Top 5 TV Theme Songs 1990-1994

<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirly You Can't
<v Speaker 1>Be Serious podcast. We are back again with another top
<v Speaker 1>five list. I'm so excited. I love these top five
<v Speaker 1>lists and our fans seem to love them too.
<v Speaker 2>I know they do pretty well, so why not keep
<v Speaker 2>doing them?
<v Speaker 1>And as far as top five lists go, my favorites
<v Speaker 1>so far have been our TV themes from seventies and
<v Speaker 1>the eighties, and so we here back today to jump
<v Speaker 1>back into it with the TV themes from the nineties.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna have two episodes. Episode one, we're going to
<v Speaker 1>cover TV themes from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety four,
<v Speaker 1>and in episode two, we're going to cover TV themes
<v Speaker 1>from nineteen ninety five to nineteen ninety nine.
<v Speaker 2>It sounds good to me. What were you doing in
<v Speaker 2>the mid to early nineties.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you know, it's interesting because you and I talked
<v Speaker 1>about when we were doing our very first episodes, when
<v Speaker 1>we were talking about Raiders of the Lost Arc versus
<v Speaker 1>Back to the Future, the difference in our ages, although
<v Speaker 1>it's just a couple of years and have a dramatic
<v Speaker 1>difference in what we were going through at a particular time.
<v Speaker 1>That's true So when eighty one, when Raiders came out,
<v Speaker 1>you were eight or so, eight or nine and I
<v Speaker 1>was five, right, And the difference between eight and five
<v Speaker 1>is huge, right, especially when you got people's faces melting off. Right.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't get to say that for another ten years
<v Speaker 1>after that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And so then you look again in the nineties, you
<v Speaker 1>go mid nineties, and I'm thinking in the mid nineties,
<v Speaker 1>Jason was getting married.
<v Speaker 2>I got married ninety six. Yeah, that's right.
<v Speaker 1>And in the mid nineties I was graduating from high school.
<v Speaker 2>That's a that's a big deal, that's right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's the.
<v Speaker 2>Different stages of life doing different things. So I don't know,
<v Speaker 2>we'll see. I'm really anxious. I don't know what your
<v Speaker 2>list is. You don't know what my list is, right,
<v Speaker 2>probably watching different things. I'm guessing we were watching different things.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm going to tell you right now, there are
<v Speaker 2>some TV themes that I have on here that are
<v Speaker 2>from shows that I didn't really watch and maybe didn't
<v Speaker 2>watch at all, but they're fantastic themes, and so I'm
<v Speaker 2>excited to talk about them. Okay, So here's the deal. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>So there are some themes that I have that I
<v Speaker 2>like the song. There are some things that I have
<v Speaker 2>that I like the TV show, and there's some themes
<v Speaker 2>that I have just because it reminds me of this era.
<v Speaker 2>I'm a very nostalgic person, so when I hear a song,
<v Speaker 2>it transports me back. Now that doesn't mean I am
<v Speaker 2>in love with the song, but I might be in
<v Speaker 2>love with a few moments that I associate. I'm a
<v Speaker 2>tangled mess of nostalgia and you know popcorn and you
<v Speaker 2>know chocolate.
<v Speaker 1>I gotta tell you there is one show that did
<v Speaker 1>not make my cut, but I kept thinking to myself,
<v Speaker 1>I know there's a strong chance that Jason's going to
<v Speaker 1>pick this just because of his love for the show.
<v Speaker 1>So I'm interested to see if it makes it onto
<v Speaker 1>one of your lists.
<v Speaker 2>All right, man, well let's let's do this.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, First we set out the rules. What we do
<v Speaker 1>is we cover the first part will be THEV themes
<v Speaker 1>from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety four. The only thing
<v Speaker 1>that you have to do to qualify to be in
<v Speaker 1>that realm is you have some episodes that were released
<v Speaker 1>during that time, right. And then the other rule is
<v Speaker 1>it has to be a theme that was created specifically
<v Speaker 1>for the show can't have golden girls, we can't have
<v Speaker 1>one years, we can't have married with children because those
<v Speaker 1>were all songs that were reissued for the show. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>I see a nervous look over there. I think you
<v Speaker 1>forgot that rule. A little panic is setting in. Maybe
<v Speaker 1>maybe all right, Well we'll see. With that being said,
<v Speaker 1>these could be shows that you guys may associate with
<v Speaker 1>the later part of the decade. You may associate it
<v Speaker 1>with the eighties. Could be any of them, but they
<v Speaker 1>can fall as long as they've got some episodes that
<v Speaker 1>came out in the years that we have, first part
<v Speaker 1>being ninety to ninety four, second part being ninety five
<v Speaker 1>to ninety nine, And it qualifies.
<v Speaker 2>Sounds good.
<v Speaker 1>Let's do this all right now, Jason. The way that
<v Speaker 1>we typically do this is we give each other teasers
<v Speaker 1>and let the other guy try to guess it. And
<v Speaker 1>as a matter of fact, it's my favorite part of
<v Speaker 1>what we do, and so I kind of focused on that.
<v Speaker 1>All right, So here you go number five for me. Five.
