A not bad goggle box theme song can tell you everything you require to have it away about a show in less than a minute . advantageously yet , if you’re able to spill the beans a few line at work the next Clarence Shepard Day Jr. and everyone connect in , you know you ’re on to something worth watching !
1. Where Everybody Knows Your Name (Cheers)
Written by Judy Hart Angelo and Gary Portnoy ( and sing by him , too ) , this comforting tune conjures up image of a place where the lonely and downtrodden can line up a friend to lean on , where people can forget about their troubles for a while , and yes , " where everybody knows your name . " And that ’s exactly whatCheersdid for 275 episodes from 1982 to 1993 .
2. Love Is All Around (Mary Tyler Moore)
Songwriter Sonny Curtis wrote and performed the empowering theme Sung dynasty for this trailblazing show about women ’s lib and the undivided life history of game career woman Mary Richards . The hatchway sequence showed a new - faced Mary as she arrives in her new urban center and thrash her beret into the air out of the pure excitement of starting a fresh living . The original lyric contemplated " . . . you might just make it after all , " but after the first time of year , when it was open that Mary would be a success , the lyric poem were changed to " . . . you ’re gon na make it after all ! " The bubbly and upbeat birdcall has even been covered by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Sammy Davis , Jr.
3. Theme Song from The Brady Bunch (The Brady Bunch)
Series creator Sherwood Schwartz collaborated with composer Frank DeVol to come up with the much - repeated stem Sung dynasty that describe what happens when a second wedlock merge two families and six fry under one cap . The song alone is memorable , but so is the opening sequence , which divide the concealment into nine squares , one for each family member , let in the housekeeper Alice . On the left field , we saw the three girl " . . . All of them had hair of gold , like their mother . The unseasoned one in curls . " The correct side introduce the three sons , who with their Fatherhood made " . . . four men , hold up all together . Yet they were all alone . " Who babble the song , you demand ? The cast , of course !
4. Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle (Gilligan’s Island)
All you have to do is listen to the idea song – it ’s all there ! But here it is in a coconut palm shell : Five passengers went on a boat junket that was supposed to last only three hour , but there was a storm , and the S.S.Minnowshipwrecked . The Skipper , his goofy first mate , and the rider set up home on an island and made various futile attempts to be rescued .
TrueGilligan ’s Islandaficionados live that there were two versions of the theme song , which was written by George Wyle and the show ’s God Almighty Sherwood Schwartz . The first version specifically mentions five of the cast members , then lumps two other character reference together , referring to them as " the rest period . " But Bob Denver ( aka Gilligan ) thought the song should be rewritten to include " The Professor and Mary Ann . " Denver may have play the doofus on camera , but he used his star superpower to get equal billing for his fellow cast mates . He truly was everyone ’s " short buddy . "
5. Meet the Flintstones (The Flintstones)
During the first two seasons there was no composition song ! Then show creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera write lyric for a tune by Hoyt Curtin . The show , which take office in the prehistorical town of Bedrock , was a spoof on contemporary suburbia . There were no brakes on railway car , just bare feet to slow thing down . camera were crude – Bronx cheer feverishly chiseled slabs of stone to enamor various images . And instead of a garbage disposal , people just kept a hungry reptile under the swallow hole . Still , it was a " yabba - dabba - doo time . A dabba - doo time . " In fact , it was a " . . . mirthful old clock time !
6. I’ll Be There for You (Friends)
write and do by The Rembrandts , " I ’ll Be There for You " jolly much sums up the premise of these patriotic acquaintance who supported each other through life ’s ups and downs . The intensely pop sitcom showed just how rummy it is to be in your twenties ( eventually 1930s ) , undivided , and living in New York City . Three guy and three daughter formed a exceptional bond as they board together , sometimes go steady each other , and always entertained audiences worldwide . The song was n’t intended to be a full - distance track , but finally the set went back into the studio and show a long version of the song , which topped U.S. charts and make number two in the U.K.
7. Those Were the Days (All in the Family)
Longing for a less complicated time , " Those Were the Days " was written by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams and was performed at the house pianissimo by bigoted , blue - shoe collar Archie Bunker and his screechingly off - cardinal " dingbat " wife , Edith . In the show , which aired from 1971 to 1979 , staunchly conservative Archie is forced to live with a progressive when his " little goil " Gloria and her husband , Michael , move in with the Bunkers . The lead give-and-take spill light on two sides of politics and earned Michael the nickname " Meathead . "
8. Theme from The Addams Family (The Addams Family)
TV and film composer Vic Mizzy wrote the music and pursue lyric that helped to report the " creepy . . . kooky . . . mysterious . . . spooky . . . and all together ooky " Addams Family . The show takes a peep at the outlandish family : Gomez and Morticia ; their child , Pugsley and Wednesday ; Cousin Itt ; Uncle Fester ; and servants , Lurch and Thing – who all live together in a fusty palace . The show lasted only two seasons , but it lives on in pop music culture through rerun , sketch , movies , and video recording game .
9. Theme to Happy Days (Happy Days)
Bill Haley and His Comets memorialise a new version of their striking " Rock Around the Clock " for the idea Sung of the show about the in-between - class Cunningham family and their life in Milwaukee in the fifties and sixties . After two seasons , the song " Theme to Happy Days , " frame by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel and perform by Truett Pratt and Jerry McClain , move from the show ’s closing Sung to the unfastener . The song was released as a single in 1976 and crackedBillboard ’s top five . The concluding season of the show featured a more modern interpretation of the strain led by Bobby Avron , but it was unpopular with fan .
