker 1>you're playing a drinking game, his name is a name
<v Speaker 1>that you will need to remember. But I'm not going
<v Speaker 1>to step on your stories here. I'm just going to
<v Speaker 1>tell you you're talking about out James Garner and The
<v Speaker 1>Rockford Files.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so you alluded to it, but this is composed
<v Speaker 2>by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. Mike Post is gonna
<v Speaker 2>pop up left and right in our next episode, probably
<v Speaker 2>for guessing.
<v Speaker 1>There's no question.
<v Speaker 2>When they sat down with him to talk about The
<v Speaker 2>Rockford Files, yep, he said, Okay, tell me about the
<v Speaker 2>main character.
<v Speaker 1>I said, all right, here's the deal.
<v Speaker 2>It's casual, he's laid back, he's Oklahoma. And they said,
<v Speaker 2>whenever there's a fight, he tries to avoid.
<v Speaker 1>Getting in a fight. He's like, okay, I got it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Harmonica, They're like, yes. So he built this theme
<v Speaker 2>from that laid back Oklahoma feel that James Garner has.
<v Speaker 1>It's fantastic. I love it.
<v Speaker 2>By the way, This was released as a single in
<v Speaker 2>August of nineteen seventy five, made it to number ten
<v Speaker 2>on the Hot one hundred.
<v Speaker 1>So this one was his breakout hit he had at
<v Speaker 1>twenty three years old. Well, first, let me just let
<v Speaker 1>me let me back up just a little bit. So
<v Speaker 1>Mike Post is a you know, musical genius, yes, and
<v Speaker 1>just this laid back I mean he looks like a
<v Speaker 1>mechanic a normal guy. I can't tell you how many
<v Speaker 1>interviews I watched with him on the stuff that he's done.
<v Speaker 1>But anyway, after touring for a while with various acts
<v Speaker 1>that became pretty popular, he got a studio job and
<v Speaker 1>he wanted to just you know, get paid and play music,
<v Speaker 1>and so he started playing with this group of folks
<v Speaker 1>that some people refer to as the Wrecking Crew.
<v Speaker 3>No Way.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, so we've mentioned the Wrecking Crew probably multiple times
<v Speaker 1>at this point, but they are the band behind all
<v Speaker 1>of the bands, and if you just to sum it up,
<v Speaker 1>they're the band that Brian Wilson went to when he
<v Speaker 1>composed his masterpiece pet Sounds, and there's a documentary out
<v Speaker 1>there on him. But he's nineteen years old thrown in
<v Speaker 1>with these guys and he's just like in awe. He
<v Speaker 1>knows how good they are and he manages to impress
<v Speaker 1>them and becomes a part of their group. It's fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>He goes on, he does an arrangement for Classical Gas,
<v Speaker 1>which gets him his first Grammy at twenty three, and
<v Speaker 1>then that Rockford Files becomes a top ten hit and
<v Speaker 1>gets him his second Grammy.
<v Speaker 2>Listen to this, I'm gonna blow your socks off with
<v Speaker 2>this keep going. So he produces a couple albums that
<v Speaker 2>you've heard of. Yeah, he produces the Dolly Parton album
<v Speaker 2>that includes nine to five, which we will.
<v Speaker 1>Be talking about in our future episode nine to five
<v Speaker 1>versus mister Mom.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I can't wait to talk about that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>He also produced Van Halen three, I know, right, the
<v Speaker 2>one with Gary Cherone.
<v Speaker 1>Poor Gary Charon. But hey, honestly, that's not a bad
<v Speaker 1>album at all. Fantastic makes you want to go listen
<v Speaker 1>to it. He also back even before he produced Dolly Parton,
<v Speaker 1>he produced Kenny Rogers in first edition throw back to
<v Speaker 1>our Big Lebowski episode, Oh wow, just walked in to
<v Speaker 1>see what condition my condition was?
<v Speaker 2>In this Rockford Files theme song for forty years was
<v Speaker 2>the walkout music for the British football team, the Tranmer Rovers.
<v Speaker 1>That's that's awesome.
<v Speaker 3>Forty years.
<v Speaker 1>That's awesome. Okay, all right with that name, Mike Post,
<v Speaker 1>it's coming up later, all right, now.