<v Speaker 1>This show aired from October of nineteen eighty eight until
<v Speaker 1>March of nineteen ninety seven. It was the number one
<v Speaker 1>series from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety and in
<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety the title character kind of got canceled. Now,
<v Speaker 1>the show went on, obviously for many years after that,
<v Speaker 1>so she wasn't completely canceled, but then she got canceled again,
<v Speaker 1>canceled maybe even a handful of times. And in twenty
<v Speaker 1>twelve she received seventy thousand votes for the US President.
<v Speaker 1>You know what show I'm talking about.
<v Speaker 2>It's got to be Roseanne.
<v Speaker 1>You got a buddy, I love it? Yes, Okay, Now,
<v Speaker 1>I had my own mind blown as I started looking
<v Speaker 1>at this right. So the first thing that I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>do is I'm gonna look at the composers. Okay, sure,
<v Speaker 1>I see the first composer's name, and I'm like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>that's the same name as the first law firm I
<v Speaker 1>clerk for in law school. And I started thinking, I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>wait a minute. That lawyer told me that his son
<v Speaker 1>was a music composer in Hollywood, and I looked it up,
<v Speaker 1>and sure enough, Dan Folliart is the son of James D. Folliart,
<v Speaker 1>who I worked for my first year in law school
<v Speaker 1>and for the remaining years of law school. He was
<v Speaker 1>born in like nineteen nineteen. He was in his eighties.
<v Speaker 1>Whenever I met him, you know, he wasn't really practicing
<v Speaker 1>law anymore. He was just the guy Carrie and the
<v Speaker 1>you know, the the rain making. But he's, you know,
<v Speaker 1>just I met him a few times, this old eighty
<v Speaker 1>year old man. He's like, yeah, my son's a composer.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, oh, old guy. What Yeah. So, Dan Folliart
<v Speaker 1>and a couple of other guys were composers for this song.
<v Speaker 1>The other guys are Howard Pearl, who did the TV
<v Speaker 1>version of the ninety to five series, and then a
<v Speaker 1>guy named W. G. Snuffy Walden, who composed the music
<v Speaker 1>for the West Wing. He actually started as a guitarist
<v Speaker 1>for an episode of Laverne and Shirley, but went on
<v Speaker 1>to compose many many more TV shows.
<v Speaker 2>I'm a huge fan of NOTTHEW.
<v Speaker 1>Walden.
<v Speaker 2>I'll just tell.
<v Speaker 1>You you should be, because this bluesy theme is friggin'
<v Speaker 1>awesome blue I love this TV theme. It's super catchy, right,
<v Speaker 1>It is very catchy. And one of the guys that
<v Speaker 1>loved the theme of the show had his own band,
<v Speaker 1>and a few years later he ends up being in
<v Speaker 1>the show as Dan Connor's old high school band. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>now you know that the theme for the show is
<v Speaker 1>strong on harmonica. Right, Well, this guy's name who's a
<v Speaker 1>big fan of the show is John Popper. You might
<v Speaker 1>better know him as the lead singer for a group
<v Speaker 1>called the Blues Traveler.
<v Speaker 2>Whoa are you serious?
<v Speaker 1>Yes? And so for like their final season, it's actually
<v Speaker 1>John Popper, a Blues Traveler, playing the harmonica for the
<v Speaker 1>show theme.
<v Speaker 2>That's wonderful, good job like it.
<v Speaker 1>Original harmonica player John Luke Logan.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so that brings me to my number five.
<v Speaker 1>You're a number five, all right, your honor.
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna ask for a bend in the rules here, Okay, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>So here's the deal. This song was not created for
<v Speaker 2>this show. However, I'm gonna make the case that it
<v Speaker 2>was rescued from total obscurity.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So it wasn't a popular song, wasn't well known. The
<v Speaker 2>field producer for this show just happened to be a
<v Speaker 2>fan of this band, and so he's like, what about
<v Speaker 2>this song, this obscure track that nobody knows for the
<v Speaker 2>theme of the show, And it literally became like the
<v Speaker 2>biggest thing ever.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Okay, Oh.
<v Speaker 2>My gosh, if I say the name of this TV show.
<v Speaker 2>You're gonna sing the words of this song.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So here's the deal. This song reached number eight on
<v Speaker 2>the Hot one hundred when it was released as a
<v Speaker 2>single June twelfth of nineteen ninety three. So it peaked
<v Speaker 2>out at number eight. That's blocking Living on the Edge
<v Speaker 2>and Come undone by Duran Durant. Okay, Okay, So this
<v Speaker 2>song was originally off an album that was released in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty seven.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>The band's name is Inner Circle.
<v Speaker 1>Okay that do anything for you? No, I haven't got
<v Speaker 1>it yet, all right.
<v Speaker 2>The follow up single was a song called Sweat La
<v Speaker 2>La La La La La.
<v Speaker 1>Nothing empty space. All right.
<v Speaker 2>When I say the TV show, yeah, I want you
<v Speaker 2>sing the lyrics of this song.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>The TV show is called Cops.
<v Speaker 1>Bad Boys, Bad Boys. What you're gonna do, What you're
<v Speaker 1>gonna do when they come for you? Just because that
<v Speaker 1>is such a freaking awesome song, I will accept the
<v Speaker 1>fact that it was not originally composed for the TV.
<v Speaker 1>You receive a pass, serve, thank you, well done. That
<v Speaker 1>is awesome.