10. Making Our Dreams Come True (Laverne & Shirley)
manufactory workers never had so much fun ! Laverne and Shirley were two kooky girls who were introduced to TV audience onHappy Daysand ended up with their own hit show . They get into all kinds of trouble but always made it look like fun . The upbeat composition song was written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel and tattle by Cyndi Grecco . The lyric were empowering , but perhaps the most recur line over the years was a admixture of Yiddish and German words : " Schlemiel ! Schlemazl ! Hasenpfeffer corporate ! "
11. Sunny Day (Sesame Street)
Sesame Streetwas the first idiot box show to conflate amusement and learn for the preschool set and is largely responsible for for child set off kindergarten know their letter , numbers , and colors . The show , which bare in more than 120 nation , has won more than 100 Emmy Awards , making it the most honour - winning TV series of all time . The upbeat and idyllic theme birdcall was write by Joe Raposo , Jon Stone , and Bruce Hart , but the singers are all child . Or at least they were when the show debuted in 1969 !
12. Theme from The Monkees (The Monkees)
Here they make out . . . . The original " prefab " four , The Monkees were a intermixture of zany actors and musicians cast as a rock’n’roll band for the 1960s TV show of the same name . " Theme from The Monkees " was write by Bobby Hart and Tommy Boyce , and once the band appendage were cast , they commemorate the song . The isthmus was so successful that they went on tour and three of their songs get through number one on U.S. charts . The show only lasted two season , but The Monkees are now best known for their musical succeeder and occasionally get together for reunion tours .
13. The Fishin' Hole (The Andy Griffith Show)
WhenThe Andy Griffith Showdebuted in 1960 , Sheriff Andy Taylor became one of TV ’s first unmarried dads when his wife die and result him to raise their young son , Opie , in the little town of Mayberry . Aunt Bea get to township to help out , and Deputy Barney Fife help keep small - town crime at bay . The outcome was an lovely slice of Americana that still lives on in syndication . The show ’s theme song was compose by Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer and is memorable but not for the lyrics – there are none ! The melodic phrase is carried by a sole thickhead ( Hagen ) and accompanies footage of Andy and Opie heading off together for some quality meter fishing .
14. The Love Boat (The Love Boat)
The Love Boat was just one of manufacturer Aaron Spelling ’s offering that dominated TV sets in the 1970s and ' 80s . Love was definitely exciting and new every week when thePacific Princesscruise ship localize sail with a newfangled set of passenger and a new stage set of challenge ! Paul Williams and Charles Fox wrote the theme song , and for the first eight years , Jack Jones provided the vocals , but in 1985 Dionne Warwick recorded her version for the show . With lyrics such as " place a path for adventure , your mind on a new Latinian language . . . " hoi polloi were hooking up all over the Pacific seaboard .
15. Ballad of Jed Clampett (The Beverly Hillbillies)
When hillbilly Jed Clampett struck petroleum while hunting on his ground , he jam up his syndicate and displace where the other deep hoi polloi lived – Beverly Hills , California , of course of action ! His beautiful and usually barefoot daughter , Elly May , attracted a lot of attention as did pretty much everything about the Clampett house . Series creator Paul Henning write the " Ballad of Jed Clampett , " which was performed by bluegrass instrumentalist Flatt and Scruggs . After the show debut in 1962 , the song made it to number 44 on the tonic charts and all the mode to identification number one on the country chart .
16. I Love Lucy (I Love Lucy)
One of the most democratic television shows ever acquire , I Love Lucystarred Lucille Ball as bozo redhead Lucy Ricardo andDesi Arnazas her married man , Cuban bandleader Ricky . Lucy and her loath neighbour and best champion , Ethel Mertz , were always involved in one harebrained scheme or another during this classic ’s six - class discharge . The show ’s idea song , indite by Harold Adamson and Eliot Daniel , is most recognizable in its subservient version , but the birdcall does have lyrics . During a 1953 episode in which Lucy consider everyone has leave her birthday , Ricky croon " I love Lucy , and she roll in the hay me . We ’re as glad as two can be . . . . "
17. A Little Help from My Friends (The Wonder Years)
Set in the late sixties and early 1970s , The Wonder Yearschronicled the life of teenager Kevin Arnold as he grows up in suburb in a midway - category family during this turbulent meter . During the porta credits , the stem vocal , " A piddling aid from My admirer , " plays alongside " home movies " of Kevin and his family and Quaker . Hardly recognizable as the authoritative Beatles tune , Joe Cocker ’s book binding of the song is much slow and in a different paint but was reportedly loved by the Fab Four themselves .
18. Generation (American Dreams)
In this family dramatic play , the Pryor family faces the societal and political issues of the sixties , while teen Meg Pryor and her friend Roxanne are regular social dancer onAmerican Bandstand , which set the show to the soundtrack of the ' 60s . The composition birdsong , " Generation , " write and performed by Tonic ’s Emerson Hart , carry listeners back to a time when living was much simple and safe . With language like " we just require to trip the light fantastic toe all night . . . " and " . . . This might be the only meter around . . . , " the song inspired a " seize the day " mental attitude . The show had an super loyal lover base , but poor time slots assigned by NBC result in low ratings , and the show was unexpectedly axed surveil the third time of year - finish cliffhanger , which go away fans disappointed and hanker for more .
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:
Helen Davies , Marjorie Dorfman , Mary Fons , Deborah Hawkins , Martin Hintz , Linnea Lundgren , David Priess , Julia Clark Robinson , Paul Seaburn , Heidi Stevens , and Steve Theunissen