<v Speaker 2>Ready for your number one?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, lay it on me. I can't believe it hasn't
<v Speaker 1>come up yet. Okay, okay, okay. So the composer on
<v Speaker 1>this particular song is a guy that we've talked about
<v Speaker 1>briefly before.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>The story that I talked about before was when this
<v Speaker 1>composer sat down with a guy and smoked a joint
<v Speaker 1>with him on a hill, and that guy was like, man,
<v Speaker 1>I really dig your music. I love your name, and
<v Speaker 1>so he gave his name as the first name and
<v Speaker 1>the middle name for his son would go on to
<v Speaker 1>blow our freaking minds with his ability to sing hard
<v Speaker 1>rock in a voice that was anything but hard rock.
<v Speaker 1>It was so beautiful, sounds very much like a classical composer.
<v Speaker 2>Godly, dude, I got nothing.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I have no clue. Okay. The name
<v Speaker 1>of the composer for the song that is in my
<v Speaker 1>number one spot is a guy named John Sebastian.
<v Speaker 2>John Sebastian, Yes, Sebastian Bach.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, got it. So the story was that John Sebastian
<v Speaker 1>Bach's dad got high John Sebastian.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it's all Okay, that's been like three years ago
<v Speaker 2>we talked about.
<v Speaker 1>So his dad was a huge fan of Love and Spoonful, right, Yes,
<v Speaker 1>John Sebastian was the lead guy for Love and Spoonful.
<v Speaker 1>He had started off just you know, playing regular clubs.
<v Speaker 1>Is kind of a solo act, and then he gets
<v Speaker 1>invited to do this little concert. He's standing next to
<v Speaker 1>the guys who started the who ran the concert, when
<v Speaker 1>the news comes over to him. They're like, hey, they
<v Speaker 1>they broke down the gate in the third quadrant. And
<v Speaker 1>the two guys go talk for a second and they go, well,
<v Speaker 1>I guess Woodstock is going to be a free concert now.
<v Speaker 1>So he was at Woodstock as a virtual unknown and
<v Speaker 1>goes on to form Love and Spoonful and then a
<v Speaker 1>series comes along that is created by a guy named
<v Speaker 1>Gabe Kaplan and Alan Sachs, and Alan Sachs says, I
<v Speaker 1>really want the theme music for this to be like
<v Speaker 1>a Love and Spoonful song. Okay, got it, And so
<v Speaker 1>they send John Sebastian the script, say hey, can you
<v Speaker 1>write a song for this? And so he reads the
<v Speaker 1>whole script and he's like, Okay, I I think I've
<v Speaker 1>got some ideas, but like, what's the name of this show?
<v Speaker 1>You know what it is. It's Welcome Back Cotter.
<v Speaker 3>Welcome back your dreams? Were you ticket.
<v Speaker 1>Perfect? But at the time that he got the script,
<v Speaker 1>the only name they had for it was Cotter. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>and John Sebastian was like, guys, are you serious you
<v Speaker 1>want me to write a song about Cotter? What is
<v Speaker 1>a rhyme for that Otter? What am I going to
<v Speaker 1>do with this?
<v Speaker 3>Right? Right?
<v Speaker 1>And he goes, do I have to use that name?
<v Speaker 1>And they were like, no, I guess you know, do
<v Speaker 1>what you want to do. And so he felt like
<v Speaker 1>the whole idea on that pilot episode was mister Carter
<v Speaker 1>is coming back to his old high school to teach,
<v Speaker 1>and he's having to kind of teach the kids that
<v Speaker 1>were he was once like when he was that age,
<v Speaker 1>and so it was a welcome back feeling that he got.
<v Speaker 1>That's how he got the title of the song, which
<v Speaker 1>then of course became the title of the series.
<v Speaker 2>I love it, I love it. I can't believe I
<v Speaker 2>overlooked that one. That's a great number one, thanks man,
<v Speaker 2>And it's a fantastic song and it was a great
<v Speaker 2>TV show.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I imagine that we'll talk about this a little bit
<v Speaker 2>when we talk about Grease in the Fall.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because it was the breakout for mister John Travolta
<v Speaker 1>movie star extraordinary of the late seventies and early eighties.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, all right, So that's our top five TV
<v Speaker 2>theme songs A nineteen seventy five to nineteen seventy nine.
<v Speaker 1>We want to make that distinction.
<v Speaker 2>We would love to hear what you think we missed
<v Speaker 2>and what's.
<v Speaker 1>Your top five? Yeah, don't forget rules are it has
<v Speaker 1>to be a song made for the series. That's rather
<v Speaker 1>than that. Give us what you got. Absolutely, thank you
<v Speaker 1>so much for supporting us. We look forward to seeing
<v Speaker 1>you next week.
<v Speaker 2>Bye guys,