<v Speaker 2>Bad Boys, Bad Boys? What's it gonna do? What's he
<v Speaker 2>gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys, bad boys.
<v Speaker 2>What's it going to do? What's he gonna do? When
<v Speaker 2>bad boys? Bad boys? I mean, come on.
<v Speaker 1>Fantastic?
<v Speaker 3>All right?
<v Speaker 1>All right? Number four four, number four all right. This
<v Speaker 1>song comes from a show that began in nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 1>seven and ran until nineteen ninety six. It was based
<v Speaker 1>on comic books from the mid eighties, but the comic
<v Speaker 1>books were much darker. There's a new movie of it
<v Speaker 1>about to come out. The original comic characters were created
<v Speaker 1>by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.
<v Speaker 2>Cat Anything yet, No, you're exposing my my street cred
<v Speaker 2>to my comic book buddies. But keep going.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Now, this one's going to blow your mind here, right, okay, Ready.
<v Speaker 1>There are two composers on this song. Right. One of
<v Speaker 1>the composers is called the King of Sitcoms. Right. He's
<v Speaker 1>not just a music guy, but he is also a
<v Speaker 1>a producer, a director, a writer. His name is Chuck Lorie.
<v Speaker 1>His partner's name is Dennis Brown, and Dennis has written
<v Speaker 1>for some of the shows that Chuck has produced, some
<v Speaker 1>of which are Grace, under Fire, Dharma and Greg Two
<v Speaker 1>and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory.
<v Speaker 2>It was a big Hitters man.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right, So this song was composed by those guys.
<v Speaker 1>By the way, Chuck Lury was also one of the
<v Speaker 1>executive producers of Roseanne.
<v Speaker 2>I know who Juck Glory is.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, last hint, Okay, look at my T shirt.
<v Speaker 2>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles You got it? What?
<v Speaker 3>Yes?
<v Speaker 2>Your very Threadbarren T shirt.
<v Speaker 1>I might add this is one of my favorite Nobody
<v Speaker 1>ever tries to pick a fight with me when I'm wearing.
<v Speaker 2>This shirt that nineteen ninety three right there.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So it's fascinating to me that this song was
<v Speaker 1>written by a guy who's really better known for producing,
<v Speaker 1>I mean a ton of sitcoms. He went to college
<v Speaker 1>for a couple of years, dropped out, toured around as
<v Speaker 1>a musician, and he wrote a song called French Kissin'
<v Speaker 1>that was performed by Missus Deborah Harry.
<v Speaker 2>Missus Deborah Harry of Blondie You got It?
<v Speaker 1>Whoa? And that wasn't enough to keep the bills paid
<v Speaker 1>for him, so he started writing scripts for a show
<v Speaker 1>called Heathcliff Heathcliff the Cat you got.
<v Speaker 2>It, Oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 1>Lines from the song Raphael is cool but rude, Give
<v Speaker 1>me a break. Michael Angelo is a party, dude, party.
<v Speaker 2>I can't fault you. I can't fault you. Have you
<v Speaker 2>seen the Netflix show The Toys That Made Us?
<v Speaker 1>I have?
<v Speaker 2>Have you seen the one on Teenage Mutant Ninja Tause Gosh, dang,
<v Speaker 2>you talk about two college dudes who are just like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>check it out Turtles doing Ninja stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Our friend who has a movie coming out on national
<v Speaker 1>release that I did an interview with just a couple
<v Speaker 1>of months ago, Kyle Roberts. He made his name big
<v Speaker 1>by doing like stop action animation homages to the Teenage
<v Speaker 1>Mutant Ninja Turtles, and one of the producers on his
<v Speaker 1>movie is also a producer on the original Teenage Mutant
<v Speaker 1>Ninja Turtles movie. So he's he's a I mean, I
<v Speaker 1>went to his office. He's got that stuff all over
<v Speaker 1>the place. Right, It's right and awesome. But I love
<v Speaker 1>that this show is timeless because this morning, as I'm
<v Speaker 1>like going through all of the possibilities, I tell my
<v Speaker 1>son Caleb, I'm like, hey, put on Teenage Mutant Ninja
<v Speaker 1>Turtles theme song. He puts it on and we're listening
<v Speaker 1>to it, and all of a sudden, he's singing along
<v Speaker 1>like he's singing all of the words. Really, and I'm like, dude,
<v Speaker 1>this show it ended over ten years before you were born.
<v Speaker 2>This is my number four.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, all right.
<v Speaker 2>This song is actually titled Materia primorris.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I know it. This is the theme for the iconic,
<v Speaker 1>the unstoppable, the amazing, The X Files. Okay, so every
<v Speaker 1>time I hear this song, it gives me the feels.
<v Speaker 1>You remember Sadanus by Enigma back in like the early nineties, Satanists, Satanists,
<v Speaker 1>sad I'd have to hear it to recognize it. I
<v Speaker 1>didn't recognize that title, but yes, I know that sock. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>I mean you remember the like three and a half
<v Speaker 1>weeks in nineteen ninety four when everybody started listening Gregorian Chance. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I bought the CD. I'm not kidding. I had the
<v Speaker 1>Gregorian Chance CD. By the way, that was recorded in
<v Speaker 1>the eighties. I had to go look, I go down
<v Speaker 1>these rabbit holes. I can't help it. Okay, but anyway,
<v Speaker 1>The X Files music has that kind of mystical, ominous
<v Speaker 1>sure new age field that no other TV show was
<v Speaker 1>doing at the time.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So this was composed by a guy named Mark
<v Speaker 2>Snow and he was sitting with Chris Carter and they
<v Speaker 2>were working on the theme song, and he kept playing
<v Speaker 2>it for him, and Chris Carter's like, you know, it's
<v Speaker 2>pretty good, but it's missing something. And out of frustration,
<v Speaker 2>Mark Snow leaned over put his arm on the keyboard
<v Speaker 2>and it made this reverberating echo sound, and he said,
<v Speaker 2>that was what was missing. Are you kidding?
<v Speaker 1>Accidental drip? Man. I don't know how many times I've
<v Speaker 1>said I got you gotta love it when that stuff happened.
<v Speaker 2>I know, man, you remember the guy on Sesame Street.
<v Speaker 2>They'd be like playing had a little lamb and then
<v Speaker 2>he'd be like, I'll never get it right and bang
<v Speaker 2>his head on the piano. That reminds me of this story.
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic, okay number three three. Yes. This show ran
<v Speaker 1>from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety six. The title character
<v Speaker 1>is also the composer of the lyrics of the.
<v Speaker 2>Song ooh okay.
<v Speaker 1>The composer composer of the song we've talked about before
<v Speaker 1>in our very first episode, a guy named Quincy Jones.
<v Speaker 2>I got it. This is the fresh Prince of bell Air. Now,
<v Speaker 2>this is the story all about how my life.
<v Speaker 3>Got twimpurns upside down, and.
<v Speaker 2>I'd like to take a manager.
<v Speaker 1>Sit right there, I'll tell you how it became the
<v Speaker 1>prince of a town called bell Air. You got it, buddy,
<v Speaker 1>all right? I was going to tease you with it. It
<v Speaker 1>was produced by a fellow named Jeffrey Towns, which you
<v Speaker 1>might know better as DJ Jazzy Jeff. So Quincy Jones
<v Speaker 1>had come up with the music to this Jazzy Jeff.
<v Speaker 1>Jeffrey Towns is sitting with Will Smith and they're talking
<v Speaker 1>and saying, why don't we write some lyrics to this
<v Speaker 1>and make it a little more like our hit from
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty eight, Parents Just Don't Understand. Yeah. They come
<v Speaker 1>up with the lyrics. They go to Quincy Jones and
<v Speaker 1>he's like, I love it. Yeah. It is released in
<v Speaker 1>the nineties, I think in Netherlands and Spain it's released
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen ninety two. The B side is parents Just
<v Speaker 1>Don't Understand, right, and it is in the top five
<v Speaker 1>in both of those countries. As a single, it.
<v Speaker 2>Reaches number three in the Netherlands number two in Spain.
<v Speaker 2>And I've got some more to add about it in
<v Speaker 2>just a few moments.
<v Speaker 1>All right. Then, by the way. Name of the song
<v Speaker 1>that nobody calls it is called Yo Home to bell Air.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so we're to my number three. Okay. I don't
<v Speaker 2>have a lot on this song. Here's what I know.
<v Speaker 2>The show started in nineteen eighty nine and ran through
<v Speaker 2>the nineties. I caught it all the time on syndication.
<v Speaker 2>I really enjoyed this show. The first episode that I
<v Speaker 2>watched was because they had Barry Switzer on as a
<v Speaker 2>guest on the show. Okay, Arir Switzer, former head coach
<v Speaker 2>of University of Oklahoma.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, okay.
<v Speaker 2>Now, then the theme song for this TV show was
<v Speaker 2>written and composed by a guy named John Morrise and
<v Speaker 2>performed by the Iowa State cyclone football Varsity Marching Band.
<v Speaker 1>I have no idea, no idea.
<v Speaker 2>No, I'm thinking this has escaped to you, so.
<v Speaker 1>All I can. I've just got the Boomer Sooner themes
<v Speaker 1>running through my head. That's all I've got.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So this was the theme song for a fictional
<v Speaker 2>college football team, the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles.
<v Speaker 1>Is this the theme song from coach Coach Nice?
<v Speaker 3>Yes?
<v Speaker 2>See? That song is so good it should be for
<v Speaker 2>an active college football program right now?
<v Speaker 1>You know, I watched Coach all the time growing up.
<v Speaker 1>I haven't heard that song since the night is Yes,
<v Speaker 1>I love it.
<v Speaker 2>Great. Okay, there you go, the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles.
<v Speaker 1>One of the actors in that show will come into
<v Speaker 1>play minor in the show that I'm going to talk
<v Speaker 1>about on our next episode.
<v Speaker 2>You know, we talked a little bit about Craig T. Nelson.
<v Speaker 2>We talked about the Incredibles.
<v Speaker 1>Right, because he is the voice of mister Incredible.
<v Speaker 2>Mister Incredible. Yea awesome, okay to you number.
<v Speaker 1>Two, right right, two, Okay, here's my number two. This
<v Speaker 1>show ran from nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety five.
<v Speaker 1>It got rebooted in twenty sixteen and ran for four years.
<v Speaker 1>But when it got rebooted, although a lot of the
<v Speaker 1>cast members came back, the actresses that played the babies
<v Speaker 1>in the show did not come back because they had
<v Speaker 1>become mega millionaires from their makeup and fashion enterprises.
<v Speaker 2>Okay it is it's gotta be full house.
<v Speaker 1>You nailed it.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, How did they handle that? I don't even know
<v Speaker 2>what they did when the Olsen Twins didn't return.
<v Speaker 1>I think the Lsin Twins turned me down.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well yeah, but in the new version of the show.
<v Speaker 2>They just like they moved to Alaska or something.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they just have you know, minor mentioned and then
<v Speaker 1>move on with your life.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, listen. I don't know how many times that show
<v Speaker 2>has been shown in syndication, but for like generations of
<v Speaker 2>young girls, they they love that show.
<v Speaker 1>Right after I got done telling Caleb that teenage Mutant
<v Speaker 1>Ninja Turtles might very well make my list, my daughter
<v Speaker 1>in the back goes, You're gonna have full house on there, right,
<v Speaker 1>I was like, it was the second theme that I
<v Speaker 1>thought of when we picked our a nice second theme.
<v Speaker 1>This song is called Everywhere You Look by Jesse Frederick.
<v Speaker 1>Jesse Frederick also wrote the theme to Perfect Strangers, Family Matters,
<v Speaker 1>and Step by Step. All of them great, all of
<v Speaker 1>them the same kind of feel. I love the theme
<v Speaker 1>of Perfect Strangers one of my favorites, and Family Matters
<v Speaker 1>too for that matter. Yeah, but here's here's the interesting
<v Speaker 1>piece of trivia that I'm gonna throw at you on
<v Speaker 1>this one. All right, Okay, ready, So there was an
<v Speaker 1>actor named Scott Weiner. Okay, yeah, he played DJ's boyfriend,
<v Speaker 1>Candace Cameron's boyfriend on the show.
<v Speaker 3>Right.
<v Speaker 1>He came back for Fuller House and was kind of
<v Speaker 1>a more major character because they were they had been
<v Speaker 1>a couple or whatever. Right, Okay, he is the voice
<v Speaker 1>for Aladdin in the original Aladdin movie from Disney.
<v Speaker 2>That's a that's a great nugget, right there. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>would have no idea what that guy looks like.
<v Speaker 3>Right.
<v Speaker 1>Well, So I was watching Fuller House and there's this
<v Speaker 1>kind of awkward scene where he sings with Candace Cameron
<v Speaker 1>and they're both awful. I mean, they're just awful, and
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, you can't be awful.
<v Speaker 2>He was Aladdin seriously.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Well, it's because they had a different guy sing
<v Speaker 1>the songs than the guy who was voicing the character.
<v Speaker 2>You have just destroyed my world by telling me that
<v Speaker 2>it's a whole new world.
<v Speaker 1>You're you're gonna lop him up to me.
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna have that, all right, Okay, all right, So
<v Speaker 2>we're to my number two. All right? So my number
<v Speaker 2>two is a song that's very colorful and fun. It's
<v Speaker 2>a song that gets its basis off of a song
<v Speaker 2>from the summer of nineteen eighty eight.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>This TV show ran from September of nineteen ninety through
<v Speaker 2>May of ninety six. It has the line Yo Holmes,
<v Speaker 2>smell you lator in it.
<v Speaker 1>There you go, Yeah, that's it is. The Fresh Prince
<v Speaker 1>of bel Air is in.
<v Speaker 3>West Philindelbia Bonn and rais on the playground of Ammathon.
<v Speaker 4>Most of my days chilling out Max and relaxing, all cooling,
<v Speaker 4>shooting some people outside of.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, Yes, And the opening theme for this looks just
<v Speaker 2>like parents. Just don't understand. You've got the same kind
<v Speaker 2>of mom character.
<v Speaker 1>From the video. Yeah, I could be the same actress.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure.
<v Speaker 2>It probably was. Ye, you've got the graffiti line background.
<v Speaker 2>So I think this is more like an eighties theme
<v Speaker 2>song because it tells what the show is about. It
<v Speaker 2>explains the plot. It gives you everything you need to know.
<v Speaker 2>Instead of trying to make a hit song, which you
<v Speaker 2>know some of these looks like they're trying to make
<v Speaker 2>hit songs.
<v Speaker 1>Well, they made a hit song. It did very well,
<v Speaker 1>especially in the Netherlands and Spain. And if somebody says
<v Speaker 1>Jo Holmes and you don't say smell you later afterwards
<v Speaker 1>you grew up under a rock or something, that's it.
<v Speaker 2>Mister Willard smith.
<v Speaker 1>YEP also sort of canceled in the last couple of years. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>So now before we get to our number one picks,
<v Speaker 1>we have our honorable mentions. And I got to tell
<v Speaker 1>you this was a struggle for me. I didn't think
<v Speaker 1>that I would even be able to come up with
<v Speaker 1>fourteen songs. I got probably eighteen or twenty, and I
<v Speaker 1>was there are a few of them that I was
<v Speaker 1>able to bonk, but it was hard for me to
<v Speaker 1>pick which ones we're going to fall to the honorable
<v Speaker 1>mention category, right, Okay, yep, I'm with you all right now.
<v Speaker 1>The first one is a reboot that occurred in the
<v Speaker 1>early nineties of the Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes episodes Oh Wow, okay.
<v Speaker 1>It was produced by Steven Spielberg. It actually won the
<v Speaker 1>Emmy for a Best Original Song for a TV Show.
<v Speaker 1>Do you know what it is?
<v Speaker 2>And a Manix?
<v Speaker 1>No, but that's a good guess because they're very close.
<v Speaker 1>This show was called Tiny Tunes, or to be precise,
<v Speaker 1>Tiny tuone Adventures.
<v Speaker 2>Tiny Tuning were all.
<v Speaker 1>The composer was a guy named Bruce Broughton, who was
<v Speaker 1>also involved for composing for the TV show Dallas and
<v Speaker 1>also composing for the TV show Look Rogers. With dozens
<v Speaker 1>of others, but this is one that I think he
<v Speaker 1>absolutely nailed. Eel of the old school Looney Tunes sound.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I didn't watch the show, but I knew my
<v Speaker 2>younger siblings did, and it was around and I was
<v Speaker 2>familiar with it. So yeah, great theme song, good nill mention.
<v Speaker 2>I like it.
<v Speaker 1>Thanks. My second honorable mention, This one was actually Mojo's
<v Speaker 1>number one pick for cartoon themes, and I was shocked.
<v Speaker 1>But it was not a show that I watched. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>it is a show that's theme is very good and
<v Speaker 1>a show that was probably popular with a lot of
<v Speaker 1>our listeners. This was the theme from X Men, the
<v Speaker 1>animated series by Ron washing Won. It also has a
<v Speaker 1>very similar sound to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
<v Speaker 2>That's right, which we did. We covered Roger Rabbit? Who
<v Speaker 2>Framed Roger Rabbit over at the Docking Bay seventy seven
<v Speaker 2>podcast with our buddy Daton Johnson. That was one of
<v Speaker 2>our Summer of eighty eight movies.
<v Speaker 1>It's a great movie and it's a great episode. Be
<v Speaker 1>sure and go over and check out Dayton's podcast Docking
<v Speaker 1>Base seventy seven.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, a lot of fun. Okay, no, wait a minute,
<v Speaker 2>I've heard this theme before, and I'll tell you how
<v Speaker 2>I heard it.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, when my boys were.
<v Speaker 2>Young, we would go to the library and we would
<v Speaker 2>check out DVD's and they always want to check out
<v Speaker 2>Spider Man, X Men, Credible Hulk, all those things. So
<v Speaker 2>it doesn't hit me in the nineties. It hits me
<v Speaker 2>in the early two thousands. But that is a great
<v Speaker 2>theme song.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, that's I love it. Ron Washerman is a
<v Speaker 1>fantastic guitarist. I'm gonna talk about him again in just
<v Speaker 1>a second, but that is a great TV theme.
<v Speaker 2>Interesting, Okay, very good.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So we're up to my honorable mentions. Yes, okay, I've
<v Speaker 2>got two that you're gonna know, but you're not gonna
<v Speaker 2>know him probably until I play them. Okay, okay, So
<v Speaker 2>my first honorable mention is for a TV show that
<v Speaker 2>I unabashedly, unapologetically absolutely love, Spike the Football, and it
<v Speaker 2>will destroy my street cred because it is the dorkiest, goofiest,
<v Speaker 2>dumbest show ever and I love it. It's like eating
<v Speaker 2>chocolate chip cookies for dinner. I don't care, I'd love it.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So the song is sung by a woman named Jill Calucci, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>This song started in nineteen eighty nine, and the reason
<v Speaker 2>why I know that is because I taped I VCR
<v Speaker 2>taped the first episode, and I traded the tape around
<v Speaker 2>my baseball team because everybody wanted to watch the video.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, all right.
<v Speaker 2>The song is called the Funny Things You.
<v Speaker 1>Do is It's an animated No, I got nothing.
<v Speaker 2>How about if I say it like this? You're the Red, white,
<v Speaker 2>and blue. Oh the Funny Things you Do America, America?
<v Speaker 4>This is you.
<v Speaker 1>This is drawing an absolute blank for.
<v Speaker 2>All right, hang on before I give you the theme song.
<v Speaker 2>The host of this show, and this bowled me over.
<v Speaker 2>The guy who created the show wanted John Ritter to
<v Speaker 2>host the show. He didn't get one of the funniest
<v Speaker 2>men ever to be born. He got one of the
<v Speaker 2>least funny men to ever be born, Bob Saggat.
<v Speaker 1>Is this from America's Funniest Some Video?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, of course, this is from America's Funny Some Videos.
<v Speaker 3>Got Masting Coast to make small caps on.
<v Speaker 1>I think Bob Sagga is hilarious.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 1>He had to make corny jokes on that show. If
<v Speaker 1>you've seen his live performance, he is a dirty mouth comic.
<v Speaker 2>I know. I can't believe it. The first time I
<v Speaker 2>saw him, like legit comic stand up, I was like,
<v Speaker 2>you're shocked, America's read America's dad is cussing all over
<v Speaker 2>the place. Yeah, I can't believe that's the same person.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, God rest his soul. I think he was a
<v Speaker 1>fantastic comedian.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, did you watch this show.
<v Speaker 1>America's Funny Something? Yes? Yeah, I mean it.
<v Speaker 2>Was rule you had to everybody.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Absolutely.
<v Speaker 2>I remember there were times in my life where I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>I'm kind of down, I'm kind of bummed out popping
<v Speaker 2>on AFB.
<v Speaker 1>How many times did something happen in your life that
<v Speaker 1>you went, Man, if we had that on video, we
<v Speaker 1>would win America.
<v Speaker 2>That's true, that's true.
<v Speaker 3>Right.
<v Speaker 2>Do you remember when Daisy Flintest took over?
<v Speaker 1>I think I quit watching at that point.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, here is my second honorable mention.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, so I'm off.
<v Speaker 2>The beaten track. You know I like to do this
<v Speaker 2>every once in a while.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>This was a jingle, a theme song that NBC played
<v Speaker 2>between the years nineteen ninety and two thousand and two
<v Speaker 2>twelve thousand times. Now, the name of it is called
<v Speaker 2>round Ball Rock. This was written by John Tesh.
<v Speaker 1>D John Tesh the Er John Entertainment.
<v Speaker 2>Tonight, John tesh Okay, Okay, now listen to this. He
<v Speaker 2>came up with a melody while at a hotel. He
<v Speaker 2>called his home answering machine and sang the tune so
<v Speaker 2>he wouldn't forget it.
<v Speaker 1>I can identify with that.
<v Speaker 2>This was also revived for the Summer Olympics for two
<v Speaker 2>thousand and eight, twenty sixteen, twenty twenty. Nelly sampled this
<v Speaker 2>for his song Heart of a Champion.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I'm a big Nelly fan.
<v Speaker 2>I know, right, So let me play round Ball Rock
<v Speaker 2>for you and see if you can place it.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, So, NBA on NBC, NBA on NBC.
<v Speaker 2>Because everybody in the entire United States was watching the
<v Speaker 2>Chicago Bulls. Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler, John Stockton,
<v Speaker 2>Carl Malone, all these guys played basketball in the early nineties.
<v Speaker 2>It was truly the greatest time to be an NBA fan.
<v Speaker 2>So round Ball Rock is a song I very much
<v Speaker 2>associate with the early nineties and watching Jordan Barkley.
<v Speaker 1>All those guys. Fantastic. Okay, are you ready for my
<v Speaker 1>number one?
<v Speaker 2>I'm ready for your number one.
<v Speaker 1>One.
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna cry if it's my number one, But keep going.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think there's any way on God's green Earth
<v Speaker 1>that this will be your n Okay, because I like
<v Speaker 1>you decided to do something that was a strong deviation.
<v Speaker 1>I mentioned at the beginning of this episode that I
<v Speaker 1>picked some songs on shows that I didn't even watch. Right,
<v Speaker 1>I did not watch this show. I am familiar with
<v Speaker 1>it because my kids watched it. Okay, but here are
<v Speaker 1>your clues. Okay again. Our composer is Ron Wasserman. Although
<v Speaker 1>he listed himself at that time as Aaron Waters or
<v Speaker 1>the Mighty Raw, he had gotten a job as musician.
<v Speaker 1>He had gotten a job filling in at the production
<v Speaker 1>company which was called Sabon Entertainment, and then he just
<v Speaker 1>ended up staying for six and a half years. He
<v Speaker 1>ends up writing the song for X Men, the animated series,
<v Speaker 1>which we played just a second ago, and then he
<v Speaker 1>was given some raw footage of this new show that
<v Speaker 1>they were going to do. The new show took some
<v Speaker 1>adopted stock footage from a Japanese TV series that was
<v Speaker 1>part of Toy's Super SINAI O K now. When he
<v Speaker 1>got this footage, the producer, the owner of the entertainment company, said,
<v Speaker 1>I want you to use the word go. He used
<v Speaker 1>it twice in the song. This part amazed me. He
<v Speaker 1>composed this on a keyboard that was preloaded with guitar
<v Speaker 1>and drum sounds because he didn't play guitar and drum.
<v Speaker 1>But I'm gonna let you take a listen to the song.
<v Speaker 1>You may not even recognize it. This may be so
<v Speaker 1>far out of your wheelhouse that you don't recognize it.
<v Speaker 1>But I think you're going to love it.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, it's kick.
<v Speaker 2>But right, that's very catchy. I love it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. What is that.
<v Speaker 2>Edi been Halen on guitar right here?
<v Speaker 3>Ba? God? That you never a baby?
<v Speaker 1>Now, before I get to the title, I just want
<v Speaker 1>to tell you, okay, I just got to tell you this.
<v Speaker 1>I put that music on and it was the extended version,
<v Speaker 1>and I was like, maybe this was good. I don't
<v Speaker 1>really remember. I have the theme from the movie that
<v Speaker 1>came out in the two thousands because I use it
<v Speaker 1>when I'm working out, and I started listening to this,
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, this is these are my words in my head.
<v Speaker 1>This is so kick ass that I am not going
<v Speaker 1>to turn it off. Reminder he was told to use
<v Speaker 1>the word go no, wow, that is great.
<v Speaker 2>I've never I don't know if I know that song.
<v Speaker 1>Right, So you're probably completely unfamiliar. This probably hit in
<v Speaker 1>that space that you didn't have your kids listening to it,
<v Speaker 1>and you didn't listen to it. But I knew you
<v Speaker 1>would love it because this could be a hair metal
<v Speaker 1>rock anthem from the late eighties, right right. It is fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>I just I gotta say I was I had listened
<v Speaker 1>to it. I had gone work out, listened to a
<v Speaker 1>couple more times. I get back to the house, I'm
<v Speaker 1>in the kitchen, I'm getting the kids ready for school,
<v Speaker 1>and it just comes out. I'm like, go go Power Rangers,
<v Speaker 1>and I hear Caleb he was up the stairs go.
<v Speaker 3>Done on on on.
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, yeah, that's great, man. I was in college.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't have kids. Totally bypassed me.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. This started in ninety three ended in ninety six.
<v Speaker 1>You were wooing your wife for those four years, you know. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so you weren't interested in in Japanese knockoff American TV.
<v Speaker 1>This is true, Yeah, but it has I think the
<v Speaker 1>song is probably the best part of the show, and
<v Speaker 1>they've redone it multiple times. But when they did the movie,
<v Speaker 1>they featured Eric Martin of Mister Big Yeah, and on
<v Speaker 1>drums they had Matt Sourm who had played drums for
<v Speaker 1>Guns and Roses. Yes. So if you had told me
<v Speaker 1>yesterday that I would be picking this song as my
<v Speaker 1>number one song, yeah, yeah, I don't even know what
<v Speaker 1>that song.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's great, that's great. Okay, So, speaking of songs
<v Speaker 2>that are better than the show, Yeah, are you ready
<v Speaker 2>for my number one?
<v Speaker 1>Let's hear it.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, It's not as kick butt as yours, but I
<v Speaker 2>definitely heavy associate this with early nineties Denim and Moose
<v Speaker 2>all that stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, right, I think I already know what it is, really,
<v Speaker 1>can I say it? I guess it?
<v Speaker 2>Yes?
<v Speaker 1>Is it Saved by the Bell?
<v Speaker 2>No, it's not.
<v Speaker 1>Oh is it Beverly Hills nine two one? Oh?
<v Speaker 3>No?
<v Speaker 2>But you're in You're in the area.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, you're in the area. Yeah, all right, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>This show was canceled after twelve episodes one season. Didn't
<v Speaker 2>make it. Show didn't make it. The song hits number
<v Speaker 2>one in November of nineteen ninety two songs written by
<v Speaker 2>the guy named Stephen Terrell, American singer producer. Okay. He
<v Speaker 2>had produced bj Thomas his version of hooked on a
<v Speaker 2>Feeling Love that Okay? And rain Drops Keep Falling on
<v Speaker 2>My Head.
<v Speaker 1>Which Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid, one of the
<v Speaker 1>greatest movies of all time. Yes.
<v Speaker 2>Now, then, the lead singer for this particular song is
<v Speaker 2>an actor named Jamie Walters. I See You're stumped. Jamie
<v Speaker 2>Walters also had a number sixteen Hot one hundred hit
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen ninety four called hold On Nothing.
<v Speaker 1>I mean if I heard that song maybe Okay?
<v Speaker 2>Now, then get this this song dethroned into the Road
<v Speaker 2>by Boys to Men knock them out of the number
<v Speaker 2>one spot. Wow, one of the biggest songs of the nineties.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah get Out. It also blocked I Die Without You
<v Speaker 2>by PM Don and Sometimes Loved Just Ain't Enough Patty
<v Speaker 2>Smyth and Don Henley, two of my early nineties guilty pleasures,
<v Speaker 2>and kept jump Around by House of Pain from reaching
<v Speaker 2>number one.
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Okay, how do I not know what this is?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I'm gonna play it for you. Let's see if
<v Speaker 2>you recognize it. You're not in your head. It's not
<v Speaker 2>Dustin scream. I know her face bye.
<v Speaker 1>In my song, I know the song.
<v Speaker 2>You could not live in the early nineties and not
<v Speaker 2>hear this song.
<v Speaker 1>TV series had. This is its theme song.
<v Speaker 2>This song goes to a TV show called The Heights.
<v Speaker 3>So fast talk.
<v Speaker 2>It's like trying to catch a fallen start.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh. Yeah, I would not in a million.
<v Speaker 1>I mean I remember that name, but no, I never
<v Speaker 1>watched that show. Would never have even put it.
<v Speaker 2>Nobody watched the show. That's how they canceled it.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, deep cut. Now that we get to the chorus,
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, oh, I slow danced to that song.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, the song is called how do You Talk to
<v Speaker 2>an Angel?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 2>Wow, number one hit song nineteen ninety two TV show
<v Speaker 2>canceled beat it. Nobody watched it, nobody cared, nobody remembers it. No,
<v Speaker 2>but you play that song. People were like, heck, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>all right, Sorority Party was playing that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So so there you have it. So that's my list.
<v Speaker 1>What do you think I loved the dude, you did
<v Speaker 1>a fantastic job. I'm really I'm not terribly surprised that
<v Speaker 1>we only had one crossover.
<v Speaker 2>We're at different stages in our life.
<v Speaker 1>Exactly exactly, so I'm really excited to see what happens
<v Speaker 1>in our next episode. Guys, be sure to come back
<v Speaker 1>for that. That one, we're going to cover our top
<v Speaker 1>five TV themes from nineteen ninety five to nineteen ninety nine.
<v Speaker 2>We will see you back here next week.
<v Speaker 1>Your home, smell you later.
<v Speaker 2>That's good.